ROME Today s policies to combat climate change cost much more than the benefits they produce. Unfortunately, bad political choices often make these policies even less cost effective.

Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves. Daniel Goldstein makes tools that help us imagine ourselves over time, so that we make smart choices for Future Us.

It was therefore necessary to make clear political choices.

We have to make kids understand that their food choices make a big difference.

Make more efficient and knowledgeable choices as to investment priorities.

It's all on your shoulders. You make all the choices.

She make you feel bad?

Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.

And then we took these flies and allowed them to make choices.

Dead men make bad witnesses. Hmm.

You re walking to make us feel bad.

Make you feel bad, your stomach, huh?

The real risk concerns the potential for bad political choices to make climate policies worse than necessary. The EU did not just implement a single carbon market in order to meet its target for CO2 emissions.

What the world needs now is to restore the authority to make common choices.

Too bad they can't make a bulletproof helmet.

We don't talk. I don't make bad bets.

You make coffee as bad as my wife.

That sometime means making hard choices of the type that the US and many other developed countries are facing now. If we make these choices poorly, growth will suffer and future distributional choices will be far more painful.

Governments that trim public expenditures in a hurry rarely make informed choices. An expenditure review based on systematic policy evaluations is the best approach to sorting out good spending from bad spending and thus maximize value for money.

The more choices you have, the more likely you are to make the best choice.

It's bad form to make a scene in public.

Just want to make sure it hadn't gone bad.

The campaign focuses on a woman's right to make her own decisions and make her own lifestyle choices through education and information.

We give them some insight into what choices they can make, what actions they can take.

The problem is with the system, not with the individuals who make their choices within it.

That campaign empowers youth to make their own decisions on the options and choices in life.

We give them some insight into what choices they can make, what actions they can take.

The devastating and widening conflict in Syria does not present any good choices, only choices between bad and worse. But a leader must choose, and Obama is making the wrong choice for Syria, for the region, and for the US.

You've got to make something good out of something bad.

This place is bad enough, don't you make it worse.

And choose to make these choices with the question, how will this affect the environment around me?

Choices

Governments, donors, and other investors can still make bad choices, but there are unprecedented opportunities for high payoff growth. If funders take notice, farmers are poised to respond and 2010 could mark the start of a bright new era in African agriculture.

My father so appropriately put it, that We are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

It is bad manners to make a noise while you eat.

Well, I wouldn't make him such a bad boss at that.

No, if I recommend you, you can't make me look bad!

We're going to talk about what happens if people are overwhelmed and scared to make their 401 choices.

But action to prevent overfishing, including the hard choices that will make those commitments real, starts at home.

While the power to make one s own choices is appealing in theory, the sheer number of options can be exhausting and disorienting not least because of the pressure to make the right choice. As Barry Schwartz has pointed out, choices are an opportunity for regret.

Your choices

(a) Respect for inherent dignity, individual autonomy including the freedom to make one's own choices, and independence of persons

They suggest it would be more effective to teach young people how to make smart choices for healthy lifestyles.

Thus, the rights of women to make choices concerning their reproductive and sexual lives are often violated by men.

And they said, No, you re walking to make us look bad, right?