Sentences with phrase «economic impacts approach»

Their economic impact approaches that of natives as they age and assimilate.

The state is now entering its fourth year of severe drought conditions, with an estimated economic impact approaching $ 2 billion, according to a University of California, Davis report.

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Calgary Economic Development's Mandate The Rise of Shared Value and Four Other Trends in CSR - Forbes There couldn't have been a better way to approach the end of 2011 than at the ambitious and cheerful Net Impact conference followed by Business for Social Responsibility's (BSR) annual conference.

Alison believes that diversity, a multi-disciplinary approach, and the lessons and principles learned from the past, will be crucial to the advancement of these newer technologies and thus in creating the communities, social, and economic impact we all desire.

Meanwhile, the political and economic impacts of the EU, and especially the German, predilection for a strong anti-Keynesian approach to financial crisis is showing no sign of let up — austerity and more austerity resulting in a vicious downward spiral of lower demand leading to lower taxes and lower spending, lower growth and more cuts.

«Welcome signs of restraint continue with 51 % of FTSE 100 companies having now frozen base pay for their chief executives, but it is also clear that shareholders are ready to signal their impatience with companies whose remuneration approach does not take account of the impact of the economic downturn.

The world is fast approaching a «catastrophic tipping point» on climate change that could have a major impact on economic growth and security, Tony Blair has said.

«Our economic focus is built on pursuing a disciplined approach to our financial management, reducing the cost of governance and increasing its impact.

Life - cycle engineering, of which Frangopol is a recognized pioneer, is an approach to assess the environmental impacts in conjunction with economic impacts that includes a structure's life cycle from its production to its use and its end.

This could be achieved using a simple approach, where when harriers breed at levels that have a significant economic impact on grouse shoots, the excess chicks would be removed from the grouse moors, reared in captivity and then released into the wild elsewhere.

He is a director of the Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration of more than two dozen economists, data scientists, climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate change.

I'm one of the directors of the Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration of more than two dozen climate scientists, economists, data scientists and policy scholars, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate change.

Known for its innovative and interdisciplinary approach to education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is an internationally renowned research university and academic medical center and the state of Alabama's largest employer, with some 23,000 employees and an economic impact exceeding $ 5 billion annually in the state.

Such an approach can simultaneously support economic recovery and encourage growth in areas that mitigate the impact of climate change.

Education policymakers working to address the impacts of growing economic and racial inequality on students often look to community schools as an effective approach for supporting students and their families in communities facing concentrated poverty.

The Academy is part of a comprehensive approach to ensure that transportation investments maximize their positive impact on communities, particularly in providing economic opportunities for residents.

This organization forecast that by 2010 the economic impact would approach $ 2 trillion, accounting for over 30 million jobs.

By incorporating the inherent impacts of different economic forces into every investment decision, this approach addresses what Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) fails to consider: external economic forces ultimately drive asset class returns and correlations.

(3) In choosing among alternative regulatory approaches, select those approaches that maximize net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public health and safety, and other advantages; distributive impacts; and equity);

Towards Hybrid Domain / Model Data - Driven Approaches For Real - Time Diagnostics Of Big Cross-Platforms Fleets And Its Economic Impact On O&M Clay Gilkerson, NEM Solutions USA Inc..

Estimated based on the price - gap approach therefore understate total fossil - fuel subsidies as well as their impact on economic efficiency and trade.

(2007) • Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security (2007) • Modelling Investment Risks and Uncertainties with Real Options Approach (2007) • Financing Energy Efficient Homes Existing Policy Responses to Financial Barriers (2007) • CO2 Allowance and Electricity Price Interaction - Impact on Industry's Electricity Purchasing Strategies in Europe (2007) • CO2 Capture Ready Plants (2007) • Fuel - Efficient Road Vehicle Non-Engine Components (2007) • Impact of Climate Change Policy Uncertainty on Power Generation Investments (2006) • Raising the Profile of Energy Efficiency in China — Case Study of Standby Power Efficiency (2006) • Barriers to the Diffusion of Solar Thermal Technologies (2006) • Barriers to Technology Diffusion: The Case of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (2006) • Certainty versus Ambition — Economic Efficiency in Mitigating Climate Change (2006) • Sectoral Crediting Mechanisms for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Institutional and Operational Issues (2006) • Sectoral Approaches to GHG Mitigation: Scenarios for Integration (2006) • Energy Efficiency in the Refurbishment of High - Rise Residential Buildings (2006) • Can Energy - Efficient Electrical Appliances Be Considered «Environmental Goods»?

It also describes the socio - economic and environmental impacts of different approaches for accounting.

It discusses the assessment of climate change impacts on forest regulating services using an ecosystem based valuation approach and finally presents the economic valuation exercise, and corresponding monetary estimation results of forest sequestration services in the context of climate change.

We are in agreement with most of what is written by Richard Tol on the state of the art of economic research into the impacts of climate change and climate change policies, but we highlight a complementary approach that is based on a direct elicitation of (revealed or stated) preferences for climate change.

A panel of economic experts unveil a set of recommendations to protect investors from a head - in - the - sand approach to global warming's inevitable impacts.

This highly dispersed, inflexible modeling approach makes it difficult to produce consistent and timely climate impact assessments under changing economic and environmental policies.

• The effects of management strategies on climate, ecosystem services, and the resilience of ecosystems to climate change; field experiments and models designed to learn about coupled human - and environmental systems and to test different management interventions • The valuation of ecosystem services, including the economic or other costs associated with impacts of climate and other environmental changes • Adaptive approaches and institutional and governance mechanisms for addressing the regulatory aspects of special status species management

These issues, including socio - economic and environmental implications and several potential impacts arising from the application of the approaches for accounting of emissions and removals relating to HWP, were raised at SBSTA 21 (FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / 13, paragraph 31).

Broader economic approaches, however, can attach monetary values to non-market impacts, referred to as externalities, placing an economic value on ecosystem services like breathable air, carbon capture and storage (in forests and oceans) and usable water.

To succeed today, communities and businesses must shift their focus to a triple bottom line approach — they need to achieve economic viability while balancing social needs and environmental impacts.

At the twenty - first session (FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / 13, paragraphs 29 - 33), the SBSTA noted the need to further analyze the socio - economic and environmental implications, impacts on forest carbon stocks and emissions in Annex I and non-Annex I Parties, impacts on sustainable forest management, and impacts on trade, of reporting GHG emissions resulting from the production, use and disposal of HWP, including those arising from the application of the accounting approaches.

On the vital question of how to approach climate change, the most influential economist is William Nordhaus whose explicit position is that we should decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions only if cost - benefit analysis or an optimisation model concludes that the net benefits to humans are positive, where the relevant effects are essentially impacts on economic output (Nordhaus and Yang, 1996).

One can not place absolute trust in data and in analyses which have not been subjected to a reasonably tight Quality Assurance program of some kind, one which is based upon a graded approach and which is commensurate with the potential public safety impacts and potential economic impacts of a quality assurance failure in either the data or in the analyses.

Second, our approach explicitly models the impact of future climate change on economic production.

This publication — which is rooted in seven case studies comprising 15 countries — gauges the economic significance of the integration impacts of variable renewable energy; highlights the need for a system - wide approach to integrating high shares of variable renewable energy; and recommends how to achieve a cost - effective transformation of the power system.

He suggested to me that the evidence for AGW is pretty clear, but the US's approach to Kyoto was that it was not fair in terms of economic impacts to America, especially vis - a-vis China and India.

Alternative approaches include using SRES scenarios as surrogates for some stabilisation scenarios (Swart et al., 2002; see Table 2.4), for example to assess impacts on ecosystems (Leemans and Eickhout, 2004) and coastal regions (Nicholls and Lowe, 2004), demonstrating that socio - economic assumptions are a key determinant of vulnerability.

The conference will consider approaches to identify, measure, value and compare environmental, social and economic impacts, building upon outcomes and recommendations from last year's event.

Chapter 4 turns to the impact of the somewhat «isolationist» approach found in the Court's case law on international law; it does so by scrutinizing the relationship of the CJEU with a number of other international courts and tribunals, recalling for this purpose in particular the MOX plant controversy and the legal controversy surrounding the creation of the European Economic Area and the EFTA Court.

Executive Order 12866 directs agencies to assess all costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, when regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public health and safety effects; distributive impacts; and equity).

First, parent support programs improve parental competence / confidence and parental beliefs that child - initiated interactions are most important in parent - child interactions.7, 8 Second, although general parent support programs support social - emotional development of children, parent support that is directed at parental emotional and educational / economic development has an enhanced impact on child social - emotional development.9 Third, participatory help - giving practices contribute the most to parents» judgment of their children's emotional competence.7 Fourth, group approaches to parental support have a more powerful effect on child social - emotional competence than home - visiting approaches.9

Collaborative divorce can provide a more flexible and creative approach to dealing with the impact of the economic downturn on a married couple's ability to divorce.

Education policymakers working to address the impacts of growing economic and racial inequality on students often look to community schools as an effective approach for supporting students and their families in communities facing concentrated poverty.

WAV Group's consolidation approach drives the group to identify specific, measurable and achievable goals, projects and timelines to move the organization though the process while always examining key economic, stakeholder, and consumer impacts along the way.