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Yet in a new context of scarcity, upstream infrastructure projects on international rivers may impact water quality or availability for neighboring states, thus causing tensions.
My household uses CFLs, and I enjoy knowing that I am causing fewer CO2 emissions and spending less money.
In the process, the leaders made knowhow scarcer, causing its price to rise and society to become both poorer and more unequal.
But actions speak louder than words, and challenges to the NPT regime have continued to undermine its basic principles, causing considerable backsliding.
The industry contends that the existence of these living wills – showing how a big bank’s collapse could be handled without causing global financial panic – means that “too big to fail” is over.
In such a scenario, the US engine could sputter, causing the entire global economy to suffer, especially if these economic challenges prompt the Trump administration to implement protectionist measures.
Besides damaging public accounts and imposing a severe fiscal sacrifice on the country, the abnormally high level of the Selic rate (the Brazilian overnight interbank rate) inhibited the “animal spirits” of entrepreneurship, distorted resource allocation, and impeded the development of the real-estate and capital markets, while causing currency appreciation.
The same get-rich-quick confusion of means and ends is causing Argentina, host of the G-20 Summit later this year, to pursue fracking of natural gas, with all the associated climate and environmental risks, instead of tapping its bounteous potential in wind, solar, and hydro power.
The same corruption of purpose is causing the Canadian government to guarantee a new pipeline to export output from its polluting and expensive oil sands to Asia, while under-investing in Canada’s vast renewable energy sources.
Indeed, numerous studies of military personnel, certain patient groups, and normal volunteers demonstrate that chronic and severe stressors compromise psychological functioning, causing tissue loss in brain regions supporting memory (the hippocampal formation), and decreased activity in brain regions supporting intention, planning, and regulating complex behavior (the frontal lobes).
Merkelism is causing economic stagnation, political polarization, and nasty nationalism.
Free Trade in an Age of TerrorThe war on terror appears to be causing a surge in protectionism.
We know that human activity is causing serious and complex changes in the global climate, mainly through the effects of burning fossil fuels like oil and gas, and the effects of deforestation.
Monetary stimulus alone is less direct, takes longer, and risks causing adverse side effects.
While vast resources were devoted to overthrowing Assad, the effort ultimately failed, but not before causing massive bloodshed and displacing millions of Syrians.
Some two-thirds of the greenhouse-gas emissions that are causing climate change trace back to fossil fuel use.
This means that aid must be conditional on binding commitments from the recipients to respect rights, protect human-rights defenders, and ensure that new projects are not causing or contributing to abuses against indigenous peoples, such as forced evictions or labor-rights violations.
But sustaining support for the Kurds without causing additional problems with Turkey, which has introduced forces into the area to weaken Kurdish control, may prove impossible.
The continued use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict is not only causing terrible suffering among the country’s civilian population; it also risks eroding the convention’s credibility.
Not surprisingly, this has compromised much-needed economic reforms and is causing deterioration in the business environment.
Causing loss of lives does not contribute to the present or future welfare of the people of the region.
Like a person’s body temperature, price levels can go neither too high nor too low without causing serious complications.
Small wonder that, in Germany, the coming disappearance of the D-mark in favor of euro notes is causing deep disquiet.
Its panels do not assess whether a chemical will cause cancer – only if it is capable of causing cancer.
Over a period of years, as people see how much new supply there is, they may begin to revise their view that homes are such a terrific investment, causing a gradual, but eventually significant, drop in home prices.
How to Fight Secular StagnationMILAN – Much of the world, especially the advanced economies, has been mired in a pattern of slow and declining GDP growth in recent years, causing many to wonder whether this is becoming a semi-permanent condition – so-called “secular stagnation.”
They said that the borrowers had behaved badly, when the real problem was that the international system had created a veritable "house of cards," in which a mountain of short-term inter-bank loans could suddenly be reversed, causing economic collapse in debtor countries.
2008 began with devastating snowstorms that paralyzed most of central and southern China’s transport system, interrupting lives and causing severe material damage.
Specifically, an appreciating dollar improves the price competitiveness of European and Japanese companies in the US and other markets, while moderating some of the structural deflationary pressure in the lagging economies by causing import prices to rise.
Ratings agencies wait too long to spot risks and downgrade countries, while investors behave like herds, often ignoring the build-up of risk for too long, before shifting gears abruptly and causing exaggerated market swings.
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