Sentences with phrase «scale of the investment required»

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As a historical matter, the original purpose of the corporation — reflected in debates about limited liability and general incorporation statutes — was to facilitate economic growth by enabling projects that required large - scale, long - term investment.

Delivering on this scale of renewable energy ambition will require on the order of $ 160 billion of investment, so the numbers we're likely to be seeing out of India in the coming years should be impressive.

The pair of papers, «Assessing the cost of large - scale power outages to residential customers» and «Providing limited local electric service during a major grid outage — A first assessment based on customer willingness to pay,» examined residential power users» willingness to pay (WTP) for full or partial backup services during a theoretical 24 - hour blackout and then determined the investments required by the electrical provider to implement these services.

We know that tackling a task of this scale is going to require investment and innovation — and we're committed to making it happen.

BoF: What is your advice to fashion companies that have begun the journey of transitioning towards a more sustainable and circular model, but feel overwhelmed by the scale of change they need to make or worry that it requires too much investment to see any see real progress?

Silas Chou's failed experiment at Thakoon is not the end of «see now, buy now,» but it does underscore the limits of the approach for smaller brands and the sheer scale of investment and effort required to make it work.

If an innovation required money, the bureaucrats demanded it be undertaken on a large scale, to make it worth the investment, explained Goodman — and thus undermined any chance of its success.

While models with parental education and parental occupation were marginally better at predicting pupil achievement, the potential costs of switching to either of these approaches far outweighed any slight gains.Switching to either approach would require significant investment to collect data, and collecting data on parents» education levels or occupations on a national scale could be a challenge.

The level of investment required to be truly competitive in devices and mobile reading requires international scope and scale.

Updating an app for a new screen size (unless it's a simple issue of scaling, as with the games mentioned above) requires a significant investment in time, energy, money, and focus on the part of a company.

The requirement of DRM does incur costs and requires infrastructural and technology investments, so long term, that capital could hypothetically have been put to use for other competitive investments — which would be true for Amazon as well (on a much larger scale.)

As for other funds offered in the plan, the complaint says that, rather than taking advantage of the plan's economies of scale, as required by its investment policy statement (IPS), to reduce the investment expenses charged to plan participants, Philips North America selected and maintained high - priced share classes of mutual funds, instead of identical lower - cost share classes of those same mutual funds which were readily available to the plan.

The researchers state, «the constraints that are thus required for implementing the strategy at scale attenuate its diversifying effect and compromise its power to reduce the overall risk of an investment program.»

In a widely cited study on «The Future of Coal,» M.I.T. experts said that an enormous increase in investment in industrial - scale demonstration plants would be required now even to know in 10 or 15 years if the technology can work at a meaningful scale.

Although on a smaller scale than country farms, producing vegetables, meat, eggs, mushrooms and other food products in cities can yield significant returns and often requires less financial investment, making the activity viable to a larger number of people.

In view of the monumental scale of the world's need for energy, solutions are not easy — they will require time, huge investments, and thoughtful policies.

That is part of the regulation with long - term arrangements that is necessary to attract investments in a timely manner and at the scale required.

Climate action at unprecedented speed and scale is essential for making the investments required to avoid the effects of a 2 degree warmer world and meet the Paris climate commitments.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

Oil and gas pipelines are a typical analogy for the scale and nature of infrastructure required, but have significant differences: the science of fossil fuel reserves was limited when much of the industry was created, and under business - as - usual the price of oil can be expected to rise as reserves go down, thus stretching out the time in which the investment is worthwhile.

While further policy action is required in order for low carbon investments to be brought to scale, these examples demonstrate that investors are already acting on climate change in a variety of ways.

At least two of these companies have required a massive amount of capital to scale up and reach commercialization — that can be a difficult strategy for venture capitalists, as early investments can get diluted during large later rounds.

With research and evidence building a key part of Victoria's investment, delegates from other jurisdictions described themselves as keen observers of how Victoria implements interventions on the scale required.