Sentences with phrase «few economic incentives»

Otherwise, in a lower oil price world, consumers have few economic incentives to make the switch away from oil or to use it more efficiently.

A more sound approach would recognize that (1) converting old forest to young forests releases significant amounts of carbon (both above and below ground), (2) young forests are only good carbon sinks if they are allowed to grow and hold onto the carbon for centuries, yet there are too few economic incentives for doing so, and (2) the fraction of carbon that is put into long - term storage after logging is very small, i.e. old forests are better at storing carbon than our disposable culture.

A more sound approach would recognize that (1) converting old forest to young forests releases significant amounts of carbon (both above and below ground), (2) young forests are only good carbon sinks if they are allowed to grow and hold onto the carbon for centuries, yet there are too few economic incentives for doing so, and (2) the fraction of carbon that is put into long - term storage after logging is very small, i.e. old forests are better at storing carbon than our disposable culture.

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Training grants, revenue grants and real estate tax abatements are a few of the economic incentives the city offers start - up businesses which have helped hundreds spouted up in Jacksonville or relocate from other states.

To arrest population growth the Chinese regime created a program of mass «ideological education» and a system of economic incentives to encourage people to have fewer children.

A broader question overlaying this particulate debate is how much economic incentive companies have to drill in the Arctic, which has notoriously bad weather and is open for drilling for only a few months of the year, when oil production is booming onshore in the lower 48 states.

There is much talk of a carbon tax to create the right economic incentives, but only a few ineffectual «carbon markets» have been implemented.

The presence of industrial wind projects is expected to increase dramatically over the next few years, given the tax incentives and other economic more...

Capacity to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of methods, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select lower costs forms of care; programs for reviewing specific medical services; increasing beneficiary costs, and placing controls on impatient admissions and lengths of stay, to name a few.