Sentences with phrase «budget reduction target»

At a time when painful measures in October's Strategic Defence and Security Reviewv - such as scrapping the Harrier fleet, along with service personnel and civilian job losses and other efficiency gains - are reported to fall # 1 billion short of the MOD's # 8 billion budget reduction target, a public row over savings already assumed would be bad news for the department.

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Despite the stagnant growth of the economy, France will meet budget deficit reduction targets.

Only if the Government fully realizes its savings from the Debt Reduction Plan Savings Target would the budget be balanced in 2015 - 16, but just.

The Update incorporates the October average private sector economic forecasts and an increased «adjustment for risk» for 2011 - 12 to 2013 - 14, as well as an increase in employment insurance rates of only 5 cents (employee rate) for 2012, rather than the 10 cents set in legislation As a result, the balanced budget target is delayed from 2014 - 15 to 2016 - 17, prior to the inclusion of the Targeted Strategic and Operating Review Savings (now called «Deficit Reduction Action Plan Saving Target&ratarget is delayed from 2014 - 15 to 2016 - 17, prior to the inclusion of the Targeted Strategic and Operating Review Savings (now called «Deficit Reduction Action Plan Saving Target&raTarget»).

Greece is already managing to beat some of its deficit - reduction targets, as figures released Wednesday show that its central budget deficit for the first two months of 2012 had shrunk by more than half compared with the same period last year.

Opinion: The B.C. NDP's changes in the budget update still fall short of what is needed for the province to meet its emissions reduction targets

The bailout extension deal does away with further «reductions in salaries and pensions, with measures that lead to recession and with exaggerated (primary budget) surplus (targets),» the prime minister said.

Meanwhile, Standard & Poor's, which last week downgraded Spain's sovereign rating by two notches, said the country is «very unlikely» to meet its budget deficit reduction targets.

The Climate Change Act 2008 sets legally binding emission reduction targets for 2020 (reduction of 34 % in greenhouse gas emissions) and for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent in greenhouse gas emissions); the Act also introduces five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure these targets are met.

«Your budget examination unit will contact you with revised targets, and with further details on the process for submitting your proposed reductions.»

It is currently expecting to meet its budget targets, but states in a report: «The cost reductions the council has achieved in 2016/17 are largely due to spending delays and one off savings measures.

The council can only meet the legal requirement to balance its budget by raiding # 3milion from its reserves while carrying out a raft of mid-year spending cuts, including cutting personal budgets for adult care users by a fifth and targeting high - cost adult care packages for reductions (appendices 4 and 5, pages 12 - 13).

And according to a September audit by the city comptroller's office, the DOE used more than 25 percent of money targeted to early grades class size reduction to cover its own portion of the budgets for 245 schools, rather than to enhance their budgets, as intended.

Ornstein also predicted science programs will face significant budget cuts, including across - the - board reductions at the National Science Foundation, with social science research a particular target.

By framing the issue in terms of a carbon budget based around cumulative emissions, the IPCC's most recent report showed that it doesn't necessarily matter what short - term emissions reduction targets are adopted, or which country cuts emissions by a particular amount relative to another nation's pledges.

First, to achieve a targeted budget reduction, school districts need to lay off a greater number of junior teachers than senior teachers (as junior teachers have lower salaries), meaning that a seniority - based layoff policy will cause class sizes to rise more than they would under an alternate arrangement.

The administration's FY2018 budget went further, targeting reductions in federal education spending totaling $ 9 billion, which would have amounted to a 13 percent cut in the DOE's $ 68 billion annual budget.

For this reason, merely targeting the lowest level of volatility appears counterintuitive, and a more satisfactory approach would be to target risk reduction by assigning a risk budget across different commodities and sectors.»

Aggregated INDCs [nations» intended contributions of emission reductions] mean that 75 % of remaining carbon budget for a 2C target will be consumed by 2030, the whole budget before 2040.

The UK's Climate Change Act 2008 set legally binding emission reduction targets for 2020 (reduction of 34 percent in greenhouse gas emissions) and for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent in greenhouse gas emissions), and introduced five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure those targets are met.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

This is so because identifying a percentage reduction by a date in the future would not prevent a nation from far exceeding its budget allocation before the target date even if the percent reduction committed to is achieved by the target date.

While the PNMC carbon budget to 2020 targets a reduction of approximately 30 % in emissions against as a business as usual scenario, it still represents an absolute increase of over 100 % on 2005 levels, providing some scope for domestic pre-salt oil consumption.

What specifically is the quantitative relevance of your emission reduction commitment to a global ghg emissions budget to keep warming below a 1.5 °C or 2 °C warming target.

Any entities identifying a ghg emissions reduction target must be expected to expressly identify their assumptions about what remaining carbon budget and justice and equity consideration were made in setting the target.

Under this context, the use of carbon credits to meet a company's science - based emission reduction target represents, at best, an impact neutral instrument from a global carbon budget perspective.

The Fine Print To bring all countries on board — especially the U.S. — the agreement allows nations to determine their own emissions reduction targets rather than following the science and striving to divide up the world's fast - shrinking remaining carbon budget.

The basis of our disagreement with the majority report is its failure to recognise the importance of the constraint put on all future emission reduction targets and policies by Australia's carbon budget.

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The position is required to negotiate deals, manage budget, induce cost reduction strategies and mobilize the team effectively to reach set business growth targets.

The federal budget for low - income housing assistance has been targeted for reduction.25, 26 From a public health perspective, the findings of the current study raise concerns about the impact on child well - being of these proposed reductions.