Sentences with phrase «expected additional advantage»
Our results demonstrate the health benefits of reducing soot and smog, an expected additional advantage of a strong carbon standard for power plants — beyond the direct health benefits of mitigating climate change associated with avoided exposure to heat episodes, fires, severe weather events, and so on.
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Protocol I of 1977, Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions warns that: «an attack which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated» is forbidden and tantamount to a war crime.
There is, however, also the possibility that our knowledge will improve slowly, while the postponement of actions will increase the ultimate damage more than we gain from the advantages of the postponement, i.e. the utility weighted expected damage will grow faster than the value of additional knowledge.