Sentences with phrase «energy economy business»

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As the fastest - growing segment of the economy, women - owned businesses should continue to build their brands in places with this sort of design, energy and track record.

«We need to identify areas where we might make new demands if NAFTA is opened up: services, government procurement, digital economy, business visas, energy.

Obama, warning of more costs to come for the Kremlin if the situation worsens, said he also had signed an executive order that would allow the U.S. to penalize key sectors of the Russian economy, including its huge energy business.

Graham Richard, chief executive officer of clean energy advocacy business group Advanced Energy Economy, said the report «seriously overstates the challenges associated with new energy resources.&energy advocacy business group Advanced Energy Economy, said the report «seriously overstates the challenges associated with new energy resources.&Energy Economy, said the report «seriously overstates the challenges associated with new energy resources.&energy resources.»

Small businesses are the powerhouse of the economy, the mitochondrial DNA of our economic body, converting effort into the energy that fuels the country.

And the business case for energy efficiency measures is solid; one recent report says the world's largest and fastest - growing economies can save $ 2.8 trillion through efficiencies while making a big dent in greenhouse gas emissions.

Those energy sources are «good for the economy, good for business and good for our shareholders,» Google's senior vice president of technical infrastructure, Joe Kava, told The New York Times, in part because their costs have rapidly decreased in recent years.

What Canadian businesses and policy makers must do in the days ahead is take a clear look at the deep - rooted changes taking place in the energy economy.

The Risky Business Project will assess the economic and technical feasibility of reducing these climate risks by transitioning to an economy powered by clean energy.

On a recent visit to Canada, Voser discussed energy and environmental matters, along with the state of the European economy and doing business with China.

The business - man president fully intends to destroy Russia's energy - market share and sink its economy further.

«Assuring a domestic source of clean, reliable hydroelectric power helps secure our energy system for the growth of businesses and sectors of the Lower Mainland and provincial economy for decades into the future.»

Munster concludes, «The faster Tesla reaches economies of scale in its existing businesses, the sooner we could see Tesla tackle these important issues, extend its operations to their fullest potential and, most importantly, further accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.»

Basing your business in this global industry cluster brings enormous advantages: Network effects, economies of scale, access to the world's best talent, deep pools of capital, a rich ecosystem of resources and know - how for both startups and mature companies, a nurturing entrepreneurial culture, infectious energy, and strong trust relationships that make the impossible possible.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

While investment in the energy sector now appears to be stabilizing after a painful adjustment to the decline in oil and other commodity prices that began in 2014, overall business investment in the economy remains weak.

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2016.03.11 Canadian Economy Faces Challenges and Opportunities in 2016: RBC Economics 2015 marked a difficult year for the Canadian economy and the challenges are expected to continue in 2016, as energy companies retrench and business investEconomy Faces Challenges and Opportunities in 2016: RBC Economics 2015 marked a difficult year for the Canadian economy and the challenges are expected to continue in 2016, as energy companies retrench and business investeconomy and the challenges are expected to continue in 2016, as energy companies retrench and business investment...

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Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

«Lower oil prices strain the fiscal positions of fuel exporters and weigh on their growth prospects, while supporting household demand and lowering business energy costs in importers, especially in advanced economies, where price declines are fully passed on to end users,» according to the IMF.

Research: Risky Business Project Co-Chairs Michael R. Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, and Tom Steyer tasked the World Resources Institute, a global research organization, with an independent assessment of the economic opportunities in a transition to a clean energy economy in the United States.

CHINA EMBRACES THE LOW CARBON ECONOMY China needs energy and lots of it, but it has realized that it can't continue with business as usual.

«The significant restructuring of the corporate franchise tax, broad - based business tax rate reductions, and expedited business relief from the Section 18 - a energy assessment will also improve the state's economic competitiveness and help the economy grow.

«In fact, she's already called for higher taxes on individuals and small businesses; she supports an energy plan that would increase our electricity costs; she promises a single - payer health care system that would further destroy our health care and economy; and she wants to force federal gun restrictions that would take away the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens.»

Fully aware of the importance of energy sufficiency to the transformation of the national economy, the business module of Ghana Gas is to mitigate or eliminate the current energy deficit by contributing 500 megawatts (MW) to the national energy mix.

The Deputy Government Statistician, Baah Wadieh, at a press briefing in Accra on Wednesday said that the economy's biggest growth period was recorded in the last three months of 2015, following improvement in the erratic energy supply challenges which forced businesses to cut production output.

Given the importance of the industry to the UK economy the CIOB believes the role should be located within a highly influential government department; probably the Cabinet Office, with excellent links into the Treasury, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), and the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR).

According to government officials, having successfully stabilized the Ghanaian economy and solved the energy crisis, one of the most debilitating phenomenon that had engulfed the country for a couple of years now, it is time for a boost in business activities which have received a reprieve from the solved energy situation.

Granting consent, energy minister Lord Bourne said the # 66m project would «benefit the local economy by creating jobs and stimulating businesses».

The news comes as a new report by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on the security of energy, highlights the need for the UK to «move as quickly as reasonably possible towards a low - carbon economy.»

Labour will be «pro-business but not business as usual», he will say, arguing that the party's plan to crack down on energy companies and banks is ultimately good for companies as it will help restore faith in an open - market economy.

«If we didn't have this energy around this cluster economy and the education component and the other businesses, we would not be having this level of success,» Cuomo said.

State Senator Jim Seward joined community, labor and business leaders to announce the launch of New Yorkers for Affordable Energy, which supports increasing access to natural gas for manufacturing facilities, power production, transportation, and other purposes to support New York's economy and quality of life:

Mr Deputy Speaker, a vital sector for our economy, and a cost of doing business for everyone, is energy.

Excerpt: «Public policy needs to «listen the science» to build a sustainable economy made of relocalized (meaning to make local again) manufacturing clean energy industries and creating conditions so that small businesses can thrive.

«The New Capacity Zone would cause quite a bit of damage to our local economy, to households and businesses in the area, with higher energy bills, on the order of up to 6 percent for our residential customers or higher and 10 percent or higher for our large industrial customers.»

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

This strategy sets out the roadmap for continuing progress towards the goal of making Ireland a Global Innovation Leader, driving a strong sustainable economy and a better society, underpinned by excellent research that is defined within six designated enterprise themes (ICT; Health and Medical; Food; Energy; Manufacturing and Materials; Services and Business Processes).

With TOT, of course, the obvious answer to this Cash is frequent execution of small / medium sized acquisitions across Europe (similar to what DCC (DCC: LN) has done for years in its Energy business)-- considering the nature / scope of potential business acquisitions, I think there's a marvelous opportunity here to hoover up cos and double their operating margins v quickly through cost elimination and economies of scale.

The statement reflects no wavering by Obama on his insistence that «the best way for us to transition to a clean energy economy is with a bill that makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America's businesses by putting a price on pollution.»

We know that ushering in a clean energy economy has the potential of creating untold numbers of new jobs and new businesses right here in the United States.

The constellation of individuals, companies and countries who pledged action on energy were joined by hundreds of commitments on everything from greening 10,000 square kilometers of desert to empowering 5,000 African women entrepreneurs in green economy businesses to recycling 800,000 tons per year of PVC by 2020.

During negotiations over the House bill, the President made clear that assistance should be provided to vulnerable families, communities, and businesses to help in the transition to a clean energy economy.

Today, of course, we face more complex challenges than we have ever faced before: a medical system that holds the promise of unlocking new cures and treatments — attached to a health care system that holds the potential for bankruptcy to families and businesses; a system of energy that powers our economy, but simultaneously endangers our planet; threats to our security that seek to exploit the very interconnectedness and openness so essential to our prosperity; and challenges in a global marketplace which links the derivative trader on Wall Street to the homeowner on Main Street, the office worker in America to the factory worker in China — a marketplace in which we all share in opportunity, but also in crisis.

Creating a new energy economy isn't just a challenge to meet, it's an opportunity to seize — an opportunity that will create new businesses, new industries, and millions of new jobs.

Thomas Homer - Dixon Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto Feng Hsu Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Mark Jacobson Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University David Keith Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, University of Calgary Geoffrey Landis Glenn Research Center, NASA Jane C. S. Long hydrogeologist and geotechnical engineer Michael MacCracken Climate Institute, Washington, DC John C. Mankins Sunsat Energy Council / Managed Energy Technologies Michael E. Mann Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University Gregg Marland International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Mark Nelson Institute of Ecotechnics, Santa Fe, NM Darel Preble Space Solar Power Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology Gregory H. Rau Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz Steve Rayner Said Business School, Oxford, UK Kim Stanley Robinson Author, «Forty Signs of Rain» Gregory Dennis Sachs Alternative Power Program, US Merchant Marine Academy Thomas Schelling (Nobel laureate) Department of Economics, University of Maryland Michael Schlesinger Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Steven E. Schwartz Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Energy John Turner National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy Tyler Volk Department of Biology, New York University Tom M. L. Wigley National Center for Atmospheric Research Steven C. Wofsy School of Engineering and Applied Science / Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University Lowell Wood Hoover Institution / Stanford University

This is the time for business and government leaders to take bold climate action, and build strong economies that rely primarily on renewable energy and low carbon technology.

Six Winners Out of 175 Applicants Awarded Prizes to Develop Clean Energy Technologies, Grow their Businesses, Create Jobs, and Advance Clean Energy Economy

Business leaders recognize that we are in danger of falling behind other nations in developing the clean energy economy of the future.