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The primary causes behind declining global biodiversity include habitat loss and fragmentation as a result of human activity.
Commissioner Connie Hedegaard says that the slowdown in economic activity will make it easier for the EU to achieve its 2020 goal of ensuring that greenhouse-gas emissions are 20% below their 1990 level.
Here’s why: macroeconomic easing, by lowering interest rates or otherwise pumping money into the economy, aims to increase economic activity.
These effects often lead to calls for protectionist measures, which may reduce the benefits from international trade and real economic activity.
A parent company can then set the prices of transactions between its subsidiaries to register its profits in low-tax countries, rather than where the original economic activity actually occurred.
Thus, a firm’s total global profits would be taxed according to factors such as sales, employment, and resource usage – all of which reflect real economic activity – in each jurisdiction.
Similarly, foreign media organizations often cannot investigate Chinese companies and economic activity freely and accurately.
Furthermore, Asia’s governments can nurture female leadership in two areas of economic activity in which women already feature heavily: agriculture and entrepreneurship.
In its 2012 report on extreme weather, the IPCC said that it puts little trust in any attribution of hurricanes to global warming.The authors of one of the central Science papers for the UN’s hurricane estimates put it clearly: “It is premature to conclude that human activities … have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane activity.”
The authors of one of the central Science papers for the UN’s hurricane estimates put it clearly: “It is premature to conclude that human activities … have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane activity.”
But they have gained greater salience now that knowledge has emerged as a dominant driver of economic activity and competitive advantage.
In the process, the role of states and governments in economic activity will be vastly expanded.
This disincentive disappears if the corporate tax base is decoupled from current profits and linked to some broad measure of activity.
In sum, the EU “federal” corporate tax should be thought of as a benefit tax, based on a broad measure of activity, applied at a moderate rate, and unrelated to current returns; nor should it be deductible from other taxes.
These automatic effects should soon begin to reverse as economic activity recovers, but there is much debate, including at the G-8 and G-20 meetings, over whether the discretionary stimulus should be extended or ended, repeated or reversed.
Still, as long as the US maintains its pace of overall growth and job creation – a feasible outcome, given the relatively small contribution of foreign economic activity to the country's GDP – these developments are unlikely to trigger a political response for quite a while.
In fact, when a city doubles in size, every measure of economic activity increases by about 15% per capita.
A negotiated transition must include a poverty-eradication program, as well as a law on transitional justice and national reconciliation that brings to justice those who have committed grave violations of human rights and other crimes, including by banning them from any political activity.
The traditional Chinese investment model – mergers and acquisitions – is no longer appropriate, because concentrated M&A activity entails tremendous risk.
But currency swings, if too wide and protracted, can impede real economic activity, which is why intervention is sometimes necessary.
2010 was one of the two hottest years on record globally, despite extremely low solar activity.
US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew made such an argument in a recent congressional testimony, in the context of explaining why the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) should be allowed to consider whether any kind of firm or activity could pose a risk to the broader system.
Drugs called artemisinins are safe and exhibit potent, rapid anti-malarial activity.
Keynes emphasized the flimsiness of the expectations on which economic activity in decentralized markets is based.
Based on the epidemiological evidence linking physical activity and health, the resulting increase in physical activity would dramatically reduce rates of chronic disease, with around 10-20% less heart disease and stroke, 12-18% less breast cancer, and 8% less dementia.
By improving diet and raising levels of physical activity, policies to mitigate climate change would result in a dramatic cut in rates of diseases that mean premature death and disability for hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
The most fundamental problem is that, in examining stock market investments, we are selecting an economic activity because it was a consistent success in the past.
Yet efforts to communicate this to the public have been met with skepticism from some critics, who argue that the vaccine gives young girls tacit consent to engage in sexual activity, ultimately leading to an increase in promiscuity.
If the full consequences of climate change are to be addressed in our lifetime, we must recognize that human activity is doing more than just adding a few degrees of temperature to the annual forecast.
Here, the only explanation still standing is the shift in the composition of activity away from capital-intensive forms of production, like manufacturing, to less capital-intensive activities, like services.
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