Not exact matches
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide
economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change
affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer
productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may
affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
The efficiency of a city or enterprise should not be measured simply in terms of its
economic productivity, but also, and more importantly, in terms of its ability to contribute to the satisfaction of basic human needs of those
affected by the city or enterprise.
Pregnancy - related morbidity and mortality have social and
economic consequences, which negatively
affect the overall global
productivity of the country and stunt the quality of life of the households.
Hertel and doctoral student Uris Baldos developed a combination of
economic models — one that captures the main drivers of crop supply and demand and another that assesses food security based on caloric consumption — to predict how global food security from 2006 to 2050 could be
affected by changes in population, income, bioenergy, agricultural
productivity and climate.
Research has shown that experiencing traumatic events such as abuse often leads to a significant long - term burden, adversely
affecting one's health, quality of life and
economic productivity in adulthood.
«Previous work has largely focused on how climate change may
affect economic activity by lowering the
productivity of workers,» said co-author Kyle Meng, an assistant professor of environmental economics in UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Department of Economics.
This has
affected our quality of life, social cohesion and it also threatens our
economic productivity.
Though precise consequences can not yet be defined, three main pathways of climate change impact are outlined,
affecting fisheries and aquaculture, their dependent communities and their
economic activities: direct physical (e.g. flooding, severe droughts), biological and ecological (e.g.
productivity of lakes and rivers), and indirect wider social and
economic (e.g. fresh water use conflicts).
The first of the TAR chapters (Chapter 7) was largely devoted to impact issues for human settlements, concluding that settlements are vulnerable to effects of climate change in three major ways: through
economic sectors
affected by changes in input resource
productivity or market demands for goods and services, through impacts on certain physical infrastructures, and through impacts of weather and extreme events on the health of populations.
UHI can
affect the climatic comfort of the urban population, potentially related to health, labour
productivity and leisure activities; there are also
economic effects, such as the additional cost of climate control within buildings, and environmental effects, such as the formation of smog in cities and the degradation of green spaces.
The rule is not expected to substantially
affect productivity or
economic growth.