Sentences with phrase «global policy shift»

«Absent a dramatic global policy shift, such as a universal tax on carbon emissions, the study seems to suggest that the 2 °C goal is far out of reach,» National Geographic reported.

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Switzerland caused havoc on global markets on January 15 when the Swiss National Bank abruptly shifted its monetary policy to allow the Swiss franc to increase in value.

Although this shift in U.S. monetary policy was inevitable at some point, it seems to have triggered a broad - based sentiment shift in global markets.

MNI Fixed Income Bullet Points focuses on trading flows, shifting market sentiment and expectations, news driving the market, economic data, monetary and fiscal policy, key market levels, central bank market activity, and global capital flows.

Be willing to change your strategy as global markets, tax policies and interest - rate environments shift.

Key monetary indicators in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China are flashing signals of an economic slowdown later this year, raising fears of a global recession in 2019 and a stock market slump without a shift in policy.

But we prefer shorter - duration Treasuries, as policy shifts that steepen global yield curves make us cautious of longer - duration U.S. government bonds.

He offers a five - stage history of post-World War II American foreign policy, explaining the rationale for U.S. support of repressive military regimes, the shift toward advancing empire through globalized capitalist expansion, and the current drive for global military supremacy.

This shift in global trade policy places China in the middle of a rivalry among competing potential trading blocks, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement that is currently being negotiated without China, the anticipated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU), the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia that includes China, and even a potential China - EU investment treaty.

But it should also go down as the watershed year in which the shift took place from believing that drug prohibition is protective, to understanding that it is one of the most malign and corrupting global policies in existence.

The election of Donald Trump in the US, Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the rise of right - wing nationalist parties across Europe signal a sharp shift away from the political and economic liberalism that have underpinned Western policy for decades, sowing widespread uncertainty and threatening to slow the integration of global markets with new curbs on the free movement of both people and products.

Shifting Ontologies, Increased Acceptance & Entrenchment The decade of Western liberal hegemony following the end of the Cold War was a time when even historically antagonistic global powers such as Russia were at the mercy of international financial institutions and Western policy makers.

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.

NEW New Case Study Examines How Three School Systems Use a Global Benchmark to Improve Teaching and Learning The Alliance for Excellent Education and the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy released a new case study on how three school systems are using the OECD Test for Schools, an assessment developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), to monitor students» academic outcomes and inform shifts in policy and teacher practice to meet students» learning Policy released a new case study on how three school systems are using the OECD Test for Schools, an assessment developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), to monitor students» academic outcomes and inform shifts in policy and teacher practice to meet students» learning policy and teacher practice to meet students» learning needs.

On a global scale, monetary policy has — and continues — to undergo a shift.

This has caused the yield curve to flatten, but with global reflationary trends and the broad shift from monetary to fiscal policy, the yield curve may again steepen.

Huemmer noted a combination of factors driving the shift, including strong emerging - market performance, positive expectations for global growth, compelling valuations of international equities, and more accommodative monetary policy overseas.

With divergent global monetary policy, the US ending quantitative easing just as Europe enters phase one, there has been a trend among investors to shift away from US equity ETFs towards non-US equity ETFs.

The influencing of policy in re global warming faces a huge amount of inertia, but principles of risk mitigation tell us that we should be aggressive about shifting policy to avert possible threats, the opposite of what results from that inertia.

Germany and France will heavily shape future European and even global energy and environmental policies — Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium and other nations may also phase out their nuclear plants — but to date there has been little investigative reporting on the planned shift from nuclear energy to fossil fuels and renewables.

The Climate Group works to accelerate climate action by bringing together powerful networks of business and governments that shift global markets and policies.

When global warming demagogues argue climate change has now resulted in 5 times more fires than observed in the 1970s, they fail to inform the public this increase is largely due to a shift away from the previous complete fire suppression policy to selectively allowing fires to burn.

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«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

It also highlights how domestic policy initiatives and seismic energy market shifts can quickly conspire to derail a once flourishing business model, even without a global climate deal, or federal carbon price.

The report says global climate change is projected to produce «insufficient water supplies, shifting rainfall patterns, disruptions to agriculture, human migrations, more failing states, increased extremism, and even resource wars,» all of which pose an urgent threat that must be addressed in national security policy.

They both reflect the accelerating shift of global power from America to Asia, caused in large part by the serious mismanagement of U.S. economic policy.

The response piece, «Role of Scientists» Warning in shifting policy from growth to conservation economy,» includes two key areas for action in policy and science, from introducing a Nobel Prize in Economics for incorporating the limits of the biosphere to introducing a global price on carbon.

Los Angeles, June 8, 2015: Global Green USA, with a mission to foster a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future, recognized the tremendous advancements made in industry, media and public policy at its 19th Annual Millennium Awards on Saturday, June 6, 2015, at the historic Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los AnGlobal Green USA, with a mission to foster a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future, recognized the tremendous advancements made in industry, media and public policy at its 19th Annual Millennium Awards on Saturday, June 6, 2015, at the historic Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Anglobal value shift toward a sustainable and secure future, recognized the tremendous advancements made in industry, media and public policy at its 19th Annual Millennium Awards on Saturday, June 6, 2015, at the historic Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.

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While a Trump administration will focus on implementing its own ambitious energy policies, while likely diminishing President Obama's energy and climate agenda, the realities of political and global ideologies and the inevitability of political transitions should be accounted for in order to avoid an unsustainable shift in energy policy that is short - lived and introduces more uncertainty for the U.S. power sector.

We do this by bringing together powerful networks of business and governments that shift global markets and policies.

The data showing the U.S.'s emergence as the top driller confirms a trend that's helped the world's largest economy reduce imports, caused a slump in global energy prices and shifted the country's foreign policy priorities.

Their leadership is vital for overcoming policy challenges, shifting global markets, and inspiring many more companies to reap the economic benefits of renewable electricity.

Hassett and colleagues suggested that such a carbon tax «shift» could improve the overall output of the economy even without considering climate benefits and thus represented a «no regrets» policy for conservatives who aren't convinced of the danger of global warming.

Governments can blunt the feared global warming of the future by adopting energy policies that shift from coal and oil to natural gas, and eventually to energy sources that do not generate heat - trapping gases.

We can help to avoid the dangerous effects of global warming by enacting strong and mandatory policies to shift to renewable sources of energy and improve energy efficiency.

If international climate policies succeed, against all odds, in sealing an ambitious deal on the confinement of global warming to < 2 °C, then the focus of TE research should actually shift to the social transformations arena: a massive acceleration of innovation processes for the decarbonization of our contemporary industrial metabolism will be the only way to deliver.

In 1891, U.S. copyright law for the first time granted U.S. copyright to non-U.S. authors, but there was a catch: The books of foreign authors had to be manufactured in the U.S.. By the end of the Second World War, the U.S. became a net exporter of books, and it was not until then that the U.S. shifted its policy from protecting its domestic publishers to cautiously embracing global treaties.

The firm says it plans to expand in global jurisdictions where regulatory policy is shifting with these emerging new technologies.