Sentences with phrase «environmental effectiveness of»

Additionally, with many studies — most recently the UN Environment's Emissions Gap Report — throwing into doubt the environmental effectiveness of CDM credits, a blanket approval of this program would mean that CORSIA's contribution to global climate action will be zero.

-- throwing into doubt the environmental effectiveness of CDM credits, a blanket approval of this program would mean that CORSIA's contribution to global climate action will be zero.

He suggests having a Global Science Panel to deliver frequent, focused reports on specific scientific topics, Regional Evaluation Panels to assess the cultural, social, economic and development dimensions of climate change and a Policy Analysis Panel to undertake rapid analyses of specific policy options, such the environmental effectiveness of controlling black carbon.

Yamaguchi, M., 2003: Environmental effectiveness of voluntary agreement to cope with climate change: An evaluation methodology, Mita Journal of Economics, 96 (2), pp. 19 - 47.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

About MaRS Centre for Impact Investing The MaRS Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of social finance to catalyze new capital, talent and initiatives dedicated to tackling social and environmental problems in Canada.

About the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing The MaRS Centre for Impact Investing works to increase the awareness and the effectiveness of social finance with the aim of driving new capital, talent, and initiatives dedicated to tackling social and environmental problems.

Opened in late 2011, the Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of social finance, which directs new capital, talent and initiatives toward tackling Canada's most pressing social and environmental problems.

We will apply adaptive management to continually improve the efficiency and effectiveness of environmental water use and we will consider any opportunity to diversify our range of water uses as knowledge and modelling improves.

During 2017, an independent review was commissioned and undertaken by the then Commonwealth Environmental Holder, Mr David Papps, to evaluate the effectiveness of the Office's operations and business processes, which support the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder's management of the Commonwealth environmental waEnvironmental Holder, Mr David Papps, to evaluate the effectiveness of the Office's operations and business processes, which support the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder's management of the Commonwealth environmental waEnvironmental Water Holder's management of the Commonwealth environmental waenvironmental water holdings.

Mass Audubon generally opposes most nuisance control practices, including spraying of pesticides to kill adult mosquitoes when there is a relatively low risk of mosquito - borne disease, because of the human health risks of pesticide exposures, harmful environmental effects, and unproven effectiveness of these activities.

Commissioner Basil Seggos of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation in a letter released Monday urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to closely scrutinize the effectiveness of dredging in its five - year project review, due to be released by April 2017.

The authority's report favors political feasibility over environmental effectiveness «and makes recommendations that are not soundly based on climate science,» Hamilton, an economist at Charles Sturt University near Canberra and climate scientist Karoly of the University of Melbourne in Australia, charge in their dissent.

The critical hive size increases in response to any environmental factors that reduce rearing effectiveness or increase deaths of bees in the hive.

An unprecedented study titled, «Lifecycle Assessments of Railway Bridge Transitions Exposed to Extreme Events,» published in Frontiers in Built Environment, benchmarks the costs and carbon emissions for the life cycle of eight mitigation measures and reviews these methods for their effectiveness in three types of extreme environmental conditions.

Debate about the border wall advocated by President Trump to run along the southern border of the United States has focused on the structure's security effectiveness and cost, but experts at the AAAS Science Diplomacy 2017 conference described a huge set of interrelated challenges in the region, including multiple environmental concerns that have often been confronted bilaterally.

«Our study identified critical gaps in the effectiveness and equity of marine protected areas,» said Gill, who conducted the research during a postdoctoral fellowship supported by the National Socio - Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) and the Luc Hoffmann Institute.

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development (Neiker - Tecnalia) has coordinated the European BATFARM project, which is seeking to evaluate the effectiveness of technologies and practices used on livestock farms in the European Atlantic region in order to reduce their environmental impact on the air, water and soil.

The paper, «Effectiveness of Emission Controls to Reduce the Atmospheric Concentration of Mercury,» was published by Mark Castro of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Appalachian Laboratory and John Sherwell of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources» Power Plant Research Program.

With these «diseases in a dish» they can also test the effectiveness of drugs that can right missteps in development, or counter the harm of environmental insults.

Questions about sunscreen's true effectiveness and the environmental consequences of lathering our bodies in chemicals and then jumping in the ocean, lake, or river have forced us to pause and rethink our sun protection strategy.

In contrast to the more common alternative — petrolatum (aka petroleum jelly), a nonrenewable and potentially irritating ingredient — the aforementioned emollients offer both effectiveness and environmental peace of mind.

Publication in the Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine: The Effectiveness of Targeted Nutrient Therapy in Treatment of Mental Illness

A long - held favourite of French pharmacies, Caudalie formulates products for those who don't want to choose between effectiveness and naturalness, and dedicates 1 % of its worldwide turnover to implementing environmental projects.

The North Sea Fish Restaurant is very much a family run business and has become something of an institution as it is very well known all over the country Promotes the fishing industry and supports environmental sustainability and cost effectiveness.

If the need for more school places is identified, options for best meeting the need are considered by a multi ‑ disciplinary team of officers taking account of the number of places required, location, property and site feasibility, cost, environmental issues, school effectiveness and any town planning constraints.

Adopting a system of online evaluation will build cost effectiveness, environmental friendliness, time efficiency, and availability of robust analytical techniques.

Dr. Bry's systematic program of prevention research has included studies that: 1) search for precursors that differentiate adolescents who will develop conduct or substance use problems from those who will not and environmental factors that might reduce or buffer those precursors; 2) investigate whether these factors actually precede or reduce future problems; and 3) test the outcome efficacy and effectiveness of experimental methods to modify these factors.

(B) coordinating efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the environmental review and permitting process;

IPIC seeks to remove barriers to efficient and effective project permitting and environmental review, support formulation of environmental solutions for multimodal, complex, or otherwise challenging projects, and promote and share best practices across DOT to improve consistency and effectiveness in project delivery.

The Maritime Administration, along with the Maritime Environmental Resource Center and Maryland Port Administration, has dedicated a new facility to study the effectiveness of technology to treat invasive species in ballast water.

An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) mechanism in Uganda: the cases of Bujagali Hydro Power Project, Palm Plantation in the Kalangala Island (Lake Victoria) and Oil and Gas mining in the Alberteine Graben

Signage should clearly convey the benefits of green products, including safety, environmental impact and effectiveness.

In a way, the simplification of the setting actually enhances the effectiveness of the game overall; the lack of flashy environmental «realism» minimizes distraction, allowing the player to focus fully on its affecting story.

In this instance, however, the overall weight of the evidence from the cumulative body of information contained in this Public Health Review demonstrates that there are significant uncertainties about the kinds of adverse health outcomes that may be associated with HVHF, the likelihood of the occurrence of adverse health outcomes, and the effectiveness of some of the mitigation measures in reducing or preventing environmental impacts which could adversely affect public health.

While there remains considerable debate within the environmental community about the effectiveness of these approaches, it is clear that some of the world's biggest commodity buyers — from Unilever to Nestle to McDonald's — are responding.

Multinational business giants are demanding TPP provisions that would deregulate Pacific economies and reduce the effectiveness of environmental regulations.

Some of her interests include: social influence and social networks, how people form attitudes about climate change, the effectiveness of environmental messaging, and storytelling and narrative.

This analytical report discusses the environmental measures taken by the organizers of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and assesses their effectiveness and lessons learnt, all of which will be useful for those planning future Olympic and other sporting events.

This technical document reviews the effectiveness of the environmental measures related to preparations for Expo 2010 and, in general, those that are being undertaken by Shanghai to revamp the overall infrastructure of the city.

Chokshi, D. A., and T. A. Farley, 2012: The cost - effectiveness of environmental approaches to disease prevention.

Despite the potential cost - effectiveness of market - based policy instruments, such as pollution taxes and tradable permits, conventional approaches — including design and uniform performance standards — have been the mainstay of U.S. environmental policy since before the first Earth Day in 1970.

Requires the President to: (1) report to Congress, by January 1, 2017, and biannually thereafter, on the effectiveness of the distribution of emission allowance rebates in mitigating carbon leakage in eligible industrial sectors: (2) establish, if there is no multilateral agreement on reducing GHGs in force by January 1, 2018, an international reserve allowance program for each eligible industrial sector unless the President determines and the Congress concurs that the program, or inclusion of a sector within that program, would not be in the nation's economic or environmental interests.

However, the persistence of environmental problems tracked over time also shows that there is still much room to improve the effectiveness of environmental governance.

If the Administrator determines, based on consideration of environmental effectiveness, cost effectiveness, administrative feasibility, extent of coverage of emissions, competitiveness and other relevant considerations consistent with the purposes of this title, that emissions of non-HFC fluorinated gases can best be regulated by designating downstream emission sources as covered entities with compliance obligations under section 722, the Administrator shall, after notice and comment rulemaking, change the definition of covered entity and the compliance obligations under section 722 with respect to non-HFC fluorinated gases accordingly, consistent with the purposes of this title, and establish such other requirements as are necessary to ensure compliance for such entities with the requirements of this title.

After a decade of germination and growth, the basic ideas of cradle - to - cradle design — the development of circular rather than linear material flows, a reliance on renewable energy, the scientific assessment of the environmental health and safety of product ingredients, and design based on the effectiveness of natural systems — are now being embraced by a critical mass of the business community.

With cap - and - trade, fights over the distribution of the spoils were largely inconsequential to the policy's environmental effectiveness.

Many design features of cap and trade regimes can lead to inadequacies of the environmental protection effectiveness of the regime even if the cap is initially sufficiently protective.

For example, when effectiveness is measured in tons of reduced pollutant emissions, cost - effectiveness estimates will be misleading unless the reduced emissions of diverse pollutants result in the same health and environmental benefits.

And a debate about the effectiveness of such standards — in terms of quality built outcomes and positive environmental, social and financial impact.