The promotion of biofuels - more accurately known as agrofuels - is causing massive environmental and
social damage from Colombia and Brazil to Indonesia and Malaysia.
Not exact matches
It was right after Dara Khosrowshahi had been appointed CEO, and we had a pretty frank conversation about a company trying to undo months of
damage from PR missteps including a video of its former chief, Travis Kalanick, berating a driver (he later apologized) and a passenger boycott promoted on
social media.
From unflattering photos to leaving commentators hanging, here's how you could be
damaging your reputation on
social media and not even know it.
A group of Israelis and Americans bereaved in Palestinian attacks said Monday they would seek $ 1 billion in
damages from Facebook for alleged complicity, as part of a suit filed in the United States against the
social media giant.
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Facebook is moving to untangle its often bewildering array of privacy options as the
social network struggles to contain the
damage from a widening scandal over user data.
I have noticed how sensitive I have become in
social environments and the
damage done
from being isolated and a hermit for so long.
Some of us are, no doubt, guilty of having written in such a way that Whitehead's emphasis on the individual was separated
from his equal emphasis on the
social character of every individual and have thereby failed to challenge the
damaging individualism of the modern era.
the equally mindless endorsement of all types of domestic radical isms
from the Black Panthers to Greenpeace, the insouciant acceptance of millions of abortions as simply an expression of the right to choose, not to mention the other (less tangible)
damage done to many lives by the brashs
social engineering of new middle - class professionals (for instance.
Furthermore, it would be helpful to show that the existing concern for evangelism and church growth could not be pursued apart
from the issues raised by the wider
social setting without doing
damage to the biblical understanding of mission This also had to be done
from the text itself, and not
from any intrinsic authority given by the congregation to the preacher.
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According to Gazzetta, Balotelli is banned
from damaging the image of the club and his
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from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology,
social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially
damaging way to discipline and teach children.
Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers
from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology,
social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially
damaging way to discipline and teach children.
But the main drive,
from damaging social housing to savage welfare cuts,
from the undermining of the BBC to redefining our relationship to the European Convention on Human Rights, will be decisively to the hard right.
However, evidence
from a range of sources released in recent months has been overwhelming in its condemnation of the move, revealing that removing the so - called 50 % cap on religious selection would not only lead to increased levels of segregation in schools and communities, but also
damage social mobility and reduce the access of parents to their local schools.
The new research follows a
damaging report
from the respected Economic and
Social Research Council (ESRC) which found the majority of migrant workers in the UK sex industry were not forced or trafficked.
In a further setback to reducing U.S. carbon emissions, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering the U.S. government's «
social cost» of carbon, or the estimated cost of sea - level rise, lower crop yields, and other climate - change related economic
damages,
from $ 42 per ton by 2020 to a low of $ 1 per ton.
The results show that
social media can be used to track the
damage from natural disasters.
And if the walls break or overflow, the subsequent
damage will just be greater,» reports
social geographer Dr. Christian Kuhlicke
from UFZ, who analysed the consequences of the Mulde flooding in Eilenburg and Grimma.
A recent study
from Caltech and the University of Iowa found that
damage to this area made people less susceptible to guilt and could lead to poorer
social decision making.
The paper joins other academic research focused on the
social cost of carbon, a measure used in climate regulations that estimates the total cost of future
damage from additional carbon emissions.
These are the hubs we want to uncover and target in order to intentionally cause failure in
social networks spreading pathogens or
damaging behaviour,» says lead researcher Dr Goylette Chami,
from Cambridge's Department of Pathology.
When faced with these daily stressors the PUFAs would be a detriment to all aspects of defending the brain / body
from said stressors as they disrupt many vital hormonal signalling pathways,
damage lipoproteins, make us more sensitive to sunlight, accelerate glycation, and less resistant to
social stress.
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The fact that Jimmy's a laid - off construction worker and Clyde a veteran with a conspicuous prosthetic hand gives the film an air of
social relevance, and while Soderbergh seems enthusiastic about the idea of his characters banding together to take back
from a society that's made them collateral
damage, the attempts to draw any sense of sociopolitical import are the film's weakest spots.
If there's a dealbreaker for audiences or commercially minded critics, it's the fact that the narrative tends to grow unwieldy and wanders non-linearly
from a coming - of - age story to something much more complex and wider (and no doubt autobiographical) about how the post-war generation's
social upheaval and radical thinking
damaged the children of this era (of which Potter was clearly one).
Citing research
from the Education Policy Institute, he added that «the evidence is clear that expanding the number of selective places is likely to be
damaging to
social mobility».
Students» experiences with bullying range
from hearing the term but not understanding it, to feeling lasting
damage from it, to believing that it's an important
social structure.
The myth of the managerial expert is very
damaging, because it shifts the education conversation away
from important
social issues like justice and equality to technocratic concerns like «accountability» and «efficiency.»
Much
damage has been done to disconnect the
social and political — not just artistic — contributions of homosexuals
from the American narrative.
When you are living
from one paycheck to the next, an emergency can cause a lot of
damage to your finances as well as your
social life.
All sorts of income can potentially be tax - free, including: Auto rebates; child - support payments; combat pay;
damages in lawsuits for physical injury; disability payments, if you paid the premiums for the policy; dividends on a life insurance policy, up to the total of premiums paid; Education Savings Account withdrawals used for qualifying expenses; gifts; Health Savings Account withdrawals used for qualifying payments; inheritances; life insurance proceeds; municipal bond interest; policy officer survivor payments; profits
from the sale of a home, up to $ 250,000 if you're single or $ 500,000 if you're married; qualified Roth IRA and Roth 401 (k) withdrawals; scholarships and fellowship grants;
Social Security benefits (between 15 percent and 100 percent are tax - free); veterans benefits; and workers» compensation.
Separation anxiety and your dog's clinginess are far
from cute or endearing; they are extremely debilitating, traumatic and stressful for your dog and will end your
social life faster than a nun at Prom (no offence to nuns) and can cause emotional, physical and pathological
damage to your pup, all of which can shorten your fur baby's lifespan.
Second, the
damage cost of a ton of CO2 (at 3 % discount rate) ranges
from negative to $ 22 at the 99 percentile [
from Richard Tol's paper «The
Social Cost of Carbon: Trends, Outliers and Catastrophes»], with a median of about $ 4.
The legislation benefits were estimated by multiplying the estimated amount of greenhouse gas emissions avoided by the monetary valuation of incremental
damage from each ton of greenhouse gas emissions (the «
social cost of carbon»).
In contrast, EPA's estimate for the total gains
from avoided climate change
damages as well as other factors (such as reduced macroeconomic volatility
from reduced reliance on oil imports), might yield as little as $ 29 billion in the year 2040, in the scenario where the «
social cost of carbon» is relatively low.
The models used to calculate a
Social Cost of Carbon for use in estimating the benefits of reducing carbon emissions fall far short of including a wide range of expected
damages from global climate disruption.
Understandably, these nations may value the
social and economic advancement of their own citizens above whatever environmental
damage may or may not result
from global warming.
The work of saving nuclear by Environmental Progress will prevent $ 25 billion in economic
damages from climate change
damage by 2025, based on the US EPA's
social cost of carbon.
«Even if we agreed on a particular computer simulation of the monetary
damages accruing
from climate change over the next few centuries, the calculation of the «
social cost of carbon» would vary widely, depending on our choice of parameters that have nothing to do with climate science,» he said.
The
social cost of carbon is a monetary value measuring the alleged climate change
damages from each ton of emitted carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Social conservatives and libertarians, each of which has their own ideological reasons to push the OISM petition, have been effective at keeping the «30,000 scientists reject warming chicken - littleism of IPCC» meme circulating throughout conservative media outlets, even as climate disruption - focused media have worked at limiting the
damage from the OISM petition.
• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes
from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not
damaging • Quotes
from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the
damage functions used for estimating
damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic
damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick —
Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.
However, the
social cost of carbon (SCC) is higher (by about 15 %) under uncertainty than in the certainty - equivalent case because of asymmetry in the impacts of uncertainty on the
damages from climate change.
My general view is that, while Stern's choice of discount rate is at the low end, the Review badly underestimates the
social cost of the
damage to natural ecosystems that will inevitably arise
from global warming.
The latest figures
from the US Interagency Working Group on
Social Cost of Carbon calculate a range of monetary
damages expected to be caused by a metric ton of CO2 emitted in 2015; $ 12 (using a 5.0 % discount rate), $ 38 (using a 3.0 % discount rate), $ 58 (using a 2.5 % discount rate), and $ 109, (using a 3.0 % discount rate, 95th percentile).
Because the
social cost of carbon increases each year, calculations of how much climate change
damages are expected because of the emissions
from this coal should take into account when the coal is likely to be burned.
To estimate the
social cost of carbon
damages from this coal, expected to be burned between 2015 and 2030, we calculated the
social cost of carbon
damages from the total amount of carbon pollution (3,922,481,766 metric tons of CO2) in 2015, 2020, 2025, and 2030, and then averaged those amounts.
Costs are defined in a variety of ways and under a variety of assumptions that affect their value ► Cost types include: ► administrative costs of planning, management, monitoring, audits, accounting, reporting, clerical activities, etc. associated with a project or program; ►
damage costs to ecosystems, economies and people due to negative effects
from climate change; ► implementation costs of changing existing rules and regulation, capacity building efforts, information, training and education, etc. to put a policy into place; ► private costs are carried by individuals, companies or other private entities that undertake the action, where ►
social costs include additionally the external costs on the environment and on society as a whole.