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Increasing environmental pollution load — global megatrend 10: Located in The European environment – state and outlook 2010 › Global megatrends › SOER 2010 — assessment of global megatrends
Environmental regulation and governance: increasing fragmentation and convergence — global megatrend 11: Located in The European environment – state and outlook 2010 › Global megatrends › SOER 2010 — assessment of global megatrends
Shortening time lapse before mass use of technological inventions: Timeline describing the ever-shortening time taken by a selection of inventions (telephone, radio, TV, Internet..) to reach a quarter of the population in the US.
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The weight of trade: Trend of exports as a percentage of gross domestic product
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Urban trends: Historical urban population trends and projections by world regions (1950- 2050), showing the share of cities with less than 750 000 inhabitants
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Environmental agreements since 1900: This horizontal bar graphic shows the numbers of bilateral (left-hand axis) and multilateral (right-hand axis) environmental agreements started each year since 1900. It distinguishes original agreements and protocols (darker orange).
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International spread of environmental policies: The figure compares the proliferation of twenty-three environmental policy innovations between 1945 and 2005 across 43 OECD and Central Eastern European Countries. The colours represent adoption levels from dark blue (less than 4 countries adopting the policy) to brown (more than 40 countries adopting it). The policies are ranked by adoption rate between start year and 2005 (fastest spreading policies first).
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Selected raw materials: world use and rare earth elements, germanium and tantalum: For the graph: 2006 and projected 2030 world use of neodymium, germanium and tantalum. The technologies responsible for the growth in use of these materials by 2030 are indicated in red. For the map: The bars show estimated reserves of rare earth elements, germanium and tantalum.
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Particulate matter pollution: 2 comparable maps showing current (2000) and projected (2030) PM10 regional concentrations (population weighted).
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Emissions of selected air pollutants as a result of three environmental policy packages: The 2 line graphics show SO2 and NOx emission trends from 1970 to 2050 according to 4 scenarios: the baseline, Global PP, OECD+BRIC PP, Global PP
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