cost of action

And what's the cost of action - taking steps to stop further warming?

To be used when accounting for the cost of actions.

The defendant was also allowed costs of action, which she declined to accept.

Heavy as they are, the cost of action must be weighed against the price of inaction.

The Council also adopted the new policy for clearly determining the administrative costs of action programmes and monitoring offices concerned with technical assistance.

Essentially, recent research shows that if nations act together to reduce carbon emissions, costs of action fall and new opportunities for jobs and growth rise.

Economic studies have made it clear that the cost of action against climate change now is small while the cost of doing nothing is great.

Dr. Tuckson said that "the cost of inaction is higher than the cost of action."

There have also been criticisms of the appeal process, which involves the cost of action in the higher courts, and the legalistic approach to casework.

For the cost of action to come across as forcefully as the cost of inaction requires American casualties.

Essentially, Europeans emphasize the cost of inaction, while Americans tend to focus on the cost of action.

Mr. Obama said America must go only "with clearly defined goals" after weighing "the costs of action" and building support at home and abroad.

Afflicted by doubt created by the potential cost of action, they flinch at calculating the far greater cost of inaction.

A character's vitality level determines chances of success or cost of actions such as fighting or fleeing a monster and spell-casting.

Romm's 2010 book, Straight Up notes: "the bottom line is that the economic cost of action is low, whereas the cost of inaction is incalculably greater".

Coase and others like him wanted a change of approach, to put the burden of proof for positive effects on a government that was intervening in the market, by analysing the costs of action.

The "optimal" levels of mitigation and adaptation are then resolved by comparing the marginal costs of action with the marginal benefits of avoided climate change damages (Toth et al., 2001:654).

Mr. Bush and his aides have long asserted that the right way to think about the economic implications of confronting Iraq is to consider not the costs of action, but rather the costs of inaction.

"In contrast," it said, "the costs of action - reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change - can be limited to around 1 percent of global G.D.P. each year."

Some analysts put the costs of action higher, but most agree that it makes sense to invest far more in alternative energy sources, both to wean ourselves of oil and to reduce the strain on our planet.

"So if that's what you estimate the costs of action to be, then you have to have something more on the other side of the ledger than just the possession of weapons of mass destruction," he wrote.

But many Administration officials and industry analysts believe taxpayers will provide at least part of the funds needed to cover the costs of actions already taken as well as future costs of merging or shutting down sick institutions.

The report stated that stronger mitigation is justified by insurance value and non-market value benefits in the 21st century and much larger benefits beyond, and that the costs of action are less than the costs of inaction.

The Senate majority leader, George J. Mitchell, said in statement issued at the outset of today's debate: "If measured in dollars and cents, this bill should pass because the cost of inaction is higher than the cost of action.