But the Met Office data, when compared to global temperatures before fossil fuel burning took off, shows that 2015 was already 1C higher.
"If you look at China's air pollution or water pollution control laws, they're pretty good compared to global standards," said Ma Tianjie, program director for mainland work at Greenpeace East Asia.
The other important point that is relevant to Australia is that power sector and energy efficiency investment is skewed towards Australia's neighbours in the Asia-Pacific region (40%) compared to global fossil energy investment (25%).
Meanwhile, another key demographic variable – the number of children the average African woman is likely to have in her lifetime, or total fertility rate – remains elevated compared to global rates.
South Africans, meanwhile, feel they are doing so poorly that they look very different attitudinally than the rest of the BRICS.Asians have slightly lower levels of well-being compared to global average.
Italy's stadiums were aging, the clubs failed to grasp the need for effective marketing and few Serie A teams could be compared to global titans like Manchester United, Real Madrid and Barcelona.
He estimated rare earths contained in the deposits amounted to 80bn to 100bn tonnes – compared to global reserves currently confirmed by the US Geological Survey of just 110m tonnes that have been found mainly in China, Russia and other former Soviet Union countries, and the US.
Their averages are first successfully compared to global data.
Hydrodynamics is simulated and numerical results are compared to global measurements of residence time distribution (RTD).
Some CSP material needs could however become significant compared to global production.
We further show that local electroporation is less damaging when compared to global electroporation using two separate electrodes.
