Sentences with phrase «economic climate meant»

However the difficult economic climate meant that her role was made redundant.

For me, the current economic climate means that every opportunity, new and old, must be explored and explored again... from the possible opportunities for funding through the Federal Stimulus Package which passed in February to letters updating donors who have supported us in past years.

Not exact matches

The significant age difference in immigration - readiness suggests that Canadian youth feel the economic climate is particularly ill - suited to their needs, meaning that the country could face brain drain if the right opportunities present themselves elsewhere.

The utilitarianism of an individualistic period, which promised men that through faith they might gain the economic virtues and wealth, differs from the pragmatism of our social climate of opinion, in which religion is used as a means for gaining social order and prosperity; but they are both utilitarian and equally remote from the love of God for his own sake and of the individual or social neighbor in his relation to God.

maybe you don't understand that Wenger's words are simply an attempt to recover some of the market value that was lost due to the way they have mishandled his contract negotiations, which means that everyone, once again, knows that we have little to no leverage when it comes to negotiating a transfer... much like we did with RVP, when we sold the EPL trophy to ManU for less than $ 25 million... any reputable team with a sporting director would never have allowed this situation to occur again and if they had heads would roll... if handled correctly the worst case scenario would have seen us get a minimum of $ 65 million for a player of his ilk in the present economic climate and we could have used those funds to purchase the best available striker in the early days of the transfer window... just imagine what outsiders must think about the state of our team if all you did was read the headlines... sadly, things might just might be worse than they think

Democrats are by no means the only ones who can contribute to that end but it would greatly benefit working families to have a DNC leadership committed to progressive political change; social, climate and economic justice; and the expansion of our democracy.»

Different circumstances within different countries mean that one size very definitely does not fit all - as local disease, animal husbandry, economic and climate conditions will impact on countries abilities to change existing practices».

«In the current economic climate, every penny counts and for small businesses a late invoice can mean not being able to pay their staff.

«In order to understand coastal impacts under current and future climate and socio - economic conditions, we do not only need robust projections of mean sea level rise but also a profound knowledge of present - day and future extreme sea levels, because these events drive the impacts,» Wahl said.

The results, shown in the above map (red means total economic damage and blue is total economic benefit; projections are for 2080 - 2100), could guide states and the federal government toward the communities most in need of help adapting to the changed climate — should lawmakers choose to act.

Our native bees are weather - tolerant and inexpensive to keep, meaning we should treat them as an economic and genetic resource as climate change progresses.

«Mitigation does not mean the world has to sacrifice economic growth,» says Ottmar Edenhofer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, who co-chaired the report.

Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.

It means that we must not wait until there are financial / economic, the food, the energy, and the climate, crisis to resolve and take measures to make do.

• If global civilization can not continue to adjust to these climate changes in an evolutionary manner, then revolutionary means (economic depression, famine, mass migration, unilateral seizure of resources, unilateral efforts at geo - engineering) leave us and our descendants vulnerable to perpetual warfare, with ever - increasing chances of unrestrained nuclear exchanges.

With his long history in the clean tech sector, King brings a commitment to sustainable energy, both as a means of addressing ocean acidification and climate change, and as a platform for economic growth.

Given that the sector plays a vital role in economic growth of the country, it is only important to ensure a resilient urban transport system that also aims to provide access to affordable mobility means consistent with future climate change.

To pursue a 2oC pathway to address the risks of climate change, the need for efficiency gains is likely to ramp up significantly, meaning that capturing the most cost - effective efficiency gains will become even more important in order to spare society an unnecessary economic burden associated with high - cost options to reduce emissions.

And poor countries are becoming less enamored about signing on, as they realize hard economic times mean there will be little climate «mitigation» and «restitution» money coming their way from (formerly) rich countries.

We need to reduce carbon emissions for climate reasons, and should leave fossil fuels in the ground even if it means losing short - term economic benefits, but exposing Australia and the world to greater climate risk for no good reason seems like madness.

So if there is a real, though unquantifiably small, possibility of catastrophic climate change, and if we would ideally want some technological hedges as insurance against this unlikely scenario, and if raising the price of carbon to induce private economic actors to develop the technologies would be an enormously more expensive means of accomplishing this than would be advisable, then what, if anything, should we do about the danger?

Stepping all the way up to the climate challenge DOES mean ambitious collective action; more public investment in solutions (as well as good climate policy that drives private investment in the right direction); greater commitment to social and economic equity; and curbs on corporate power.

With respect to climate - change the Good - Reuveny Effect means, essentially, that two - century foresight (or longer) is * necessary * to rational economic strategies.

He also failed to mention that board member Michael J. Boskin, who served as George W. Bush's chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, was one of the key culprits of that administration's consistent exaggeration of the uncertainties in climate science as a means for stymieing legislation that would curb carbon dioxide emissions.

Understanding how the climate is changing does not mean you know and understand it will impact other natural processes, let alone the impacts — whether from a changing climate or any remedial actions taken to counteract it — to energy, economic or political systems.

The words «concentration pathway» are meant to emphasize that these RCPs are not the final new, fully integrated scenarios (i.e. they are not a complete package of socio - economic, emission and climate projections), but instead are internally consistent sets of projections of the components of radiative forcing that are used in subsequent phases.

Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.

Scientific and economic reasoning is an adequate way to frame the climate problem — but it is by no means the only way, says Matthew Nisbet, a communication and policy specialist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

Doppelt believes climate change as well as many of today's pressing social and economic problems result from outdated and flawed assumptions about the way the world works and what it means to live a decent and honorable life.

He sees a need for high leverage interventions (with strong governance foundations) because economic and climate inertia mean mitigation is now too late or slow.

So effective climate policy — saving ourselves — means coming together, toward broadly - shared economic opportunity and security.

Economic, social, and natural systems are also inter-connected on a global scale, meaning that climate impacts in other regions of the world can pose serious economic and security risks to the UnitedEconomic, social, and natural systems are also inter-connected on a global scale, meaning that climate impacts in other regions of the world can pose serious economic and security risks to the Unitedeconomic and security risks to the United States.

Examples of science fiction based on devastating climate change are Ready (1998), well - meaning but scarcely noticed; Turner (1989), a story of civilization collapsing under the pressures of war and economic forces as well as global warming (noted fairly widely for its literary quality); and, by two of the field's major authors, Silverberg (1994)(little noted), emphasizing the greed, stupidity and ambitions that were bringing vast destruction through ozone as well as global warming, and Sterling (1995), where colossal storms mingle with stormy political conspiracy.

That means global economic growth of 2.94 per cent per year, in contrast to three per cent growth in a fictional future where there is no climate change (known as a baseline scenario), according to the IPCC's calculations.

Contributions are sought on (1) what unconventional sources mean for the theory of peak oil; (2) what an explosion of new fossil fuel emissions might mean for global climate change; and (3) what geological, economic, or policy forces might limit fossil fuel production.

Energy efficiency has often been proposed as a kind of «holy grail» for environmentalists: a means of contributing to climate change goals while also spurring economic growth.

For one, the non-linear relationship between warming and economic harm means that the most extreme damages would occur in very high - sensitivity cases (as Harvard economist Marty Weitzman puts it, «the sting is in the long tail» of climate sensitivity).

Solving climate change does not mean rolling back capitalism, suspending the free market or stopping economic growth.

World leaders should use every political and economic means available to compel Trump to act in accordance with what climate science and justice demand.

Supposedly, a relatively modest slowdown in economic growth means that it is now imperative to do nothing about climate change.

What it means is that climate is not isolated from other issues such as gender equality or economic and racial justice, because causality runs both ways: those who are oppressed in other ways are precisely those who are vulnerable to the worst effects of climate change, and precisely those who are least responsible for its occurrence.

With Norway considering divesting from oil and coal, the Church of England using its economic muscle to fight the «great demon» of climate change, and the Bank of England receiving warnings over a carbon bubble, divestment is by no means limited to liberal universities anymore.

As serious governments shift the climate - change debate from whether the phenomenon exists to the best means to combat it, one of the first things officials want to know is how much economic damage it will cause — and how much measures to fight it might cost.

We have enough experience already with the devastating human and economic costs of climate change to know that we have to start living within our carbon means.

The party itself was full of chatter about climate change legislation, what the economic downturn means for solar, and all sorts of other really fun things that you talk about at parties.

In the current economic climate, lawyers should have heightened awareness as to their duty under their Code of Conduct to discuss alternative means of settling the client's dispute.

This has been exacerbated by the economic climate in the period since the 2009 judgment, which has meant that opportunities for claimants to mitigate their loss have been limited, particularly in lucrative areas like financial services.

I mean yes, people do it for their hobby and learning new skills, but I think particularly in today's economic climate, it makes sense to see if you can increase your employability.

This means Aboriginal people are closely involved in plans and action for ensuring sustainable economic development in the State, including dealing with the effects of climate change