Sentences with phrase «economic justification for»

The report concludes there is a «clear economic justification for government action to reduce Indigenous disadvantage» based on a reduction in the burden of disease and an improvement in the ability of Indigenous Australians to contribute to and share economic prosperity.

To date, the economic justification for ATC Reform has largely focused on anticipated benefits to commercial airlines and the customers they serve.

Essentially, there would be no economic justification for owning a vehicle that is not in use 95 % of the time (and requires an expensive parking space).

Some workshop participants also referenced a NOAA / NESDIS - commissioned analysis of the potential economic benefits of the GOES - R ABI and HES instruments, 32 which supported the economic justification for a HES - like capability.

As discussed in my new book, Environmentalism Gone Mad, available from the book website, there is simply no scientific or economic justification for remaking the world's energy generation and delivery systems to reduce CO2 emissions.

However, while I recognise the current ideological and political objectives to limit GHG emissions form energy use, there does not seem to be a rational economic justification for GHG abatement.

The economic justification for Australia's carbon price — be it a fixed or floating — stems from one of various IAMs conducted here and abroad.

It's all he has, since there is no scientific justification for gullible warming nor any economic justification for attempting to combat the imaginary problem.

Since co-ops have lobbied for exemption from carbon controls (i.e., the Lieberman / Warner Energy Security Act of 2007), their emissions could be cost - free, making an economic justification for investment in unrequired cleanup unlikely at best.

Thus, there is an economic justification for vesting wildfire suppression responsibilities in large - scale public agencies that can overcome these coordination costs.

It was therefore encouraging when in a major speech in June 2013, the Scottish cabinet secretary for culture Fiona Hyslop veered away from the economic justification for the arts that Westminster holds to, saying «We actively support the case for public subsidy of the arts.

There is no economic justification for the different outcomes, RRSP vs. TFSA.

The right - leaning R Street Institute released a report this week that found no economic justification for financially supporting reactors that have been disadvantaged by cheap natural gas, state clean energy programs and federal tax incentives for wind.

So where do you get the economic justification for it?»

This should include formalised working with code system operators to share investment in infrastructure so that pooled demand can create economic justification for fibre provision to remote areas.»

The coalition's housing benefit changes are being hit by scathing criticism from MPs, in a report questioning the fundamental economic justification for the reforms.

Also in the Post, Terence Corcoran wonders whether Corn Cob Bob — the friendly spokesmascot for the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association — will survive its ongoing battle with the C.D. Howe Institute, which recently released a report questioning the environmental and economic justifications for corn ethanol subsidies.

We learned the economic justifications for inaction are greatly exaggerated, short - termist, and confuse fossil fuel interests with the public interest.

Not exact matches

There is no justification for introducing income splitting on social or economic grounds, certainly not in the current economic environment.

These should be compared to the private sector average economic forecasts, with justifications provided for notable differences.

There was justification for some of this — economic data was supportive of risk assets and the new US administration is still promising a raft of measures that may support corporate earnings (at least in the short term).

A new study into tax - free savings accounts says there is no justification «on either economic or equity grounds» for doubling the contribution limit without conditions.

During a boom, all sorts of justifications for the elevated level of economic activity will seem logical.

I think that the strength can be explained by the precarious global economic and monetary situations, but the point is that a knowledgeable and unbiased observer of the markets shouldn't be scratching his / her head or feeling the need to get creative when coming up with justifications for gold's current US$ price.

A non-Marxian and more insidious justification for reliance on minimum wage legislation to achieve distribution equity is founded on a twisted interpretation of traditional scholastic teaching on economic justice.

The justification for this ignoring of the loss of resources and adding costs is that the GDP is a measure of market activity, not of economic welfare.

Was this author equally appalled about the prayer breakfast earlier this month, when President Obama tried to use biblical phrases like «for unto whom much is given, much shall be required» and «love thy neighbor as thyself» out of context as justification for his tax and economic policies?

He continued, «Thus, the creation of a free market, concealing economic and geographical borders, would erode the justification for using war as the quickest avenue to wealth and power, and lessen its appeal.

Those who prefer Britain's religious leaders to keep out of politics will be frustrated - but the wide - ranging problems which contributed to our current economic predicament are justification enough for the Church's intervention.

This creates the political justification for sharpened rhetoric on equality, while the policy rationale is contained in counteracting the tendencies to inequality involved with both globalisation and technological change, the great drivers of economic transformation in our times.

The final version of WOTUS, which was released in 2015, came packaged with an economic analysis and a 408 - page technical report offering scientific justification for what streams and other water features were included or excluded from the regulation (Greenwire, Feb. 10).

The only justification for the pervasive policy of trying to increase test scores is that future national economic success will go to the nations with the highest scores.

I realize that much has changed in the last few years — widespread economic hardship, cuts in state aid by both Democratic and Republican state governments, much slower than anticipated growth in property values,, the opportunity to cut staff compensation under the threat of union busting, dramatic cuts to the revenue limit base — but despite all of these changes, if you go back to the principles and the details of Partnership Plan used to sell the 2008 Operating Referendum (which passed overwhelmingly) I think you can find plenty of justification for increasing property taxes in order to achieve the mission of the district.

There is really no economic or financial justification for that as gold and fiat currencies have the value that is ascribed to each as a medium of exchange.

The structures that allowed social welfare programs, government support, and government intervention into corporate practice began to dissolve, as there seemed to be no political or philosophical justification for their expansion, especially under the economic crisis of the 1970s.

A lifetime ban is required when scientists play repeatedly with broken research hockey sticks, especially when they drive unnecessary, devastating economic and energy policies and provide false academic justifications for politicians.

What's troubling is that even though the science clearly shows that carbon dioxide is not the problem, the politicians have still gone ahead and introduced carbon taxes, cap - and - trade schemes, and whole economic structures, etc., even though the science shows there's no justification for it.

The paper urges caution in using economic losses of tropical cyclones as justification for action on energy policies when far more potentially effective options are available.

Also several sections of Chapter 3 that can be interpreted as claims that policy makers are free to choose economic reasoning as justification for climate policies.

Yet as a matter of ethics, as we have seen, all nations have a strong ethical duty to reduce their emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions and national economic self - interest is not an acceptable justification for failing to reduce national ghg emissions.

If climate change allocations are considered to be in fulfillment of human rights duties, then arguments based upon economic self - interest in setting ghg emissions targets are not an acceptable justification for avoiding human rights obligations.

Because many of the justifications for national ghg emissions commitments are based upon economic self - interest, rather than ethical duty to others, these justifications fail to satisfy minimum ethical scrutiny.

Similarly a nation's justification for the refusal to reduce ghg emissions is that reductions in emissions will affect the nation's economic interest is not a morally relevant justification for refusing to cut ghg emissions.

Until we have an acceptable central estimate and uncertainties for the damage functions, there can be no valid justification for GHG mitigation policies if the policies will do economic harm (as any policies that increases the cost of energy will do).

Nonetheless, a substantial share of allowances is still distributed through free allocation, with policy justifications including protection for trade - exposed industries and prevention of economic activity leakage outside of the European Union.

«One justification put up by the wind industry for the social and economic chaos caused by spiralling power costs was the claim that investment in wind power would create a «new» economy with millions of groovy «green» jobs.

This would probably be the main justification for all the social infrastructure publicly provided to sustain commerce in developed countries, including courts, enforcement of contract and property rights, collection of economic statistics, etc..

One «justification» put up by the wind industry and its parasites for the social and economic chaos caused by spiralling power costs and — in places like notionally wind «powered» South Australia — load shedding and blackouts (caused by daily wind power output collapses) is the claim that investment in wind power would create a -LSB-...]

By contrast, for the purposes of showing that, before or at the same time as conferring the advantage, the Member State took that decision as a shareholder, it is not enough to rely on economic evaluations made after the advantage was conferred, on a retrospective finding that the investment made by the Member State concerned was actually profitable, or on subsequent justifications of the course of action actually chosen -LRB-...).»

The majority went on to emphasize that «none of the observations of Viscount Sankey can be said to provide legal justification for an attempt by Canadian Courts to mould and fashion the Canadian Constitution by judicial legislation so as to make it conform according to their views to the requirements of present day social and economic conditions.»