Sentences with phrase «world by this metric»

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By the time she delivered a commencement speech at Smith College in 2013, she was preaching the gospel of a good night's sleep and asking graduates to measure their lives by a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and poweBy the time she delivered a commencement speech at Smith College in 2013, she was preaching the gospel of a good night's sleep and asking graduates to measure their lives by a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and poweby a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and power.

ICBC is the largest bank in the world today by some metrics.

You can't measure success by your own metrics and in a world where we are all so bombarded by digital advertising on our phone, social networks and more — we don't trust it and we ignore it.

«The actual metrics we're interested in fall into three main categories: The highest - level metrics address the outcomes we want to see in the world: amount of farmed animal suffering prevented, plant - based and clean meats» market shares, number of conventional meat meals offset by plant - based or clean meat, etc..

Today, ENERGY STAR is the most widely recognized symbol for energy efficiency in the world, helping families and businesses save $ 362 billion on utility bills, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2.4 billion metric tons since 1992.

The House of Representatives has queried the National Emergency Food Programme over its rejection of an offer by the World Food Programme (WFP) to donate rice to internally displaced persons but proceeded to use public funds to purchase 5000 metric tonnes of rice for the same purpose and handed over them to WFP.

In similar fashion, the average Platts price for Petrol on the world market dropped by $ 14.79 / metric tonne representing 3.25 %.

The NHL is the first major U.S. sports league to undertake a complete carbon offset project, Bettman said, though the International Federation of Association Football, or FIFA, which serves as the international governing body for soccer worldwide, announced Wednesday that it offset all 331,000 metric tons of emissions from the this summer's World Cup in Brazil by financing offset programs.

Civilization now moves some 57 billion metric tons of rock, dirt, sand and coal, among other things, or three times as much geologic stuff as is moved by all the world's rivers.

The TOAR database of surface ozone metrics is now publicly available and can be used by scientists and policymakers around the world to quantify the impacts of ozone on human health and vegetation.

Experts foresee a further 17 % increase — to 52.2 million metric tonnes of e-waste by 2021, — the fastest growing part of the world's domestic waste stream.

Without fish, there can be no fishing — and such an outcome could be the future: A recent study indicates that the world's oceans appear headed toward a global collapse as overall fishing yields continue to decline dramatically, having dropped by some 10.6 million metric tons since 1994.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

Meanwhile the world clamors for more cocoa: manufacturers reckon the industry now produces around 4.4 million metric tons of cocoa; by 2020 they expect that demand will outstrip supply by one million metric tons.

Regardless of how international talks go, the world's cities could cut eight billion metric tons of greenhouse gases by 2050, according to an analysis by the C40 group of cities.

Scientists believe the world's peat bogs can contain up to 500 billion metric tons of carbon — that's about 50 times more carbon than is emitted into the atmosphere each year by the burning of fossil fuels.

The metric - which ranks journals by the average number of citations their articles attract in a set period, usually the preceding two years - has become «an obsession in world science», says a coalition of academics, editors, publishers and research funders, in a declaration published on 16 May.

The Arizona Education Progress Meter, which represents key metrics that support a shared vision for world - class education in our state, includes eighth grade math as one of eight indicators by which to measure the health of education in Arizona.

We live in a world where almost everything can be measured by metrics: the number of likes our profile picture received on Facebook; the number of followers we have on Twitter; the number of views a video has on YouTube, etc..

The US Department of State, by the way, lists exactly 200 countries in the world, so perhaps Kobo's «over 200 countries» claim is the result of a metric - conversion rounding error.

As bloggers work more closely with advertisers, it is becoming more and more important to have an objective, unbiased metric by which bloggers can provide potential advertisers an instrument to represent how their travel blog ranks in the world.

Usually once a blog has been consistently assessed by Alexa as being one of the top 1,000,000 websites in the world the other metrics are also reaching a higher level of maturity.

Is the virtual stock market driven by real - world metrics, and influenced by the unfolding events in the game's open world, or is it just a glorified roulette wheel?

I have not seen any report in this category with an expectation that solar will come in at under $ 50 / metric ton carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030, or that solar will supply even 1 % of world energy by then.

With growing demand for meat around the world in places such as China, the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts that soy production will continue to increase dramatically, from around 276 million metric tons in 2013 to 390 million metric tons by 2050.

«Growth in global energy - related CO2 emissions from 2005 to 2017 was led by China, India, and other countries in Asia, which collectively increased by 6,260 million metric tons, while emissions in the rest of the world collectively decreased by 220 million metric tons.»

The 26 companies that have already had their targets approved by the initiative represent 269 million metric tonnes of CO2e emissions, which is roughly comparable to the total annual emissions of Egypt — the 30th largest emitter in the world.

Today, ENERGY STAR is the most widely recognized symbol for energy efficiency in the world, helping families and businesses save $ 360 billion on utility bills, while reducing carbon pollution by 2.5 billion metric tons since 1992.

Wal - Mart, the world's largest company by revenue, saved nearly $ 1 billion in a single year and avoided emitting almost 650,000 metric tons of CO2, as part of its science - based target.

It finds that «meeting the world's agreed climate goals in the most cost - effective way while fostering growth requires countries to set a strong carbon price, with the goal of reaching $ 40 - $ 80 per metric ton of CO2 by 2020 and $ 50 - 100 per metric ton by 2030.»

A better metric is however, recently updated by thousands of measurements taken all over the world, shows that energy in the climate system continues its un-paused march upward:

Without new agreements to foster emerging technologies such as solar and wind power and burial of carbon dioxide underground, world emissions of the gas should hit 40.4 billion metric tons by 2030, up from 29 billion metric tons in 2006, said the Energy Information Administration, the independent statistics arm of the Department of Energy.

Aggregate reductions by these corporations will amount to 799 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e)-- or 2 percent of the world total.

Today, ENERGY STAR is the most widely recognized symbol for energy efficiency in the world, helping families and businesses save $ 362 billion on utility bills, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 2.4 billion metric tons since 1992.

Matt Truman, CEO and co-founder of True Capital comments: «In The Cotswold Company we identified a strong business exposed to the right structural growth trends, with excellent financial metrics, driven and executed by exceptional founders and a world class management team.

There are no numbers or metrics included with this data provided by Facebook; all we have to go on is a quick infographic with all the different emoji that Facebook claimed are the most popular on the Facebook platform across the world.

On August 2nd, Bitfinex, by some metrics the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, was hacked and 199,756 bitcoins (~ $ 72m) were stolen.

While there is no doubt that bitcoin has had a revolutionary impact on the cryptocurrency space (as of this writing, it has spawned dozens of forks and imitators, and it remains the number one digital currency in the world by market cap and several other metrics), is it really the first cryptocurrency?

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