Sentences with phrase «unacceptable costs on»

BitMEX does not agree with contentious hard forks, and does not accept the manner in which Bitcoin Cash was forked, or the lack of preparation or notice before the fork; we consider this a dangerous action that imposes unacceptable costs on end - users and businesses.

These questions are organized according to the most frequent arguments made against climate change policies which are claims that climate change policies: (a) will impose unacceptable costs on a national economy or specific industries or prevent nations from pursuing other national priorities, (b) should not be adopted because of scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts, or (c) are both unfair and ineffective as long as high emitting nations such as China or India do not adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction policies.

The opponents of climate change policies have succeeded in opposing proposed climate change law and policy by claiming that government action on climate change should be opposed because: (1) it will impose unacceptable costs on national economics or specific industries and destroy jobs, (2) there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant government action, or (3) it would be unfair and ineffective for nations like the United States to adopt expensive climate policies as long as China or India fail to adopt serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions policies.

The opponents of climate change policies have largely succeeded in opposing proposed climate change law and policy by claiming that government action on climate change should be opposed because: (1) it will impose unacceptable costs on national economics or specific industries and destroy jobs, (2) there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant government action, or (3) it would be unfair and ineffective for nations like the United States to adopt expensive climate policies as long as China or India fail to adopt serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions policies.

First, they oppose the legislation because it will impose unacceptable costs on their constituents.

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If we are to ever find a solution to the current crisis, there is one fact that must be soberly and humbly recognized: There is no preventive military solution to the North Korean nuclear program that would not impose unacceptable, catastrophic cost on the U.S. and our allies South Korea and Japan.

His terms are unacceptable to both teams, who are desperate to cut their costs this summer, and thus a move away from White Hart Lane for the 30 - year old is on hold.

«It focused on an arbitrary target for making the first payments at the expense of proper planning and this has led to unacceptable delays and spiralling costs.»

«What's happening in West Seneca is unacceptable, but many of their costs stem from maintaining an aging and out of date infrastructure, and for that we need voices in Washington advocating a return on investment of our federal tax dollars.

Rating based on those risks, and increasing the premium to an acceptable level, would not only require significant attention from an underwriter and significantly more detail about the property and the risk in question, but it would also drive the cost of the policy to an unacceptable level in many cases.

In addition to the issues Rob raised regarding causation, point 4 of the consensus statement as articulated on RealClimate implies a cost benefit analysis, and requires an assessment of what level of harm / damage is unacceptable, and an assessment of the cost and likelihood of avoiding it.

And so, one can not escape the conclusion that the basis for the US commitments on climate change include alleged unacceptable costs of more aggressive climate change policies to the US economy, matters of economic self - interest rather than global responsibility.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

Given that the United States and most other developed anions have for over twenty - five years failed to adequately respond to climate change because of alleged unacceptable costs to each nation and that due to the delay ghg emissions reductions now needed to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change are much steeper and costly than what would be required if these nations acted twenty five years ago, is it just for the United States and other developed nations to now defend further inaction on climate change on the basis of cost to it?

If Pope Francis is Right that Climate Change is a Moral Issue, How Should NGOs and Citizens Respond to Arguments Against Climate Policies Based on Unacceptable National Costs?

Questions That Should Be Asked Of Politicians And Others Who Oppose National Action On Climate Change On The Basis Of Scientific Uncertainty Or Unacceptable Cost To The Economy Given That Climate Change Is A Profound Global Justice And Ethical Problem

Therefore, those working to improve government and individual responses to climate change should adjust their tactics to respond to the insights of sociologists that have concluded that citizens need to understand how the cultural understanding of climate change has been shaped by powerful actors who have used sophisticated tactics to achieve support for their position that climate change policies should be opposed on the basis of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable costs to the economy.

It is reasonably likely that SO2 climate engineering would have unacceptable costs because many more people would be precipitation losers than winners, since a very large fraction of people are farmers in India and China who rely on rain.

As another example of a totally unacceptable TPP provision, Chan cites the leaked text of the chapter on «regulatory coherence,» that would encourage business - friendly, cost - benefit analysis before environmental or other regulations are promulgated.

I * am * concerned about the astronomical cost, the decades long construction cycles, the massive cost overruns, the near 100 % dependence on government subsidies, the absolutely unacceptable practice of Toshiba and Areva declaring cost projections «proprietary», and in the United States, our near total dependence on foreign sources of uranium fuel.

Rating based on those risks, and increasing the premium to an acceptable level, would not only require significant attention from an underwriter and significantly more detail about the property and the risk in question, but it would also drive the cost of the policy to an unacceptable level in many cases.