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More precisely, it proceeds by extracting three core equity principles from the UNFCCC, and then defining indicators that operationalize those principles in a manner appropriate to a global, climate - oriented, equity reference framework.

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The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts («NAREIT») defines funds from operations («NAREIT FFO») as net income / (loss) attributable to common shareholders computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States («GAAP»), excluding gains or losses from sales of operating real estate assets and change in control of interests, plus (i) depreciation and amortization of operating properties and (ii) impairment of depreciable real estate and in substance real estate equity investments and (iii) after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures calculated to reflect NAREIT FFO on the same basis.

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.

Affirmative action is always defended as a temporary departure from the principle of race - neutrality in the service of the larger goal of racial equity.

«Governor Bello has said that apart from ongoing infrastructural development in the state, long lasting institutional reforms that will be the bedrock of an organised and functional system are ongoing to put in place a system which runs on principles of equity, fairness, justice, and one which rewards for merit and diligence.

Contents include: an «Introduction» by Milli Pierce; «The Limits of Change» by Richard F. Elmore; «The Six Principles of Effective Accountability» by Douglas B. Reeves; «The Challenge of a Changing Nation» by Marcelo M. Suárez - Orozco, with responses from Harold L. Hodgkinson and Robert J. Murphy; «Does More Choice Mean Less Equity?»

Jobs for the Future: 10 Principles for Building a High - Quality System Of Assessments This report offers important guidance on how states, districts, and our nation can bridge from the current status of assessments to high - quality systems that advance college and career readiness, equity, and student - centered learning.

From the beginning, the project executed a formula for success that combined equity principles and specific strategies to confront the teacher shortage and quality challenges facing Texas schools.

Key principles for leading systemic equity change: Excerpt from We Can't Lead Where We Won't Go by Gary Howard

Also, at some point, you will have enough equity in your earlier SFR purchases (from appreciation and principle pay down) that you will be able to refinance to pull out capital to buy even more SFRs.

The statute would require creditors (when equity is wholly wiped out) to be subject to statutorily defined principles of discounts from par («haircuts») before the financial intermediary was restructured.

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.

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

For this reason, Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) should identify: (1) tonnes of CO2eq emissions reduced rather than a percent reduction from a baseline year, (b) the temperature limit and associated carbon budget that the INDC is seeking to achieve, (c) the equity principles that the nation relied on to assure the justice of its INDC, and (d) For Annex 1 countries, ghg emissions in 1990, the common baseline year.

The thinking is usually that of identifying an appropriate criterion of equity (a guiding principle) and then articulating an allocation of responsibilities from this criterion.

[5] Drawn from the Climate Equity Alliance principles.

[4] Much of the language and concepts in this section are drawn from the Climate Equity Alliance principles.

Furthermore, it is already a settled principle in international law that polluters should pay for their pollution, that nations should reduce their emissions to prevent dangerous climate change on the basis of «equity,» not national interest, and that nations should prevent their citizens from doing harm to people outside their national jurisdictional boundaries.

The ethical basis for why national INDCs should specify; (a) the number of tons of ghg emissions that will be reduced by implementation of the INDC by a specific date, (b) the warming limit and associated carbon budget that the nation's INDC is seeking to achieve in cooperation with other nations, (c) the equity principles assumed by the nation in determining the fairness of its INDC, and (d) for Annex 1 nations, emissions reductions that will be achieved by the INDC from 1990, a common baseline year.

In a nutshell, our claim in that du Pont and his colleagues reach counter-intuitive conclusions (for example that the EU has made a more «equitable» pledge than either China or India) by way of a cascading series of decisions that, taken together, skew their approach towards various kinds of grandfathering, while, at the same time, appearing to be derived from a balanced and comprehensive set of high - level equity principles.

It is another timing principle, different from the statutory one, and it applies to claims in equity.

The Federal Arbitration Act (the Act) makes arbitration agreements «valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract,» 9 U.S.C. ¶ 2, establishes an equal - treatment principle: A court may invalidate an arbitration agreement based on «generally applicable contract defenses,» but not on legal rules that «apply only to arbitration or that derive their meaning from the fact that an agreement to arbitrate is at issue,» AT&T Mobility, LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333, 339.

The BUILD Initiative and its partners, with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, have worked to integrate principles of diversity and equity into early childhood systems.

(11) Apart from the provision made by subsections (2), (4A), (4C), (5), (9) and (10), the validity, enforceability and effect of an approved maintenance agreement shall be determined by the court according to the principles of law and equity that are applicable in determining the validity, enforceability and effect of contracts and purported contracts, and, in proceedings of the kind referred to in subparagraph (ea)(iii) of the definition of matrimonial cause in subsection 4 (1), being proceedings instituted in a court in which the approved maintenance agreement is registered or deemed to be registered, the court: