Calamity can still be averted if the costs of inaction escalate steadily. The worst problems, however, are those with inaction costs that remain invisible for a long time, but increase suddenly and explosively.

(d) What are the costs of action and inaction in response to climate change?

The Price of Inaction

An analytical framework that integrates environmental costs and benefits, and also the cost of inaction in decision making, should be developed for this purpose.

He observed that the costs of climate change mitigation should be compared with the price of inaction, and that the overall costs of such mitigation measures might not exceed the damage caused by a single storm.

Misusing the Inaction Argument

58. Is assistance facilitating political inaction?

Democracy in Inaction at the World Bank

But that is no justification for inaction.

Path two, you become guilty of the evil of passive inaction.

Passive tolerance to evil through inaction or indifference.

64. It was mentioned that in international circumstances inaction could sometimes occur and be tolerated where in similar national situations inaction would be unacceptable.

Slovakia does not consider inaction to be an answer.

Talk is cheap, and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the status quo usually appears comfortable enough. So leaders ability to take corrective action increases only with time, as some of the costs of inaction are experienced.

Emerging markets have a golden opportunity to build on their economic gains and lock in growth and stability by tackling deep seated problems like corruption. As the past year s events have shown, the costs of inaction could be calamitous.

Let us therefore be realistic and not make the absence of consensus an excuse for inaction.

We cannot allow inaction, lack of ambition or shortsightedness to prevent the successful conclusion of the task ahead.

How can we deny that inaction following such warnings has led to tremendous catastrophes?

The task, then, is to break down the barriers of inaction and connect existing capabilities with developing interventions.

Political and philosophical differences about the nature of terrorism must not be used as an excuse for inaction.

All countries and policymakers face difficult choices concerning the timing of austerity, perceived sovereign credit risk, growth oriented reforms, and equitable sharing of the costs of restoring growth. So far, the burden sharing challenge, along with naive and incomplete growth models, may have contributed to gridlock and inaction.

Most people are guilty of the evil of inaction, because your mother said, Don't get involved. Mind your own business.

We must, however, temper our ideals with a dose of realism, and prevent inaction from taking the place of action.

But that can't be an excuse for inaction. Surely, we can do better than this.

Policymakers must take advantage of the full range of tools available to them, including legislation, reporting guidelines, taxes, incentives, and public education about the costs of inaction. Financial regulators in emerging economies like Bangladesh and China have already taken a step in the right direction, introducing rules to promote financial inclusion.

(Estimated costs inclusive of 13 programme support costs)

Substantive inaction by some large greenhouse gas emitting countries represents a serious threat to our existence.

costs Recurrent costs 1. Military personnel costs

Furthermore, the term conduct encompassed both action and inaction acquiescence for example, was regarded as an act.

In the circumstances, this lawyer apos s inaction or negligence cannot be attributed to the State party.

Europe got itself into this situation through a combination of inaction and short sighted policymaking. This leaves considerable room for improvement.

Emboldened by the Security Council inaction, Ethiopia intensified its unlawful conduct to obstruct and frustrate the operations of the Boundary Commission.

The Council must ensure that disgraceful inaction, as was seen in the case of the genocide in Rwanda, cannot occur again.

United Nations personnel can no longer be expected to fill vacuums created by political inaction on the part of Member States.

Similarly, eurozone politicians have obtained a mandate to take bolder action only as the markets have made the costs of inaction more salient. Even setting aside Germany s understandable attempt to limit how much it would have to pay, it is difficult to see how politicians could have gotten ahead of the problem.

The pressure on policymakers to address the risks of divergence will increase next year. The consequences of inaction will extend well beyond 2015.

Non linear costs of inaction are most obvious in the financial sector. At the same time, financial sector problems may be particularly difficult to address if politicians emphasize the need for action too strongly in order to get a mandate, they might precipitate the very turmoil that they seek to contain.

The Council has to ensure that disgraceful inaction, such as in the case of the genocide in Rwanda, cannot ever occur again.

What we stand to loose if we do not act in a preventative manner, i.e. cost of inaction or business as usual.

These delays are perceived by the community as voluntary inaction and hence undermine the general trust in the professionalism of the police.

But none of us can pretend that reform is an end in itself, or that introspection is an ongoing excuse for inaction.

Decisions and acts (or inaction) of State government bodies, local government bodies, civil servants and officials may be appealed against in court.

The Administration should draw lessons from that experience and hold managers accountable for their inaction or delayed action.

Endorsing draft resolutions that condemn Israeli actions but fail to address Palestinian actions or inaction has real consequences.

Some Governments were fuelling the drug trade by trying to compromise with organized crime or simply by inaction.