Sentences with phrase «united states cut»

Should wealthier regions like Europe and the United States cut more, since they're responsible for most of the man - made greenhouse gases that have already been put in the atmosphere?

The pledges will see the United States cut emissions by 26 - 28 % below 2005 levels by 2025, while China will peak its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 or before.

As shown in Part 1, it's impossible for the world to cut CO2 emissions enough to prevent a climate disaster, but could the United States cut its CO2 emissions 80 % by 2050?

Could such an index have helped the popularity of Obama's Clean Power Plan, which mandates that power plants in the United States cut their carbon emissions by 32 percent (compared to their emissions in 2005) by 2030?

Data from the Energy Information Administration show, for example, that the United States cut carbon dioxide emissions by 12 percent between 2005 and 2012 while global emissions increased by 15 percent over the same period.

But that single - year growth paled in comparison with the 4.4 percent average annual increase in global coal consumption recorded in the last decade as the United States cut its coal consumption by nearly 12 percent, according to the report.

The United States cut back on education spending after the Great Recession, whereas the government of the United Kingdom poured more money into its schools.

• As the revolution began to deepen reforms, the United States cut off previously approved aid.

Not exact matches

The tax cut plan approved last year will have a disproportionate impact on Verizon because almost all of the company's revenue comes from inside the United States.

We had tax reforms, tax cuts in the United States.

Net profit included a writedown of 2.865 billion Swiss francs in the fourth quarter of deferred tax assets due to the introduction a new tax cuts and the jobs act in the United States.

The World Trade Organization cut its forecast for global trade growth this year by more than a third on Tuesday, reflecting a slowdown in China and falling levels of imports into the United States.

Even if the United States struggles to win market share in its competition with cheaper piped gas from Russia, the availability of an alternative will blunt the impact if Russia cuts supplies off again, and reduce its ability to dictate long - term restrictive contracts with its customers, analysts said.

Clinton intervened in the Zika virus crisis in early August, joining many Republican and Democratic officials from Florida in demanding that Congress cut short its summer recess and pass the $ 1.1 billion spending bill to help combat the spread of the dreaded disease in the continental United States.

To counteract those forces, the Bank of Canada could have cut interest rates, opening up a gap between the cost of money in Canada and the United States, making U.S. assets relatively more attractive to fixed - income investors.

The research house doesn't expect personal and corporate tax cuts in the United States to lead to a surge in business investment, because it believes the economy is already toward the end of a regular business cycle.

Thanks to rigid labour laws, automakers haven't been able to cut back in Europe as they have in the United States.

The combined budget for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, would fall by 28 %, with funding cuts for the United Nations, climate change and cultural exchange programs.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar in June over its ties with Iran and its support of Islamist groups, accusing the small Gulf state of supporting extremists, charges it denies.

Wilbur Ross, United States Secretary of Commerce, tells CNBC's Becky Quick the real way to pay for tax cuts is stimulating the economy, and discusses negotiations on NAFTA.

The United States, under former President Barack Obama, had pledged as part of the Paris accord to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025 to help slow global warming.

Elsewhere in finance news, Deutsche Bank is expected to cut around 1,000 jobs in the United States.

U.S. officials worry is that cutting - edge technologies developed in the United States could be used by China to bolster its military capabilities and perhaps even push it ahead in strategic industries.

They had job sharing; rather than having German industry just slash and burn and cut all their workers the way that happened in the United States, what (the German government) did was have those workers work part - time and subsidize their wages.

The cuts at the unit of Koch Industries Inc, the industrial conglomerate of billionaire conservatives Charles and David Koch, affected traders and support staff in its United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Singapore offices.

NEW YORK, April 10 - U.S. stocks climbed on Tuesday as investor concerns about rising trade tensions between the United States and China eased after Chinese President Xi Jinping promised to cut import tariffs.

I greatly appreciate the fact that we've been able to cut our payroll of the United States.

BRASILIA / SAO PAULO, May 2 - Brazil on Wednesday contradicted a United States announcement that the two countries had reached a deal on a permanent exemption from steel and aluminum import tariffs, saying the Trump administration had unilaterally cut off talks.

COPENHAGEN, Oct 12 - Danish wind turbine maker Vestas said the impending expiry of a U.S. tax credit had exacerbated a fall in orders for next year, forcing it to make more than 800 job cuts in the United States and Canada so far this year.

If there is one person who is the embodiment of hair care in the United States, he's it,» says a buyer for one major retail chain, who has cut down the number of Clairol products he carries to create space for the Vidal Sassoon line.

«As the stream transverses the United States, you try to make sure that every place it stops is as short as possible,» said Gerttula, regarding the work CBS has done over the past year to cut back on video delays.

Coach posted an 8.6 percent jump in quarterly profit, as the handbag maker cut back on discounting its products in the United States.

Coach reported a higher - than - expected quarterly profit, as the handbag maker cut back on discounting its products in the United States, sending its shares up 7 percent in premarket trading.

China and the United States have reached a breakthrough in talks on eliminating duties on information technology products, a deal that could pave the way for the first major tariff - cutting agreement at the World Trade Organization in 17 years.

The jury also remains out on whether retailers make money by cutting prices in an event which was imported to Britain from the United States by online retailer Amazon in 2010.

«In light of recent political and social developments in the United States and abroad,» he wrote in The New York Times, «our work is cut out for us.»

China will not hesitate to fight back if the United States escalates its trade spat with Beijing, the commerce ministry said on Thursday, asserting that Chinese President Xi Jinping's pledge to cut import tariffs is not a concession to Washington.

In the United States, the federal government has traditionally underwritten investment in early stage energy technology, but the White House has proposed cutting that spending.

The IMF said Monday that the tax changes were expected to stimulate activity «with the short - term impact in the United States mostly driven by the investment response to the corporate income tax cuts.»

But Trump said he told Cook that he was planning a big tax cut and the elimination of many regulations that raise costs for companies operating in the United States.

Russia cut its military spending in 2017, a Kremlin spokesman acknowledged, just as the United States and its European allies have imposed steep sanctions on the former Cold War rival's economy.

«Mark - Up of H.R. 3996, The Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007 and H.R. 3997, The Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Act of 2007,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, United States House of Representatives, November 1, 2007; «Baucus, Grassley Tackle Alternative Minimum Tax Relief on First Day of 110th Congress,» Press Release, January 4, 2007; «Easing the Family Tax Burden,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, March 8, 2001; «Revenue Proposals and Tax Cuts in the President's Budget,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, February 28, 2001; «President's Tax Relief Proposals: Individual Income Tax Rates,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, February 13, 2001; Jerry Tempalski, «The Impact of the 2001 Tax Bill on the Individual AMT,» National Tax Association Proceedings: 94th Annual Conference on Taxation, November 10, 2001.

VW of America has cut the cord with its former head of sales in the United States, who's been laying the groundwork for more than $ 2 billion of planned electrical charging infrastructure.

Barclays analyst Kannan Venkateshwar said 31 million homes in the United States could cut the cord on pay television or drastically scale back on such services as more consumers opt for Internet - delivered entertainment.

Bitfinex, which is officially incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, has been fined by regulators in the United States and cut off by U.S. banks, and it has lost millions of dollars of customer money in two separate hacks, leading critics to question whether it even has the money it claims to hold.

If the United States is running a capital account surplus mainly because the world is awash in excess savings, then it is unlikely that a cut in the fiscal deficit will cause a drop in the U.S. current account surplus.

In August, when S. & P. cut the United States a notch from its top - rank AAA rating, markets briefly plunged.

In fact, if investors are worried at all about the U.S. fiscal deficit, then if anything a cut in the deficit will cause even more money to enter the United States, and if the U.S. capital account surplus rises, then so must the U.S. trade deficit, which is the opposite of what Shultz and Feldstein claim.

Trump's proposed corporate tax cut, which would reduce the rate to 15 percent, «would just be a tremendous boom for corporate earnings in the United States,» he told CNBC on Tuesday.

The so - called fiscal cliff, whereby automatic tax increases and spending cuts are slated to take effect in the United States in January, took the top spot, according to El - Erian, the CEO of PIMCO.