Costs and economic damage

The economic and physical damage was also immense.

These measures include damage to health, drug dependency, economic costs and crime.

In economic terms, environmental damage in Serbia and Montenegro cost as much as 2 billion annually and required intensified efforts to offset the damage.

By building sustainable cities, policymakers can support social and economic development, while minimizing environmental damage.

The IEA also points out that the targets can be achieved without unacceptable economic damage.

Reducing emissions to a level that does not extinguish economic growth could avert 3 trillion worth of damage, whereas adaptation could prevent around 8 trillion worth of damage.

A powerful documentary on the economic plunder of copper mining in Zambia and the associated environmental damage.

Thus, the tools used to carry out fiscal adjustment should boost economic efficiency, or at least not damage it.

It was hard to estimate the losses in terms of jobs, economic opportunities, wasted development efforts and damage to infrastructure.

The reality is that world trade would suffer far greater damage from the global economic fallout of a Big Three bankruptcy.

Thus, the tests did not take into account a big part of the economic damage that the crisis imposed on banks.

However, State funding cannot fully cover the economic damage inflicted by the Chernobyl disaster, estimated by experts to be 235 billion.

Conscious of the fact that economic damage inflicted upon Azerbaijan in its territories currently by Armenia already exceeds US 20 billion

The damage to Russia s economic growth prospects from the Yukos affair may yet prove temporary, barring a repeat performance with other companies.

In this context, some delegations welcomed the fact that the definition of damage covered both consequential economic loss and pure economic loss, including loss of income directly deriving from an economic interest in any use of the environment.

And yet, even with damage to infrastructure such as road and rail links, the tsunamis overall economic impact is expected to be minor.

At moments like these, financial crises look like a heart attack wreaking immediate and devastating damage to the whole of the economic body.

By exiting the EU, the UK would severely damage its economic interests, losing both the single market and London s role as a financial center.

Most economic models show that the total damage imposed by global warming by the end of the century will be about 3 of GDP.

For less than 1 billion a year, this would alleviate both direct and long term economic damage, possibly securing some 35 billion in benefits.

They are also closely linked to terrorism, organized crime, the illicit exploitation of natural resources and child soldiers, causing political, economic and social damage.

Estimates of economic damage caused by security breaches vary but certainly reach into the tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars per year.

(d) Moral damage

Compensation for damage

The potential economic cost of a delay or a failure to achieve closer transatlantic economic integration could total hundreds of billions of dollars in addition to the incalculable damage done to America s credibility in Europe.

Either the damage caused by the financial crisis was more serious than people realized, or the economic medicine prescribed was less efficacious than policymakers believed.

Where members of the ruling family hold direct commercial interests as in Libya and Tunisia the political transition is certain to cause collateral economic damage.

First, the economic damage from Japan s three calamities (a horrifying earthquake, a devastating tsunami, and a nuclear crisis) may well be double that of Kobe.

(a) damage means significant damage caused to persons, property or the environment and includes

The report of the Secretary General had emphasized that, during the period under review, mounting economic and social damage from the military occupation had been noted.

More than 158 million people worldwide were injured, displaced or otherwise adversely affected by disasters associated with natural hazards, with reported economic damage totalling 94 billion.

The States affected are all developing countries, and for them this is a major calamity billions of dollars in damage and the destruction of economic livelihoods.

And every time they turn themselves over there is some damage. And that damage builds up.

Claim No. 5000462 is for damage to cultural heritage resources claim No. 5000467 is for damage to livestock resources and claim No. 5000303 is for public health damage.

Now the European Commission has opened an investigation into whether or not Germany s huge current account surplus is causing economic damage in the European Union and beyond.

As Balluch writes A law banning a whole industry does far more economic damage to the animal abuse industry than anything else the animal movement could do.

Only a few economic assessments have been made of the costs and financial damage caused by marine litter to municipalities or to specific activities such as fisheries.

A number of recent studies have underscored the cost effectiveness of marine conservation relative to fishing subsidies that contribute to the economic damage caused by longline fishing.

(c) Damage to property, places, facilities or systems referred to in paragraph 1 (b) of the present article resulting or likely to result in major economic loss

One speaker emphasized the damage to his country's image as a result of it being seen as a source of economic and financial crimes, in particular fraud.

The first claim unit is for terrestrial damage the second claim unit is for damage to intertidal shoreline habitats the third claim unit is for damage to marine subtidal habitats the fourth claim unit is for losses of wildlife resources the fifth claim unit is for economic and ecological losses related to fisheries resources and the sixth claim unit is for two other compensatory projects.

It has done enough damage.

Another factor is psychological damage.

But if they try to prick bubbles early on with higher interest rates, they will crash bond markets and kill the recovery, causing much economic and financial damage.