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The investment bank also notes that 70 per cent of fund managers view the global economy as «late - cycle,» the highest level since January 2008 and expect, on average, an S&P 500 peak of 3,100, which is 16 per cent higher than its level at the time of writing.

Ipsos Mori found 30 per cent of people said religion is important to them, a figure significantly lower than the global average of 53 per cent.

Global beef consumption now averages less than 9 kg per head per year, down from 11 kg in the 1970s.

During the Eocene, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was more than 560 parts per million, at least twice preindustrial levels, and the epoch kicked off with a global average temperature more than 8 degrees Celsius — about 14 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer than today, gradually cooling over the next 22 million years.

«China now emits more than the US and EU combined and has CO2 emissions per person 45 % higher than the global average, exceeding even the EU average,» said Robbie Andrew, a co-author of the studies based at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo (CICERO) in Norway.

Since the 19th century, sea level has shot up more than 2 millimeters per year on average, far faster than other periods of global temperature change.

In order to keep the global average temperature from warming no more than 2 °C by the year 2100 relative to the global temperature prior to 1900, the concentration of carbon dioxide must be capped at 450 parts per million.

China's coal demand growth averaged 9 % per year from 2000 to 2010, more than double the global growth rate of 4 % and significantly higher than global growth excluding China, which averaged only 1 %.

With humanity's ecological footprint of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person means to say that to sustain the current population on Earth of 7 billion people would take 18.9 billion gha (2.7 gha x 7 billion people) which is higher than the 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water on Earth, a fact that indicates that already exceeded the regenerative capacity of the planet in the average level of current world consumption.

On average, unconstrained bond funds delivered lower return and lower return per unit of volatility than the U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and higher return than the Global Aggregate Bond Index.

Despite low interest rates, the national savings rate has averaged 4.6 per cent since the global financial crisis, more than double what it was before the crisis.

In the past 10 years GDP has more than quintupled, Russia's now a Top 10 global economy, and average GDP per capita (in nominal terms) is around $ 16,700.

The normal cost of $ 122.50 per person is waived for children under 14 when applying together (cheaper than Global Entry on average).

This growth is more than twice the global industry average, most recently reported at 3.9 per cent by the World Tourism Organisation in January 2017.

• 484,594 serviced apartments in 6,426 locations across The Americas and Canada, together with 70,300 corporate housing units • US accounts for 25 per cent of the $ 100 billion global vacation rental sector, which is expected to be worth $ 170 billion by 2019 • Region accounts for region accounts for 58.61 per cent of the global serviced apartment inventory • US corporate housing Average Daily Rate was $ 150 in 2016 • 800 extended stay hotels in Hilton portfolio, with more than 500 in the pipeline, representing 15 per cent of the Hilton portfolio • 1 serviced apartment, branded residence, aparthotel, corporate accommodation and short - term rental conference and exhibition for the Americas • US corporate housing inventory is estimated at 66,863 units • Around 7,700 serviced apartments in 95 locations across LATAM region • US corporate housing revenues increased 10.2 %, to $ 3.2 billion in 2016 • Canadian corporate housing revenue is an estimated $ 278 million.

For example, the global temperature change when we recovered from the last ice age averaged only about 0.1 C per century (and descent into an ice age tended to be even slower)... whereas we are now looking at changes greater than that happening in one decade.

China has per - capita emissions 45 percent over the global average, and higher per - capita emissions than the European Union.

While Americans have long consumed about three times more meat (of all kinds) per person than the global average, we hit «peak beef more than a decade ago.

The global average shows a trend of less than 1 degree per century!

A global economy growing at an average rate of 3.4 % per year, a population that expands from 7.4 billion today to more than 9 billion in 2040, and a process of urbanisation that adds a city the size of Shanghai to the world's urban population every four months are key forces that underpin our projections.

Global average temperature changed at a rate of up to 4 °C per decade, or 20 times faster than at present.

The most recent 13 complete calendar years, from 2002 through 2014, have averaged 0.18 °C (about 0.33 °F) warmer than the 30 - year baseline average, while the global temperature trend during that span was a warming trend at the rate of +0.05 °C per decade — which is also statistically insignificant.

They found that while global average food demand per person remains almost constant, in the last five decades food availability has rapidly increased - hiking the emissions related to growing surplus food by more than 300 percent.

While India as a whole demands a significant percent of the world's biocapacity, its per - capita Ecological Footprint, 0.8 global hectares, is smaller than that in many other countries, and well below the world average of 2.2 global hectares.

The globally averaged concentration of CO2 reached 400 parts per million, and the global average temperature climbed to more than 1 °C (1.8 °F) above pre-industrial levels.

This factor, when multiplied times the amount of reduction in tropospheric aerosol emissions, between 1975 and another later year will give the average global temperature for that year (per NASA's J - D land - ocean temperature index values) to within less than a tenth of a degree C. of actuality (when temporary natural variations due to El Nino's, La Nina's, and volcanic eruptions are accounted for).

As a consequence, between 1971 - 2000 and 1981 - 2010 the Dutch average temperatures have risen by 0.42 degrees (per decade)-- more than twice the global average and indicative for relatively rapid warming over much of Western Europe.

In the IEO2017 Reference case, delivered energy consumption for residential and commercial buildings in India is expected to increase by an average of 2.7 % per year between 2015 and 2040, more than twice the global average increase.

Global average sea levels have risen by around 3.2 mm per year since satellite measurements began in 1993, the report says, with sea levels around 67 mm higher in 2014 than they were in 1993.

Global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have now passed 400 parts per million (ppm), a level that last occurred about 3 million years ago, when both global average temperature and sea level were significantly higher than Global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have now passed 400 parts per million (ppm), a level that last occurred about 3 million years ago, when both global average temperature and sea level were significantly higher than global average temperature and sea level were significantly higher than today.

Global - average atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide rose to 389 parts per million in 2010, 39 % higher than at the start of the industrial era in 1750.

Based on current knowledge, however, it appears that achieving a high probability of limiting global average temperature rise to 2C will require that the increase in greenhouse - gas concentrations as well as all the other warming and cooling influences on global climate in the year 2100, as compared with 1750, should add up to a net warming no greater than what would be associated with a CO2 concentration of about 400 parts per million (ppm).

Temperatures have been warming on the West Antarctic Peninsula at about 0.5 ° Celsius per decade since the early 1950s, a rate about four times faster than the global average.

Biomass and hydropower dominate renewable energy, particularly in developing countries where biomass remains an important source of energy for heating and cooking; per capita emissions from many developing countries remain lower than the global average.

While the richest income class in this study, earning more than 30,000 rupees a month, produce slightly less than the global average CO2 emissions of 5 tonnes, this amount already exceeds the sustainable global average CO2 emissions of 2.5 tonnes per capita that needs to be reached to limit global warming below 2 degrees centigrade.

Figure 16.2: Projected number of days per year with a maximum temperature greater than 90 °F averaged between 2041 and 2070, compared to 1971 - 2000, assuming continued increases in global emissions (A2) and substantial reductions in future emissions (B1).

In contrast, the average warming rate for stations situated in a county with less than 100,000 people was a paltry 0.04 °F per century.6 The warming rate of sparsely populated counties was 35 times less than the global average.

Yet, since the world averages 6.5 CO2 tons of per capita emissions while countries like the United States are emitting 19 tons per capita, and the world must reduce per capita emissions to perhaps less than 2.0 tons per capita to prevent dangerous climate change, it is very unlikely that many groups or people in developed countries can make a respectable argument that they are already below their fair share of safe global emissions.

Thanks to humans, the earth was (since the 1990s) already experiencing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels in a realm not experienced on the planet since the Pliocene epoch, which was the period 2.6 to 5.3 million years ago that saw atmospheric carbon dioxide levels between 350 and 405 parts per million and average global temperatures that ranged between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius warmer than the climate of the 1880s.

Since the Call to Action run by the initiative started just 18 months ago, it has grown by an average of more than 2 commitments per week: setting the standard for meaningful corporate climate action that is sufficiently ambitious to help keep global warming well below 2 degrees.

Only four African countries have per capita CO2 emissions higher than the global average (1.3 metric ton of carbon per year): Libya (2.53), South Africa (2.39), the Seychelles (2.22), and Equatorial Guinea (1.99).

In the 66 % 2 °C Scenario, aggressive efficiency measures would be needed to lower the energy intensity of the global economy by 2.5 % per year on average between 2014 and 2050 (three - and - a-half times greater than the rate of improvement seen over the past 15 years); wind and solar combined would become the largest source of electricity by 2030.

Greenhouse gas emissions from coal, gas and oil combustion since the dawn of the 19th century and the coming of the machine - age century have pushed carbon dioxide ratios in the atmosphere from less than 300 parts per million to 400ppm everywhere, and global average temperatures have risen by 1 °C.

Although temperatures have been increasing globally, since the mid-1970s temperatures here have risen by 0.34 C per decade faster than the global average of 0.17 C.

Driving the average electric vehicle in any region of the country produces lower global warming emissions than the average new gas - powered car getting 29 miles per gallon.

So far, so good, our synthetic net global emissions are similar to Prof. Salby's in that there is an average value of about 1.5 ppm per year, but superimposed on top of that there is an oscillatory behaviour that sometimes reduces net global emissions almost (but not quite) to zero, and sometimes means that net global emissions are much higher than average.

For example, the melting of the Greenland ice sheet broke previous records in 2002, 2005, and 2007, and seasonal melting from 1996 to 2007 was above average compared with the 1973 - 2007 period.10, 11 The melting of the Greenland ice sheet contributed around 0.02 inch (0.6 millimeter) to global sea - level rise in 2005 — more than double the 1996 contribution.4 From 1993 to 2003 the average rate of sea - level rise increased to about 0.12 inches (3.1 millimeters) per year.12 That means that in 2005 Greenland could have contributed 19 percent of the average annual global sea level rise rate.

«Both these figures are much higher than the global average of 2 mm per annum.»

So Perth sea levels haven't risen by up to 10 mm per year since 1993, they aren't rising three times faster than the global average, land subsidence indicates they've been closer to flat and possibly even fallen since 1993, and the leaked IPCC report confirms they've been as stable as global temperatures for well over a decade.

For one thing, the legal industry spends less than one per cent on research and development compared with an average of 3.5 per cent for the typical U.S. business, according to Dan Jensen, head of Nextlaw Labs, a business accelerator focused on investing in, developing and deploying new technologies to transform the practice of law and an autonomous, wholly owned subsidiary of global law firm Dentons LLP.