Sentences with phrase «estimated economic benefits»

Combined with the estimated economic benefits, there might be a strong case to be made in TTIP's favour.

West's team then estimated the economic benefits using a statistic called the Value of Statistical Life.

The company that proposed the project pointed to the estimated economic benefits for local communities.

The renovation and new dining outlets added 90 new jobs to the resort, as well as 350 contract construction jobs, with a total estimated economic benefit to area of $ 20 million, according to economist Dr. Manfred Keil.

Researchers also estimate the economic benefits of shifting to a more plant - based diet to be in the trillions of dollars.

NYSDPS estimates the economic benefits of the ZEC subsidy are in total about four times larger than the maximum cost.

What's the estimated economic benefit from greater biological productivity concomitant with rising CO2?

Not exact matches

Actual operational and financial results of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet will likely also vary, and may vary materially, from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected for a number of other reasons, including, in addition to those identified above: the challenges and costs of integrating operations and realizing anticipated synergies and other benefits from the acquisition of ExpressJet; the challenges of competing successfully in a highly competitive and rapidly changing industry; developments associated with fluctuations in the economy and the demand for air travel; the financial stability of SkyWest's major partners and any potential impact of their financial condition on the operations of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines, or ExpressJet; fluctuations in flight schedules, which are determined by the major partners for whom SkyWest's operating airlines conduct flight operations; variations in market and economic conditions; significant aircraft lease and debt commitments; residual aircraft values and related impairment charges; labor relations and costs; the impact of global instability; rapidly fluctuating fuel costs, and potential fuel shortages; the impact of weather - related or other natural disasters on air travel and airline costs; aircraft deliveries; the ability to attract and retain qualified pilots and other unanticipated factors.

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates that the richest 5 % of Americans will receive more than half of the benefits of the new federal tax law in 2019, and the richest 1 % of Americans will receive more than a quarter of the benefits.

A study commissioned by the city's economic development authority estimated that the bottom - line benefits of telecommuting for employers, employees and communities across Canada could be as high as $ 53 billion a year.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Amazon's own estimates about its economic benefits should be taken with a grain of salt.

'' [The BDC] really had from the beginning an idea that there would be economic benefits to doing something like this,» Tillett says, citing an early economic impact projection the BDC made at the time of the ETC's founding that estimated 120 jobs would be created by ETC startups over five years.

Similar to the House, the budget assumes $ 1.4 trillion of savings from economic growth, $ 178 billion of which they attribute to CBO's estimate of the economic benefit of deficit reduction.

In the context of considering the NGP's economic burdens and benefits (NGP Report, Volume II, s. 2.4.4), the JRP noted that the concept of «ecological goods and services» was described during the hearing but that, based on the hearing record, the estimated costs for damages to ecosystem goods and services were not well quantified and based on a methodology that is not currently broadly accepted.

Note that the estimate does not take into account any other potential benefits of the program, such as improved health in non-fatal cases or economic benefits from the purchase of money - saving durables such as solar lights, more efficient cook stoves, or water filters (discussed above).

Provisions are recognized when the Group has a present obligation (legal or constructive) as a result of a past event, it is probable that an outflow of resources embodying economic benefits will be required to settle the obligation and a reliable estimate can be made of the amount of the obligation.

The hub would integrate solar rooftop panels, be connected to the smart electricity grid to provide grid balancing and auxiliary services, and produce net economic benefits estimated at $ 1.35 million per year over 20 years.

Converting Meigs Field into a new lakefront park would generate an estimated $ 30 million in economic benefits a year to the city and region, according to a new study released Wednesday by the Chicago Park District.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

To work out the economic benefits and costs of switching to clean energy, the team estimated how much air pollution would fall if fossil fuel use was slashed.

In the U.S. alone, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that clean air legislation will prevent more than 230,000 early deaths and provide $ 2 trillion in economic benefits by 2020.

Improved population estimates could help resource managers to weigh up the economic benefits that forests provide in terms of water purification, soil conservation and other functions against those of harvesting or clearing trees for farmland, says ecosystems - services ecologist Becky Chaplin - Kramer of Stanford University in California.

The Department of Energy's budget request — the same document calling for a 70 percent cut to energy efficiency and renewable energy programs — touts a study showing that the $ 12 billion invested by the agency in this research over the years has yielded «an estimated net economic benefit to the United States of more than $ 230 billion.»

By one estimate, the federal government's $ 3.8 billion investment into the Human Genome Project has netted $ 796 billion in economic benefits, including 310,000 jobs and $ 244 billion in personal income.

For instance, a 2008 report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA) summarized the economic benefits of effective programs targeting substance use and misuse (which teach numerous SEL skills), noting that a large - scale, cross-program investment in school - based prevention would produce an $ 18 return per dollar invested and save state and local governments an estimated $ 1.3 billion (Miller & Hendrie, 2009).

Even if we take the smallest impact estimate from our analysis (a 1.72 percentile improvement in reading scores, which corresponds to a 0.06 standard deviation increase), the economic benefits measure in the range of # 1,375 to # 3,581 over the course of a recipient's lifetime.

Another study, which looked at the aggregate costs and benefits of national service — including both social and fiscal — estimated the social and economic returns to total approximately $ 7.5 billion.

Early estimates from three senior fellows at Stanford University's Hoover Institution show major economic benefits from implementing standardized tests.

In less than a decade, the potential economic benefit of integrating UAS in the nation's airspace is estimated at $ 82 billion and could create 100,000 jobs.

The project is estimated to generate $ 3.2 billion in travel time savings - related benefits and help to create sustainable population and economic growth in this transportation - dependent hub.

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The researchers estimate that farmers in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin received cumulative economic benefits of nearly $ 7 billion between 1996 - 2009, with benefits of more than $ 4 billion for non-Bt corn farmers alone.

Nobel Prize - winning economist Kenneth Arrow wrote recently that «These calculations [on costs and benefits of slowing global warming] indicate that, even with higher discounting, The Stern Review's estimates of future benefits and costs imply that mitigation makes economic sense.»

«The estimated medical and / or economic costs of I.Q. loss and behavioral disorders attributable to just a few environmental toxicants indicate the enormous benefits of prevention: approx.

The investment required would not just be in oil fields themselves but also in power plants, pipelines and other industries that capture CO2 from their industrial processes., The economic benefits will also flow to the state and federal governments with an estimated 1.4 trillion in new government revenues.

Our assessments of new policy opportunities typically estimate the costs to implement policies over time, the energy savings and consumer dollar savings potential, economic and job creation benefits, and the allocation of these costs and benefits across consumer sectors.

Sensitivity of the climate to carbon dioxide, and the level of uncertainty in its value, is a key input into the economic models that drive cost - benefit analyses, including estimates of the social cost of carbon.

Called the social cost of carbon (SCC), it is an estimate of the economic value of the extra (or marginal) impact caused by the emission of one more tonne of carbon (in the form of carbon dioxide) at any point in time; it can, as well, be interpreted as the marginal benefit of reducing carbon emissions by one tonne.

The practice of estimating the economic costs and benefits of most government regulations began under an executive order of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

[i] Also, many cost - benefit analyses use high discount rates to estimate the future costs of climate change, which is questionable both on ethical grounds and because it assumes economic growth can continue indefinitely.

«With the U.S. hemp industry valued at an estimated $ 500 million in annual retail sales and growing, a change in federal policy to once again allow hemp farming would mean instant job creation, among many other economic and environmental benefits,» adds Steenstra.

The EPA's estimate of $ 23 billion in annually economic benefit appears to have been based off of flawed methodology, contrasting with the federal government's own data suggesting an actual $ 1.15 billion annual total.

The annual economic benefits of restoring degraded and deforested land globally are an estimated $ 84 billion.

Although most economic analyses of these policy proposals only estimated the costs, a study by the New York University School of Law's Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI) also evaluated the benefits of Waxman - Markey by using a range of possible values for the social cost of carbon (SCC).

The solutions are evaluated both in terms of the real currency of the 21st century — gigatons of greenhouse gases avoided or sequestered — and in conventional economic terms: When possible, the research team estimated a «net cost» for each solution, one that takes both global costs and global benefits into account.

Duke researchers estimated that implanting energy and transportation policies that would reduce carbon emissions to the goals set in Paris could prevent 295,000 premature deaths and have an economic benefit of $ 250 billion

The economic and social benefits of mangroves — which are estimated to run into the hundreds of billions worldwide — remain largely untapped due to a lack of carbon finance mechanisms, appropriate policy interventions, and rapid mangrove deforestation, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report launched today at the 20th Conference of [continue reading...]

To the extent that an economic rationale lies behind the U.S. rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, it comes from estimates that the U.S. will bear a disproportionate share of the burden of adjustment and that the costs to the U.S. of the Kyoto Protocol far outweigh the benefits.