Sentence examples for escalating impacts from inspiring English sources

The escalating impacts encouraged Swiss Re and the U.N. Development Program to co-sponsor the Climate Change Futures project at Harvard Medical School aimed at raising awareness regarding the health, ecological and economic dimensions of climate change.

Mr. Snowden's disclosures have had a continuing, even escalating impact as journalists have continued to pore over them.

Plane Stupid said the protests, the first to disrupt commercial flights at a Scottish airport, were designed to highlight the escalating impact of aviation on the climate and protest against the UK-wide expansion of airports.

It concludes that human activity is having a significant and escalating impact on the biodiversity of world ecosystems, reducing both their resilience and biocapacity.

These components of sewage may interact with each other to create as-yet poorly understood synergisms (e.g., nutrients facilitate pathogen growth), and escalate impacts of other, non-sewage based stressors.

Some challenges are now endemic: a demographic profile, the result of the one-child policy, that gives China the world's most rapidly ageing population; poor and expensive education; unpaid bills for environmental damage and its health effects; and the prospect of escalating climate impacts that will exacerbate an already acute water crisis and failing crop yields.

Without this information, they can't make infrastructure investment decisions to protect themselves from escalating climate impacts.

Is it not obvious that with a rapidly expanding population to feed, escalating climate impacts and dwindling resources, biofuels are a flagrant and dangerous waste?

How may this escalating tension impact the prospects for peace in Syria and Yemen?

However, some experience persistently elevated or escalating distress impacting on their functioning within the family unit [ 4– 7], with adverse effects on themselves, their sick child and other family members.

This escalated the impact elsewhere in the financial system.