Sentences with phrase «baseline year»

This table reports sample means in baseline years by school type.

-- The term «demand reduction» means the reduction in annual peak demand as compared to a previous baseline year or period, expressed in megawatts.

Any other baseline year would make them look worse.

The study used data from 4,681 participants in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study from baseline years 1985 - 1986 through 25 years of follow - up.

In the proposed baseline year, 2005, Brazil emitted approximately 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases.

Ramping up the tax by $ 5 a year would shrink the use of carbon fuels so drastically that, by my calculations, US carbon emissions in 2030 would be 40 percent less than they were in 2005 (a standard baseline year).

Given that decline, environmentalists lobbied the administration for cuts relative to a more recent baselines year, when emissions were lower than in 2005, because that would represent a greater total reduction.

The EU is proud to trumpet their goal of a 20 % reduction below 1990 levels by 2020, which NGOs compare to Canada's paltry 3 % relative to the same baseline year.

Despite total emissions increasing, we've continued a five - year trend of improving our energy efficiency, resulting in a 27 % improvement since our baseline year.

Our business has grown significantly since our baseline year of 2012/13, so naturally, our absolute carbon emissions have risen.

Mr. Levine praised the mayor for moving away from the «budget dance» process of cutting services only for the council to fight to get them back — but noted some additions made last year, like parks department maintenance workers, had not been baselined this year.

The 2.1 per cent rise projected for 2013 means global emissions from burning fossil fuel are 61 per cent above 1990 levels, the baseline year for the Kyoto Protocol.

All students reside in Boston and were enrolled in BPS or a charter school in the baseline year.

Newark's math achievement growth, they write, «was significantly above the state in the two baseline years, largely because of the high rate of achievement growth witnessed by students in the charter sector.

But three years after the advent of those reforms — closing failing schools, raising standards, expanding successful charters, offering parents choices beyond their neighborhood school — the researchers find that «achievement growth improved by.14 standard deviations over the next two years, so that by the spring of the 2015 — 2016 academic year, Newark students were gaining roughly.07 standard deviations more per year than in the baseline years.

She also said this is the first year 107th Street has joined the Partnership «so this year will be the baseline year for SBAC performance under the Partnership's direction.»

We then compared the plan ratings to student achievement at the baseline year and to gains the following year.

While this is a baseline year, the Association will continue to work towards an A-F Letter Grade system that includes growth, proficiency and other indicators of student success.

The rationale to request this amendment to the ESEA waiver is thatUtah can not produce defensible gap reduction data from Utah's CRT's to the new Utah SAGE assessment for the baseline year, and new targets must be set toward a six year trajectory.

The change from the baseline year was a 6 % overall increase in applications.

If the costs in 2018/19 are greater than the baseline year of 2017/18, local authorities will need some flexibility to manage these pressures within the overall formula, otherwise schools with these characteristics will be put at a disadvantage.

The report says: «Schools are defined as high performing if they were in the top 40 per cent of all schools in at least three out of four years (2007 - 2010 in the baseline year and 2012 - 15 as the latest» year).

The March 2006 administration serves as a baseline year for examining changes in student performance over the course of the Fourth Generation.»

The dotted line in all the graphs is the baseline year of 1995.

Elsbeth's efforts help explain how TYWLS was able to beat a set of comparison schools on the state math test by 19 % in terms of the change in the percentage of students scoring proficient from the 2013 - 14 school year (the baseline year) to the 2014 - 15 school year (the first year PowerMyLearning partnered with TYWLS).

For example, if a school has a 2003 Mean NCE Gain in Grade 4 of 5.2, it means that on the average, 4th grade students in this school gained 5.2 NCE points more than 4th graders statewide gained in the baseline year of 1998, i.e., the «Growth Standard» year.

Since the Project began on January 1, 2005, total shelter deaths in New York City have decreased 35 %, from 31,816 in the baseline year to 20,818 in 2006.

At the same time, adoptions have risen from 12,831 in the baseline year to 22,892 in Project Year Two.

Because the precursor to the Million Cat Challenge was issued in late 2012 and again in early 2013, 2012 was chosen as the baseline year for shelters that joined the Challenge in the early days.

Participating shelters will pledge their anticipated decrease in feline euthanasia for the current year compared to the baseline year of 2012.

Shelters already euthanizing few or no cats can participate by pledging an increase in live release compared to the baseline year.

Environmentalists and some European leaders wanted the baseline year to be 1990, as was the case with the original 1992 treaty.

The EPA would then set emissions standards — the rate of carbon emissions — for power plants by first tallying the share of electricity generated by coal and gas - fired plants in each state during a set of baseline years — in the NRDC example, 2008 - 10.

MIT's greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced by 9 percent from 2016 levels, primarily due to electricity produced via a solar power purchase agreement last year with a solar farm in North Carolina, and by 16 percent from the 2014 baseline year — half of the minimum reduction called for.

Companies must choose a relevant energy productivity metric, establish a baseline year as early as 2005 and pledge to double energy productivity within 25 years.

Infosys voluntarily became one of the first companies in the world to set a goal of becoming carbon neutral, reducing per capita electricity consumption by 50 % (against 2008 baseline year), and sourcing 100 % renewable power.

In this figure, the left-most bar shows cumulative global mortality for the three risk categories in 1990 (the baseline year used in the FTAs).

Illinois is well on its way to meeting the 2030 carbon reduction goals even without the two nuclear plants because of a wave of coal plant closures announced since 2012 — the baseline year for measuring carbon emissions.

Why ethics requires that Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) identify: (1) tonnes of CO2eq emissions reduced rather than a percent of reductions from a baseline year, (b) the temperature limit and associated carbon budget the INDC is seeking to achieve, (c) the equity principles that the nation relied on to assure the justice of its INDC, and (d) For Annex 1 countries, ghg emissions in 1990, the common baseline year.