Sentences with phrase «economic incentives for»

This one - two punch will deliver a crippling blow to middle class homeowners by removing economic incentives for homeownership and raising taxes by an average of $ 851.

Capacity to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of methods, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select lower costs forms of care; programs for reviewing specific medical services; increasing beneficiary costs, and placing controls on impatient admissions and lengths of stay, to name a few.

The first application hosted on the PROPS Ecosystem, Rize is an open video platform that connects new many - to - many video technology with tokenized virtual gameplay and economic incentives for its participants.

Disrupting economic incentives: Facebook claims that most fake news is financially motivated and removing the economic incentives for traffickers of misinformation will help curb it.

But it's clear that there are economic incentives for not enabling the FM radio.

This obviously makes one wonder about the concept of centralization; we are generally opposed to any kind of centralization, but at the same time we don't see the centralization of hashing power as a real issue, as long as the economic incentives for miners make sense, i.e. as long as the miners» selfinterest is in accordance with that of Bitcoin.

They wrote that the tort system provides deterrence of non cost - justified accidents, and creates economic incentives for «allocation of resources to safety.»

· Regulation is often preferred to economic incentives for two reasons: 1) industry prefers to protect plants that are already built, and 2) some environmental groups oppose taxes because they make the cost of environmental protection transparent, ie the very factor which others argue is a positive asset is seen by some as being negative.

This unique combination of diversity and common ground enables Forest Trends to better understand different perspectives around economic incentives for forest conservation and establishes a powerful platform from which we can survey the horizon for emerging issues and opportunities.

And having promised economic incentives for replacing harvested woodlands with monoculture plantations, under the guise of sustainable forest management, the summit has gone a long way toward simply giving slash - and - burn agriculture a makeover.

Among other attributes, the programs must offer economic incentives for sustainable production, and they must provide for secure land tenure and participatory land - use planning.

To help meet that goal, California is implementing numerous measures, including standards for renewable energy, a policy to scale up the use of clean fuels, requirements and incentives to increase the use of electric vehicles, and a flexible market - based cap on carbon emissions that creates economic incentives for major carbon polluters to cut their emissions.

«Carbon markets provide economic incentives for reducing carbon emissions, as well as an important and innovative approach to finance environmental restoration and conservation,» said Dick Kempka, vice president of business development for The Climate Trust.

Persson, T.A., C. Azar, and K. Lindgren, 2006: Allocation of CO2 emission permits - economic incentives for emission reductions in developing countries.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), 2004: International experiences with economic incentives for protecting the environment.

Bioenergy increased as a percentage of total energy use between 2000 and 2005 in Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil, all of which provided economic incentives for bioenergy consumption.

Environmentalism essentially promotes government regulation of public use of environmental goods, which is often needed because of the economic incentives for people and industries to avoid paying to prevent pollution.

Similarly, agreeing to cuts in greenhouse gas emissions could mitigate climate change and offer ancillary benefits ranging from reduced dependence on industrial products produced on forest lands to economic incentives for forest conservation

With wind and solar's levelized costs of production now below that of all other new power sources in many places and with prices bound to continue falling through 2030, base economic incentives for adding renewable energy are now quite high.

«Economic incentives for conserving forests, including the Warsaw Framework for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation as (REDD +), will be essential to help implement the FC and to enable Brazil to better reconcile environmental conservation with agricultural development.»

The need is to create economic incentives for communities that will then mandate and / or encourage diversion of materials from MSW.

This technical document evaluates how governments can use climate finance to lift barriers for the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices or the promotion of policies that alter the economic incentives for smallholder farmers.

They'd get cheaper faster if there were more substantial economic incentives for harvesting them.

Governments and their partners should commit funds and invest in supporting communities and their civil society partners to increase the economic incentives for communities to manage their forests sustainably.

You know a lot of focus on economic incentives for the greenies gets thrown around, but there is a consistent lack of skepticism for all the (much larger) groups benefiting from the status quo.

There has not been discussions on environmentalism that pervades economic incentives for making intermittent «alternative» energy more viable, especially in the US and Europe.

We believe that the creation of a cap - and - trade program — which would provide economic incentives for people to keep their forests intact and compensate them for keeping their forests intact — is a great way to use the free market system to bring some economic pressure to keeping those forests in place.

The keys to this phenomenal expansion were fertilization, irrigation, and higher - yielding varieties, coupled with strong economic incentives for production.

A more sound approach would recognize that (1) converting old forest to young forests releases significant amounts of carbon (both above and below ground), (2) young forests are only good carbon sinks if they are allowed to grow and hold onto the carbon for centuries, yet there are too few economic incentives for doing so, and (2) the fraction of carbon that is put into long - term storage after logging is very small, i.e. old forests are better at storing carbon than our disposable culture.

The question of providing economic incentives for nations NOT to cut down rainforests is high on the agenda at upcoming climate meetings in Bali.

Itemized deductions were created as a social - engineering tool by the government to provide economic incentives for taxpayers to do certain things, such as buy houses and make donations to charities.

One solution is to provide new economic incentives for enabling restoration of forests and other natural vegetation.

The five - year - old program is not unique in offering students economic incentives for academic pursuits.

However, more than the 200 years later, the broad purpose of U.S. copyright law remains fundamentally the same; to provide the economic incentives for individual creativity to promote the public welfare.

These pension plans reward longevity with an employer, creating economic incentives for high - quality teachers to stay in the profession.

This could trigger further emission reductions and ensure economic incentives for project developers and host countries.

REDD + Offset Working Group (stateredd.org) was established in February 2011 as a result of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in November 2010 as part of a collaborative effort between the Governors of California, Chiapas and Acre to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (known as «REDD +») and create policies to provide economic incentives for forest conservation by placing a value on living forests and their ecosystems.

A more sound approach would recognize that (1) converting old forest to young forests releases significant amounts of carbon (both above and below ground), (2) young forests are only good carbon sinks if they are allowed to grow and hold onto the carbon for centuries, yet there are too few economic incentives for doing so, and (2) the fraction of carbon that is put into long - term storage after logging is very small, i.e. old forests are better at storing carbon than our disposable culture.

In creating economic incentives for research that shows little or no medical promise (especially compared to the ethical alternatives), Obama's policy is bad science.

In this, a carefully structured, mandatory insurance can assign the costs of actual damage in such a way that the economic incentives for mitigation measures against flooding and heavy rainfall are not lost.

It also provides many economic incentives for intellectual property developed and licensed from the country, such as patent royalty exemption and a research and development tax credit.

Tax - free zones and other economic incentives for new businesses «will be meaningless if they learn they can't flush their toilets and put water in their coffee makers.»

«At the end of the day, economic incentives for cleaner, less - polluting energy will have a greater impact on reducing CO2 emissions than a non-binding agreement with no enforcement mechanisms,» Faso said in a statement.

The budget does not fund several of Scott's top priorities, including a request for $ 85 million for economic incentives for Enterprise Florida.

The report addresses the need for information regarding economic incentives for suppliers to improve the food safety of their products.

Ecotourism may provide economic incentives for caring for land.

Among the points made by Wu during his presentation were the need for smart contracts, economic incentives for full nodes and stakeholders, and the use of extension blocks to bring experimental features to Bitcoin.

Amazon has been awarded more than $ 40 million in economic incentives for warehouses in Florida, mostly from cities and counties.

Hours later, Gov. Larry Hogan said he would personally pitch Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on the Port Covington site and would explore economic incentives for Amazon to locate in Baltimore.

«But my beat is going to be more about networked media or democratized media — platforms and networks, misinformation and the economic incentives for creating different types of content.»