Sentences with phrase «more immediate reduction»

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But in a reversal from their stance Memorial Day weekend, city officials took a more passive approach to the weekend crime spree, saying there weren't any immediate fixes and crime reduction would have to happen «over the long - term,» Police Supt. Garry McCarthy told reporters.

«Too often my team and I have been pressured in the immediate run up to a budget or fiscal event to deliver yet more reductions to the working age benefit bill.

While this may not save you the most interest right away, it allows for a more immediate win, which can then motivate you for the rest of the debt reduction plan.

But renewables bring more immediate benefits too: waste - free energy, energy security and, often, cost reductions and new revenue streams.

In general, the interest rate reduction alone is enough to save money and reduce monthly payments, but the option to extend the repayment terms is there for more immediate relief.

There are a number of transport emissions reduction policy measures that Congress could pursue, but the one that will have the most immediate impact is the one that will demand more from those modes of transportation that are currently the most fuel and carbon efficient — like passenger rail.

But promoting disaster reduction at local level by supporting community - coping strategies is far more effective and yields immediate benefits that stretch beyond just tackling climate - driven disasters.

And second, while the natural - gas boom is great for the economy and the immediate reduction of greenhouse - gas emissions, it has deflated the political urgency to cut fossil - fuel dependence, which was more compelling when we thought our resources of oil and natural gas were scarce.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

In a future and more comprehensive arrangement, rich countries would take immediate steps to curb emissions; middle - income countries would need to join the agreement and reduce emissions in the near term; and, as is discussed shortly, poorer countries could postpone participation or would receive assistance for their emissions reductions.

So in fact, in this instance, those campaigning for drastic co2 reductions need to show that more harm would be offset doing that, than dealing with more immediate problems.

Short - term costs are more than offset by the immediate and long - term benefits through reduction in the need for special education and remediation, better health outcomes, reduced need for social services, lower criminal justice costs and increased self - sufficiency and productivity among families

«There can be no question that the immediate impact of the fires is an increase in demand and a reduction in housing supply, so our already tight rental and purchase markets will be even more challenging.