Sentences with phrase «economic value loss»

This take - make - dispose model not only leads to an economic value loss of over $ 500 billion per year, but also has numerous negative environmental and societal impacts.

Not exact matches

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

In addition to normal risks associated with equity investing, international investing may involve risk of capital loss from unfavorable fluctuations in currency values, from differences in generally accepted accounting principles, and from adverse political, social and economic instability in other nations.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

High inflation rates, slow economic growth, loss of global value of currency, and social and political uncertainty leads to increment in prices of precious metals.

He concludes its demise would be a «tiny loss (of no significant measurable economic value)» as though economic value were the only value that counts.

In our corporate consumerist American culture which celebrates hedonistic materialism and where aggression and a lack of ethics often results in short term economic gain [at the expense of long - term sustainability], taking a public stand for universal human values is likely to result in the end of career advancement or even job loss.

Christians as Christians are better equipped to consider how economic gains are to be valued in relation to other gains and losses.

In dryland conditions, current barley varieties have an increased risk of rejection due to poor malt quality, resulting in a significant economic loss to farmers of more than half of the potential crop value.

IRRI develops ways to add economic, nutritional, and environmental value to rice by reducing postharvest losses, improving grain quality of new rice varieties, improving value - chain linkages, investigating uses of husks and straw to produce bioenergy, cut carbon emissions, and increase carbon sequestration.

Food loss is «decrease in quantity or quality of food» reflected in nutritional value, economic value or food safety of all food produced for human consumption but not eaten by humans (FAO, 2014).

The agency thus determined the so - called soil loss tolerance values, or T values, on the basis of what farmers could do to reduce erosion without «undue economic impact» using conventional farming equipment.

The economic loss is very low — not because of the damage, which is high — but because Nepal is such a poor land with very little infrastructure, around $ 40 billion in total infrastructure value.

Moreover, the economic value of an effective teacher grows with larger classes, as do the economic losses of an ineffective teacher.

In economic theory there's a notion called deadweight loss, or market inefficiency, which impacts a consumer when the value of an item's utility is less than the price paid for it.

The value of real estate and portfolios that invest in real estate may fluctuate due to: losses from casualty or condemnation, changes in local and general economic conditions, supply and demand, interest rates, property tax rates, regulatory limitations on rents, zoning laws, and operating expenses.

About four - in - ten college - educated student debtors possess total debts exceeding the value of their assets, hence asset liquidation will not entirely meet their outstanding debts in the event of job losses and other unforeseen economic shocks.

That P / E10 value caused millions of middle - class investors to suffer such devastating losses that they are now afraid to spend on goods and services and have put our entire free - market economic system into a crisis state.

High Default Rates - The last economic downturn revealed that borrowers with no «skin in the game» or financial interest in their home were more likely to default, not pay or late their mortgage, and walk away from their home than those with down payments - even in cases where down payment was made and signifcant losses in property value were experienced.

Another important point to consider is that history has shown that a lack of financial interest in the property or «skin in the game» might make it easier for a borrower to walk away from the property when faced with economic adversity like a job loss, or a loss in property value.

Real property values and income from real property may decline due to general and local economic conditions, overbuilding and increased competition, increases in property taxes and operating expenses, changes in zoning laws, casualty or condemnation losses, regulatory limitations on rents, changes in neighborhoods and in demographics, increases in market interest rates, or other factors.

REIT funds may be subject to other risks including, but not limited to, changes in real estate values or economic conditions, credit risk and interest rate fluctuations and changes in the value of the underlying property owned by the trust and defaults by borrowers.In addition to normal risks associated with equity investing, international investing may involve risk of capital loss from unfavorable fluctuations in currency values, from differences in generally accepted accounting principles, and from adverse political, social and economic instability in other nations.

It clearly makes the point that one study detected an increase in economic losses, corrected for values at risk, but that other studies have not detected such a trend.

The basis for their view typically is that natural resources are being used to promote their general economic development, and that this approach more than offsets the notional loss of value by selling the resource domestically at a price below the international price.

These millions in losses exclude an economic valuation of the loss of water, the conservation value of the forests, or recreation amenity due to forest destruction.

Many decision makers, particularly in the United States and Canada, have the financial, human and institutional capacity to invest in resilience, yet a trend of rising losses from extremes has been evident across the continent (Figure 26 - 2), largely due to socio - economic factors, including a growing population, equity issues and increased property value in areas of high exposure.

In some cases it is difficult to place specific economic values on important outcomes (e.g. disasters involving large scale loss of life).

«At the moment, the focus is quite heavy on the economic categorisation of loss and damage, and we want to highlight the things that people value that can be damaged by climate change or lost to climate change that aren't accounted for in these assessments.»

Or perhaps Harper simply has concluded that Keystone's economic value dwarfs the economic losses elsewhere, justifying global warming concessions by Canada.

To explain this, think about the central IPCC projection of a 3.5 degrees increase in global mean temperature, which would imply significant but moderate economic damage (maybe a long - run loss of 5 - 10 per cent of GDP, depending on how you value ecosystem effects).

The impacts of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Great Lakes are being assessed using a range of economic metrics capturing the loss of services provided by the lakes (e.g. increased drinking water treatment costs, property value losses, beach closures), as well as the direct effects of toxic microcystin on public health (Bingham et al 2015, IJC 2013)-- such events are expected to increase in frequency and severity in a changing climate (Michalak et al 2013).

Looking at Katrina, I would suppose the largest chunk of economic loss is the destruction of homes, yet much of that property value can probably be traced to the US housing boom (see this spooky article) which was in turn fueled primarily by the booming — and polluting — Chinese economy.

If the covered lagoon method (pictured) proves to be globally valuable for business, the upshot is a large scale incentive to prevent lagoon flooding or leakage, and the resulting loss of raw material (the poop) needed profit from a waste that, if not carefully retained to extract economic value, offends neighbors, is a potential disease vector (for Avian flu for example) and poses an ecological hazard to downstream waters.

We anticipate that your report might reflect also on the medical costs to Ontario families, the loss of economic vibrancy and stability of rural Ontario which continues to bear the assault fully on its shoulders, the loss of tourism, and the loss of property values, which also contribute to economic stagnancy.

However, the Court went further and stated that it would be proper to offset this difference in part by adding an economic value to females statistically greater participation in child - rearing and housekeeping activities and addressing this in damages for pecuniary loss.

Economic damages, such as lost wages and medical bills, have specific monetary values, whereas non-economic damages, such as pain and suffering and loss of consortium, do not.

These losses are generally difficult to calculate, as there is no true economic value that can be placed on the amount of distress one suffered.

What this case tells us is that the amount of economic loss does not have to equal the value of the services provided in order to receive full compensation for the services provided.

In contrast, non-economic damages are those that attempt to compensate a victim's family members for losses that do not have economic value.

Subsequent to the decision in Henry and Gore Mutual, section 19 (4) of the New SABS pertaining to the service provider that has suffered an income loss by providing AC services will now be reimbursed the value of their actual economic loss, and not the full value of the Form 1.

Every loss you have suffered, both economic and non-economic, will be carefully valued before submitting the claim or filing suit.

Economic Damages Reports calculate the present value of economic damages, i.e. loss of earnings, loss of earnings capacity, and other damages such as household -LRB-» home») sEconomic Damages Reports calculate the present value of economic damages, i.e. loss of earnings, loss of earnings capacity, and other damages such as household -LRB-» home») seconomic damages, i.e. loss of earnings, loss of earnings capacity, and other damages such as household -LRB-» home») services.

While past economic losses are simply a matter of math, setting a value for future economic losses requires a jury to reach conclusions regarding issues such as whether you will ever be able to return to the workforce, and what future medical treatment will be necessary.

Instead, plaintiffs can recover economic and non-economic damages to take care of financial and hard - to - value losses.

The value of a claim is based on many factors and are closely tied to your economic and non-economic losses.

The wider economic consequences of damage to a company's reputation should also be remembered: loss of value to shareholders, loss of jobs etc..

Considering the case law, the Court concluded that negotiating damages can be awarded for breach of contract where the loss suffered by the claimant is appropriately measured by reference to the economic value of the right which has been breached, considered as an asset.

Secondly, the value of a case depends on a multitude of factors, including but not limited to: the circumstances of the accident; the physical limitations and permanent injuries resulting from the accident, the economic losses suffered by the victim and / or his family (medical bills past and future, future and past lost wages); any scarring or disfigurement; the strength of each side's experts and what kind of witness each of the parties makes.

The recent economic downturn and losses in real estate values have caused many Americans to reconsider their financial plans.

Examples of perils, which can cause loss of life values, are economic aberrations, bodily injuries, physical and mental illnesses, premature death, and superannuation.