Sentences with phrase «difficult global environment»

Despite the more difficult global environment, with lower commodity prices and domestic power shortages, economic growth in 2015 was close to 4 percent, slightly higher than expected.

Not exact matches

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.

While this can make it more difficult to bring new inventions to international markets, the statement says, the opportunities created by the regional environment in Japan and China provide valuable lessons for the global development of this field.

Mr. Chapman commented, «When I accepted the invitation six months ago from EDCI and EDC's Boards of Directors to lead these companies through the difficult industry and global recessionary environment that characterized the first half of 2009, I conceived and preached the mantra of «Don't Burn It & Don't Blow It» as it related to preserving EDCI's sacred cash holdings.

So as not to potentially dilute our existing shareholders» returns in this difficult environment, we decided this past August to «soft» close Global Value Fund II, which means that it is closed to most new investors, but remains open to existing shareholders.

Since it is difficult to understand what exactly is meant by Holistic Management ® in this context, and there is no scientific literature that we are aware of that supports a significant net gain of soil carbon across environments in response to his method, we did not attempt to assess what a realistic global number might be.

Typically these talks don't get beyond environment ministers, but these officials don't have much to say about things like money (which is one reason why global warming talks are so difficult).

Although we focus on a hypothesized CR - cloud connection, we note that it is difficult to separate changes in the CR flux from accompanying variations in solar irradiance and the solar wind, for which numerous causal links to climate have also been proposed, including: the influence of UV spectral irradiance on stratospheric heating and dynamic stratosphere - troposphere links (Haigh 1996); UV irradiance and radiative damage to phytoplankton influencing the release of volatile precursor compounds which form sulphate aerosols over ocean environments (Kniveton et al. 2003); an amplification of total solar irradiance (TSI) variations by the addition of energy in cloud - free regions enhancing tropospheric circulation features (Meehl et al. 2008; Roy & Haigh 2010); numerous solar - related influences (including solar wind inputs) to the properties of the global electric circuit (GEC) and associated microphysical cloud changes (Tinsley 2008).

«It's been a tough time in the resource industry,» said Kofman, speaking as part of a panel on Global Capital Markets and M&A Trends: Financing Alternatives For Mining Companies in a Difficult Market Environment hosted by Baker & McKenzie.