Sentences with phrase «climate of austerity»

During a climate of austerity these alternatives need to be considered.

In this climate of austerity it is easy to understand how unpaid work experience has become endemic.

EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski announced the proposed increase in the European Union's budget: «Despite the climate of austerity, we have to grow.

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

Councils and local government, in particular, have to determine how best to maintain effective services in a climate of austerity, accepting that rising demands and tighter budgets require new delivery tools and new models of provision.

Not exact matches

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

«Official forecasts will show George Osborne's emergency Budget hitting growth and costing jobs in the short term, government sources said last night, but the austerity measures will also create a brighter climate for the economy by the end of the parliament.

Mancunians are aware that Austerity measures and the City Regions come from the same people, a sore reminder of Britain's toxic political climate.

Change comes to those with the courage to will it; 20 years from now let people say this great generation created a decade not of austerity, but shared prosperity, not of conflict, but of peace, not of inequality and climate chaos, but of sustainable development in the interests of all.

The austerity measures introduced by the Greek government, its weak governmental system, politicians» broken promises and the new economic situation spread an intense climate of frustration and social unrest across the country.

Featuring Olivier Castel, Dorota Gaweda & Eglé Kulbokaité, Selina Grüter & Michele Graf, Than Hussein Clark and Martin Soto Climent, the show examines these perceptions and iterations of «unstable» realities as a response to a global climate of «austerity and fear».

The imperatives of the climate crisis and the logic of economic austerity are at war — and Washington State is on the front lines.1

It suggests three major changes: 1) project and policy preparation need to reflect higher risks, where vulnerability assessments and greater use of climate scenario modelling are combined with a better understanding of interconnections between smallholder farming and wider landscapes; 2) this deeper appreciation of interconnected risks should drive a major scaling up of successful «multiple - benefit» approaches to sustainable agricultural intensification by smallholder farmers; 3) climate change and fiscal austerity are reshaping the architecture of public international development finance.

Because I recognize the true degree of our ignorance in addressing this supremely difficult problem, while at the same time as a mere citizen I weigh civilization and its benefits against draconian energy austerity on the basis of no actual evidence that global climate is in any way behaving unusually on a geological time scale.

Now, the mentality of austerity threatens to relegate red - greens to the same corner as financial elites who sought lavish help from the public treasuries... if the climate crisis did not exist, it may have been necessary to invent it so that this synchrony could finally occur.

This is the stark conclusion drawn by Anderson and Bows: «The logic of such studies suggests (extremely) dangerous climate change can only be avoided if economic growth is exchanged, at least temporarily, for a period of planned austerity within Annex 1 nations and a rapid transition away from fossil - fuelled development within non-Annex 1 nations.»

Roberts, quoting climate scientists Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows, argues, that the «brutal logic» of climate change «suggests (extremely) dangerous climate change can only be avoided if economic growth is exchanged, at least temporarily, for a period of planned austerity» in the world's developed nations.

... the logic of such studies suggest (extremely) dangerous climate change can only be avoided if economic growth is exchanged, at least temporarily, for a period of planned austerity within [rich] nations...

This class of climate Lords is served in turn by a vast climate clergy, who promise us that the green noblemen are indeed virtuous, and not tainted by the devil's own oils... But their own demands for our austerity aren't matched by humble requests for green taxes, but demands for # billions and # billions, and rising every year.

Even worse, from the point of view of the climate talks — the success of which depends, in the last instance, on international cost sharing — is the emergence, in Europe as well as the US, of an Austerity Panic Party that pretends, amidst unprecedented inequality and unprecedented wealth, that the North is bankrupt.

So that IS the hypothesis; humans have already damaged the climate environment beyond repair; unless the whole of mankind, adopt their austerity measures.