Sentences with phrase «change government behavior»

It is difficult to change government behavior, because the politics of reducing spending, or raising taxes is tough.

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The last thing Wall Street wants is for the government to change its behavior.

The economic cost of changes in behavior due to taxes, government benefits, monopolies, and other forces that interfere with the otherwise - efficient operation of a market economy.

EDMONTON — In response to PC legislation claiming to increase government accountability, NDP Leader Rachel Notley called for a series of changes that would effectively protect Albertans from several forms of inappropriate behavior demonstrated by the PCs over the last several years.

These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market, liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants, global environmental policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in government fiscal, monetary and other policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.

Phoebe Thompson, editor of Premier Youthwork Magazaine thinks a number of factors are behind the changes in teenage behavior, on Premier's «News Hour» programme, she said: «the government has taken to make smoking less appealing by covering packets and also putting the long term effects on there, and also the rise of contraception and better sex education probably has contributed to the lowering of teenage pregnancies».

Obviously, legislators who study government programs observe society behaviors and see that changes have to be made in many government programs.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

Greater government involvement, industry collaborations, and marketing campaigns were cited as some of the levers to change consumer behavior.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE As government funders increasingly pay for biomedical interventions that prevent HIV infections, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and provide less support for behavioral interventions that increase condom use and alter sexual behavior, the funding landscape for AIDS groups may shift and they will have to change how they interact with their HIV - negative -LSB-...]

«While government can not force people to change their behaviors — we can't legislate against eating Twinkies — we can take steps to encourage people to take better care of themselves,» Borough President James Oddo, who funded the equipment when he took office in 2014, said.

Forand also cited DiNapoli's audits of state and local governments and school districts that save taxpayers millions of dollars statewide while using the investment clout of the pension fund to influence corporate behavior such as in addressing climate change.

The goals include ending single use plastics, promoting alternatives to fossil fuel - based materials, promoting 100 percent recycling of plastics, corporate and government accountability, and changing human behavior concerning plastics.

I think having employers take a lead in encouraging healthy work sites — with government support — may have a change in getting some sustained behavior changes.

Government officials defending segregationist policies argued that it wasn't possible to change people's behavior without changing their hearts and minds first.

Formerly known as the UK government's «nudge» unit, the now private organisation attempts to understand human behavior and use it to subtly push for positive changes.

«The concern we raised, and was raised much more forcibly by the House of Lords report, is that government and policymakers were in danger of ignoring some of the very potent means or levers for changing behavior if they focused only on nudging,» she says.

«We hope we will persuade the U.K. government that these interventions are valuable as part of an armory to persuade people to change behavior,» says committee chair Julia Neuberger.

The U.K. government is keen to address societal issues such as obesity and carbon emissions by finding ways to change behavior without using regulation.

But instead of reducing their number of sexual partners or changing their sexual behavior as advocated in government and NGO health campaigns, they have developed a tactic, which is embedded in locally meaningful modes of reasoning.

«The insurance industry has the ability to change behavior, policies and communicate with clients,» says Nancy Skinner, US director of the Climate Group, which lobbies for business and government action to address global warming.

Prepare graduates to take leadership roles in the field of nutrition education and behavior change in a variety of settings including individual, community, and government.

By utilizing innovative instructional design and the latest technology advancements, our firm partners with large brands and federal government agencies to create cutting - edge training that engages employees and changes behaviors.

It's too early to say if anything will come of it, but frankly it worries me when the government tries to get involved with changing or artificially constructing investor behavior — especially, when it's simply a reaction to a short - term event (recession).

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It is something that I think is necessary before our governments spend billions or trillions of dollars to change behavior.

There is a great need for everybody to change in our own behavior, in our actions and to engage in causing change in industries and governments.

Canadian researchers have delved into this question, compiling a list of the most commonly suggested «green» behavior changes, as found in high school science textbooks and government documents.

There is something of a debate underway currently in environmental circles as to the extent to which a sustainable economy will be delivered through consumer - led behavior change and business and government - led structural transformation.

This question is designed to expose that those politicians who refuse to reduce their government's ghg on the basis that they are not scientists can not ethically justify non-action on climate change on this basis because once they are put on notice by respected scientific organizations that ghg from their government jurisdiction are harming others, they have a duty to prevent dangerous behavior or establish credible scientific evidence that the alleged dangerous behavior is safe.

Our values are aligned and we also find it fundamental to empower and mobilize people from the local levels to bring real changes in behavior and thus pressure governments and companies to do their part as well,» says the creative.

Americans who are skeptical about climate change engage in personal behavior that is more friendly to the environment than climate alarmists, who support increased government regulation, a new study has found.

We must see climate change as an ethical problem because: (a) it is a problem caused by some people in one part of the world that puts others and the natural resources on which they depend at great risk, (b) the harms to these other people are not mere inconveniences but in some cases catastrophic losses of life or the ability to sustain life, and (c) those who are vulnerable to climate change cant petition their governments to act to protect themselves but must rely upon a hope that a sense of justice and responsibility of those causing the problem will motivate them to change their behavior.

Because motivating individual behavior to engage in activities that don't produce GHGs was assumed to be the major challenge to improve government responses to climate change, proponents of climate change policies have largely relied on the disciplines of economics and psychology, two disciplines which claim expertise on how to motivate individual behavior, to make policy recommendations on how to change individual responses to climate change.

And if you believe, as do many conservatives, that government intervention in markets and in social arrangements should be kept to a minimum, you can find factual support for your views in the long - term unpredictability of regional climate behavior, the significant economic and social costs associated with shifting to more expensive energy sources, and the historical failure of government efforts to steer large - scale social and economic change.

Even if one buys into the premise that the government should be forcing businesses and consumers to alter their behavior in the name of fighting climate change (or «oil dependency»), it is still an unavoidable conclusion that CAFE standards are absurd.

@Judith The social cost of carbon, as used by the government in its cost - benefit analyses of new and revised regulations, is a carbon tax only if models used by the regulator accurately predict the induced change in behavior.

The most unforgiveable unethical behavior surrounding the entire issue of «hiding the decline» and similar biases in published research, is when climate change scientists who know about their — «cherry picking the data», — biased and selective presentation of all data pertinent to published paper conclusions, and — outright errors in their data and peer - reviewed papers, don't speak out loudly in the media outlets that have misled the general public in reporting about their flawed, misleading research, as well as, associated journals and professional societies, to stop politicians and government regulators from using their flawed and misleading research results to pass laws and regulations that have severe effects on the prosperity and quality of life of their fellow citizens of the US and the world.

In his opinion issued Feb. 29, Leon wrote that it was clear to him that, and the government had effectively conceded, «the Government's actual purpose is not to inform or educate, but rather to advocate a change in behavior - specifically to encourage smoking cessation and to discourage potential new smokers from startigovernment had effectively conceded, «the Government's actual purpose is not to inform or educate, but rather to advocate a change in behavior - specifically to encourage smoking cessation and to discourage potential new smokers from startiGovernment's actual purpose is not to inform or educate, but rather to advocate a change in behavior - specifically to encourage smoking cessation and to discourage potential new smokers from starting.»

Every time we obtain justice for a client, it has the capacity to inspire individuals to change their behavior and can even force the biggest hospitals, corporations, and governments to change policies and practices that will make Iowa safer for all.

What we found back then was fascinating: corporations engaged in illegal behavior that were able to block government oversight sometimes changed because of lawsuits brought by everyday Americans.

SCL is in the business of mind - bending, working with global clients, managing political campaigns, developing psychological approaches to conflict resolution, and creating what it calls «behavior change campaigns» for government clients and NGOs.

Travel behavior is changing remarkably, as evidenced by the federal government's tracking of total vehicle miles traveled, which has been declining since 2006.