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Psychological contributions to limiting climate change will come not from trying to change people's attitudes, but by helping to make low - carbon technologies more attractive and user - friendly, economic incentives more transparent and easier to use, and information more actionable and relevant to the people who need it.

This fails the «follow the money» test on so many levels: not only is politically unpalatable to tax something so ephemeral that governments are being dragged kicking and screaming to it, and not only is the economic incentive more of a disincentive, but the opposing interests have billions of dollars staked in it not happening at all.

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The real significance of the Google Patent Starter Program is instead more subtle, and should be seen against the backdrop of other moves Google is undertaking to change the economic incentives that have made patents such a problem for the tech sector in the first place.

New York is even more welcoming, with economic incentives for new business owners, a dense and diverse economy, and a diverse population that can feasibly connect new entrepreneurs with almost anyone they need to get their businesses off the ground.

These recommendations were in fact cited by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its 2016 annual Economic Survey of Canada.Naming a lack of productivity as a major impediment to future economic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate andEconomic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its 2016 annual Economic Survey of Canada.Naming a lack of productivity as a major impediment to future economic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate andEconomic Survey of Canada.Naming a lack of productivity as a major impediment to future economic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate andeconomic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate and invest.

«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.»

To fully realize the economic benefits of having more women in the labor force, Japan needs to provide incentives for women to seek out more full - time work in high growth areas, he said.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

They are more likely to support economic incentives from the government to encourage Canadian companies to set up operations in Asia, and initiatives to facilitate trade and investment missions for Canadian companies to visit Asian countries.

The status quo, in all its various forms, is dominated by incentives that strengthen the centralization of wealth and power.As longtime readers know, my work aims to 1) explain why the status quo — the socio - economic - political system we inhabit — ... [Read More]

Then I tried the economic freedom line: «A carbon tax makes fossil fuels more expensive, so people have an incentive to consume less.

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

Compared with 39 % of women, 49 % of men believe that Canada should provide economic incentives to encourage more Canadian companies to set up operations in Asia.

Unless there is an economic incentive for more people to begin this type of farming, we are left with cheap factory produced chickens because nobody wants to take the time to raise them on pasture.

Other suggestions include altering the physical environment, creating economic incentives to select healthier items or even adding express lines for more nutritious food.

With that understanding, a new negotiating strategy can be employed — one that should allow the North Korean regime to see a way of surviving without nuclear weapons, and that should be backed up by more powerful economic incentives and disincentives than before.

Commisso said that as mayor he would review financial incentives given to luxury housing developers and restructure the city's now - quasi-public economic development agencies, making them more accountable to the mayor and Common Council.

A Centre for Economic Performance report by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) found there had been an incentive effect for those teachers gaining above - average performance related pay, but that this was offset «by a more widespread demotivating effect arising from difficulties of measuring performance fairly».

But good - government groups insist there needs to be broader, more independent reforms, including the creation of a database of subsidies published online, empowering the state comptroller to review all contracts worth more than $ 250,000, and ending the awarding of government economic development incentives by SUNY.

Regardless of that bittersweet news, Tenney also said the layoffs may have been avoided if the state provided more economic incentives to the gun industry, like they have with solar power in Western New York.

Astorino criticized Cuomo's economic development approach — he said he would scrap START - UP NY, a system of tax - free zones rooted in state university campuses — and said he would focus more on major regulatory changes than direct incentives, which he questioned because «the government gets to pick and choose winners... that's how we stay at the bottom.»

The article also cited research from the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan government watchdog group, that likewise found more than $ 8 billion spent each year on economic development incentives in New York state.

Other surveys, such as this one by the Committee on Economic Development demonstrate support for reform is also strong in the business community; 72 percent are in favor of creating a public financing system that would match low - dollar contributions and give average citizens more incentives to contribute to campaigns.

«We're suggesting there's a way to perhaps more clearly target the tax incentive part of the program to communities where in fact without an incentive there wouldn't be economic development.

In the middle, where there's a price that you have to pay to reduce the carbon emissions, you need an economic incentive to do that and the way you get that economic incentive is you put a price on carbon emissions that make it worthwhile to avoid them, or more worthwhile than it is under today's circumstances wherein most places — most countries — there is not a significant price on carbon.

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.

Alden, You've tapped a lot of key issues here — the lack of economic incentive on the company's side to invest in plus sized design, the lack of economic ability for many plus sized women to spend more on ethical clothing due to the correlation between poverty and obesity, and the societal stigma that plus sized status is «supposed» to be temporary, and not worth the investment.

Entertainment Vice President Michael Walbrecht pushed members of the Texas House Select Committee on Economic Development Incentives to put up more funds to attract filmmakers to the Lone Star State.

However, if greater economic dynamism, more powerful incentives for creativity, cultural innovation, greater opportunity for material comfort, greater acceptance of diversity, and greater personal liberty are taken as measures of societal well - being, then the United States might be better.

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.

Nobel Prize — winning economist Milton Friedman theorized that for - profit firms are more effective because they have clear economic incentives to lift student performance.

Students who finished high school could expect to make more money than high school dropouts, and this economic incentive increased in the 1980s and 1990s (Murnane 2013).

Economic incentives alone will not make teaching as a profession more attractive because the roots of our current problems are not tied solely to economics.

This creates a strong economic incentive, with fake authors — Sharazade thinks it's possible they are organized gangs based in Asia — earning 70 % royalty rates on every sale, earning far more than a spammer could with click fraud.

They have economic incentives as well, and they are all the more sharp, because they really get hit when things get bad.

Figuring out exactly what the family's economic incentives are is difficult because of numerous related party transactions, that make ACPT more valuable to them than any other buyer.

Last but not least, knowing the litter size may be helpful so to realize the economic incentive for those breeders who breed more for the money.

We should replace the agribusiness monoculture with more diverse local food production making this work by using local economic incentives.

On the plus side, looking at anaerobic digestion for example, you are creating an economic incentive to collect and utilize food waste — and you are therefore making measures like San Francisco's mandatory composting laws more economically viable, and politically palatable.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

The «emissions reductions» approach, including cap - and - trade systems and other economic incentive mechanisms as well as direct regulatory controls, will require power plants, cars, and many other GHG sources to become more «efficient» by cutting their discharges.

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.

Unless incentives change considerably, the shor - and medium - term futures will be based on more, not less, fossil fuel usage, not just here but everywhere that is struggling to create more economic growth.

Otherwise, in a lower oil price world, consumers have few economic incentives to make the switch away from oil or to use it more efficiently.

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

Under typical regulatory structures, utilities do not have an economic incentive to provide programs to help their customers be more energy - efficient.

Overall, this year's report findings illustrate growing corporate interest in incentive payments to protect forests as a climate response, despite political and economic challenges to carbon price mechanisms more broadly.

Build green enabling institutions — Green Investment Units and Banks are needed; Give tax incentives for climate bonds — very little treasury loss can be a big boost to investment; Build an economic recovery narrative — the transition to a green economy revamps our economy across every sector and addresses the climate change threat; Use Climate Bond Standards as a screening and preferencing tool — a tool that helps investors monitor and verify the climate effectiveness of their investments; Make it easy for politicians — bond investors and business issuers have to get better at packaging politically sellable solutions, help politicians see how they can successfully sell those plans to voters - See more at: http://www.climatebonds.net/#sthash.djXU6k6I.dpuf

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

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