Sentences with phrase «social costs»

Concerns over the social costs and the financing of the energy transition ran through all panel discussions at the EESC ’s

'' The federal SCC [social costs of carbon] estimates do not adequately consider the benefits of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions.»

This report intends to provide policy relevant information on the assessment of the environmental and social costs and benefits of biofuels.

It addresses the economic and social costs of «business as usual» growth in Asia and the Pacific, discusses unexplored opportunities for increasing sustainability and ecological inefficiencies, and analyse the role of the various actors.

«The federal SCC [social costs of carbon] estimates do not adequately consider the benefits 27 of fossil fuels andCO2 emission.»

The US government works on the basis of $ 37 in social costs per tonne emitted, but two US scientists proposed that the true cost in future health and habitat losses was probably six times higher.

... the only way to consider new coal - fired plants a remotely plausible undertaking is to completely ignore the social costs of burning the coal.

Yes, enviros will claim there is a $ 200 billion subsidy in unpaid social costs — fine — but they will not mention the benefits of a $ 18.6 trillion US economy the FFs make possible, not to mention the world GDP.

«However, social costs of resettlement and environmental damage are enormous.

The film will describe efforts in three places — Ilha Grande, Paraty and Rio de Janeiro — to make sure the benefits of tourism aren't exceeded by the environmental and social costs.

But that effort misses the reality that as long as oil demand is high in the United States and elsewhere, there will be environmental risks and often terrible social costs in farflung and loosely governed places.

But it comes with significant environmental and social costs (scoured landscapes, carbon dioxide, around 4,000 deaths a year in Chinese mines, tens of thousands of premature deaths from respiratory ailments linked to sooty pollution).

[ADDED 1/14] Finding renewable sources of energy that are cheap and do not come with significant environmental or security risks or social costs is a good thing, particularly in a world adding roughly 80 million people a year, and where two billion people today only have firewood or dried dung as an energy choice.

Damage functions in these analyses are simplistic and mostly untested for the magnitudes of change projected, their ability to balance economic costs and social costs involve ethical judgements that are both opaque and not universal.

From mental health issues to family breakdown and homelessness, we're all affected by the large social costs that problem debt creates.

A useful debate guide with a balanced view of the topic, this book in the Video Games and Society series discusses the conflicting research regarding physical and social costs and benefits associated with gaming, as well as how gaming can become an addiction.

The historical narrative includes supernatural scenes and creatures whose presence adds suspense — even terror — and vividly deepens and enriches the novel's themes about the vital need for storytelling, the strength of memories, the strong pull of family connections, and the catastrophic personal and social costs of war.

The Social Costs of Inadequate Education.

Research presented at the 2005 Symposium on the Social Costs of Inadequate Education.

A recent UCLA report found that nationwide, suspensions lead to dropouts, costing more than $ 46 billion in lost tax revenue and other social costs.

By investing $ 16 million up - front in new counseling positions, Colorado created counseling positions that more than paid for themselves and saved the state over $ 300 million in the social costs associated with supporting high school dropouts.

They will deny the economic and social costs of continuing our curriculum driven system because that's how our schools work, and change would be hard.

With a mission to empower youth organizations to improve outcomes and reduce social costs, IYS supports more than 190 youth programs, including camps, sports, STEM, leadership, after school, independent living, and mentoring programs.

Meanwhile, the educational and social costs of continually replacing teachers in underperforming schools carries a steep price in wasted learning opportunities for children, as well.

His most recent book is From Family Collapse to America's Decline: The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation.

This very much links into the previous lesson on social costs and benefits and externalities.

The optimistic — one might say unrealistic — answer is to make schools so engaging, and the student - teacher relationship so supportive, that adolescents will be intrinsically motivated to work hard, despite the other demands on their time and attention, and despite the social costs they might pay.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Cashin, author of Place, Not Race, explains how the benefits of race - based admissions decisions are actually outweighed by the social costs, and argues for a return to what she considers the original intent of affirmative action policies: helping people — no matter their race — who have been systemically locked out of opportunity.

Shortchanging Student Achievement: The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation by Mitch Pearlstein Rowman & Littlefield, 2011, $ 24.95; 165 pages.

Presidents at least as far back as Bill Clinton have made attendance a priority of their school - reform efforts, in part because of the social costs of youngsters not attending.

Recent work by economists and other academic researchers — some of it presented at a recent symposium at Columbia University («The Social Costs of Inadequate Education»)-- concluded that such investments have large payoffs in raising national income and tax revenues and reducing the cost of public services.

The Platform was developed by accessing accredited governmental, academic, and independent research in order to estimate the social costs of ecosystem degradation.

Specifically, this lesson is for teaching social costs and benefits, with a specific look at bottled water consumption with video to get pupils engaged and interested.

According to data revealed at a Columbia University Teachers College symposium on «The Social Costs of Inadequate Education,» dropouts die 9.2 years earlier than students who graduate high school and annually cost $ 4.5 billion in lost income taxes and earnings.

After serving up the familiar justifications for high school reform (e.g., social costs, changing demographics, dropout factories), Wise sets forth a threadbare list of the 10 elements of a successful high school (rigorous curricula, skilled teachers, community involvement, and so forth).

This lesson leads really well into the next two lessons on social costs and benefits and market failure.

The social costs of a high GPA are most pronounced for adolescent males.

As long as distressed communities provide minorities with their identities, the social costs of breaking free will remain high.

Most blatantly, it did not quantify benefits, and — despite extensive discussion of administrative costs — ignores the broader potential negative impacts or social costs.

This study explores the topic of heterosexual interracial dating at a. voice to students with interracial dating experience who have incurred social costs,.

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It has enormous economic and social costs and can lead to poverty, forced migration and conflict.

Researchers found they can predict which adults were likely to incur such costs as early as age 3, offering hope that early interventions could avoid some of these social costs.

The Dunedin data showed that just over a fifth of the population accounts for the bulk of the social costs: crime, welfare payments, hospitalizations, cigarette purchases, fatherless child - rearing, and other indicators of social dysfunction.

«Information sharing on violence saves millions in health, criminal justice and social costs.»

Prescription opioid overdoses killed more than 165,000 Americans between 1999 and 2014, and the health and social costs of abusing such drugs are estimated to be as much as $ 55 billion a year.

«With the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which expanded Medicaid coverage to many low - income Americans, it's important to gauge the impact it might have on low - income children and on associated social costs,» said lead author John Myers, PhD, MSPH, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

The high economic and social costs of early mental illness compound as children get older; for example, adjustment disorders in childhood are associated with poor school performance and increased reliance on social welfare, Heinmeuller says.

The widely used economic measure grossly distorts the environmental and social costs of some growth, David Biello reports

The cost savings included use of skin barriers and other ostomy care accessories, medications, emergency department and hospital visits, as well as «social costs» such as missed work or appointments.