As far as fixing the problem, it helps that governments are moving toward harnessing alternative energy resources in order to tackle climate change--but the time line for meeting international climate-change targets by 2020 and beyond means policy changes are too gentle, the group says.
"Due to the scale of the financial challenge facing the council next year and beyond means that we must continue to take a proactive approach to the delivery of efficiency savings to allow us to balance the budget and protect services in key priority areas, " he said.
While the balances were growing, we could live beyond our means, beyond our current income level.
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Living beyond your means leads to dependency instead of independence, and dependency leads to degradation.
And she applauded the UK government's austerity programme, saying "no country can live beyond its means".
Although they both worked and earned substantial salaries, their life style grew beyond their means.
Sounds simple, but how many people spend more than they make and live beyond their means.
In other words, we are living beyond our means in many areas of our lives.
Last week, a separate NAO report said the MoD must stop "living beyond its means".
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"We just live with contentment and we don't live beyond our means, " John Betar said.
Mr Cameron talks of a country that has been living dangerously beyond its means.
However, the computing power needed to generate accurate long-term results is beyond its means.
They are designed to prevent big spending clubs spending beyond their means and posting unsustainable yearly losses.
Nearly 50 years of government living beyond its means has brought us to a time of reckoning.
He now faces a possible retrial, but his family said they were "stretched beyond their means financially".
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"Costs of renting and buying a home are way beyond the means of the average Londoner, " he said.
On the other hand, people in the West, Americans in particular, have been spending beyond their means for decades.
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America has been living beyond its means, spending more money than it takes in for a long, long time.
So many governments want to live well beyond the means of their taxpayers.
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When the music stops, countries living beyond their means must lower their standard of living one way or another.
Just ahead, our money coach Alvin Hall talks about the distance between living well and living beyond your means.
But as its creditors grow harder to satisfy, America will find it more costly to live beyond its means.
Smells like overbalance toward the fools and cads on Wall Street than the over-reaching purchasers of homes beyond their means.
You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time.
Also, be wary of creating the allusion of power and success by surrounding yourself with material items beyond your means.
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Even this pittance was beyond the means of many Haitians, and she would accept perhaps a bag of fruit instead.
The current state of our economy drives home the hard truth that living beyond our means has caught up to us.
And, by the way, what made the Greeks (and Portuguese, Italians and Irish) think they could live beyond their means forever?
Mr Seddon admitted the fraud offences led to him living "the high life" but he denied he lived beyond his means.
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Mayor RON DELLUMS (Democrat, Oakland, California): Oakland is living beyond its means.
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