Sentences with phrase «strong economic climate»

Buyers can not offer low cap rates because of rising interest rates, and sellers cite the strong economic climate as a reason for high prices.
«Amazon's further expansion in New York is proof positive that our strong economic climate, diverse workforce and talent, are helping to attract top - notch companies from around the world,» said Cuomo in a statement.
«Amazon's further expansion in New York is proof positive that our strong economic climate, diverse workforce and talent, are helping to attract top - notch companies from around the world,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
Orange County's strong economic climate is reflected in the fact that several Fortune 500 companies have chosen to locate their headquarters here.

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«Our business remains strong, particularly considering the overall economic climate,» a spokesperson says.
Great food is not the only ingredient needed to succeed in the restaurant business in the current economic climate; a strong strategic business plan is mandatory to stay ahead of the competition.
Various members of the shadow Cabinet, including Mr Osborne and foreign secretary William Hague will gather on the main stage on Sunday afternoon to discuss how the current economic climate is affecting homeowners and businesses and reveal the party's plan for a strong economy.
They then come up with another bizarre statement, that «government is on trial as well as the markets» when everyone actually knows there is a need for restoring a strong positive role for government which alone was able to bail out the banks and prevent a global economic crash as well as alone having the capacity to deal with soaring energy bills and transport fares, tackle climate change, and counter the bonus greed and tax avoidance of the super-rich.
Ben ten Brink, researcher at the Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL): «This scenario is conceivable for regions that face a combination of impactful developments, such as strong population growth, poverty, climate change, a weak economic system and a feeble government.
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched a Green Partnership, reaffirming their countries» strong commitment to taking vigorous action to combat climate change, ensuring their mutual energy security, working towards global food security, and building a clean energy economy that will drive investment, job creation, and economic growth throughout the 21st century.
«They will need to provide strong examples of how good policy can drive economic growth and climate risk reduction together,» the report says.
He said last Friday that he endorsed the ACOST view of the importance of maintaining a strong science base and the need for an effective research infrastructure in higher education institutions, but that in today's economic climate, there would be no increases.
ACS believes strongly that economic growth in the U.S. is based on three foundations: sustained support for scientific and medical research that leads to technological innovations, a strong science education enterprise that prepares a world - class workforce and a robust business climate that will make American companies competitive with our international competitors.
However, DiPerna cites new momentum among mainstream investors to take climate change issues into account, with new and strong interest by investors in reckoning with the fact that both the risks and costs of extreme weather events will continue to rise, with significant implications for economic stability.
Take Shelter is a frightening metaphor for the nation's current economic climate, but the bond between Shannon, his wife (Jessica Chastain), and daughter (Tova Stewart) is strong throughout the picture and his hard - fought best intentions — no matter how crazy they look to everyone else — make him an easy guy to root for.
Joydeep Gupta, editor of indiaclimatedialogue.net and a co-author on the report, said: «Given that India is ranked the second most vulnerable to the economic costs of climate change, only a strong global deal can generate the finance to avert disaster.
Commenting on the current economic climate, he said: «We are benefiting from the strong Euro and seeing substantial increases in travellers from Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands, which is also helping the UK economy.
As the press release highlights, disbelief and absorbency, as opposed to critique and explanation, perhaps produces something stronger in the current climate (both Art World and socio - economic): a nod, or, at the very least, a desire and concern to «move beyond».
In fact, as with climate, there are real issues related to spin and the realities of the scientific and economic research, but there is also strong evidence for a real problem deserving a response.
Dorothy Atwood, one of the course participants, notes that «the reality of increasingly dangerous climate change — the rising temperatures and sea levels; the droughts, floods and stronger storms; the acidic oceans; the increasing forest fires; the expanding health dangers; the economic costs of floods, drought, hurricanes and sunken coastal cities — are very real to us and demand our personal and group response because it makes both environmental and economic sense to change the way we live and solve these problems.»
«INDIA»S ECONOMIC PROGRESS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE: BENEFITS OF GLOBAL WARMING As a weather & climate scientist, what impressed me was the fact that India's strong economic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supportersECONOMIC PROGRESS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE: BENEFITS OF GLOBAL WARMING As a weather & climate scientist, what impressed me was the fact that India's strong economic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.CLIMATE: BENEFITS OF GLOBAL WARMING As a weather & climate scientist, what impressed me was the fact that India's strong economic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.CLIMATE: BENEFITS OF GLOBAL WARMING As a weather & climate scientist, what impressed me was the fact that India's strong economic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.climate scientist, what impressed me was the fact that India's strong economic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.climate scientist, what impressed me was the fact that India's strong economic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporterseconomic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.»
In particular, there is a growing realization that there are strong interactions between degradation of near - surface permafrost and dynamics of the Earth climate system and that these interactions may have substantial influences on global environmental, economic, and social systems.
Prevention Web: The World Economic Forum 2013 has spawned an impressive collection of reports that build a strong case for prompt and substantial action on climate change, development and sustainability.
After three years of intense scrutiny, climate and economic experts have determined that a carbon fee - and - rebate policy would be the strongest and most comprehensive approach to addressing climate change in the District in an equitable manner.
This analytical report shows the wide range of adverse impacts of climate change in Africa and assesses the balance of economic costs, as a function of a range of scenarios including both successful and failed global mitigation efforts, and strong compared to weak implementation of adaptation measures.
In particular, it points out that, in order to effectively couple climate financing with strong and measurable sustainable development criteria, there is a need to move beyond carbon as a standalone tradeable commodity, by increasingly valuing the significant range of additional ecosystem and socio - economic services provided by sustainable agriculture practices and programmes that simultaneously address climate concerns and sustainable rural development priorities.
The Economic Case for U.S. Climate Action: Views from Congress and the Private Sector Friday, November 10th 15:00 - 16:00 Fiji Dome Many leading U.S. companies, recognizing both the risks and the opportunities presented by climate change, see a strong business case for climate action and are investing in a low - carbon Climate Action: Views from Congress and the Private Sector Friday, November 10th 15:00 - 16:00 Fiji Dome Many leading U.S. companies, recognizing both the risks and the opportunities presented by climate change, see a strong business case for climate action and are investing in a low - carbon climate change, see a strong business case for climate action and are investing in a low - carbon climate action and are investing in a low - carbon future.
Maybe I should add that although global warming is an inherently interesting topic for debate, I am a strong supporter of economic growth to improve the lives of the half of the world's population who are dreadfully poor, and I see climate catastrophism as an instrument of those who oppose economic growth and thus place themselves in the position of being objective enemies of human well - being.
The campaign, which began October 11th in response to climate disasters of Hurricane Irma and Maria, provides a proactive vision, strong coordination and a regenerative economic and environmental approach to the crisis led by the Borinquen people.
NOVEMBER 13, 2017 Tobias Buck in Berlin and Lucy Hornby in Beijing 58 comments Stronger Chinese economic growth will push global greenhouse gas emissions to a record high in 2017 after remaining flat for three years, dashing tentative hopes of a turning point in the world's efforts to curb climate change.
What even worse, due to the outside pressures to require revaluation of Chinese Yuan, and things like border tax in the U.S on Chinese imports, some influential economists, whom I would label strong nationalists, are totally tearing apart the global warming fact and ridiculously propagandizing that climate change is entirely a plan faked by developed countries in order to suppress China's economic development.
In the end, the strongest economic argument for an aggressive response to climate change is not the much trumpeted windfall of green jobs.
For decades, the fossil fuel industry has used its influence to spread false or misleading information about climate change — a strong motivation for choosing low - carbon energy sources like wind or solar (in addition to the economic reasons).
He did call the plan «an ambitious framework to put our nation on a path to a clean energy economy,» adding that Clinton «emerged as a strong leader in solving the climate crisis and ensuring our country's economic security» due to the proposal.
Economic arguments in opposition to climate change policies are almost always arguments about self - interest that ignore strong global obligations.
It is also practically important because the first four IPCC reports, although not completely ignoring all ethical and justice problems with economic arguments about climate change policies, failed to examine the vast majority of ethical problems with economic arguments against climate change policies while making economic analyses of climate change policies the primary focus of Working Group III's work thereby leaving the strong impression that economic analyses, including but not limited to cost - benefit analyses, is the preferred way to evaluate the sufficiency of proposed climate change policies.
Even if there is strong economic equality in a nation measured by the Gini index, one can not conclude that climate change policies are distributively just.
Simply improving messaging in accordance with recommendations of psychologists or following the recommendations of economists to create economic incentives to engage in less GHG producing behavior will not likely create strong citizen support for climate change policies unless citizens better understand that the narrative created by opponents of climate change policies about high levels of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable harm to the economy from the adoption of climate policies is not only false but has been manufactured by fossil fuel companies and other entities which have economic interests in continuing high levels of fossil fuel consumption.
Because stronger laws have been successfully blocked by opponents of strong climate change policies on the basis that stronger laws will harm the US economy, destroy specific industries, and destroy jobs, the actual US climate change policies are based upon US economic interests, a fact not clear from examining the statements of the US federal government alone.
In the United States, because stronger laws have been successfully blocked by opponents of strong climate change policies on the basis that stronger laws will harm the US economy, destroy specific industries, and destroy jobs, the actual US climate change policies are based upon US economic interests, a fact not clear from examining the statements of the US federal government alone.
«Subsidy reform can lead to a more efficient allocation of resources, which will help spur higher economic growth over the longer term,» the IMF says — a strong argument in the ongoing climate of economic uncertainty that surrounds us.
He sees a need for high leverage interventions (with strong governance foundations) because economic and climate inertia mean mitigation is now too late or slow.
A REASONABLE PROPOSITION The less - strong consensus of AMS members regarding climate - change is induced mainly by the relatively weak mathematical skillset of AMS members, in combination with a (legitimate) apprehension among AMS members that increasing computer power is eroding the economic value of human meteorological prediction skills.
By supporting economic development in a targeted way, our climate protection can help to fight corruption and to build strong institutions, which is the essence of No 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals.
In fact, so modest are the economic effects of even strong climate action that when they are depicted on a chart it is quite difficult to pick out the difference between the «No carbon price» scenario and the «High price» scenario, the gap that the Telegraph, and Minister Hunt, claim would «shatter» the economy.
The ALP's weak suits in 2007 (experience and economic competence) will become their strong suits and they will quote the coalition against the stimulus, boast they got us out of Iraq are pressing forward with «responsible» measures on climate change and are now «building for the future».
With this cost to human life in mind, along with instability in the international coal markets and the looming threat of climate disaster, the Commission has come out with a series of recommendations to move away from coal while simultaneously supporting strong economic growth and promoting energy access for developing countries.
The event convened government, businesses, researchers and academia to discuss a pathway towards decarbonization, as all actors play their part to build global partnerships that facilitate structural transformation and technological innovation, seek continuous improvement of climate policy and establish strong economic mechanisms, such as carbon pricing, that will build a low - carbon economy.
When non-fossil fuel companies understand the broad economic risk posed by the lack of climate action, they will become genuine and strong advocates demanding climate action — in their own self - interest.
«Building on Europe's pioneering emissions - trading system, this package demonstrates to our global partners that strong action to fight climate change is compatible with continued economic growth and prosperity,» said Stavros Dimas, the commissioner for the environment.
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