Despite the impressive growth of inclusive education around the world, questions and
considerations about equity have been neglected.
I learned that we are entering an exciting period in school discipline reform whereby educators, policy makers, and researchers are beginning to critically appraise their SEL initiatives with and eye toward increasing
considerations about equity and culture.
Not exact matches
Other
considerations that have historically been important would persist independent of our various concerns
about profit margins, Fed - induced yield - seeking, covenant - lite leveraged loan issuance,
equity margin debt, economic deceleration, and so forth.
The Strategic Growth Fund and Strategic International
Equity Fund remain tightly hedged here, but it bears repeating that our defensiveness at present is not driven by valuation
considerations alone, nor by our broader concerns
about underlying debt and mortgage conditions.
First, concerns were raised
about the omission of recreational program budgets in the
equity calculations; lawmakers were also worried that there was no
consideration for districts having to go through «truth in taxation» hearings with voters who may be overly sensitive to recent property tax increases; finally, policymakers wanted an extended period of time of 1, possibly 2 more years to allow for the necessary levies to occur to pay for such changes.
For those who think
about individual business valuations as an important underpinning of
equities, rising stock prices bring with them valuation
considerations which we have talked
about in previous letters.
However, for taxable holdings especially for those worried
about US Estate taxes, unhedged foreign
equity ETFs should be a
consideration.
However, a clear understanding of how national emissions reductions commitments affect global climate change impacts requires an understanding of complex relationships between atmospheric ghg concentrations, likely global temperature changes in response to ghg atmospheric concentrations, rates of ghg emissions reductions over time and all of this requires making assumptions
about how much CO2 from emissions will remain in the atmosphere, how sensitive the global climate change is to atmospheric ghg concentrations, and when the international community begins to get on a serious emissions reduction pathway guided by
equity considerations.
Although there is a difference of opinion in the «
equity» literature
about how to consider valid
equity considerations including per capita, historical emissions levels, and the economic capabilities of nations to fiance non-fossil energies, all nations agree that national commitments
about ghg emissions reductions must consider fairness.
Any entities identifying a ghg emissions reduction target must be expected to expressly identify their assumptions
about what remaining carbon budget and justice and
equity consideration were made in setting the target.
Others have also recommended abandonment of «
equity»
considerations because any reasonable definition of
equity would require nations to agree to cuts that were not in their national interest coupled with the fact that there is no consensus
about what
equity requires.
Differences among nations
about the significance of
equity and justice plagued the Warsaw meeting in regard to funding for adaptation and loss and damages, yet the ADP discussions never took up express
consideration of what
equity would require in regard to these issues either.
The site could be improved if it included a reference to the IPCC discussion in Chapters 3 and 4 of Working Group III's recent report which, among other things, identifies ethical limitations of economic arguments
about climate policies and only a limited number of
considerations that should be considered in determining what
equity means.
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