33,203 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 320 of 333.
“The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) notes that rice and wheat prices in Asia are higher now than during the food crisis. They cost between 20% and 70% more in February than two years ago.”
“The FAO also predicts that prices will remain well above the long-term average throughout the decade.”
“If we don't get consolidation and rationalisation, the world's travelling public will have no choice at all”
“Airlines simply can't continue without it”
“They began with just three acres but now have 80 acres and are desperate for more land.”
“"If it's cold overnight the asparagus grows slowly but if it's warm a spear can grow up to 10cm in a day."”
“growers have increased their crops, growing 84% more in the last five years.”
“if it's warm a spear can grow up to 10cm in a day.”
“a spear can grow up to 10cm in a day”
“growers have increased their crops, growing 84% more in the last five years”
“local authorities, as legal employers of heads in community schools, are reminding heads of their responsibilities to stage the tests and, in some cases, are threatening to take disciplinary action or dock wages.”
“The radar fleet for the field project includes 10 mobile radars, which will track winds and precipitation in the tornadoes and the surrounding area.”
“The team will also be using more than 36 portable surface weather stations, weather balloons, and they hope to send an unmanned 12ft aircraft to the edge of severe storms to collect data.”
“The study area stretches from West Texas to south-west Minnesota, covering more than 900 miles (1,450km).”
“The $12m (£8m) project is primarily funded by the US National Science Foundation, and will include researchers from Europe, Canada and Australia.”
“they hope to send an unmanned 12ft aircraft to the edge of severe storms to collect data.”
“The study area stretches from West Texas to south‑west Minnesota, covering more than 900 miles (1,450km).”
“The project will build on the findings from the original Vortex study, which was conducted in 1994-95 and gathered data on supercells.”
“The National Governors' Association says it could be illegal to send heads home and is asking the government for more guidance.”
“Another head teacher, Roy Tedscoe, said Hackney Learning Trust had said it would dock the pay of everyone boycotting the tests for every day.”
“The NAHT's in-coming president, Mike Welsh, said: 'Members of local authorities do not want to take action but are being pressured to send out these letters and make these comments.'”
“In their joint letter to school governors, Mr Balls and Schools Minister Vernon Coaker said they were 'deeply disappointed' by the union action.”
“Government lawyers have been examining grounds for a possible legal challenge, which the NGA believes is unlikely, particularly with the election looming.”
“The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, like Labour, are against the boycott. Both say they would keep the tests but reform them.”
“a very very significant event, and of great concern”
“the Exxon Valdez leaked significantly more oil than is likely to flow from the stricken Deepwater Horizons drillsite before pressure in the well drops and stops forcing the oil out”
“Home not only to a thriving fishing industry but also a substantial nature reserve, the potential for damage is enormous”
“For birds, the timing could not be worse; they are breeding, nesting and especially vulnerable in many of the places where the oil could come ashore”
“The society's list of species potentially affected includes resident seabirds, waders and waterfowl, including heron, brown pelicans and oystercatchers, and migratory birds such as plovers, swallows and buntings that use the Gulf wetlands …”
“Fewer than 2,500 adults remain, and the IUCN Red List says the Florida subspecies is expected to decline by at least 20% over the next 40 years”
“Over the next six weeks, the western population of this heavily depleted species will spawn in the Gulf of Mexico - principally in the northern portion where the slick is growing”
“According to England's Health and Safety Executive, teaching is the most stressful occupation there is.”
“A head teacher of a Nottingham primary school for 24 years, he went on to have a breakdown at the age of 55.”
“scrap bonuses amounting to two extra months of pay”
“raising the retirement age from an average of 53 to 67”
“accept a three-year pay freeze”
“Spain's unemployment rate has hit 20% for the first time in nearly 13 years”
“There were 4,612,700 people unemployed in the country at the end of March, the national statistics agency INE said.”
“official European Union (EU) figures showed that the eurozone unemployment rate remained unchanged at 10% in March.”
“This equates to 15.8m people. Among the wider EU, the jobless rate was 9.6%, with 23.1m people unemployed.”
“Germany was the only country where the jobless rate fell, from 7.4% to 7.3%.”
“The agency also said it expects eurozone inflation to be 1.5% in April, up from from 1.4% in March.”
“The Spanish economy shrank by 0.1% in the final three months of 2009. For the whole year, it shrank by 3.6%.”
“It expects almost 4% growth globally this year, following the 1% fall in global output last year.”
“China, which has seen double-digit GDP growth over the last 12 months.”
“The world's governments will not meet their internationally-agreed target of curbing the loss of species and nature by 2010, a major study has confirmed.”
“The 2010 target was adopted in 2002, but the scientists behind this study say implementation has been 'woeful'.”
“Since 1970, we have reduced animal populations by 30%, the area of mangroves and seagrasses by 20% and the coverage of living corals by 40%.”
“While about 12% of land is now under some kind of protection, not all of it is effectively managed.”
“And less than 1% of the world's oceans is protected.”
“Governments will review their failure to meet the 2010 target, and probably set new ones, at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) summit in Nagoya, Japan, in October.”
“The study combined more than 30 indicators of how species and ecosystems are changing.”
“In 2009 the EU adopted a wide-ranging package on climate change, following months of tough negotiations in the 27-nation bloc.”
“But the overall 20-20-20 targets have been kept: a 20% cut in emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020, compared with 1990 levels; a 20% increase in the share of renewables in the energy mix; and a 20% cut in energy consumption.”
“These commitments only run until 2012.”
“He has pledged a 17% cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2020.”
“as US emissions have risen by about 15% since 1990.”
“The EU aims to reduce the allocations by 21% from 2005 levels by 2020.”
“The ETS covers about 10,000 heavy industrial plants across the EU”
“which together account for almost half the EU's CO2 emissions, the commission says.”
“Poland, whose power plants are 95% reliant on coal, argued that the extra cost of buying permits would mean an unacceptable rise in electricity prices”
“Poland and other former communist countries will get about 12% of the revenues from the ETS, as help to clean up their heavy industry.”
“Plants in the poorer EU states still heavily reliant on fossil fuel, including ones which were not integrated into the main EU power network in 2007, will only have to buy 30% of their CO2 permits in 2013. Full auctioning will not apply to…”
“The European Commission aims to determine those sectors by 2010.”
“The commission says more than one-third of the required 20% emissions cut will be achieved that way.”
“The EU launched its pioneering Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in 2005.”
“The original plan was that from 2013 such enterprises would have to buy all their permits at auction.”
“The EU package builds on the international commitments made under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.”
“Changes have been made to the original package unveiled by the European Commission in January 2008”
“widespread disappointment at the outcome of the UN conference on climate change held in Copenhagen in December 2009.”
“The target will rise to 30% if an international agreement is reached committing other developed countries and the more advanced developing nations to comparable emission reductions.”
“In the first and second ETS trading periods (2005-2012) the EU decided to give most of the CO2 permits to power plants and energy-intensive industries for free.”
“All major industrial emitters of CO2 are to be brought under the ETS eventually and the scheme will also include greenhouse gases other than CO2 - nitrous oxide and perfluorocarbons.”
“Credits not already used up in the 2008-2012 ETS period can be "banked" and carried over into the 2013-2020 period.”
“So EU leaders made some concessions at their December 2008 summit - concessions denounced by green campaigners.”
“Full auctioning will be delayed for industrial sectors where there is a proven risk of "carbon leakage"”
“In 2009 the EU adopted a wide-ranging package on climate change”
“a 20% cut in emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020, compared with 1990 levels”
“a 20% increase in the share of renewables in the energy mix”
“a 20% cut in energy consumption”
“US emissions have risen by about 15% since 1990.”
“The target of cutting greenhouse gases by at least 20% by 2020, compared with 1990 levels.”
“The target will rise to 30% if an international agreement is reached.”
“The ETS covers about 10,000 heavy industrial plants across the EU.”
“which together account for almost half the EU's CO2 emissions”
“Poland and other former communist countries will get about 12% of the revenues from the ETS”
“Plants in the poorer EU states will only have to buy 30% of their CO2 permits in 2013.”
“the commission says more than one-third of the required 20% emissions cut will be achieved that way.”
“Green MEP Claude Turmes, one of the European Parliament's top negotiators on the package, said the revisions meant only one-fifth of the world's emission cuts would be made in Europe.”
“Sectors not covered by the ETS account for about 60% of all EU greenhouse gas emissions.”
“The EU has agreed to cut emissions by 10% overall in these sectors in 2013-2020”
“The whole car industry has been set an average emission target of 120g of CO2 per kilometre by 2012 for new cars, compared with current levels of 160g/km.”
“The target for 2020 is 95g/km.”
“manufacturers have been given until 2015 to meet their specific targets for each model.”
“There are plans to build 10 to 12 big pilot plants in the EU by 2015”
“The EU package sets the goal of increasing renewable energy's share of the market to 20% by 2020, from around 8.5% today.”
“Within that goal, 10% of transport fuels will have to come from renewables, including biofuels.”
“The commission wants a strict certification system to ensure that only biofuels achieving a real cut of at least 35% in CO2 emissions will be allowed.”
“The UK's proposed target is 15% by 2020”
“the EU's reliance on imported gas is set to increase from 57% currently to 84% by 2030”
