Climate-change policy is likely to be one of the largest sources of economic rents from policy interventions.
The third central role of the health care sector is in education and advocacy around climate change policy.
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Population and ConsumptionToo little consumption is the biggest challenge climate-change policy will face in the future, eclipsing the signifiance of over-consumption.
He said the Lib Dems had to change policy because of the financial situation and compromises made in the coalition agreement.
The news comes as world leaders struggle to negotiate climate-change policy at the United Nations talks in Durban, South Africa.
So if we want to fully dig ourselves out of this crisis, we're going to need to do more than just change policy.
Tracy Carty, a climate change policy adviser from Oxfam agrees that the issue of surplus carbon permits could be very important in the negotiations.
Individual institutions that want companies to change policy have to spend time and money in negotiations that may not be justified by the potential gains.
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"I'm not looking for any substantive agreement that will change policy, " said Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, Belgium.
More than half of the energy and climate change policy costs in household bills are spent on measures to target the fuel poor and energy efficiency.
But Sir David King says we should at least begin to discuss it as part, and still a minor part, of the climate change policy debate.
The justices' rulings this week have prompted lawmakers to call for a national climate change policy, which would obviously have a long-term investment impact on industries that produce global warming emissions.
During a debate on the government's energy and climate change policy on 2 November 2010, Lord Smith referred to a speech by the former Tory chancellor from earlier in the debate.
The unions have attempted to regain some of their influence within the Labour Party, but they have found that although they can win votes at Party conferences, they cannot necessarily change policy.
This gives business and entrepreneurs the confidence to invest and take risks, and it helps to build a durable recovery as Americans conclude a President isn't going to change policy every month for political reasons.
During a debate on the government's energy and climate change policy on 2 November 2010, Lord Lawson, a prominent climate change sceptic, poured scorn on the idea that there would be a binding world agreement on cutting carbon emissions.
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Their recommendation that we change policy to favor new small firms rather than existing firms is well intended, but they make no specific recommendations and miss the basic point that the current problem is low employment at existing firms.
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"The Fed can't wink, scratch its nose, wiggle its ears or do anything that would signal they are about to change policy from what they are doing now, " says Brian Bethune, an economics professor at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass.
That is how an ostensible battle over a relatively small amount of short-term spending has morphed into a battle around using appropriations riders to change policy by denying additional funding or repealing existing funding for targeted programs and agency activities.
While this is not an event anyone is hoping to repeat, consideration of the state of our economy is directly relevant in the context of discussing whether or not potential climate change policy should be pursued at the present time.
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Trust me, though, when I say, it was thought-provoking to hear Elizabeth Isele, co-founder of Senior Entrepreneurship Works, talk about the role senior entrepreneurs can play in our economy to create jobs, and what needs to change policy-wise to encourage this engagement.
As a result of the power of compound interest, the choice of discount rate used to estimate the potential economic costs of climate change is more important for purposes of understanding the trade-offs associated with competing climate-change policy options than perhaps any other single issue in climate change economics.
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The threat comes as a four-month deadline to change the policy expires with Google making "no change" to the policy.
Measuring impact means measuring change: it includes, but is not limited to, perception change, policy change, behavior change and, more broadly, social change.
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The Bank of Japan ended a two-day policy meeting on Tuesday with no change in policy, saying the economy was "picking up, " despite the lack of any change in price trends so far.
That's what's been missing in this debate for too long, and that's why this announcement is so important, for it represents not only a change in policy in Washington but the harbinger of a change in the way business is done in Washington.
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For there to be real change in policy, however, there needs to be real change in policymakers.
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