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Buildings are responsible for substantial CO 2 emissions, owing to the materials used in their construction, their cooling and heating requirements, and auxiliary functions such as water supply, wastewater, and solid-waste disposal.
This requires us to integrate the various aspects of water management, such as household supply, rainwater harvesting, wastewater treatment and recycling, and flood-control measures.
Getting to zero would be relatively easy, and it would send a powerful signal that there will be no tit-for-tat escalation, that global supply chains will not be disrupted, and that the global economy is secure.
In questionnaires, the poor say that an adequate water supply is their foremost need.
This is possible, however, only if the key growth inputs remain in ample supply, and if human-made climate change is counteracted.
If the supply of vital inputs is constrained or the climate destabilized, prices will rise sharply, industrial production and consumer spending will fall, and world economic growth will slow, perhaps sharply.
Over the past year, the US has returned to Uzbekistan – no soldiers this time, just new supply routes to keep the Afghan war going – and is apparently implementing the same military-centric policy that it pursued before 2005.
While the lack of response to asset bubbles was probably IT’s biggest failing, another major setback was inappropriate responses to supply shocks and terms-of-trade shocks.
Its fans point out that, unlike IT, it would not cause excessive tightening in response to adverse supply shocks.
An adverse supply shock is automatically divided equally between inflation and real GDP, which is pretty much what a central bank with discretion would do anyway.
Supporters of both nominal GDP targeting and product-price targeting claim that IT sometimes gave the public the misleading impression that it would stabilize the cost of living, even in the face of supply shocks or terms-of trade-shocks, over which it had no control.
But our latest nuclear fears have broader implications, especially for energy supply and our desire to shift away from reliance on fossil fuels.
Meanwhile, the physical sciences offer new ways to think about the impact of climate change on Africa’s food and water supply.
The system worked, because, at that moment, demand and supply happened to be exactly matched.
Modern systems use money, because, as a store of value, it serves as a kind of buffer, removing the need for a perfect balance between supply and demand, and enabling all actors to get what they need from trade.
SIPPRA requires that contracts be awarded on a competitive basis, and that applicants supply detailed outcome targets, cost-benefit projections, and their own matching funds; but it does not specify where funds should be invested.
That supposedly reduced supply by encouraging producers to store oil in the ground and pump it later.
With regard to market fundamentals, there have been no changes in demand and supply conditions that explain the scale of the unanticipated jump in oil prices.
Despite the oil market’s size, speculation can move prices because of the inelasticity of demand and supply.
Futures traders knew about the growth of China and other emerging markets; but they expected supply – mainly from low-cost Middle East providers – to increase in tandem with demand.
It was not that long ago that experts were predicting that our skyrocketing human population would outstrip its food supply, leading directly to mass famine.
And the timing couldn’t have been more congenial: the Soviet empire’s collapse and China’s opening generated a surge of labor supply for global capitalism – a billion additional workers – that boosted profits and stifled wage growth throughout the West.
Then came the crash of 2008, which in the US and Europe produced a massive excess supply of both money and people.
Power grids running on renewables need more sophisticated systems for balancing energy supply and demand.
In many host countries, inadequate treatment is the result of xenophobia, language barriers, or insufficient supply of medical staff.
From a global standpoint, it would be far better if concerns about national competitiveness were to lead to a subsidy war, which expands the global supply of clean technologies, rather than a tariff war, which restricts it.
Whether by misreporting imports and exports or exploiting corrupt government officials (which China has in ample supply), private capital eventually starts finding its way around the controls if the incentives are strong enough.
The bulk of Italy’s growth problem comes from the supply side, not the demand side.
China has an ample supply of all three.
A useful reserve currency must be limited in supply, but have sufficient elasticity to satisfy the large, unpredictable needs that may arise in a turbulent financial world.
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