Sentences with phrase «achieving environmental targets»

This is a lease that may involve no firm commitments to achieving environmental targets, but instead is drafted in a manner that is «environmentally sensitive».

Eurostar, the high - speed passenger service between Britain and mainland Europe, today published its first Tread Lightly Report, revealing progress towards achieving its environmental targets.

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Independently verified, it enables Ireland's farmers and producers to set and achieve measurable sustainability targets — reducing environmental impact, serving local communities and protecting the extraordinarily rich natural resources that Ireland enjoys.

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 plant — engineered by Australia's CST Wastewater Solutions in partnership with Global Water Engineering — has achieved all the high environmental performance targets set by Pacific Beverages, a SABMiller / Coca Cola Amatil joint venture, says CST Wastewater Solutions Managing Director Mr Mike Bambridge.

Organic agriculture is one approach that can be used to achieve environmental quality targets.

It is ordered and affirmed that the Department of Environment and Planning, Division of Environmental Compliance, and the Department of Public Works, through its various divisions and the Director of Energy Development and Management, by December 31, 2017, prepare a report to the undersigned promulgating an initial energy usage plan for Erie County to implement the United States target contribution plan to the Paris Agreement, including, but not limited to, achieving a county - wide target of reducing Erie County's greenhouse gas emissions by twenty - six to twenty - eight percent (26 - 28 %) below its 2005 level in 2025 and to make best efforts to reduce its emissions by twenty - eight percent (28 %), as it pertains to the production and / or use of greenhouse gases by Erie County.

Kopp is also a co-author of another study, led by Tufts University researcher Klaus Bittermann and published today in Environmental Research Letters, assessing the sea - level rise benefits of achieving the Paris Agreement's more ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) temperature target rather than its headline 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) target.

Considered inconceivable just a decade ago, achieving the federal target for fine particulates is perhaps one of the nation's greatest environmental success stories.

«Policies targeting material efficiency within construction and manufactured products may allow governments to achieve the desired decoupling of development from metal use and associated environmental impacts,» the authors write.

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.»

Mazda focused on achieving exceptional environmental performance for a compact SUV and targeted CO2 emissions of less than 120g / km * for the SKYACTIV - D 2.2 engine model.

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.

With only 52 months left to achieve this Global Warming Solutions Act target, Massachusetts will need quick action from its Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, along with strong collaboration from legislators, environmental advocates, utilities, and localEnvironmental Affairs, along with strong collaboration from legislators, environmental advocates, utilities, and localenvironmental advocates, utilities, and local governments.

The new targets reconfirm the company's aim to achieve its long - term vision of reducing environmental footprint to zero by 2050.

Sony: From a long - term vision to a science based target In 2010, Sony Corporation, the Japanese multi-conglomerate corporation, announced «Road to Zero», a global environmental plan for the company that set the vision for achieving zero environmental footprint throughout the life cycle of the company's products and business activities in 2050.

[xiii] These companies see renewable energy projects as an effective means of achieving sustainability and environmental targets — refer to Table 1 — and to reduce costs amid increasing power consumption.

Clearly, support from the community and local government has been instrumental in helping us secure our Environmental Approval,» said Kerry Adler, President and Chief Executive of SkyPower Corp. «We look forward to continuing to support Premier Darrell Dexter's mandate to achieve the government's aggressive renewable energy and emission reduction targets.»

As Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, points out, no one knows how fast a major economy can decarbonise and policy therefore needs to focus less on targets and timetables that no one can be sure of reaching, and more on the tangible process for achieving goals such as the development of clean technologies that will be crucial in the decarbonising process.

Environmental Research Letters Increased importance of methane reduction for a 1.5 degree target By William J Collins1, 6, Christopher P Webber1, Peter M Cox2, Chris Huntingford3, Jason Lowe4, 5, Stephen Sitch2, Sarah E Chadburn2, 5, Edward Comyn - Platt3, Anna B Harper2, Garry Hayman3Show full author list Published 20 April 2018 • © 2018 Environmental Research Letters, Volume 13, Number 5 Article PDF Figures References PDF Article information Abstract To understand the importance of methane on the levels of carbon emission reductions required to achieve...

Included in this set of studies are the following: Carolyn Fischer (Resources for the Future) and Richard Newell (U.S. Energy Information Administration, on leave from Duke University), «Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation»; Stephen Schneider (late of Stanford University) and Lawrence Goulder (Stanford University), «Achieving Low - Cost Emissions Targets»; and Daren Acemoglu (MIT), Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn, and David Hemous (Harvard University), «The Environment and Directed Technical Change.»

As our newest Climate Savers partner and as a signatory of the Renewable Energy Buyers Principles, Avery Dennison has called for increased access to cost - effective renewable energy that will lead to measurable reductions in its greenhouse gas emissions while demonstrating to other companies the business and environmental value of scaling up to achieve a 2025 target.»

From my point of view, this discussion demonstrates that urban form measures are insufficient on their own to achieve ambitious GHG abatement and other environmental targets.

The White House called its approach a crucial step to achieving the ambitious greenhouse - gas emissions targets President Obama announced last November in Beijing, but some environmental advocates said the plan, which relies heavily on voluntary efforts, failed to go far enough.

Achieving the equally arbitrary 120 kWh / m2 / yr has more direct environmental benefits than the heating target, but may best (i.e., with least cost and environmental damage) be achieved using some on - site or renewable off - site power generation.

Environmental pressure group WWF - UK says that at least 1.7 million electric vehicles (EVs) will be needed by 2020 and 6.4 million by 2030 if the UK is to achieve its climate change targets.

When asked about concrete CO2 targets, Chu responded by giving lengthy descriptions of energy - saving building codes and pointing out the environmental benefits that could be achieved if the roofs of all buildings in the United States were painted white in the future.

From day one of the lease negotiations all parties should be committed to achieving something by way of environmental targets.

Todd Litman (2007), Win - Win Emission Reduction Strategies: Smart Transportation Strategies Can Achieve Emission Reduction Targets and Provide Other Important Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits, VTPI (www.vtpi.org); at www.vtpi.org/wwclimate.pdf.