Sentences with phrase «economy and environment shifting»

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«A strengthening economy that changes consumers» reliance on deep discounts, a highly competitive environment, early promotions and the ability to shop 24/7 online all contributed to the shift witnessed this weekend,» said NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay.

These investment decisions and active asset allocation shift based upon our views of the economy and market environment.

Recall 2000 - 2002 (chart) and 2007 - 2009 (chart): no amount of Fed easing is supportive of stocks or the economy once investors shift to risk - aversion (because in that environment, low interest liquidity is a desirable asset rather than an inferior one).

In my view, there are at least six key factors which have caused and continue to affect a global transformation of consciousness: the revolution in communications, globalization of the economy, a growing awareness of the degradation of the environment, demographic shifts, the threat of nuclear destruction and the advent of the new science.

Regulating power plant emissions would avert 100,000 asthma attacks and 2,100 heart attacks in the CPP's first year, he said at the time, adding that shifting the U.S. power supply to renewables is «one of the best things we can do for our economy, our health and our environment.»

Estimate of Swedish tax shifting based on Paul Ekins and Stefan Speck, «Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 243.

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As Yale Environment 360 reported in June, this is mainly a result of changes in the Chinese economy, where energy efficiency is improving fast, growth is shifting to low - carbon activities and public anger about smog is forcing the shutdown of coal - fired power plants in Beijing and elsewhere.

With policies and business practices that value and protect the country's natural capital, India can shift from an economy that has grown at the expense of the environment to one that flourishes by preserving it.

Lena Moffitt, Senior Director of the Sierra Club's Our Wild America Campaign said, «Shifting investments away from fossil fuels can help banks improve not just their social license but their bottom line — investments in clean, renewable energy have proven to be a boon to both our economy and our environment.

Natural gas has been the primary fuel of choice in recent years, but shifting to an electricity system dependent on coal and natural gas does not alleviate the myriad risks — to the environment, economy, or public health — posed by coal alone.

General Counsel are now operating in a new business environment brought about by regulatory change, increased risk and a shift in the global economy.

«Today's business environment is shifting and the on - demand economy is growing.