Sentences with phrase «achieves environmental goals»

«This effort to solve global warming puts to rest all the excuses for doing nothing: This bill is bipartisan, it achieves environmental goals by encouraging innovation and American ingenuity, and its flexible approach is supported by industry,» said Mark Van Putten, president of the National Wildlife Federation.

Tetra Pak has seen a rising demand among dairy processors for more sustainable filtration technology and water recovery systems, and the company believes it can continue to achieve its environmental goals despite the US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.

Using her banking experience, she contributed a chapter on harnessing markets to achieve environmental goals.

A new international standard created by a public - private team led by NIST guides manufacturers with a formal method for characterizing their processes to achieve environmental goals.

(2) work with foreign governments towards a global agreement that reconciles foreign carbon emissions reduction programs to minimize duplicative requirements and avoids unnecessary complication for the aviation industry, while still achieving the environmental goals.

They believe filling the economy with «green jobs» is politically and economically necessary to achieve their environmental goals.

Cap and Trade — Cap and trade is a market - based approach to change behavior and achieve environmental goals.

Not only did mangrove drinks allow participants to experience using cryptocurrency, the initiative also helped Wonderfruit organisers achieve their environmental goal to be climate positive.

It adds that «IBM's mitigation strategy is further strengthened by its refusal to use «offsets» to achieve environmental goals.»

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The B.C. Centre for Social Enterprise defines it broadly as «revenue - generating businesses with a twist,» that twist being that the social enterprise has two parallel goals — to earn revenue, but just as important, to achieve positive social, cultural or environmental outcomes.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Debt - ridden Spain and Italy could hinder the European Union from achieving its goal of cutting greenhouse emissions under an international climate pact, the EU's environmental agency said Wednesday.

«This investment in Tesla semi-trucks helps us achieve these goals while improving road safety and lowering our environmental impact.»

PNC's focus on operating with integrity drives the company to help customers achieve their goals while also strengthening its communities, reducing its environmental impact and empowering employees to grow.

Leveraging the best of mobile and the web, Greengage's platform uses social and gamification elements to drive employee actions and achieve corporate goals related to environmental, social, community and health initiatives.

That's why New Democrats are standing up for B.C. to ensure that we achieve our economic goals without sacrificing our environmental future.

There is a broad consensus that agroecology can be instrumental in achieving a wide range of policy, environmental and food security targets, from sustainability related goals to the reduction of rural poverty.The 2nd International... more

The goal this year is to achieve global climate and environmental literacy in the space of three years.

With our children's futures in mind, it is our goal as a company to continually strive to achieve social responsibility, ethical standards and environmental sustainability.

As of January 1, I left my day job at the National Environmental Trust to devote my time to helping a diverse array of advocacy groups, companies and campaigns use the «net to help spread their messages and achieve their political and communications goals.

The Party justifies its policies on the basis that they are the scientifically correct means to achieve both the main objective of self - strengthening, and the subordinate goals identified by the Party: economic growth, technological development, social and political stability and environmental protection (to some extent).

«The Thruway Authority is committed to an unprecedented level of environmental stewardship on the New NY Bridge project, and also to keeping tolls on the new spans as low as possible; this innovative financing package helps us achieve both goals.»

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

«The increasing frequency and intensity of these harmful algae blooms will impact our ability to achieve the ultimate goal of restoring a healthy ecosystem in the Bay and put a premium on effective methods to reduce nutrient pollution,» said Don Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

«Planting can achieve other environmental goals, such as reducing erosion and salinity risk and potentially providing habitat.

This Bioenergy Technologies Office helps solve this equation by supporting research on which bioenergy crops to grow and how to grow them; technologies designed to convert biomass to fuels and other products; and analysis methods for determining how well the production processes achieve their economic and environmental goals.

With each area being cordoned off from the rest of the stages, the pacing can feel a little off at times, with environmental transitions happening suddenly after a loading screen rather than dynamically occurring as in the Souls games, but this more concentrated focus on the levels also allows for condensed, goal based gameplay that is almost impossible to achieve in Dark Souls, which is certainly welcomed when you're short on time and just want to grind out a twilight mission or two.

«Building green» is an umbrella phrase that encompasses numerous small but interconnected decisions we can make about materials, design, and building methods that collectively reduce energy use, improve health, and achieve other environmental goals.

Ski Trips - the key benefits of skiing trips for young people include physical skills and knowledge, personal and social development, the opportunity to set and achieve personal goals, environmental awareness and health / fitness.

I would say putting people first, improving wellbeing by including all and eradicating poverty via holistic and sustainable approaches are focal points which in many ways are not separated from my strong commitment to vulgarizing education, sharing and learning, communication, cultural exploration and inter-cultural dialogue, art, environmental protection and broadening the use of transformational technologies as a way of combating poverty, achieving millennium development goals and reducing suspicion and development lapses in Africa and the world.

In our quest to achieve ambitious carbon targets in Scotland, projects like this take us another good step towards our goals whilst having the additional merit of preparing the next generation to be more aware of the environmental challenges we all face.»

We serve as the Departmental focal point for initiatives related to achieving Departmental strategic goals regarding safety, state of good repair, economic competitiveness, quality of life in communities, and environmental sustainability.

protection and enhancement of the natural environment and communities affected by surface transportation, with particular emphasis on assisting State and local governments to achieve national environmental goals;

«For our environmental goals to be truly achieved they must permeate through all sectors of the industry and it is only through people like Anna Maria that that can happen.»

To date, with their support, we've completed a variety of activities to accomplish this goal, including environmental toxicological monitoring on islands where rodent removal has been achieved, and conducting field trials to inform, design, and implement appropriate management strategies to reduce risk to non-target wildlife species during invasive species removal.

It is the goal of The Cooper Union and its employees to ensure that all our programs protect and promote the health and safety of our employees, visitors, and the environment.To achieve this goal, The Cooper Union is committed to complying with all applicable safety and environmental regulations and consensus standards.The Cooper Union will strive to protect and enhance the environment by pursuing environmental sustainability initiatives.

The Sustainable Schools framework sets out a range of environmental and social sustainability goals for schools to achieve by 2020.

Despite the overheated media coverage, hyperbolic blogs, and seemingly constant effort to persuade people that they must take a pro or con position, we will end up with a set of protocols that will achieve the environmental protection goal.

[12:59 p.m. Updated Perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, the White House blogged today on how it was «leading by example,» pointing to new Strategic Sustainability Performance plans describing how federal agencies planned to achieve President Obama's environmental and energy goals for the government.

My colleagues and I have drafted a white paper that makes recommendations for China's negotiating stance on the above issues that further the nation's environmental, economic, and political goals of achieving a circular economy and a harmonious society.

Third, a «pre-pay» system provides a political middle ground that enables both fossil energy and environmental advocates to achieve their goals, as a «pre-pay» policy would neither kill fossil energy nor enable business - as - usual when it comes to carbon emissions.

«Markets, not government mandates, are the best way to achieve our nation's energy, economic and environmental goals.»

The bank has set a new target to achieve 100 % renewable electricity by 2020 across its global operations, as part of its broader Sustainable Progress strategy and $ 100 Billion Environmental Finance Goal.

Environmental Progress (EP) was founded to achieve two goals: lift all humans out of poverty, and save the natural environment.

As countries struggle to deliver energy systems that are secure, affordable and environmentally sensitive, eliminating tariff barriers to environmental goods proves to be an essential tool to achieving all three goals.

We hope this report inspires more public institutions to track their animal foods purchases and serve less and better meat and more plant - based foods as a cost - effective way to achieve environmental and public health goals.

«Our goal is to achieve zero negative environmental impacts by 2020,» said Erin Meezan, vice president at Interface, an innovative producer of carpets and textiles, at Greenbuild in Los Angeles.

Writing in Environmental Research Letters (ERL), a team advises that if the country is to achieve national goals and increase utilization up to US levels, in addition to addressing the much - discussed issues related to grid integration, China will need policy measures to address turbine siting and technology choices.

NRDC's sustainability strategy is laid out in a Sustainable Operations Plan that illustrates our environmental impact goals and the various ways we plan to achieve them through our office operation and staff engagement.

By setting modest carbon reduction goals and providing maximum compliance flexibility, including carbon reductions achieved through increased use of natural gas and nuclear, the Clean Power Plan established a balance of environmental and economic development goals.

In recent years, the state of Minnesota has pursued a series of increasingly aggressive renewable energy and «clean energy» policies that cost electricity consumers billions of dollars, without achieving its ambitious environmental protection goals.