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As a result, mitigation would become more efficient, and the same expenditures by advanced countries would produce higher global emission reductions.
The real effects of the dual-currency regime on Greece’s economy and society can be gleaned only from the pernicious interaction between the capital controls and the “reforms” (essentially tax hikes, pension reductions, and other contractionary measures) imposed on the country by the eurozone authorities.
With the Cold War’s end, arms reductions began, but the nuclear powers - America in particular - publicly disavowed total nuclear disarmament for "the indefinite future," in the recent words of Robert Bell, of the US National Security Council.
Ultimately, all countries will have to find a way forward on reducing HFCs and climate change generally, through national action plans and emissions reductions agreed to under the 2015 Paris agreement.
On this view, significant and rapid reductions in government deficits and debt are a precondition to restoring government credibility and investor confidence, stemming contagion, bringing down interest rates, and reviving economic growth.
Unilateral troop reductions are not where the arms-control negotiation process should begin.
Investment is high, but further investment growth risks misallocating money, so reductions in China’s trade imbalance may be hard to achieve.
If we want to reduce hurricane damage, should we focus primarily on a very cheap solution that would enable us to handle storm surges much better within a few years, or on an incredibly expensive solution that would require almost a hundred years to avoid nine millimeters of 7.5-meter surges?The morally defensible answer is clear, and it has nothing to do with immediate reductions in CO2 emissions.
The morally defensible answer is clear, and it has nothing to do with immediate reductions in CO2 emissions.
If countries meet their commitments under the Paris climate agreement, the total sea-level rise could be halved, with more ambitious schemes promising even greater reductions.
When President Barack Obama attends the G-20’s summit of heads of state in Cannes in November, he will no doubt agree to further reductions in the US budget deficit.
There have been especially dramatic reductions in poverty in countries like China and India.
Most developed countries are targeting reductions in annual emissions of at least 80% – relative to levels in 1990 – by 2050.
But the maturity extensions and rate reductions granted so far have been far less than needed to ensure debt sustainability.
Reductions in Germany’s armed forces and disavowal of weapons of mass destruction were written into the treaties that reunified Germany.
This requires emission reductions of 45-50% in industrialized countries by 2020, and almost complete de-carbonization by 2050, not the levels of 15-25% by 2020 and 60-80% by 2050 that are now on the table.
Indeed, policies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions promise to bring about substantial reductions in heart disease, respiratory illness, cancer, obesity, diabetes, depression, and road deaths and injuries.
Meeting emissions targets in the transport sector would require, alongside reductions in car use, modest increases in walking and cycling.
It is now clear that avoiding catastrophic climate change requires dramatic and rapid reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, cuts that would lower annual emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
The necessary reductions imply a rapid and radical transformation of industrial, energy, and land-use systems around the world.
Those so-called reforms included sharply lower public spending, minimum-wage reductions, fire-sale privatizations, an end to collective bargaining, and deep pension cuts.
Governments and the energy industry have long framed CCS as a silver bullet for climate change, and thus as a perfect excuse for postponing meaningful reductions in fossil-fuel use.
According to a recent World Bank study, distributed renewable energy “will be the lowest cost option for a minority of households in Africa, even when likely cost reductions over the next 20 years are considered.”
Better yet would be permanent rate reductions and controls on future spending.
But gains in measured productivity growth from this source are not permanent changes, so a large part of the reported reductions in unit labor costs are temporary.
Large reductions in public-sector wages brought down the primary deficit, but employment maintenance lowers productivity, raises costs, and delays adjustment.
And Italy’s parliament rejected many of Monti’s proposed reductions in government spending.
After five years of slow growth and rising unemployment, voters in other indebted countries, like Italians (and French voters before them), are likely to reject additional spending reductions, tax increases, and further painful deregulation.
Whenever stock markets have fallen sharply, as they did in early February and again after Trump announced his trade sanctions on China, the bond-buying instinct became irresistible, bond prices rallied, and the resulting reductions in long-term interest rates stabilized stock markets.
Thus, if a group of countries decides to have lower emissions, worldwide emissions will decline by the sum of these countries’ reductions.
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