Sentences with phrase «major policy alternative»
Most economists consider a carbon tax a more effective instrument for reducing greenhouse gas emissions than the other major policy alternative, a cap - and - trade system that would require plant - by - plant emission measurements and could prompt companies to cheat.
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This second trend borne from ultra-loose monetary policy has forced many investors to seek out higher - yielding alternatives including dividend stocks, which, on average, yield more than 10 - year government bonds in most major developed markets, including Canada (see chart below).
Again, I would rather support Wenger's youth policy that has seen players such as Fabregas, Song, Denilson, Diaby, Wilshere, Walcott, Gibbs, even Bendtner come up through the ranks and blossom in to major players than follow the alternative of going out and buying players who have no connection to either the club or its philosophy.
We conclude that there is an urgent need for major transdisciplinary efforts in research, policy, and practice to develop alternatives with implications for cities and aquatic ecosystems alike.
Dr. Thomas Cochran of the Natural Resources Defense Council contributes a major environmental organization's views on the present reality and future of nuclear power in the U.S. and alternative policies, especially in the West, that would provide a better energy future.
For the second year in a row, Republican lawmakers are seeking major reforms to state education policies, including tenure reform, teacher evaluation and alternative licensure.
Over the past two decades, major policy strategies including the federal No Child Left Behind Act and alternative pathways to teaching, as well as changes in the broader labor market, have altered the context in which academically skilled college graduates choose whether to enter teaching, and, if so, where to teach.
(DENVER, Colorado) July 29, 2014 — The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has amended its policy on the declawing of domestic cats to clarify that the procedure is a major surgery that should only be performed after alternatives have been sought to prevent destructive clawing.
Congress (to the extent it did assess policy alternatives to cap and trade), as well as the broader community of analysts and observers in the late 2000s, raised a number of substantive questions about the merits of this policy instrument as a means for responding to a major environmental policy challenge of the sort posed by climate change:
The goal of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 was to replace 30 percent of U.S. transportation - related petroleum consumption with alternative - fuel vehicles by 2010, and the Act requires that at least 75 percent of vehicles purchased annually by federal agencies in major metropolitan areas be alternative - fuel vehicles.
Which is why the only way to meaningfully prevent another major oil catastrophe is to curb the demand for oil itself on a large scale, with alternative technologies and prohibitive policies — we can regulate all we want, but someone's always going take the risk to make a profit.
Discontent with policies of central banks and the search for alternative currencies are major drivers of interest in bitcoin (37 %).
And to put a #VicVotes perspective on the health impacts of climate change, Dr Jo McCubbin argued that neither of the major parties had made any thoughtful environmental policy statements, and medical student Tim Martin wrote that «Running for election without a plan to shut down coal - fired power stations when there are viable clean alternatives isn't just negligent, it's madness.»