Sentences with phrase «ambitious environmental targets»

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They set ambitious targets — economic, social, cultural and environmental — to promote human rights.

A commitment to environmental sustainability lies at the heart of the Scotch Whisky industry which has now unveiled even more ambitious green targets, from responsible water use to cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

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.»

These changes illustrate what is possible when achievable yet ambitious targets are codified, enforced, and adjusted as technological, economic, and environmental needs change.

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.

This master plan addresses the city's environmental challenges through a set of ambitious but achievable and measurable targets that put the city on the path to sustainability.

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

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.

Last week, the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (ECI) held a conference aimed at responding to the ambitious target set by the Paris Agreement to «pursue efforts» to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 C.

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.