Moreover, because crude oil is priced in US dollars, a rise in the euro means a fall in energy costs.

The yen s weakening will mean higher import costs, and therefore a higher rate of inflation.

However, it should be noted that all United Nations organizations in Bonn will face higher operating costs at the new premises, particularly for electricity, relating to increases in basic office size, lifts, air conditioning and generally higher energy costs.

Rising labor costs are inevitable.

With the global economy still recovering from the 2008 financial crash, higher energy costs not yet fully offset by greater energy efficiency are worrying business and political leaders.

Transport costs for sub regional trade are double that of other developing regions, and high energy costs contribute significantly to the prohibitive cost of doing business.

The rise in raw material prices was exacerbated by increased transport costs.

But the lion s share of these investments result in lower energy usage, and thus reduced energy costs.

From a macroeconomic perspective, China s current inflation is attributable both to demand pull and cost push factors.

The result has been elevated unit labor costs relative to France s peer group (especially Germany) and stubbornly high unemployment.

These new rules have certainly pushed transaction costs higher.

This is exacerbated by high transportation costs due to the geographical remoteness of small island developing States.

These subsidies could start fairly high and decline gradually over time, as the tax on CO2 emissions rises and the costs of new energy technologies fall with more experience and innovation.

The interference of cost push factors contributed to the unexpected persistence of inflation.

In today s Internet age, the costs of China s support for Burma s generals are rising fast.

With higher energy prices, many Russian officials are enjoying their renewed power.

A healthy supply of alternative energy sources will help to combat gasoline price spikes.

Because of rising energy prices from green subsidies, 800,000 German households can no longer pay their electricity bills.

The agenda to address climate change overlapped with the imperative for greater energy efficiency in the wake of high energy prices.

But will tax revenues rise fast enough to offset the escalating cost of servicing the government s mountain of debt?

But these reactors have experienced safety problems and are more expensive to operate than current reactors.

But by 1966, high production costs forced the series to come to an end after 107 episodes.

The state owned EDF, which normally exports power, ended up paying 10 times the price of domestic power, incurring a financial cost of 300 million.

Renewable energy costs will eventually go down, in step with technological innovation and mass production.

The current crippling impact of continually rising energy costs on our fragile economies is a current case in point.

Higher energy use is already changing the world's climate in dangerous ways.

It is projected that world energy demand will continue to grow rapidly in the coming decades.

Energy and high fuel prices were crucial factors affecting development.

Even short of an actual military conflict which could double oil prices overnight the resumption of saber rattling by Israel and the war of words between the two sides could lead to a sharp rise in energy costs.

The steady increase in production costs, partly attributable to high borrowing costs, is squeezing enterprises profit margins of small and medium sized enterprises in particular.

If making a product in the EU costs more because of higher energy costs, the product will likely be made somewhere else, where energy is cheaper, and then imported into the EU.

On a worldwide scale, nuclear energy is thus only a small component of the global energy mix, and its share, contrary to widespread belief, is not on the rise.

The continued high prices of food could strain the already low purchasing power of the chronically food insecure population.

Higher interest rates also raise the cost of borrowing to buy these assets, which may diminish demand for them, exerting downward pressure on their prices.

Thus, they run the risk that a spike in interest rates would feed back relatively quickly into higher borrowing costs.

Developing countries have begun to realize the high costs of modern health care systems and the technologies that are required, thus proving Africa's dependence to it.

But higher energy prices, by themselves, will not cause the ECB to pull the interest rate trigger.

Meanwhile, rising oil prices have increased transport costs, leading analysts to wonder whether the outsourcing era is coming to an end.

The legislation was a response to the cost of urban housing, which is pushing up the national average marital age (currently around 25 years for women and 28 years for men).

The International Energy Agency s 2010 World Energy Outlook foresees a rise in global energy demand of 40 by 2030 an unforgiving reality that is most tangibly felt in developing countries, particularly in Asia.

Cities are declaring bankruptcy to escape the pressure of exponentially rising pension and health costs.

During the last 20 years, economic growth has been based on rising asset prices and declining borrowing costs for consumers and companies.

Although Africa is the world's poorest region on average, wages in the formal economy generally exceed those paid in China and India, where government keeps basic food, housing, and transport costs relatively low through subsidies and controls.

High information and transaction costs contribute to the perception that investing in SMEs is complicated and expensive.

Some were pushed there by the high cost of containing the damage from banks irresponsible behavior.