Sentences with phrase «growing green economy»

She hosted Ethical Markets, the magazine - style series created by futurist Hazel Henderson that highlights sustainable business practices and corporate social responsibility, and is a contributing author of the forthcoming book Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy.

«Only the Welsh Liberal Democrats have the ambition and the fresh ideas that Wales needs to tackle climate change and grow a green economy.»

«The role of subnational governments is more important than ever, and California has shown that state and regional governments can institute policies that will grow the green economy, create jobs and clean our environment.»

Not exact matches

«As the Council's Environmental [Committee] chairman, I want to continue working with my partners Mike Bloomberg to fully implement PlaNYC, his visionary environmental sustainability plan that is cleaning our air, reducing asthma, protecting our water supply and reviving our economy by creating thousands of green jobs and growing a thriving green economy,» said Gennaro, who did not endorse Bloomberg in 2001 or 2005.

Clearly, if Wales is going to compete with nations around the world to attract green investment and grow our rural economies, we need to have a level playing field.

«After helping to lead the debate in changing the balance of our economy in a more sustainable direction, you are now turning your back on green industry and risk undermining the UK's growing reputation around the world for leadership in this field,» he wrote.

The green - energy sector in the United States is growing at twice the rate of the economy at large.

With the world economy still stuck in recession, the allure of the argument that economic growth can be green and that a new era of free world trade will positively benefit the planet's ecosystems is growing.

The Seal is presented to small businesses that are committed to positive social and environmental change and growing the new green economy from the ground up.

Even during the recent recession, the «green» economy has grown in real terms and is expected to employ close to a million people in the next few years.

These differences can begin to be addressed by building a new 21st Century economy, one that grows in the rustbelt and throughout the many regions «left behind» around new, green technologies, nano manufacturing for healthcare, micro-finance for local resilience.

There's a nicely laid out set of gauges in the center cluster that help you monitor fuel economy, including the requisite digital «tree» that grows more pretty green leaves the more efficiently you drive.

For fuel - economy minded drivers, a display rewards good behavior with a growing number of green leaves.

It will take looking at the opportunities of how these economies can grow in green ways, it will take us all truly working together to figure it out.

Campiagn Promotes «Home Energy Makeovers» to Stimulate Green Economy Good Paying Green Collar Jobs Growing in California

Step It Up called for political leadership on three aims to help stabilize the climate: cut carbon emissions 80 % by 2050, a moratorium on new coal power plants, and grow green jobs in support of a renewable energy economy.

In 2016, the leaders of the world's biggest 20 economies committed to growing green bonds as part of the G20 leadership statement.

And not just without increasing emissions, but actually shrinking them by 25 percent per person from 1990 — 2012, all while growing per - capita GDP by 37 percent in the same period and creating what one report has hailed as the second - greenest economy in the world.

Clean energy such as solar power is expected to be a key piece of the growing «green economy,» and jobs in solar power show great potential for new employment opportunities.

If you are investing as an industry in new, disruptive technologies, then a carbon - constrained world or a green economy creates the opportunity to grow businesses that might not have been envisioned just a few years ago.

Our domestic clean energy sector has grown at a rate of 8.3 percent, and we should make every effort to capitalize on this by both increasing the number of green jobs and diversifying our economy to embrace this growing sector.

But with multiple and increasingly dire threats all coming to a head, the idea that we can continue to grow our way into a better economy (green or otherwise) is not only dishonest — it's also dangerous.

Combining clean energy with local ingenuity has time and again proven that with the remarkable knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit we have in our country, we can create green jobs that not only grow our economy, but protect our vital resources.»

He also sees that taking care of those resources will create opportunities to grow Washington's economy through clean energy projects and the creation of green jobs.

The tax has been a success on its own terms — fuel consumption is down slightly and the economy is still growing — but a) it only covers about three - quarters of the economy, b) some of the revenue has started to be funneled to specific industries, and c) it remains capped at $ 30, too little to fully capture the SCC or drive a green industrial revolution.

They discuss solutions to a green economy, how to find a green job (critical in Michigan with unemployment rates at 12.6 % and Detroit at 15 %), and how to grow organic food, and more.

The 30 % federal tax credit, coupled with a removal of the residential limit (previously $ 2,000), will keep the solar industry growing new green jobs for our economy and help all Americans to achieve energy independence.

Issues examined include: whether we really are facing a «Green» energy future or not; the rise of electric vehicles; the long term relevance to law firms of growing demand for natural resources — including water resources; and how a global economy will demand a far greater global transport infrastructure.

It's easy enough to say you want to work for an environmentally sensitive company or take advantage of the growing «green economy,» but both are hard to find, even advocates admit.

The «green economy» is fast growing in London, with carbon finance worth between # 23 and # 27 billion and employs 160,000 people in 9000 businesses.

They have secured an enterprise zone to help grow businesses in the energy sector and established the two counties as being a centre for growing services and products for the green economy.