However, the Fed's emphasis on downside risks is injecting a degree of uncertainty — and volatility — into markets, a factor not lost
on global policymakers that are calling on the Fed to end its handwringing and begin the tightening cycle.
Not exact matches
It will also reveal how worried
policymakers are about the
global slowdown and what effect it could have
on the U.S..
While South Korea's economy started the year
on a high note with exports enjoying booming
global demand,
policymakers are struggling to reduce trade friction with the United States stoked by President Donald Trump's «America First» policy.
* The uncertainty being generated by U.S. trade tariffs is already hurting investment in the
global economy and could do serious damage to world growth, European Central Bank
policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said
on Tuesday.
According to new research
on the role of the U.S. dollar from Harvard, cited by Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, the U.S. economy is fairly insulated from foreign inflation / deflation pressures via exchange rates, implying that
policymakers should be less worried about
global deflation pressures.
The EPC educates
policymakers, consumers and the media
on the system's role in economic growth and the importance of consumer choice, security, innovation and stability for the continued growth of
global commerce.
Policymakers remain focused
on high - tech while keeping an eye
on global political developments.
Adam Segal, who researches China's internet policy at the Council of Foreign Relations, compares the conference as an ideological counterpart to ones like the
Global Conference
on CyberSpace (GCCS), an annual gathering that draws
policymakers worldwide to discuss internet governance within the framework of Western - style democracy.
The Innocenti Declaration at the WHO / UNICEF
policymakers» meeting
on «Breastfeeding in the 1990s: A
Global Initiative, held at the Spedale degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy,
on 30 July - 1 August 1990.
Global interconnectedness, including in the patient pool faced by clinicians and constituents served by
policymakers, also means that more research
on the cultural scope of fathering and its impact
on children is warranted.
«The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead
policymakers and the public about the dangers of
global warming,» the Committee
on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its report
on the matter in December 2007.
Offering a rare insider analysis of the climate assessment process, Carnegie's Katharine Mach and colleagues at the Department of
Global Ecology examined the writing and editing procedures by which the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change creates summaries of their findings for
policymakers.
«At a minimum, Chinese
policymakers should delay implementing their synthetic natural gas plan to avoid a potentially costly and environmentally damaging outcome,» said Chi - Jen Yang, a research scientist at Duke's Center
on Global Change.
As climate change and population place further pressure
on tight water resources, the researchers found that
policymakers and water managers need to take a regional and
global perspective
on local decisions.
«Our study does not imply that economic development is not important in a general sense but cautions
policymakers about relying solely
on the trickle - down effects of economic growth
on child nutrition,» said Sebastian Vollmer, assistant professor of development economics at the University of Göttingen, adjunct assistant professor of
global health at HSPH, and lead author of the study.
A new federal report strengthens our understanding of
global climate change, providing
policymakers with scientific evidence to develop responses, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, following the release of the Climate Science Special Report
on Friday.
Those are some of the key messages in the «Summary for
Policymakers» of the physical science of
global warming from the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change released
on September 27.
Depression, even when undiagnosed, can have many negative effects
on cardiovascular patients, including poor healthcare experiences, more use of healthcare resources and higher health costs, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier
global exchange of the latest advances in quality of care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and
policymakers.
As world leaders and
policymakers try to reach an agreement
on global warming limits at the climate summit in Paris, there is one number they can't ignore.
The fifth IPCC assessment Summary for
Policymakers [14] concludes that to achieve a 50 % chance of keeping
global warming below 2 °C equivalent CO2 emissions should not exceed 1210 GtC, and after accounting for non-CO2 climate forcings this limit
on CO2 emissions becomes 840 GtC.
State of Our Cities: Profiles of Education Performance Around the Nation provides comparable education data
on more than 100 cities across the country and allows users to make comparisons at the state, national, and
global level so that mayors,
policymakers, and the public can engage more vigorously in education decision - making in their local communities.
«Certainly,
policymakers should consider this and work for free trade
on a level
global playing field,» Blunt says.
Unfortunately for
policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence
on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact
on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what
global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).
A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluding that the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases could leave a profound millenniums - long imprint
on climate and sea levels, focuses
on a characteristic of
global warming that the public, and many
policymakers, have not absorbed — at least according to John Sterman at M.I.T.
pg xiii This
Policymakers Summary aims to bring out those elements of the main report which have the greatest relevance to policy formulation, in answering the following questions • What factors determine
global climate 7 • What are the greenhouse gases, and how and why are they increasing 9 • Which gases are the most important 9 • How much do we expect the climate to change 9 • How much confidence do we have in our predictions 9 • Will the climate of the future be very different 9 • Have human activities already begun to change
global climate 9 How much will sea level rise 9 • What will be the effects
on ecosystems 9 • What should be done to reduce uncertainties, and how long will this take 9 This report is intended to respond to the practical needs of the
policymaker.
They keep yapping about «thousands of scientists» contributing to the IPCC AR4, when in fact the Summary for
Policymakers was written by a small coterie of believers in a strong effect of CO2
on global warming.
The plan addresses the challenge of feeding a projected population of nine billion people by 2050, and has become a landmark publication for scientists and
policymakers on global food security.
The statement is one conclusion in the final draft of a summary the IPCC is preparing for world
policymakers on the state of the climate and climate science as part of its fifth assessment report
on global warming.
It will guide
policymakers as they «find their way to a
global agreement to finally reverse course
on climate change,» he said.
The group, consisting of 14
global governance experts, will release a report with actionable recommendations for
policymakers on governing the solar radiation management.
We are convinced that ExxonMobil's longstanding support of a small cadre of
global climate change skeptics, and those skeptics access to and influence
on government
policymakers, have made it increasingly difficult for the United States to demonstrate the moral clarity it needs across all facets of its diplomacy.
In June 2016, a partnership of 31 leading nonpartisan scientific associations sent a consensus letter to U.S.
policymakers that reaffirmed the reality of human - caused climate change, noting that greenhouse gas emissions «must be substantially reduced» to minimize negative impacts
on the
global economy, natural resources, and human health.
Contrary to Stewart's claim that the world was united by scientific evidence in the early 1990s, even by 1995, there was still only the «suggestion»,
on the «balance of evidence», that there had been a «discernible human influence
on global climate» — and that's in the Summary for
Policymakers document, which has consistently been far more alarmist than the more technical parts of the report.
To assist
policymakers as they set climate and development goals and design policies in international and domestic forums, the World Energy Council, in partnership with
global management consultancy Oliver Wyman, has published the 2015 «World Energy Trilemma report: Priority actions
on climate change and how to balance the trilemma».
On November 28, the paper told
policymakers to ignore science because it could hurt jobs and increase economic hardship «in the name of
global warming theories» its editors don't believe are valid.
In the AR5 Summary for
Policymakers the IPCC glossed over the developing cooling trend in
global temperatures and so lost the last vestige of its scientific credibility and any claim to be a source of useful guidance
on future climate...
Clearly, to use a single value (the
global average annual average surface temperature trend) to characterize
global warming is a naive approach and is misleading
policymakers on the actual complexity of the climate system.
The World Energy Council organises one of the most complete range of events covering all aspects of the energy sector, from small workshops
on specific technologies, to regional and
global events aimed at supporting
policymakers, experts and industry leaders as they seek solutions and develop policies and strategies to address the energy trilemma.
In a consensus letter to U.S.
policymakers, a partnership of 31 leading nonpartisan scientific societies today reaffirmed the reality of human - caused climate change, noting that greenhouse gas emissions «must be substantially reduced» to minimize negative impacts
on the
global economy, natural resources, and human health.
Reports of a steady stream of scientific findings
on global climate change, in particular reports
on observed and projected consequences of
global warming, have increased the level of concern among
policymakers and the public.
Before any further dollars are spent
on climate change adaptation and / or mitigation, the world needs to upgrade their
global weather / climate reporting network to the USCRN standard so that
policymakers have correct temperature change mesurements to base their decisions
on.
In any case, when the 5th Assessment Report of Working Group 1 was published in September 2013, much of the media attention focused
on one particular section in the Summary for
Policymakers which claimed that it was «extremely likely» that human activity was responsible for most of the
global warming since the 1950s.
As a result, when you hear people referring to the «scientific consensus»
on global warming, they are usually referring to the contents of the Summary for
Policymakers.
It is important that
policymakers understand the historical context of the
global warming debate, what the data does — and does not — tell us about
global warming, where there is consensus in the scientific community and where there is not, and what impacts
global warming regulations can realistically be expected to have
on the environment.
But earlier this month, a group of scientists and
policymakers from the
global south published a letter in Nature calling for developing nations to take the lead
on SRM research.
The fifth IPCC assessment Summary for
Policymakers [14] concludes that to achieve a 50 % chance of keeping
global warming below 2 °C equivalent CO2 emissions should not exceed 1210 GtC, and after accounting for non-CO2 climate forcings this limit
on CO2 emissions becomes 840 GtC.
The section
on economics in the Summary for
Policymakers starts with an added qualification: «
Global economic impacts from climate change are difficult to estimate.»
Referring to the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21) from 30 November — 11 December 2015, Ismail El Gizouli, Acting Chair of the IPCC said, «The (IPCC AR5) Synthesis Report, distilling the work of hundreds of experts, is an invaluable tool and resource for
policymakers as the world prepares to finalize a
global agreement
on climate change later this year.»
Based
on the IPCC AR5 Summary for
Policymakers (SPM), the following synthesis of the effects of
global warming
on humans is presented as the most up - to - date evaluation currently available.
Earlier in the week, the Panel also approved a Summary for
Policymakers on a Special Report
on Renewable Energy and Climate Mitigation which assesses that, with the right enabling public policies, renewables could take a significant slice of the
global, total energy supply by 2050.