Sentences with phrase «large economic costs»

One in four (24 %) supports a large - scale effort even if there are large economic costs.

But on inspection the feared large economic costs of moving to a low - carbon economy prove illusory.

Mr. Lugar said on Wednesday that cap and trade systems had failed to achieve the desired reductions while imposing large economic costs.

Twenty - eight percent say the United States should make a large - scale effort to address global warming, even if has large economic costs.

Not exact matches

In recent days, Sanders has stumped with striking Verizon workers, railing about large corporations destroying the middle class through cost - cutting and low wages that create economic stagnation and widen the gulf between the 1 percenters and everyone else.

Penegor noted that there is a large difference between the cost of food at home and food away from home, and when you combine that with economic uncertainty, people are less likely to eat out.

This is because the province has accumulated a large public debt that given the prospects for an economic slowdown and / or rising interest rates will potentially increase fiscal pressure via debt service costs which in 2016 - 17 totaled $ 11.7 billion or just over 8 percent of total government spending.

While the two largest Spanish banks — BBVA and Santander — have continued to grow, albeit driven by profitable Latin American operations, small regional savings bank have been struggling in a market characterized by slow economic growth, higher funding costs and unemployment near 21 %.

Psychology of learning; social analysis of the societies in which students will work; statistical methods applied to the economic facts of ministers» salaries and the cost of tuition, and the like; and many other relatively precise procedures applied to limited data can give guidance to perplexed administrators that no amount of hard thought about the large question of man's life before God will yield.

Most of his talks and the bulk of the questions he fielded had to do with the unorthodox economic proposals set forth in his book and his other writings: the idea, above all, of an «intermediate technology» appropriate in scale and cost to the needs and conditions of the people using it — neither too large nor too small.

Only the largest size groups of conventional producers had positive returns above total economic costs.

For Danone, which last month unveiled plans for $ 1bn of cost cuts by 2020 to address a squeeze from higher milk prices and «volatile» economic conditions, the WhiteWave acquisition — its largest in a decade — will help it tap into consumer demands for healthier eating.

This will neutralize the economic interests of the hospital, weaken the power of the larger companies, and promote competition and lower costs.

The economic argument is debatable and opinions differ, but do you think the large numbers of struggling upstaters enjoy the high taxes, ever increasing fees (example: the cost to have your vehicle inspected DOUBLED from 2010 to 2011 and is now one of the highest in the nation) and endless financial burdens they as lower and middle class people endure while the rich bankers and CEOs downstate laugh at them?

The local authorities with the largest numbers of children in poverty (with annual economic cost generated by their local poverty rate given alongside) are:

In this economic reality, rising state workforce costs are unsustainable, as the members of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), the state's largest union, recognized when they overwhelmingly passed an identical contract.

«This study shows the power of using large databases to glean meaningful clinical and economic information that can significantly impact health care costs,» Born said.

One of the arguments for such a large federal investment in research is that it will lead to new and more effective treatments for diseases — leading to reduced healthcare costs, leading to more disposable income, leading to economic prosperity and the continued unbridled freedom of American citizens to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That's far less than a previous estimate of 95 % of the oceans, suggesting that large areas could become marine reserves without much economic cost to fishing.

In a book published in 1971, India's Green Revolution, Economic Gains and Political Costs, she reported that farmers with larger landholdings, such as the wheat farmers in the country's north, benefited far more than small - scale rice farmers in the south and east, or landless labourers.

A separate, unpublished and preliminary economic analysis carried out by the team estimates that implementing large - scale cryogenic systems into coal - fired plants would see an overall reduction in costs to society of 38 percent through a sharp cut in associated health - care and climate - change costs.

Relatively small improvements in students» educational performance can have large impacts on a nation's future economic well - being, according to The High Cost of Low Educational Performance: The Long - Run Economic Impact of Improving PISA Oeconomic well - being, according to The High Cost of Low Educational Performance: The Long - Run Economic Impact of Improving PISA OEconomic Impact of Improving PISA Outcomes.

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

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@JBentley — The cost of real estate (such as residential property, and the real estate used for retailing, restaurants, office space, and manufacturing) is already such a large fraction of the economy that the share of a region's economy that is spent on rent (or rent substitutes, such as the cost of home ownership) can not greatly exceed the region's economic growth rate for more than one or two business cycles.

According to hotel.info, the leading online hotel reservations service for over 210,000 hotels around the world, the economic crisis and associated corporate pressure to reduce costs has created a clear trend for increased use of low cost online hotel reservation tools.Especially large corporations that make high numbers of bookings are currently using the present economic situation as a reason to move from planning to use online hotel reservation tools towards actually implementing such projects in - house or at least promoting the use of existing online applications to save costs.

Thus, there is an economic justification for vesting wildfire suppression responsibilities in large - scale public agencies that can overcome these coordination costs.

· Among these climate change issue voters, large majorities believe global warming is happening and support action by the U.S. to reduce global warming, even if it has economic costs.

The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) press release of July 6, 2016 was headlined «Canada can integrate large amounts of wind energy reliably, cost - effectively, says report» followed by the industry trade association's assertion that «Canada can get more than one - third of its electricity from wind energy without compromising grid reliability — and at the same time realize economic and environmental benefits».

Furthermore, AFP exaggerates the costs of reducing emissions, cherry - picking analyses that suggest the largest negative economic consequences.

The economic costs of natural disasters related to global warming are adding up; some of the largest effects of these catastrophes can be felt in the United States, where politics and policies are not keeping pace with the physical realities of climate change.

Finds that unearned income and excess infant mortality in the year after typhoon exposure outnumber immediate damages and death tolls roughly 15 - to - 1, helping to indicate that economic and human losses due to environmental disaster may be an order of magnitude larger than previously thought and that adaptive decision - making may amplify, rather than dampen, disasters» social cost.

It appears that Pruitt instructed the EPA career staff to make assumptions grossly unfavorable to the CPP in order to calculate the largest possible negative economic impact; for example, the RIA models scenarios that minimize the CPP's reductions in unhealthy air pollutants, inflate the costs of compliance, only count the climate benefits of CO2 reductions in the US, and greatly discount the future benefits of lower global temperatures.

The environmental threats and economic costs of continued reliance on fossil fuel technologies are sufficiently urgent to warrant substantially larger public support in the form of private - sector R&D incentives and a refocusing of effort by the national energy laboratories on the development and diffusion of alternative energy technologies.

Common to these arguments is that they have successfully framed the climate change debate so that opponents and proponents of climate policies debate facts about costs, scientific uncertainty, or economic harms to nations that act while other large emitters don't act rather the moral problems with these arguments.

But what if oil prices tumble, and its just not economic to do high cost fracking at a large number of current sites?

And the additional capital cost effectively doubles the generation investment, another large economic hit.

«Without successful adaptation, and given the persistent rise in demand for maize and wheat, the sizable yield setback from climate change is likely incurring large economic and health costs,» the report states.

Energy and global warming consumed the largest share of his talk, which also covered Obama» s plan for Afghanistan, health care and the economic costs and savings, and more.

That's not unreasonable — the economic costs and environmental benefits of the Clean Power Plan are far greater than the new source rule, in large part because the new source rule probably won't change anything in practice.

Given that development of natural gas supplies is a long - lived, highly - expensive undertaking, cost - sharing can create large economic efficiencies.

The research needs that have high priority in establishing the technical, environmental, and economic feasibility of large - scale capture and disposal of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- from electric power plants are: (1) survey and assess the capacity, cost, and location of potential depleted gas and oil wells that are suitable CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- repositories (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (2) conduct research on the feasibility of ocean disposal, with objectives of determining the cost, residence time, and environmental effects for different methods of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- injection; (3) perform an in - depth survey of knowledge concerning the feasibility of using deep, confined aquifers for disposal and, if feasible, identify potential disposal locations (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (4) evaluate, on a common basis, more» system and design alternatives for integration of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- capture systems with emerging and advanced technologies for power generation; and prepare a conceptual design, an analysis of barrier issues, and a preliminary cost estimate for pipeline networks necessary to transport a significant portion of the CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- to potentially feasible disposal locations.

These activities are ones involving huge numbers of economic agents in a large number of countries where the costs and benefits of action do not indicate any obvious focal policy or technological fix.

And if you believe, as do many conservatives, that government intervention in markets and in social arrangements should be kept to a minimum, you can find factual support for your views in the long - term unpredictability of regional climate behavior, the significant economic and social costs associated with shifting to more expensive energy sources, and the historical failure of government efforts to steer large - scale social and economic change.

NYSDPS estimates the economic benefits of the ZEC subsidy are in total about four times larger than the maximum cost.

The study, which was released in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, tallied the economic, health and environmental costs associated with each stage in the life cycle of coal — extraction, transportation, processing, and combustion - and estimated those costs, which are borne by the public at large, to be between $ 175 billion and $ 500 billion dollars annually.

So, in the case of a massive disaster, the cost of rebuilding afterwards increases GDP — meaning that if an economic indicator that took into account a broader spectrum of economic activity (such as the Genuine Progress Indicator), the real damages to Pakistan are likely larger than that 5 % GDP loss indicates.

A large majority of Americans (88 %) say the U.S. should make an effort to reduce global warming, even if it has economic costs.

However, framing the harm of emissions in terms of their global effect, while framing the economic benefits of increased employment as a local benefit, makes costs look small and benefits large.