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Hidden behind a vaguely defined formula, a third mitigation target has been introduced: reaching zero emissions in the second half of the century.
A target of zero emissions tells policymakers and the public precisely what must be done, and it directly addresses human activity.
Every country’s emissions must peak, decline, and eventually reach zero.
A shared vision of zero emissions could even spark a race to cross the finish line first.
Replacing temperature thresholds with an effort to reduce emissions to zero would ensure accountability and minimize political inconsistency.
Whatever our temperature target, global emissions have to peak soon and decrease afterwards – all the way to zero.
Low or zero access is neither medically nor morally justified.
CAMBRIDGE – The rate of inflation is now close to zero in the United States and several other major countries.
Because the US Federal Reserve and other central banks have driven their short-term interest rates close to zero, they cannot lower rates further in order to prevent deflation from raising the real rate of interest.
Second, there is nothing in the historical record to suggest that poor countries require very low or zero barriers in the advanced economies in order to benefit greatly from globalization.
Moreover, the European Central Bank will have less space to use monetary policy to kick-start the economy: interest rates are already at zero, and a new asset-purchase program would inevitably be controversial.
There is exactly zero evidence in Europe today that inflation is just around the corner.
Only in the 1930’s were interest rates near zero.
The higher the wage cost, the lower the subsidy, until it has tapered off to zero.
My choice would be to have it explain the case for waiting more forthrightly: “Getting off the zero bound is hard, we want to see inflation over 3% to be absolutely sure, and then we will move with reasonable speed to normalize.”
Mindful that normal slowdowns could lead to a breach of the ceiling, they decreed that a normal deficit is a zero deficit.
Morley’s index, on a scale of zero to one, stood at 0.52 in 1977, but rose to 0.82 by 2000.
The first priority is to get the number of Ebola cases to zero and keep it there.
There is evidence that in the wake of a financial crisis, when monetary policy becomes ineffective – for example, because nominal interest rates are at the zero bound – deficit spending can have an unusually strong stabilizing impact.
In the last decade, the average real (inflation-adjusted) return on deposits has been near zero.
With zero or, later, negative interest rates, those savers lost out.
Central banks must bring down the curtain on zero and, especially, negative interest rates.
The probability that North Korea will accede to the US demand is close to zero.
That share grew from zero to 40% in just three years, and had risen to 68% by the end of last year.
With zero growth and 10% unemployment, Western Europe's "Rhineland model" is no longer what countries seeking to undertake root-and-branch social and economic reform want to emulate.
Europe as a whole is barely above zero growth, with large variations among countries, though with some evidence of painful re-convergence, at least in terms of nominal unit labor costs.
It is a monetary instrument that the central bank must rely on when its policy interest rate has hit the zero lower bound and thus cannot be pushed lower.
Second, I expected wage inflation in the North Atlantic to fall even farther than it has – toward, even if not to, zero.
Finally, the yield curve did not steepen sharply for the United States: federal funds rates at zero I expected, but 30-Year US Treasury bonds at a nominal rate of 2.7% I did not.
Ongoing uncertainty about renminbi devaluation is fueling fears that deflationary forces will sweep through emerging markets and deliver a body blow to developed economies, where interest rates are at or near zero (and thus cannot be lowered to defend against imported deflation).
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