Sentences with phrase «on our consumption by»

Launched to coincide with World Meat Free Day today, the Darwin Challenge app is available for free on Apple's App Store and is designed to help people cut down on their consumption by showing them the very real benefits to them and the planet.

I do not see anyone changing that enough to have a real effect on our consumption by just making this simpler.

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A number of Canadian startups are focused on servicing the needs of business exclusively: Vancouver - based software developer Bit Stew Systems Inc. partnered with B.C. Hydro to build a program that constantly monitors data emitted by the two million home smart meters in the province; and New Brunswick - based RtTech Systems» platform monitors and gives «asset utilization and utilities consumption.»

The good news for investors is the promise held out by a growing cadre of companies working to take on that infrastructure upgrade, turning unusable water into something we can drink and making water consumption more efficient.

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For the rest of its electricity consumption, the state's population of 858,000 — which is actually outnumbered by livestock — relies on renewables.

Combined windpower output in Denmark and Sweden was forecast to fall from around 3,000 MW on Tuesday to 1,600 MW on Wednesday, while colder weather was to boost consumption by 850 MW to 44,200 MW.

Rahul Sharma, managing director at Neev Capital, tells CNBC he is positively surprised by Burberry's results and says the market should stop focusing so much on the Chinese luxury consumption and look into emerging markets.

That period of reflection appears to have emboldened Poloz's conviction in the story he's been telling from the start: that international sales of manufactured goods and services would lead a rotation away from the economy's reliance on high commodity prices and consumption by heavily indebted households.

The group said its members had been voluntarily trying to reduce sugar consumption by making calorie content information more visible on labels, as well as discontinuing sales of full - calorie sodas to schools nationwide, and replacing them with more lower - calorie or no - calorie beverages, along with smaller portion size options.

Every company is looking to trim paper consumption and waste, and being green is only part of the reason: As much as 3 percent of corporate revenues are spent on printing costs, according to research by Gartner Inc., largely because of the high price of toner and ink.

The Commerce Department said on Thursday consumer prices as measured by the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, rose 0.4 percent.

And this comes alongside larger changes in Facebook's business model, in which Mark Zuckerberg says he is steering the business away from optimizing to «time spent» by users and toward a new focus on connections over consumption.

But the old formula relying on manufacturing and exports is giving way to a more mature economy driven by consumption and services.

While the comfortably well - off and live - for - today segments may carry on as usual, the slam - on - the - brakes and pained - but - patient segments — by far the large majority of consumers — may well retain the consumption habits they've learned.

The order does not call on regional authorities to shut down mining operations directly, but instead to put the squeeze on them by strictly enforcing policies on electricity consumption, land use, tax collection and environmental regulation.

Following a 7.9 % jump in GDP in 2016, India's economy will likely accelerate going into the second half of this year and begin firing on cylinders in 2018, fueled by growth in consumption, public capital expenditures and external demand.

So Newlife has found an opportunity in this risk by attempting to close the loop on our plastic consumption.»

The country is now on track to become the third largest auto market by 2020, behind China and the U.S., and obviously this has huge implications for oil consumption.

The reason: When people retire, they stop saving and begin spending by drawing down on their nest eggs; when consumption exceeds investment, prices rise.

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So when analysts point out that a lot of consumption is paid for by businesses on behalf of employees, and so does not show up as consumption in the data, they are right.

Liberals counter that during a recession you need more consumption, not investment; and you can afford to give significant benefits to practically everybody just by jacking up the tax rate on the richest five percent.

So, using their numbers above, for each barrel shipped on KXL, you'd have somewhere between 0.08 and 0.78 barrels of increase in total consumption, with between 0.22 and 0.92 barrels of oil which would have been produced elsewhere being substituted - for by oil sands production.

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

The investment outlook may also depend on how much progress China can make in its efforts to enact fiscal reforms as it works through its historic shift from export - led growth to an economy led by domestic consumption.

Consumer prices as measured by the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index jumped 2.0 per cent on a year - on - year basis last month.

By contrast, in coastal provinces, private consumption has on average become more self - sustaining and less dependent on investment.

That said, the oldest Boomers are past their «peak consumption years», meaning less spending on key categories like transportation, housing and apparel, with the windfall more than picked up by their children, netting out to about an average 0.77 % demographic driven annual growth rate across sectors through 2060.12

Inflation as measured by the core personal consumption expenditures price index jumped to 1.5 percent in the first quarter, government figures showed on Thursday, a jump from 0.4 percent the prior quarter.

Intermittent fasting, regular exercise and consumption of dietary phytochemicals can have a major positive impact on health by bolster - ing adaptive cellular stress response pathways that protect against and counteract a range of major diseases.

On an annualized basis, statistics show that in the first four months of 2015, coal consumption in China dropped by an incredible 8 %, while overall CO2 emissions dropped by 5 %.8 So, what has happened then?

For example, a reduction in capital inflows can deflate asset bubbles and so discourage consumption through wealth effects, or such a reduction can lower consumption by raising interest rates on consumer credit, or even by encouraging stronger consumer lending standards.

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

I think this would subsidize exporters indirectly (reducing the currency value) and therefore increase invesment while also reducing domestic savings by forcing up consumption on «core» items, so that would reduce the current account surpluses.

Spain's household savings rate fell to its lowest level on record in the third quarter of last year as high unemployment and wage deflation in the latest recession obliged them to devote more of their disposable income to consumption, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

In the United States, most consumption taxes are levied by states and local governments (as retail sales taxes), although the federal government does levy some selective consumption taxes, called «excise taxes,» on items such as alcohol, tobacco products, and gasoline.

«This report discusses how tax structures can best be designed to support GDP per capita growth.The analysis suggests a tax and economic growth ranking order according to which corporate taxes are the most harmful type of tax for economic growth, followed by personal income taxes and then consumption taxes, with recurrent taxes on immovable residential property being the least harmful tax.

Homeownership tends to encourage spending on durable goods and hence its depressed levels could explain why real U.S. consumption growth over 2011 - 2017 has been much weaker (by about half a percentage point annualized every quarter) than the pre-recession average.

The Fed's favored measure, the personal consumption expenditures price index, moved up 0.2 % to 2.1 % year - on - year in February at the headline level, though the core measure was unchanged at 1.8 %, after the previous month's reading was revised up by a tenth.

Such trends are in keeping with the Communist Party's latest five - year plan to restructure the Chinese economy to make it less reliant on investment in heavy industry and other capital - intensive sectors and more driven by innovation and consumption.

Much of the decline has been self - imposed as communist leaders try to steer China to more sustainable growth driven by domestic consumption following the past decade's explosive expansion based on trade and investment.

On the demand side of Russia's Asia gas pivot, China has plans to increase the role of natural gas to 10 per cent of primary energy consumption by 2020, or 360 bcm (about half the US's current gas consumption).

In China, we expect a moderation of growth accompanied by a number of policy reforms that we believe could lead to sustainable levels of growth as the economy increasingly relies on rising consumption.

The NDP has also pledged to protect Canada's water resources by placing some restrictions on the export of bulk water, encouraging more efficient water consumption, and improving water quality through stronger regulations.

In the wake of his victory, the prime minister called on Japanese companies to raise wages by 3 % as part of his efforts to fuel higher consumption and inflation.

In China, this has been the case since 2011, with total household consumption spending growing on average faster than overall GDP by 1.5 percentage points each year.

Inflation certainly remains low in Europe but it is at least on a positive trajectory and growth is being led for the most part by domestic consumption.

TOKYO (MNI)- Japan's gross domestic product for the January - March quarter is expected by economists to be flat both on quarter and at an annualized pace, as solid capital investment is offset by weak private consumption amid bad winter weather.

The exemption will be embodied in an amendment to the Enforcement Order of the Consumption Tax Act, which is being prepared by the Ministry of Finance, and it is highly likely that it will apply to VC - cash exchanges executed on or after July 1, 2017.