Word: offsets
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...risen 7%, a breakfast roll is up 13% while tram tickets are 17% more costly. In France, a cup of coffee in a café has risen 45%, and a baguette is up 40%, according to the French statistics office. Yet these and other visible price increases were easily offset by the drop in prices of goods that people don't buy every day, such as TVs, refrigerators, clothes or cars. Since inflation rates are averages, compiled from thousands of prices, the overall level barely moved. The questioning of official inflation statistics is "an issue that makes my liver scream...
...South Wales, the Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme imposes annual reduction targets on electricity retailers; other companies that carry out work to reduce greenhouse gases (by installing energy-efficient light globes and water-saving showerheads or planting trees) can create so-called "abatement certificates." Polluters can buy these to offset their own emissions. Since 2003, about 37 million tons have been traded, worth more than $A400 million, making N.S.W. one of the largest carbon markets in the world...
...college] is available for the young from everywhere,” she said. With the government historically being the primary funding source for British universities, there had been less need to build a similar alumni network. Despite their endowments, few American schools have large enough savings to significantly offset general operating costs, according to Bridget T. Long, an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education who studies the economics of higher education. Helping to offset costs, many American schools receive a portion of their funding from government sources as well, in the form of direct appropriations, tax benefits...
...grounding ourselves the only answer? That seems to be the conclusion of environmentalists in Britain, who also went after Prime Minister Tony Blair for a recent holiday trip to Miami. Though Blair belatedly promised to begin offsetting his leisure travel, he insisted that telling people to fly less was simply impractical--and he's probably right. Some environmentalists suggest that we could learn to live more locally, but good luck keeping them in Brighton after they've seen Beijing--and vice versa. Our best bet for now may be to limit any business and leisure flights that...
...lights go on When customers--here, the NFL--flip the switch, the electricity is delivered, as always, by a local utility. In buying RECs, however, they have helped offset carbon emissions by resupplying the grid with green power...