Sentences with phrase «intensive industries»

But «many capital - intensive industries are indirect job creators — putting contractors, subcontractors, tradesmen and other to work,» said Ryan McCormick, senior vice president and counsel at the Real Estate Roundtable, a trade group.

This is especially relevant in water - intensive industries such as restaurants, car washes, and hair salons.

Beyond this core group, the creative class also includes professionals, technicians, and other workers who engage in creative problem solving in knowledge - intensive industries.

Bots who can engage in natural conversations will be game - changers for those working in knowledge - intensive industries, says AI - expert Martijn Breet.

Companies in labour - intensive industries — hoteliers and home health care providers and employers with many warehouse and assembly jobs — are most likely to drop marijuana testing.

The law librarians in the sample spent a mean of 4.23 hours online per day, a figure that is generally and surprisingly low for knowledge workers in highly information intensive industries.

Companies big and small rely on IP to give them an edge over their competitors, and In 2010 IP - intensive industries directly or indirectly accounted for 40 million US jobs, or 27.7 % of the workforce.

In a short period of time we've been able to set up partnerships with major organizations in IP - intensive industries, like inventors associations, professional photographer associations, music creators and so on, helping their members to protect their rights.

She has extensive experience representing companies, corporate boards and executives in intellectual property (IP) intensive industries, including, biomedical, biotechnology, chemical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, social media, software and technology.

The issue of penalties could become problematic for taxpayers in capital intensive industries or for small or start - up companies.

In capital - intensive industries the ability to share office space, services or capital is hugely important.

The Clinton proposal was vigorously opposed by energy - intensive industries, like petrochemicals, that believe their products would lose a competitive edge in international markets, and by states where those industries are concentrated.

Given the improvements in multilateral practice, it is increasingly likely that OECD Export Credit Agencies could end up as a place of last resort for carbon intensive industries that are no longer able to secure funding due to their high risk and poor environmental performance.

The economic potential in the industrial sector [19] is predominantly located in energy intensive industries.

is predominantly located in energy intensive industries.

It is paid by all consumers of electricity with the exception of energy intensive industries (in order to avoid damage to international competitiveness) and operators of renewable and small conventional power plants that use electricity they generate themselves.

It is a fantasy designed to get the support of Senator Graham and other fuzzy - minded Senators with visions of lots of new nuclear plants, billions for technology to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants, less dependence on imported oil, and tariffs to protect American manufacturing jobs in energy - intensive industries.

On September 27, ten judges heard oral arguments in a consolidated case known as West Virginia, et al. v. EPA, which challenges the agency's power to require states to restructure their energy mixes and to reorganize their energy economies across electric plants, energy - intensive industries, and even households.

Ragan says the proposed plan will do a better job of pushing emissions - intensive industries in Alberta to become more efficient.

Energy - intensive industries common in the Nordic countries — such as iron and steel — have a relatively high share of process - related emissions, which can not be mitigated through energy efficiency or renewable energy.

Trade - intensive industries such as steel, paper and cement also would get between 10 percent and 15 percent of the credits in the opening year.

But there is a lot of pressure from utilities, energy - intensive industries, and their sympathetic representatives to hand out a majority of the permits free of charge in the early years of the program.

Emissions - intensive industries competing in international markets will get the same generous amounts of free permits as negotiated under the Rudd government's CPRS.

Doyle and others have indicated that local electricity distribution companies would be given 35 to 40 percent of the permits, while roughly 15 percent would go to trade - exposed, energy - intensive industries like steel, paper, and cement, and up to 5 percent would go to refineries.

FiT surcharges and electricity rates are to be reviewed at least every three years, with surcharges to be reduced 80 % or more for energy - intensive industries, such as steel and chemical manufacturing.

This will spell certain disaster for dairy farmers everywhere, but perhaps bring respite to a planet that is being overheated and polluted by animal - intensive industries such as this one.

By the 2008 election season, there are ballot measures to force closure of water intensive industries.

As I pointed out in the previous post, the UK's energy and climate policies have resulted in rising prices, millions of UK households living in «fuel poverty», and the possibility that energy intensive industries will leave these shores at the expense of many thousands of jobs, yet the Dept. of Energy and Climate Change's priorities are with the mitigation of climate change.

If carbon is priced in the US, carbon intensive industries will simply move to countries were it is not priced and where technology is less efficient.

That's especially true for capital - intensive industries like oil and natural gas.

Much of the «on paper» emissions reductions will be made up by increased emissions in bordering states, as energy intensive industries relocate and electricity producers import energy from out of state.

If the anti-coal zealots are allowed to prevail politically, electric rates will skyrocket for most Americans and many jobs will be lost in energy - intensive industries as a result of higher power prices.»

This analytical report is the first volume of a two - part study assessing the role of the industrial sector in the national economies of the ESCWA region; current energy consumption trends in selected energy - intensive industries; and economically feasible options for improving energy efficiency in these industries.

Fossil fuel and other carbon - intensive industries would balk.

By highlighting the mechanisms through which the rebound effect has occurred across three important, energy - and emissions - intensive industries, these case studies illustrate the importance of rebound effects and highlight several factors suggesting that they will be experienced in significant measure in the future, in particular in emerging developing world economies.

Trade - sensitive and energy - intensive industries would get a four - year delay before they would be subject to greenhouse gas limits.

[6] For energy - intensive industries, the beneficial effects of Annex I actions through technological development were viewed as possibly being substantial.

On the contrary, articles that question the legitimacy of climate scientists» claims fuel climate skeptics» agendas and buy time to fossil - fuel - intensive industries.

Energy tax rises for many energy - intensive industries were substantially lower, however, reflecting concerns about international competitiveness.

EUAs are the carbon allowances that serve as the unit of compliance under the European emissions - trading scheme (EU - ETS), with each EUA entitling the energy - intensive industries covered by the scheme — mainly power generators, steel companies, cement companies, and oil refiners — to emit one tonne of CO2.

The myriad exemptions given to energy - intensive industries in existing tax shift programs, created out of legitimate competitiveness concerns, slow the creation of more effective tax systems.

The market - based concept was established by the Kyoto Protocol as a means of allowing CO2 - intensive industries to cut emissions by buying credits off others making reductions.

Today's move could potentially boost carbon - intensive industries, such as coal companies and heavy manufacturers, while reducing demand for low - carbon alternatives.

co-authored the portion of the Waxman - Markey bill that aims to help energy - intensive industries transition under carbon regulations, is another moderate leading negotiations with the bill's authors.

He wants to give out many emission permits free to energy - intensive industries and to the local distribution companies (LDCs) that funnel electricity to users, rather than auctioning the permits off, and he wants permit giveaways to the industrial sector to continue throughout the whole length of the cap - and - trade program, rather than be phased out.

Whether it's finance or technology, loss and damage or differentiation, the positions reflected in this text are heavily biased towards the U.S., Japan, EU and other Global North countries, and the emissions - intensive industries they represent.

This mitigation potential was included in the estimates of mitigation potential for energy - intensive industries presented in Table 7.8.

Energy - intensive industries: usually grouped together, but in practice a heterogeneous range of applications (in terms of technology, scale, cost, location, etc.) and are almost always exposed to global competition.

To stop it from getting browner, one thing that is necessary is to counter much of the nonsense that is coming from emissions intensive industries as part of their rent - seeking strategy.

These include bankruptcy of non-competitive non-hydro «renewable» power companies (as in Spain), soaring electricity prices (as in Western European countries such as Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain), electricity shortages (as in Great Britain and Germany when the wind does not blow and the sun is not shining), and the departure or decline of energy intensive industries.