Sentences with phrase «system at the global scale»

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At the time of its acquisition of Tanumbirini Station, Reza Vishkai, head of Global Farmland at Insight Investment, said: «The Northern Territory has a comparative advantage for beef production due to its geographical proximity to export markets, the low intensity pasture based production system and the economies of scale.&raquAt the time of its acquisition of Tanumbirini Station, Reza Vishkai, head of Global Farmland at Insight Investment, said: «The Northern Territory has a comparative advantage for beef production due to its geographical proximity to export markets, the low intensity pasture based production system and the economies of scale.&raquat Insight Investment, said: «The Northern Territory has a comparative advantage for beef production due to its geographical proximity to export markets, the low intensity pasture based production system and the economies of scale.»

«We have reached the planetary stage of sustainability, where we are fiddling with hard - wired processes at the global Earth - system scale,» Rockström says.

Once considered remote and disconnected, now we know that changes within the Arctic can have a direct impact on the rest of the world, affecting physical and biological systems near and far at regional and global scales.

«While the potential exists for rapid shifts in energy systems at the regional level, energy transitions tend to occur slowly on a global scale.

It's the first of an intended global system of 20 such satellites in China's QUESS («Quantum Experiments at Space Scale») program.

But every billion - dollar carbon - capture project, in the meantime, is raiding money that might otherwise go into basic research and development aimed at advancing solar technology or large - scale energy storage or other fields where breakthroughs could help lay the groundwork for a post-fossil global energy system — instead of providing a dicey Band - Aid to keep societies stuck on the coal rung of the heat ladder a while longer.

The study demonstrates the importance of understanding how climate variability on a regional scale may at least temporarily obscure larger forces acting on the global climate system.

To a large extent, clear answers will only come in hindsight, largely because much of what is being attempted has never been tried before, at least on the scale of the global energy system and climate.

One of the technologies the scenarios took as necessary was rapid global adoption of systems that capture and store carbon dioxide from power plants — none of which have been tested at anything remotely close to a scale the atmosphere would notice.

C is not constant for the dT» / dt equation to apply because heat penetrates through different parts of the climate system (different depths of the ocean in particular) over different time scales (also, if T» is supposed to be at some reference location or the global average at some vertical level, T» at other locations will vary; C will have to be an effective C value, the heat per unit change in the T» at the location (s) where T» occurs)

That is, changes to the system are more clearly discerned in the global mean temperature than at a regional level, mainly because the noisy «weather» component increases as you go to smaller scales.

-- Launch a major research initiative on the earth system and global sustainability, at a scale similar to those devoted to areas such as space, defense and health, to tap all sources of ingenuity across disciplines and across the globe.

Similar discussions were also held at the event Boosting Energy Efficiency Through Smart Lighting Systems, where Eric Rondolat, CEO, Philips Lighting, highlighted how the scale up of a single technology could halve global energy demand for lighting and cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 5 %.

Although a significant factor in global climate on the scale of decades — the Pacific Ocean modes are part of a global climate system that is variable at many scales in time and space.

«we consider only options that have been demonstrated in at least pilot projects and that can be scaled up as part of a global energy system without further major technology development.

The 25 D - O events during the last glacial, where temperatures rose and fell by 5 to 10 degrees C (10 - 15 degrees C for Greenland) within a span of decades that were «explained by internal variability of the climate system alone ``, deemed global in scale, and they occurred without any changes in CO2 concentrations, which stayed steady at about 180 ppm throughout the warming and cooling.

«Therefore, it is concluded that the influence of anthropogenic forcing has had a detectable influence on extreme temperatures that have impacts on human society and natural systems at global and regional scales»

«The IEA firmly believes that the global transition to a clean energy system requires a new era of collaboration, on a scale the world has never seen,» said Dr. Birol in his opening remarks at the Bali Forum.

Drivers of the land climate system have larger effects at regional and local scales than on global climate, which is controlled primarily by processes of global radiation balance.

Climate change has the potential to both positively and negatively affect the location, timing, and productivity of crop, livestock, and fishery systems at local, national, and global scales.

ESM 248 - Environmental Institutions [4 units] Buntaine Comparative study of management systems or regimes addressing natural resources and environmental concerns and operating at scales ranging from local to global.

«TCR was originally defined as the warming at the time of CO2 doubling (i.e., after 70 years) in a 1 % yr — 1 increasing CO2 experiment (see Hegerl et al., 2007b), but like ECS, it can also be thought of as a generic property of the climate system that determines the global temperature response ΔT to any gradual increase in RF, ΔF, taking place over an approximately 70 - year time scale, normalized by the ratio of the forcing change to the forcing due to doubling CO2, F2 × CO2: TCR = F2 × CO2 ΔT / ΔF»

The images show that the axial valley at 4,000 m water depth is blanketed by an extensive set of pyroclastic deposits, raising important questions regarding the accumulation and discharge of magmatic volatiles on such ridges and demonstrating that large - scale pyroclastic activity is possible along even the deepest portions of the global mid-ocean ridge volcanic system.

The importance and imminence of sustainability problems at local and global scales, the dominant role that the Human System plays in the Earth System, and the key functions and services the Earth System provides for the Human System (as well as for other species), all call for strong collaboration of earth scientists, social scientists, and engineers in multidisciplinary research, modeling, technology development, and policymaking.

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Aligning with global law firms, Fortune 500 companies and top educational institutions, Neota's intelligent software platform enables our clients to intelligently automate their expertise at internet scale through an operationally useful form — as applications embedded in business systems or consulted interactively in a browser.

Should the global monetary system ever collapse and hyperbitcoinization occur at scale, there will be more than enough bitcoins to go around.

Proven ability to design and implement large - scale network and systems infrastructures at the national and global levels.

USA About Blog The Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national to global scales.

Created mobile device recycling program for American Airlines on a global scale and focused on push to talk device for Baggage systems at Miami International Airport.

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