Sentences with phrase «environmental matters such»

Energy Saving Trust chief executive Philip Sellwood added: «With a network of advice centres across the UK, we will be able to offer millions of people free and impartial advice on environmental matters such as energy efficiency, renewable technologies and greener transport.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Oil sands development is a matter of provincial government policy: in a government policy paper (the Mineable Oil Sands Strategy) issued a few years ago (and since recalled), the core area of the oil sands resources in Alberta was designated a «sacrifice zone», within which it was acknowledged that significant and irreversible environmental impact would be permitted to occur, to enable the realization of the significant economic benefits such development promised.

There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward - looking statements, including, but not limited to: uncertainties involving interpretation of drilling results, environmental matters, lack of ability to obtain required permitting, equipment breakdown or disruptions, and the other factors described in Paramount's disclosures as filed with the SEC.

For example, an increase in environmental heterogeneity may facilitate the emergence of ideologies having more loosely connected elements, such as an individualistic ideology that decouples specific tenets by regarding them as matters of personal preference.

I would therefore be very pleased if anyone better informed about such matters could let me know why meetings conducted with webcams over the internet are not pretty much as good as face - to - face meetings, given the environmental cost of the latter.

Individual traits, such as sex and social rank, and environmental effects, such as the amount of rainfall and the abundance of prey, also matter, but the ability of individuals to form and maintain social bonds in triads was key, according to the study, which appears today in the journal Ecology Letters.

Simply observing a delay in progress and pointing out that there is a limit to the human life span (it is a matter of ceilings, you know) would blind one to the obvious reforms that the nation could adopt that might improve life expectancy, such as reducing rampant alcoholism, bringing its AIDS epidemic under control, and cleaning up its environmental messes.

It is generally caused by foreign matter, bacteria, chemicals or environmental irritants (such as smoke.)

They now cover environmental matters, including pollutants both inside the home and out, as well as recent hot - button topics, such as Mad Cow disease, Lyme disease, and the West Nile virus.

From his early multichannel video installation diamond sea, 1997, to his more recent performance - based works, such as SONG I, 2012/2015, the exhibition unfolds around the major moving - image installations that articulate Aitken's central subject matters, from catastrophic environmental depredation to unprecedented technological mediation; self - contained, decentralized communication; and the incursion of commerce into every aspect of our social relationships.

Isaac Julien is joined by Giuliana Bruno, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University and author of the upcoming book Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media, for a discussion of Julien's prolific and diverse moving - image work, and its active migration from cinema screen to gallery installation in such recent works as Vagabondia (2000) and Baltimore (2003), both of which take as their subject the space of the museum; the immersive video installation Ten Thousand Waves, on view in the Museum's atrium through February 17; and his most recent installation, the seven - screen PLAYTIME.

We have various options such as modifications to capitalism, better regulation of environmental matters, or alternatives to capitalism.

Where a global threshold is unknown or lacking, there is no scientifically robust way of specifying such a boundary — determining a limit along a continuum of environmental change becomes a matter of guesswork or speculation (see e.g. Bass 2009; Nordhaus et al 2012).

Long - time observers of public debates about environmental threats know that skeptics about such matters tend to move, over time, through three stages.

The truth of the matter is that the public are uninterested in the environmental movement, and it is necessary for the environmental movement to explain its failures by such conspiracy theories.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

Heartland's position on climate change is controversial only in the mainstream media (which has decided to treat global warming the way liberal environmental groups tell them to, as a matter of settled science) and in the view of far - left organizations such as «Forecast the Facts.»

Can't I be weight the probabilities of each — especially given that CO2 emissions are inextricably linked to environmental impact such as particulate matter and geo - political impact such spending billions to keep oil flowing and enriching oppressive regimes while doing so?

Unlike other environmental impacts such as water use, it doesn't matter where in the world carbon is reduced.

The article may have been over-the-top (but, as I've learned, everything is spin and a matter of interpretation), but it made an interesting point to consider: perhaps one of the reasons we see environmental factors, such as extreme weather events, as causing more destruction than ever is because we have so much more to destroy - more people, more goods.

On matters such as these, clarity and continual investigation are the remedy for the sensationalism and political appropriation that are leading us astray from a rational approach to environmental policy.

Dematerialization - The process by which economic activity is decoupled from matter - energy throughput, through processes such as eco-efficient production or industrial ecology, allowing environmental impact to fall per unit of economic activity.

129 Furthermore, the fact that, in the context of applying European Union environmental legislation, certain matters contributing to the pollution of the air, sea or land territory of the Member States originate in an event which occurs partly outside that territory is not such as to call into question, in the light of the principles of customary international law capable of being relied upon in the main proceedings, the full applicability of European Union law in that territory (see to this effect, with regard to the application of competition law, Ahlström Osakeyhtiö and Others v Commission, paragraphs 15 to 18, and, with regard to hydrocarbons accidentally spilled beyond a Member State's territorial sea, Case C ‑ 188 / 07 Commune de Mesquer [2008] ECR I ‑ 4501, paragraphs 60 to 62).

In his criminal litigation practice, he has successfully represented clients involved in high - profile matters such as the U.S. Secret Service prostitution scandal, a federal fraud investigation involving environmental law violations, campaign finance irregularities in the 2010 District of Columbia elections, a CEO involved in a federal public corruption investigation in Michigan, and a company accused of mortgage and credit card fraud.

«A really big thing for us is TDS can do just about everything,» he adds, citing the need to provide clients services in areas such as cross-border matters, major litigation, tax, environmental law, collective agreements, intellectual property, and immigration.

The review team can relatively easily create a list of the main tasks that drove the fee for various phases of the matter — for example, the number of depositions taken or expert witnesses prepared, or the number of areas where specialized due diligence was required, such as environmental or intellectual property.

He includes companies such as AIG (American International Group) among his clients, representing the organization in complex insurance litigation arising from financial lines, excess liability, and environmental matters.

Firms that offer a mixture of representation for such matters as transactional law, securities regulation, intellectual property, trade and commerce, administrative law, labor law, environmental law, real estate development law, or business taxation, should classify themselves as «Business and Corporate Law».

Since corporate matters frequently involve aspects of many legal disciplines, the firm's corporate attorneys regularly draw on the resources of Seyfarth Shaw's other practice areas such as employee benefits, intellectual property, labor and employment, real estate, environmental and bankruptcy to deliver coordinated, seamless service to clients.

Provide environmental counseling and litigation support in matters such as improper land use, hazardous substance handling and disposal and water pollution control issues.

We advise our clients on complicated, cross-border project finance transactions, having worked with environmental lawyers from around the world on matters unique to project finance, such as compliance with the Equator Principles.

His litigation repertoire includes a variety of subject matters, such as trade regulation in the media field, engineering liability, commercial land use and regulation, eminent domain, environmental regulation, intellectual property and construction disputes.

Lawyers with the firm are engaged in virtually every legal specialty, including real property, corporate and business, environmental, wills and estates, taxation, employment matters, insurance law, administrative law, banking, bankruptcy, busy trial in areas such as personal injury, products liability, professional malpractice and insurance claims.

«An effective lasting solution to a complex problem such as this is going to require a collaborative approach with government, civil society, subject matter experts and multiple industries,» Deborah Albers, vice president of social and environmental sustainability at the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, told TechNewsWorld.

[114] Public interest considerations can include issues such as Indigenous rights and environmental concerns (the latter are not a matter addressed in these submissions).