Sentences with phrase «social costs of carbon]»

In order to insure that the environmental effects of each source are fully taken into account it is necessary that the full social costs of these adverse effects be taken into account by those making the choices.

Researchers have tried to derive the true social costs of, for instance, fossil fuels and the economic setbacks associated with specific climate events such as heat waves in single countries, or even the possible costs in lives and income of multiple impacts across a continent.

It consists of 11 chapters covering the scope of the analysis, decision making under uncertainty, equity issues, intertemporal equity and discounting, applicability of cost and benefit assessments to climate change, social costs of climate change, response options, conceptual issues related to estimating mitigation costs, review of mitigation cost studies, integrated assessment of climate change, and an economic assessment of policy options to address climate change.

Of course, the fetish for phony precision is not unique to climate - change models but rife in economic analysis, from interest rate settings to social costs of smoking.

Some Salvadoran elites, in a ruthless quest for wealth, ignored the high environmental and social costs of mining, impacts that fall mainly on the less fortunate.

And it found: «Where extreme weather events become more intense and / or more frequent, the economic and social costs of those events will increase, and these increases will be substantial in the areas most directly affected.»

Finally the problem with government involvement in managing the risk is it tends to ignore the benefits of ownership and discount them in favour of any residue risks that might apply to itself (liability for having permitted improvements, maintaining utilities and social costs of decaying communities, cleaning up the mess etc).

The economic and social costs of extreme weather events will increase substantially in areas where they become more intense or more frequent.

These estimated social costs of carbon are largely based on computer models that have been discredited because they can't replicate actual temperatures.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Some of her findings are that corruption declines as perpetrators take into account social costs of their illegal activities, and as victims share information about specific bribery exchanges through online reporting.

«Teenage pregnancy poses a serious risk to the health of teen mothers and their babies, and to society as a whole, which has to pay the economic and social costs of teen pregnancy, «said Dr. Gale R. Burstein, Erie County Commissioner of Health.

The social costs of this, though impossible to measure, are astronomical.

Why Casinos Matter, a new report from the Institute for American Values, details the human and social costs of gambling.

Gandhi's ethical vision of democracy seems more persuasive as the social costs of the obsession with economic growth become intolerable.

The level of risk approaches the unacceptable because there is the very real possibility of irreversible damage to the biosphere itself; further, many of the social costs of such high - risk technologies are postponed to future generations while the benefits accrue to the present generation.

Given the social costs of dealing with crime, they estimate that abortion is saving the U.S. about $ 30

Economists Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy argue the war on drugs has failed, and social costs of continuing with our current laws are too high.

When human beings break their covenant with society by exploiting the labor of the worker and refusing to do anything about the social costs of production — i.e., poisoned air and waters — the covenant of creation is violated.

The need to belong is a common reason that people tend to overlook things that should raise red flags; the social cost of «seeing» is too high.

The social cost of the planetary greed is under everybody's eyes.

Researchers say the social cost of carbon will be six times larger than the Obama administration's estimate

The memo sought a list of all department employees or contractors who have attended any meetings on the social cost of carbon, a measurement that federal agencies use to weigh the costs and benefits of new energy and environment regulations.

The social cost of carbon is a metric used to evaluate the costs of climate change.

Bars DOE from issuing any rules that use estimates of the «social cost of carbon» developed by former President Barak Obama's administration.

Furthermore, the model suggests that passing some tipping points increases the likelihood of other tipping points occurring to such an extent that the social cost of carbon would further increase abruptly.

ENVIRONMENTAL economists are refusing to revise a controversial report on the social cost of global warming, which values the lives of people in rich nations up to fifteen times higher than those in poor countries.

Looking at the potential at developable sites, the report found that when the social cost of carbon is taken into account, renewable generation is economically viable in many parts of the country.

The League of Conservation Voters gives McMorris Rodgers a 4 percent lifetime score out of a possible 100 in their environmental scorecard because she has voted against bills that would have required the federal government to account for the social cost of carbon in administrative actions and required federally funded projects to be resilient to the impacts of climate change.

The social cost of sleep disorders is enormous, says Dement.