Sentences with phrase «global policy concerns»

These benefits include falling costs, and multiple social and environmental benefits which are increasingly front and centre of global policy concerns: less climate risk, less price volatility and cleaner air.

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Etsy chief executive Chad Dickerson and Paul Misener, Amazon's vice president of global public policy, both voiced concerns that the draft proposal would prohibit the FCC from using Section 706 to regulate service providers.

European equities tumbled by Thursday's close as traders reacted to weakness seen on Wall Street and policy announcements, amid concerns surrounding global trade.

Brian Nick, TIAA Global Asset Management, and Jeff Kilburg, KKM Financial, share their reactions to Ray Dalio's growing concerns about President Trump's policies.

Even though analysts have forecast continued momentum in global economic growth, concerns remain over how policy normalization might bring about changes after almost a decade of easy money.

The IMF cites a number of risks to their optimistic outlook for the next two years, risks that are more concerning for the medium term (2020 and beyond), including geopolitical strains, a sudden and severe tightening of monetary policies, waning popular support for global economic integration, and a move toward protectionist trade policies that would impact global trade.

Auto manufacturers: «We are concerned with the unintended consequences the proposals would have, particularly that it will lead to higher prices for steel and aluminum here in the United States, compared to the price paid by our global competitors,» Matt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council, said in a statement.

Concerns about global trade tensions between China and the U.S. and the fear that the stellar earnings could be as good as it gets for stocks are all combining to undermine the sort of confidence that was in abundance during last year's run of repeated records for equity benchmarks, as the U.S. economy enters it ninth year of expansion and as the Federal Reserve moves to normalize monetary policy from crisis - era levels.

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There's a tremendous amount of financial anxiety in various global markets, whether it's economic issues with regard to trade or deficits, or concerns regarding foreign exchange policies and valuations.

It's a legitimate concern, considering the spikes in volatility this year caused by fears of global economic slowdown, dissolution of the European Union and policy reversal by the Federal Reserve.

He's not alone in these claims: Many economists are also expressing their concern that the real estate magnate's policies could lead to a global recession.

From early May to mid June, domestic bond yields followed global yields lower on concerns about potential deflationary pressures in the US and related expectations of easier monetary policy abroad and in Australia.

Global equity markets have more than doubled from 2008 - 2009 financial crisis lows, but with concerns about China, credit, central bank policies, currencies and commodities all piling up, where do we go from here?

While neither is overly occupied with the policy concerns of the larger environmental movement ¯ global climate, carbon capture, alternative energy, the future of nuclear power, and so on ¯ they help illuminate a common narrative that places nature above human need.

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And finally, the chancellor highlighted the government's new agriculture policy, drawn up with environment minister Margaret Beckett, which would marry the principles of global free trade with concerns about high - quality food and its effect on the environment.

A small, polite man with a mustache and slight stammer, Mr. Reichard speaks knowledgeably and passionately about key liberal policy concerns like campaign finance reform and global warming.

President Trump caused concern earlier this year when he reinstated the Mexico City policy, known as the global gag rule, which prevents money from going to international organizations that are connected to abortion services.

«In the Southwest, water availability for irrigation is already a concern,» says first author Elodie Blanc, a research scientist at MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

During a day of candid dialogue organized by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and AAAS, participants shared concerns and strategies for a time of global economic and policy challenges involving science and technology.

Programs and policies to reduce tropical deforestation, and the global warming emissions resulting from deforestation, are seeing broad success in 17 countries across four continents, according to a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

A Congressional committee concerned with energy could be — and indeed should be — a key player in exploring policy options to deal with the global warming threat.

At 1.5 / 2 °C temperature warming level, how the global and regional climate will change, is a matter of public concern and relates to the decisions of policies, guidelines and measures on mitigation and adaption of future climate change.

In CFE v. New York, Judge Leland DeGrasse ruled that an adequate education included the «foundational skills that students need to become productive citizens capable of civic engagement and sustaining competitive employment,» the «intellectual tools to evaluate complex issues, such as campaign finance reform, tax policy, and global warming,» the ability to «determine questions of fact concerning DNA evidence, statistical analyses, and convoluted financial fraud.»

Such concerns have taken a backseat to the choice - based policies now in vogue, a paradigm shift best illustrated in the birth and demise of the once - promising Global Village Zone project.

And just as the Facebook debacle raises public concerns about the use of personal data, a new international test of ten and 15 - year - olds is to be introduced by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)-- a powerful influence on national education policies at a global scale.

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Authors from the three regions join forces to explore how ethical concerns over new technologies can be incorporated into global science and technology policies.

Since the «taper tantrum» back in 2013, the prospect of the Fed easing monetary policy has been one of the top concerns for global market participants.

Global equity markets have more than doubled from 2008 - 2009 financial crisis lows, but with concerns about China, credit, central bank policies, currencies and commodities all piling up, where do we go from here?

A: Multiple years of unorthodox central bank policy has anesthetized the global economy, supporting only anemic growth and persistent deflationary concerns.

Last Wednesday's report was the first time that policymakers combined their regularly scheduled rate decision release with the Bank's Monetary Policy Report, one of the nation's most important quarterly statements concerning the state of domestic and global economic factors.

A combination of bond - buying programs by central banks, negative - and zero - interest - rate policies, and continued fears that a new global crisis may be around the corner (a hard path to Brexit being the latest source of such concern) have held the pedal down on the flight to safety.

He noted the global decline of DB pensions and the growing concern of policy makers that future retirees will no longer have access to the low - cost efficient longevity - pooling schemes that are the actuarial backbone of DB plans.

Leading scientists, veterinarians, animal advocates and others interested in the range of concerns associated with the presence of cats outdoors will convene in Marina del Rey, Calif., on Dec. 3 - 4, for «The Outdoor Cat: Science and Policy from a Global Perspective,» a conference devoted to the latest scholarship and knowledge on the subject.

A Congressional committee concerned with energy could be — and indeed should be — a key player in exploring policy options to deal with the global warming threat.

Last week I posted a «Your Dot» contribution from Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, a University of Chicago climate scientist concerned that policy makers and the public keep in mind the primacy of carbon dioxide emissions if they are serious about limiting the chances of propelling disruptive human - driven global warming.

This realization is secondary to the startling revelation to me that European energy policy is only incidentally connected to global warming concerns.

``... the company [Exxon Mobil], the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

In the 10th edition of American Government, published in 2005, the authors discuss four types of politics that define the government's response to major public concerns such as environmental policy (limited to several pages in the 600 - page text, less than two of which are devoted to global warming).

While he's best known for his labor work, my interactions with Kheel mainly focused on his concern for the environment, which were centered, locally, around moving people from personal vehicles to public transportation and, at the global scale, building consideration for Earth's ecosystems and climate into economic and social policies.

The problem with that statement in this textbook is that these authors misuse it to argue that environmental policies based on concerns over global warming are not even worthy of support.

You say that this uncertainty is used «to argue that environmental policies based on concerns over global warming are not even worthy of support», but it seems to us that it is less the case that your objection is based on an argument made as much as the fact that they outlined a difference of opinion.

In 2011, the Global Warming Policy Foundation's website ran the headline «900 + Peer - Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism Of «Man - Made» Global Warming (AGW) Alarm,» listing more than 900 papers which, according to the GWPF, refute «concern relating to a negative environmental or socio - economic effect of AGW, usually exaggerated as catastrophic.»

ActionAid, International Adivasi Mulvasi Astitva Raksha manch, India AKSI, Indonesia Alliance Sud, Switzerland All Nepal Peasant's Federation, Nepal All Nepal Womens Association, Nepal ARENA, Asia Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, Thailand Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development, Regional Bangladesh Jatiyo Sramik Jote, Bangladesh Bangladesh Krishok Federation, Bangladesh BankTrack, Netherlands Beyond Copenhagen Collective, India Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha India Both ENDS, Netherlands Brighter Green, United States Bulig Visayas, Philippines Campaign for Climate Justice Nepal CARE International Center for Biological Diversity, United States Center for Environmental Justice, Sri Lanka Center for Participatory Research and Development, Bangladesh Centre for 21st Century Issues (c21st), Nigeria Climate Action Network — France Climate Action Network Europe Climate and Sustainable Development Network, Nigeria Climate Justice Programme, Australia CNCD - 11.11.11, Belgium Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, United States COECOCEIBA — FoE Costa Rica Community Development Library, Bangladesh Co-ordination Office of the Austrian Episcopal Conference for International Development and Mission (KOO), Austria Debt Watch, Indonesia Digo Bikas Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal Earth Day Network, United States EcoEquity, United States EKOenergy, Finland / Europe Environmental Rights Action / Friends of the Earth Nigeria EquityBD, Bangladesh Finance & Trade Watch, Austria Freedom from Debt Coalition, Philippines Friends Committee on National Legislation, United States Friends of the Earth Canada Friends of the Earth England, Wales and N Ireland Friends of the Earth International Friends of the Earth Malaysia Friends of the Earth Norway Friends of the Earth Sierra Leone Friends of the Earth U.S. GAIA — Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, International GEFONT — Trade Union Federation, Nepal Gitib, Philippines GreenLatinos, United States groundWork, Friends of the Earth South Africa Heinrich Boell Stiftung North America, United States Himalaya Niti Abhiyan, India Human Rights Alliance Nepal IBON International, Philippines Indian Social Action Forum, India Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, United States Institute for Policy Studies, Climate Policy Project, United States Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, Latin America International Forum on Globalization, United States International Rivers, United States Jagaran Nepal Jatam Indonesia Jubilee Debt Campaign, United Kingdom Justica Ambiental / Friends of the Earth Mozambique KAU — Anti Debt Coalition, Indonesia Kerala Independent Fishworkers Federation, India KRUHA — Peoples Right to Water Coalition, Indonesia Labour, Health and Human Rights DEvelopment Centre, Nigeria LDC Watch, International Les Amis de la Terre, France Les Amis de la Terre - Togo Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, United States Migrant Forum in Asia mines, minerals and People (mmP), India Monitoring Sustainability of Globalisation (MSN), Malaysia Nadi Gati Morcha, India National Federation of Hawkers Bangladesh National Federation of Women Hawkers, India National Hawkers Federation, India Nature Code — Centre of Development & Environment, Belgium NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark Our Rivers Our Life, Philippines Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (Farmers) Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, Africa PAPDA Haiti Philippine Movement for Climate Justice Rainforest Foundation Norway River Basin Friends, India Rural Reconstruction Nepal Sanlakas, Philippines Sawit Watch, Indonesia SEAFISH for Justice, Asia SOL — People for Solidarity, Ecology and Lifestyle, Austria Solidaritas Perempuan, Indonesia South Asian Alliance for Poverty Eradication Southern Oregon Climate Action Now, United States SUPRO, Bangladesh SustainUS, United States Task Force Detainees of the Philippines Tebtebba, Philippines The Development Institute, Ghana Third World Network, International Trade Union Policy Institute (TUPI), Nepal VOICE, Bangladesh Women's Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO), United States Worldview - The Gambia Zero Waste Europe

The Global Warming Policy Foundation released a press release titled, «Lennart Bengtsson Resigns: GWPF voices shock and concern at the extent of intolerance within the climate science community.»

The reason for the formation of the Global Warming Policy Forum as a seperate entity can be traced to a report by the UK Charity Commision (PDF) that looked into the Global Warming Policy Foundation when «Concerns were raised with the commission that the charity was promoting views that were of a political rather than an educational nature.»

The origins and consequences of democratic citizens» policy agendas: A study of popular concern about global warming.