Sentences with phrase «ambitious environmental goals»

Some states may have more ambitious environmental goals (or a greater desire for revenue sources) than those embodied by a national carbon tax, and might maintain their state - level policies.

Helby, P., 2002: EKO - Energi - a public voluntary programme: targeted at Swedish firms with ambitious environmental goals.

Her departure signals at least a temporary slowing of the ambitious environmental goals of President Obamaâ $ ™ s first two years in the face of new Republican strength in Congress.

At the Second Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 2) in May 2016, she sought to deliver on the ambitious environmental goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In doing so, the luxury hotel brand known for its industry leading sustainability programming becomes the first hotel brand to meet this ambitious environmental goal.

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Its goal is highly ambitious: to create an economic sector composed of triple - bottom - line businesses — that is, companies explicitly committed not just to earning financial returns but to creating social and environmental value.

Family - owned spirits company unveils ambitious environmental initiative called «Good Spirited» with specific goals in sourcing, packaging and operations by 2022.

While retail giants are not popularly associated with sustainable development, UK - based Marks & Spencer and Tesco, and US giant Walmart, have made progress in meeting ambitious environmental and social goals throughout their supply chains.1

ENVIROS DESCEND ON ALBANY — POLITICO's Marie J. French: Environmental activists marched to the state Capitol on Monday to push Gov. Andrew Cuomo to block all new natural gas infrastructure and set a more - ambitious goal to transition the state's economy off fossil fuels.

In a statement, Conor Bambrick, air and energy director for Environmental Advocates of New York, said the state's ambitious goals for renewable energy should be weighed in reviewing the project.

In a statement, Conor Bambrick, air and energy director for Environmental Advocates of New York, said the state's ambitious goals for renewable energy should be weighed while reviewing the project.

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.»

Author Bio: Larry Kearns, a principal at Wheeler Kearns Architects in Chicago, focuses on educational and cultural projects with ambitious social, economic, and environmental goals.

The property has ambitious goals for 2014, and we will continue to focus on environmental sustainability across all departments.»

«It was a painful birth, but it gives us a vision of the possibility of creating an ambitious set of goals which truly unify the environmental and social agenda,» he said.

First, according to the ISO's CEO Steve Berberich, «We've been working on — and will continue to work on — our support of the state's ambitious energy and environmental goal of 33 percent renewables.»

Rachel Ishofsky, Managing Director of Innovation: Africa commends the assessment paper for its exploration of social, environmental and financial issues in working towards the Decade of Sustainable Energy for All's (DSEA) ambitious goals.

At its firs global supply - chain summit in Beijing, Walmart, the world's largest retailer, launched an ambitious program dubbed the «Global Sourcing Responsibility Initiative» that will require its Chinese suppliers (which may number up to 20,000 according to China Daily) to abide to potentially costly energy efficiency targets, to be verified by third party audits, among other environmental and social goals.

Addressing the environmental and economic costs of oil is a major goal of Oregon's Clean Fuels Program, a flexible but ambitious program reauthorized in 2015 by the Oregon State Legislature.

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.

Ambitious as this goal is, SunFunder is led by seasoned solar finance veteran Ryan Levinson who cut his financial teeth as the vice president for Wells Fargo's environmental finance division and oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in solar finance deals.

Even in light of the recent policy work in the US energy sector, the ambitious goals and approaches to carbon emissions reductions coming out of global climate summits, and an increasing awareness of the various environmental issues we're facing, any changes we're making in our habits, systems, and policies feel like they're too little, too late.

Ambitious economy - wide mitigation targets are central to ensuring that international emissions trading supports the goals of the Agreement, as they provide strong incentives for countries to ensure the environmental integrity of units they transfer to others.

Stevens» predecessor, Justice William O. Douglas, had famously argued that mountains and trees should have standing and judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals had developed a number of doctrines that allowed that court to aggressively second - guess agency decision - making to ensure that the agencies realized the broad and ambitious goals of environmental statutes.