Sentences with phrase «term average limit»

For example, under the Basin Plan, the Basin - wide long - term average limit on surface water use is 10,873 GL (billion litres) per year.

Not exact matches

Four Seasons declined to disclose information about its board's term limits, but the average U.S. board member is about 63 years old, and the average tenure is roughly 8.5 years.

China is probably still a few years away from reaching its debt limits, but the more debt grows, the lower the country's growth rate average will be over the long term.

(So far, only South Korea has snagged permanent terms, as part of a renegotiated bilateral deal; it agreed to accept the aluminum tariff and limit steel exports to 70 percent of its average over the last three years.)

«We strongly believe that the supply of great businesses is severely limited and to engage in broad diversification is dilutive to the implicit purpose of earning above - average longer - term returns» Frank Martin

With a duration of 2.3 the Vanguard Limited Term Tax Exempt fund has a slightly longer duration than the category average.

The Vanguard Limited Term Tax Exempt Fund VMLUX has outperformed the average short term municipal bond fund over the last 5 and 10 year time fraTerm Tax Exempt Fund VMLUX has outperformed the average short term municipal bond fund over the last 5 and 10 year time fraterm municipal bond fund over the last 5 and 10 year time frames.

Yet in practical terms such limited or local average behaviors do exhibit approximately regular and usefully predictable elements.

(ii) the long ‑ term average sustainable diversion limit for the water resources of the water resource plan area that is specified in the Basin Plan; and

Instead the SDLs represent limits on average water diversions over the long - term.

(1) If the long ‑ term average sustainable diversion limit for the water resources of a water resource plan area (or for a particular part of those water resources) is reduced, the Basin Plan must specify:

Basin Plan to specify Commonwealth share of reduction in long ‑ term average sustainable diversion limit 97

(3) The copy must be given together with the Authority's advice to the Murray ‑ Darling Basin Ministerial Council on the likely socio ‑ economic implications of any reductions in the long ‑ term average sustainable diversion limits proposed in the proposed Basin Plan.

Section 75 requires particular matters to be specified in the Basin Plan if a long ‑ term average sustainable diversion limit for the water resources, or a particular part of the water resources, of a water resource plan area is reduced.

In even - numbered election years between 2010 and 2016, Democrats averaged 128 term - limited legislators, while Republicans averaged 139 term - limited legislators.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2015 the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Paris, France and entered into a historic agreement in which 195 nations, including the United States, were signatories and agreed to determine their own target contribution to mitigate climate change by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, among other terms (the «Paris Agreement»);

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

If long - term global warming is to be limited to a maximum of 2 °C elsius above preindustrial values, average annual per - capita emissions in industrialized nations will have to be reduced by around 80 - 95 % below 1990 levels by 2050.

Since it takes the average student many years to repay student loan debt in British Columbia and since it can be difficult to obtain long - term, sustainable employment in their chosen career, it is not surprising that after years of struggle many discover that they are not able to keep up with their student loan repayment obligation and find the outstanding balance prohibitive, limiting their lives accordingly.

As in the case of the subsidiary earnings, limited terminal growth rates are appropriate and the float return assumptions should be tempered with an eye toward the average long term treasury bond return as this helps to ensure a reliable coupon.

But noting an average share price of 31p over the last 5 years, gains have been limited for most investors, while long - term shareholders continue to nurse big losses.

As noted, averages have limits, but the results do show that the short - term risks of large market swings remain for both types of funds.

Technicals & Sentiment: Record employees own a majority, Schroders is the only institution (at 16 %), and presumably there's a fair contingent of dividend investors & grim long - term shareholders, so the available free float's surprisingly small for a near - # 100 million market cap — please note the average 100 K daily share volume may limit larger trades / investors, while the price can be volatile (a daily 5 - 10 % move isn't that unusual).

If a fund has a longer average maturity and wishes to discourage shorter - term trading behavior, a redemption charge could be assessed for some limited period following a purchase to protect longer - term fund holders.

Unlike the limited duration of the average museum loan exhibition, this collective exhibition continues indefinitely, on view in the «greater museum of Southern California» — a term coined by Scott Schaefer, senior curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum to refer to the communal holdings of art in the region.

We can not afford to delay further action to tackle climate change if the long - term target of limiting the global average temperature increase to 2 °C, as analysed in the 450 Scenario, is to be achieved at reasonable cost.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

Terms like «Pre-Industrial» as per the Paris +2 C limit included are equally vague and / or confusing for the average wood duck aka Journo Pollie Denialist.

Though non-binding, some 100 heads of state gathered at the 2009 Copenhagen summit agreed to limit the rise in global temperatures to a maximum of 1.5 - 2C above the long - term average prior to the industrial revolution.

The Kigali Amendment will significantly contribute to the goals contained in the Paris Agreement «to pursue efforts to limit the [average global] temperature increase to 1.5 ° Celsius» as well as directly support the decision within the Paris Agreement to enhance near - term mitigation.

The Roadmap is based on the 2DS, limiting global average temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius in the long - term.

This included the long - term goal of limiting the maximum global average temperature increase to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, subject to a review in 2015.

The Paris Agreement's long - term goal is to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2.0 degrees Celsius (2.7 to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures, or about 0.5 to 1.0 degrees C (0.9 to 1.8 degrees F) above the current global average temperature.

Paleoclimatological Context and Reference Level of the 2 °C and 1.5 °C Paris Agreement Long - Term Temperature Limits The Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 during the COP21 conference stipulates that the increase in the global average temperature is to be kept well below 2 °C above «pre-industrial levels» and that efforts are pursued to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above «pre-industrial levels.»

Like the Copenhagen Accord, the Cancun agreements set a goal of limiting average global warming to below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and call for periodic review to consider strengthening this long - term goal, including to 1.5 degrees.

Projected global average temperature rise above pre-industrial levels under a range of future scenarios, «business as usual» (BAU), which assumes no mitigation efforts are made (RCP8.5); «mitigation», which assumes moderate emissions (RCP4.5) without negative emissions, «carbon dioxide removal» (CDR), which assumes moderate emissions with long - term CO2 removal; and «solar radiation management» (SRM), which is the same as the CDR pathway but also includes enough SRM to limit temperatures to 1.5 C by 2100.

My understanding is that there is limited tuning to improve the climatological average and short - term variability, but not to «fit» GCM output to global average temperatures.

To prove this, we developed a short - term scenario analysing the 2020 targets in the 13th five - year plan (13 FYP) and a long - term scenario analysing the implications of limiting the average global temperature increase to 2 °C.

A longer - term scenario in the study analyses the implications of limiting global averages temperature increases to 2 ˚C, confirming the need for China to start planning the early retirement of coal plants not retrofitted with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).

Only 50 % Reduction in Upstream Emissions Possible According to the report Carbon Capture and Storage in the Alberta Tar Sands, CCS «has limited potential to reduce upstream emissions to levels comparable with the average for conventional oil,» with «even the most optimistic estimates from industry experts» showing reductions in the 10 - 30 % range in the medium term and up to 50 % in the long term.

The climate actions communicated in these INDCs largely determine whether the world achieves the long - term goals of the Paris Agreement: to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C, to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C, and to achieve net zero emissions in the second half of this century.

Unfortunately, the law firm failures of the last few years have graphically demonstrated to everyone that the average law firm typically borrows for four basic reasons, two of which can be, but are not always supportable, one of which is supportable if limited to the purpose of being a short term reserve, and one of which should never be supportable:

For two health outcomes (limiting long - term illness and social, emotional and behavioural difficulties) and two health behaviours (screen time and fruit and vegetable consumption), children of parents with average skills were also more likely to have poor health and poor health behaviour than children in the high parenting skills group.