Sentences with phrase «with subsidy cuts»

Such issues, together with subsidy cuts and other policy changes, last year led to a 32 % decline in investment in solar power, says Hisayo Takada, Japan energy project leader for Greenpeace Japan in Tokyo.

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There are reports that Apple may be trying to cut some sort of subsidy deal with TV providers, similar to how cellphones and their service are sold.
That's why analysts expect the government to look for operating expenditure cuts — such as cutting remaining fuel subsidies — even as it tries to keep up development spending and target lower - income households, often called the B40, or bottom 40 percent with incomes of less than around 2,500 ringgit a month.
With a plan to cut energy subsidies further and introduce a value added tax this fiscal year, inflationary pressures are expected to intensify.
The idea is that miners have enough financial dry powder that they can stomach any drops in the block subsidy as the market tries to determine the new price of bitcoin with supply cut in half.
Finally, while parents at elite schools only have one vote, cutting their subsidy would feel like a direct attack, and really motivate them to work against the NDP, either through donating to the UCP or helping out with their campaign.
With Forbes reporting that Brazil shed nearly 900,000 jobs in 2015, unemployment expected to reach 12 % in 2016, and cuts to subsidies for low - income families according to the IB Times, the number of potential consumers in the country continues to shrink.
My agency was launching the first housing program in the state for women and children infected with the HIV virus, and projected cuts in state housing subsidies would have reduced its potential size.
Wealth begins with land and people and land reforms should be the cynosure of food self - sufficiency but the Bank - Fund duo demand cut in subsidies, liberalization of land ownership and undemocratic measures without any socialist tinge.
- cutting subsidies for social services such as education and health, transportation and even water and irrigation reduction of rights of workers, easier termination of services, with harmful impact on gender, race and ethnic relations
The poor whose incomes were earlier related to such subsidies suffer much with these cuts, and due to inflation and control of trade union activities.
Since the election in 2010 the coalition government has placed a cap on the amount of benefits people can receive and introduced the Spare Room Subsidy that means people on housing benefit with more bedrooms than they needed had their benefits cut.
Preemptive wars, abridgments of civil liberty, cuts in social service, subsidies to churches, and other like initiatives are not just wrapped in the flag; together with the flag, they are swathed in the holy.
France's largest dairy processor, Lactalis, wants the industry to introduce fixed prices for dairy products in order to cope with unstable markets and insulate against cuts to EU export subsidies.
The combined worry of cuts to housing benefit and the slashing of the affordable house building subsidy, coupled with the absence of a long term strategy, will be devastating for the housing aspirations of thousands of young people consigned to increasing costs and bringing up their future families in an insecure private rented sector.»
The mayor took a moment after an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn this morning to address the House GOP's plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a new package of legislation that would proffer tax credits, cut subsidies and end the requirement that large employers offer their workers affordable insurance.
Delegates buoyed by Vince Cable's colourful and blistering attack on the Tories this morning asked the deputy prime minister tricky questions regarding losing «the soul» (Clegg's words) of the Liberal Democrat Party via being associated with government measures such as the «bedroom tax» (defended and carefully referred to as the «spare bedroom subsidy» by Clegg), the notorious immigration vans and public spending cuts.
Chief among these «dangerous precedents» is the decision to finance operating costs with bonding and the funding cuts in the neighborhood health centers, child care subsidies, youth services and senior nutrition programs.
In the waning days of 2013, with Bloomberg on his way out of City Hall, a deal was cut: Empire Outlets would receive $ 50 million, mostly in city subsidies, and the powerful Building Trades Council would support the mayor's (ultimately unsuccessful) plans to re-zone areas of east midtown, in Manhattan.
The removal in 2013 of what the government calls the spare room subsidy cuts benefits for social housing tenants with a «spare» room.
The congressman also met with the president today to voice what he described as his «deep and serious concerns» about the American Healthcare Act, which would cut subsidies, proffer tax credits, end Obamacare's individual mandate and eliminate its requirement that large employers offer workers affordable insurance.
In my opinion wealthy developed countries such as US, Europe, Japan etc should pay a subsidy to poor countries with rainforests on the understanding that forests such as Amazon, Congo, Borneo are then not cut down.
Saudi Arabia and the United States have a longstanding relationship dating back to the 1930s, when American businessmen first traveled Saudi Arabia has introduced new reforms to cut subsidies and perks to the royal family, as well as introducing VAT, to help cope with a huge budget deficit
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Those who make the cut will enter college - oriented programs with special benefits (custom - trained teachers, outside mentoring, international exchanges) and a subsidy from the district to cover any school fees.
Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.
But really, with Agriculture doing so well in the US, isn't it time to finally cut farm subsidies?
Mayor Giuliani - a Roman Catholic - has said he will carry out his threat to cut the museum's $ 7m city subsidy on Wednesday morning because of the gallery's determination to proceed with the show.
In other words, if you agree that there is lots of energy at higher prices than those consistent with Hummers in every garage, and if you agree that political manipulation in almost every country (including the US) to keep prices down is hurting us more and more every day, and you note from ample literature, demonstrations, and at least a dozen European countries where energy use used both more efficiently and more carefully than in the US, you have to conclude that the forecasts of continued rapid growth in demand will be cut off at the pass, so to speak, by higher prices, drying up of subsidies, and above all more efficient and more careful energy use, fewer miles run and all that.
Their critics say their stance, however well intentioned, will produce the real delays, given how much can be done now simply by cutting energy waste with tools already on the shelf — ranging from strengthening efficiency standards to eliminating billions of dollars in persistent fossil - fuel subsidies that continue to make coal and oil much cheaper than they really are when all their hidden costs are revealed.
So reason is unlikely to break out while the trough is being filled with easy money by law the pigs passed for their cut of the subsidy money.
Sanders, with representative Keith Ellison, recently proposed an End Polluter Welfare Act, which they say would cut $ 135bn of US subsidies for fossil fuel companies over the next decade.
Start cutting them out of the market with ridiculous subsidies and feed - in rules, and that will disappear.
With U.S. state budgets under tremendous pressure to balance budgets, many are cutting expenses, including those lucrative subsidies for solar installations.
Conservatively it looks like his Climate Act of 2008, with its targets for carbon emission cuts, will cost us # 300 billion by 2030 in subsidies to renewable energy, in the cost of connecting wind farms to the grid, in VAT, in costs of insulation and new domestic appliances, and in the effect of all this on prices of goods in the shops.
Along with representatives from the Environmental Defence Fund and the Prince of Wales» Corporate Leaders Group, Agency experts detailed how increased energy efficiency, phasing out least - efficient coal - fired power plants, investing more in renewables, ending fossil - fuel subsidies and cutting methane emissions can limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
Confronting backbenchers in his own party who wanted big cuts in on land wind, Tim Yeo, Tory chair of the all - party energy and climate change select committee, commented «The way to deal with this - and realise the savings the Treasury wants to achieve - is to have more onshore renewable energy, which requires lower levels of subsidy, and less offshore, which requires more.
Under the Large - Scale Renewable Energy Target, a further $ 45 to $ 55 billion will be transferred from power consumers to wind power outfits via the REC Tax / Subsidy over the next 17 years; depending on whether Ian «Macca» Macfarlane and his youthful ward, Gregory Hunt strike a deal with Labor to cut the ultimate annual target from 41,000 GWh to 33,000 GWh (see our post here).
Hence, if you want to change directions, you have to influence the politics — you have to work to prevent the Koch Brothers from destroying California renewable energy initiatives, you have to work to eliminate federal subsidies and liability caps for fossil fuel projects (which would mean that oil drillers would have to post $ 10 billion bonds for every deepwater project they initiated), and — for academic scientists — you have to lobby your academic administrators to cut their ties with shady fossil fuel interests like BP and Exxon, and work to open renewable energy research institutes at America's leading universities.
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The idea is that miners have enough financial dry powder that they can stomach any drops in the block subsidy as the market tries to determine the new price of bitcoin with supply cut in half.
The Section 8 provision, part of the VA / HUD appropriations bill (see below), cuts costs by lowering the amount of rent subsidies paid by the government; it protects tenants and owners by allowing owners to restructure their mortgages to lower their monthly payments; and it allows HUD to terminate contracts with owners who've egregiously violated federal requirements.
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