Sentences with phrase «reduced economic activity»

While this boom creates low unemployment and increased investment options (including real estate) in many secondary and tertiary markets where drilling is prevalent, natural gas exploration is not without risk and cost, including increased carbon emissions, groundwater contamination, reduced economic activity in alternative energy sectors and the potential for boom - and - bust local economies susceptible to rapid declines in production.

-LCB- see examples -RCB- Overwarning Leads to Reduced Economic Activity When people can't provide goods and services for each other, poverty results.

The alternative — seriously proposed in some of the responses — of a romantic return to village life with vastly reduced economic activity seems likely to add to this problem.

These include lowering expense projections for retirement and health insurance expense to reflect lower projected usage and rates not available at the time the budget request was prepared; lowering utility cost estimates to reflect the significant decline in energy demand and prices resulting from reduced economic activity and lowering other operating cost estimates to reflect lower anticipated price changes.

Either option reduces economic activity and can put downward pressure on prices.

Cutting - edge research has identified ways in which changes to climatic conditions — such as abnormally warm summers — reduce economic activity, damage food production systems, increase social conflict, and generate migrants.

Edahiro says for Japan to achieve this, almost all new and existing equipment will have to be highly efficient, and Japan will have to reduce its economic activity by setting a price for carbon, either through a carbon tax or emissions trading.

We can get close to that, if we in the industrialized nations reduce our economic activities to the level of backward, poverty stricken Romania (steffy's homeland).

These bad effects, or even a small risk of them, easily justify massive intervention today in reducing economic activity and greenhouse gas production

Since the dominant assumption in the literature is that reductions greater than 3 - 4 % per year are incompatible with a growing economy (Stern 2006; UK CCC 2008; Hof and Vuuren 2009), they conclude that the only way to prevent catastrophic climate change is by reducing economic activity.

Tell me who tells us that we need to reduce economic activity to quasi subsidence levels of human existence to prevent dangerous levels of CO2?

That, in turn, can reduce economic activity and tax revenue.

Not exact matches

Business taxes are also full of special preferences that have been in place for decades and only serve to distort economic activity and reduce economic growth.

Therefore, the value of the US Dollar was deliberately reduced in an effort to increase global economic activity.

According to the dictionary, a recession is defined as, «a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two successive quarters.»

Until the US figures out how to distinguish between economically productive activity, as opposed to rent extraction and spending money in order to reduce tax liability, we are going to wallow in economic dysfunction.

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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that through increased transfer payments and reduced taxes, automatic stabilizers provided significant economic stimulus during and in the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2007 - 2009, and thereby helped strengthen economic activity.

-LRB-...) In the domestic economy, consumer preferences are shifting toward cheaper imported goods, and exporters are facing diminished demand due to a confluence of tepid external economic activity and reduced competitiveness on pricing.

A highly accommodative stance has clearly boosted domestic demand, and policymakers are now looking to reduce the level of monetary stimulus, which seems appropriate, given the strength of economic activity.

Confined within the geometrically restricted surface of the globe, which is steadily reduced as their own radius of activity increases, the human particles do not merely multiply in numbers at an increasing rate, but through contact with one another automatically develop around themselves an ever denser tangle of economic and social relationships.

The challenge to technology to solve the problem of sufficient energy to power continuing increase of economic activity is complicated by the heightened concern to reduce pollution and especially to avoid disastrous changes in weather.

The government is taking necessary steps to promote the peaceful co-existence of herdsmen and farmers, by focusing on boosting security and enforcing legislation that will guarantee herders and farmers» access to land, reducing strife and promoting harmonizing economic activities.

President Mahama, stated that «With the opening of this interchange on which at peak hours is used by about 80,000 vehicles and daily it is estimated to be used by about 200,000 vehicles, reducing travelling time between the Ring Road Central and Feo Oyeo Intersection towards the North Industrial Area from two hours to just approximately five minutes, not only are we saving hundreds of millions of cedis in time wasted by the delay and the travel time, but we are also stimulating business and economic activity,» he added.

This will reduce the air demands on LaGuardia and Kennedy and increase economic activity on Long Island.

«The tracking system will reduce crime and criminality in the state, with a view to boosting economic activities,» he said.

In addition to economic value lost in the timber sector, drought reduces water quality, harms the quality of recreation activities, decreases rangelands suitable for livestock grazing and boosts wildfire risk.

Professor Yajun Chen, from the School of Public Health at Sun Yat - Sen University, in Guangzhou said: «The prevalence of obesity in China is alarming as the country undergoes rapid economic transition, leading to changes to traditional diet, increased sedentary lifestyles and reduced physical activity.

That forward motion is in contrast to China's failure as a nation to reduce carbon intensity — the pollution associated with economic activity — as it promised in the five - year plan that ends next year.

The chemical industry's oversized share of economic activity in North America is a direct outcome of NAFTA's effectiveness in reducing barriers to trade.

This can translate into reduced catches for fishers targeting reef fish species, which in turn leads to impacts on food supply and associated economic activities.

In contrast the privately funded non-profit HCZ, promise zones are high poverty urban, rural and tribal communities designated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D) to connect and partner with local leaders and receive federal funding aimed at «improving educational opportunities, leveraging private investment, increasing economic activity, reducing violent crimes, enhancing public health and addressing other communal priorities.»

The agency and its employees continue to integrate environmental, economic, and social considerations that embrace sustainability into its day - to - day activities, operations and facilities to reduce the Department's environmental impacts.

In addition to the activities described above, the FAST Act expanded eligible purposes to include financing economic development, including commercial and residential development, and related infrastructure and activities, that (i) incorporate private investment, (ii) is physically or functionally related to a passenger rail station or multimodal station that includes rail service, (iii) has a high probability of the applicant commencing the contracting process for construction not later than 90 days after the date on which the RRIF loan or loan guarantee is obligated, and (iv) has a high probability of reducing the need for financial assistance under any other Federal program for the relevant passenger rail station or service by increasing ridership, tenant lease payments, or other activities that generate revenue exceeding costs (Transit - Oriented Development Projects or TOD Projects).

The agency requests $ 851 million to continue its mission to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards, and enforcement activity.

A project's ability to reduce energy consumption, improve the efficiency of a region's overall transportation network, and generate sustained economic activity along the corridor are among the selection criteria.

(As of 3/31/18)-- We believe the environment for small capitalization companies in the U.S. remains positive due to lower tax rates, reduced regulation, increased merger and acquisition activity, and good global economic growth.

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Without additional efforts to reduce [greenhouse gas] emissions beyond those in place today, emissions growth is expected to persist driven by growth in global population and economic activities.

Economic activity indicators, including real gross domestic product (GDP), industrial shipments, and consumption, are reduced relative to baseline under the Clean Power Plan.

Carry out relevant research activities that would reduce climate related risks for the different socio - economic sectors.

In practical terms, the law requires the government to transition from non-renewable to renewable energy; to develop new economic indicators that will assess the ecological impact of all economic activity; to carry out ecological audits of all private and state companies; to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; to develop policies of food and renewable energy sovereignty; to research and invest resources in energy efficiency, ecological practices, and organic agriculture; and to require all companies and individuals to be accountable for environmental contamination with a duty to restore damaged environments.

(1) to provide new and additional assistance from the United States to the most vulnerable developing countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, in order to support the development and implementation of climate change adaptation programs and activities that reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience of communities to climate change impacts, including impacts on water availability, agricultural productivity, flood risk, coastal resources, timing of seasons, biodiversity, economic livelihoods, health and diseases, and human migration; and

During and after the climate related disasters the health condition of the rural households get adversely affected and hence, reduce the ability to employ themselves in economic activities and income of the households get adversely affected.

In order to decrease carbon emissions, countries essentially only have four options: reducing their population, cutting back economic activity, taking positive steps to increase energy efficient technologies, or expanding the role of less carbon intensive energy sources.

-- Reduce military and economic activity from the way we have operated up until now.

C) Absent changes in policy, technology and / or economic activity to reduce GHG emissions, the consequent temperature rise in the 21st will reach levels where they have serious adverse impacts on human well being and the health of eco-systems.

AB 32's preface states that California alone can not stop global warming, but California can and will * show the way * for the world to increase economic activity while reducing greenhouse gases.

«To meet the new standards,» the National Journal says: «states will have to form plans that will limit emissions of ozone - forming pollutants from two major sources: stationary sources such as power plants and factories, and transportation» — which will reduce energy intensive economic activity.

Until now, China has not committed to absolute limits on its pollution, but has instead spoken of reducing its emissions intensity — the amount of pollution it emits per unit of economic activity.