Sentences with phrase «much economic output»

The Alliance to Save Energy advocates a bold but achievable goal of doubling energy productivity in the U.S. by 2030 (getting twice as much economic output from each unit of energy).

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Rescinding the program could mean the loss of as much as $ 460 billion in economic output over the next decade, according to a recently released report from the House Committee on Small Business, which was released by ranking member Nydia Velázquez (D. - N.Y.)

Given these positive surprises, and because monetary policy must be forward - looking to achieve our inflation target, Governing Council's discussions focused on three main issues: first, the extent to which recent strength is signalling stronger economic momentum in Canada and globally; second, how heightened levels of uncertainty, particularly about US tax and trade policies, should be incorporated in our outlook; and third, how much excess capacity the economy currently has, and the growth rate of potential output going forward.

A persistent gap in academic achievement between children in the United States and their counterparts in other countries deprived the US economy of as much as $ 2.3 trillion in economic output in 2008, McKinsey research finds.1 1.

As explained on page 42 of The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson, «carbon intensity is a measure of how much fossil fuel it takes to produce a certain amount of economic output.»

It said the impacts of global warming could cost the world as much as 20 percent of economic output, compared with the 1 percent cost of containing the problem.

That document said that a temperature increase of 2.5 degrees Celsius since industrialization may lead to losses of as much as 2 percent of global economic output.

After the fall of communism in the early 1990s led to economic depression in much of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, carbon output in those countries fell like a stone.

At the same time, OECD emissions will remain much lower on the basis of emissions per unit of economic output, reflecting a significantly higher degree of energy - efficient practices and technologies across their economies.

Much of that economic output is a result of American and European companies shifting manufacturing to places where labor costs are lower.