Sentences with phrase «cent below»

This was 19.2 per cent below August 2016's record breaking 598 units sold but still ahead of the previous 5 - year August average of 473 sales.

That's three per cent better than in the 2004 survey, but two per cent below the survey results of 2002.

The market has provided some great investment opportunities for our Canadian neighbours, particularly in Florida, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, but you'll find deals at 25 to 40 per cent below previous sale prices in virtually every state in the union.

«The goal of the CGGF program is to engage individuals and communities in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, which helps Ontario achieve its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets (six per cent below 1990 levels by 2014),» says Robert Musgrove, program evaluation / business review co-ordinator at the Ministry of Environment.

About 30.5 million shares were traded before the stock closed 10 per cent below its opening price at US$ 149.01.

This includes taking jobs at wages 30 per cent below what they were previously earning.

Quebec has adopted a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of 37.5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030.

It has committed to reducing its carbon emissions 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030, a target that experts believe is not only achievable, but probable.

«In Europe, GDP has grown by more than 44 per cent, but emissions have declined 90 per cent below 1990 levels,» Levin explained.

By 2042, they have declined to 2005 levels; by 2050 they are 11 per cent below the 2005 level.

Three years later we set new, easier - to - hit targets — 17 per cent below 2005 levels — that keep us in line with the Americans.

Rich nations need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and at least 80 to 95 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.

In Manitoba, for instance: «In 2008, the government issued a plan with a legislated target: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to six per cent below the 1990 level by 2012,» the auditors write.

New Zealand is prepared to take on a responsibility target for greenhouse gas emissions reductions of between 10 per cent and 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, if there is a comprehensive global agreement.

Stabilising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere at any given level, already at 393 parts per million and rising at an average 2.3 ppm per year, requires annual emission be reduced more than 80 per cent below current levels eventually.

Suddenly the 25 per cent below 1990 target was impossibly out of reach, and Japan's economy firmly dependent on fossil fuels.

A DEFRA report published earlier this year showed that by 2006, «Methane emissions, excluding those from natural sources, were 53 per cent below 1990 levels» and that «Nitrous oxide emissions fell by 40 per cent between 1990 and 2006.»

On June 24, 2015, a Dutch court made history when it held that the government owed a legal duty to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.

Earlier this year the Europe Union committed itself to a binding obligation to cut its emissions to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, with the option of increasing this to 30 per cent if other countries take comparable action.

Japan's previous emissions target was 25 per cent below 1990 levels, the achievement of which depended upon its nuclear power program, which provided close to a third of the country's electricity.

Even though the Dutch government already had a reasonably ambitious GHG emissions reduction plan in place, the court held that it was insufficient given international recognition at COP16 in 2010 that developed countries need to reduce their emissions 25 to 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 in order to avoid 2 C of warming.

In its new mid-term targets called Green Management 2020, Sony commits to reduce GHG emissions from its operation by 5 per cent below fiscal 2015 level by fiscal 2020 (equivalent to 42 per cent below fiscal 2000 level by 2020).

Put the UK on track to reduce UK greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, and 80 per cent by 2050.

Although the government projects that the measures promised in the Pan-Canadian Framework will get us fairly close to our 2030 target, litigants may argue this is too little, too late, as it falls far short of the threshold the court held the Dutch government accountable to in the Urgenda case (25 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020)-- the level of reduction needed to avoid 2 C of warming.

It meant Australia's maximum target of 15 per cent below 2000 levels would involve the same amount of work over the coming decade as Britain's 34 per cent cut below 1990 levels, she said.»

From the Greens, «Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Wednesday that Britain would cut emissions 34 per cent below 1990 by 2020, regardless of whether a new international climate treaty was signed this year.

Canada faces a significant gap between emissions reductions that would result from current climate policies and what is needed to reduce emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, as promised in Paris.

Based on the statistics from the table below, the buildings sector has had differential success in addressing Canada's commitment to the Kyoto Agreement, which requires reductions to six per cent below 1990 GHG emission levels between 2008 - 2012.

Then the EU produced a study concluding that lifting its abatement target to 30 per cent below 1990 would be cheaper than 20 per cent because, well, they were just about at 20 per cent and not raising the target would simply result in investments that would be made quickly redundant when a decision was finally made to lift the target.

Right now, hopes for such policies are largely represented by the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce emissions from the power sector 32 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

Instead of being 56 per cent below the NEM average of 0.9 t, it will now be 10 per cent above.

The study warns that the new carbon market is unlikely to deliver South Korea's target of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 per cent below a business as usual scenario by 2020.

``... the findings for the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report that... 2050 targets for developed countries should be between 80 to 85 per cent below 1990 emissions.»

View 4: «If the high - polluting nations such as Australia adopted a policy of reducing emissions to 25 per cent below 1990 by 2020 this would likely lead to an international agreement that would stabilise emissions at 450ppm or lower.»

The targets add up to emission reductions of 18 per cent below their 1990 levels for the eight - year commitment period.

Fairmont Hotels and Resorts achieve global CO2 reduction target Fairmont Hotels & Resorts today announced that it has achieved WWF Climate Savers program targets, reducing its operational CO2 emissions by 20 per cent below 2006 levels.

«If the industrialized (Annex 1) countries were to commit to more ambitious targets of reducing their emissions to 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, and 95 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050, their future emissions would amount to 200 Gt CO2.

The data does show that those that signed up to Kyoto successfully reduced their emissions to eight per cent below 1990 levels, although some of the largest growing economies, that did not sign up are the ones producing the large increases, including China and the USA.

EU energy from coal has fallen during most years between 1990 and 2013, reaching almost 40 per cent below 1990 levels (the far left bars in the chart below).

The aim is to drive energy use to 20 per cent below the level projected in 2007.

Responding to the unequivocal scientific evidence that preventing the worst impacts of climate change will require Parties included in the Annex I to the Convention as a group to reduce emissions in a range of 25 ---- 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and that global emissions of greenhouse gases need to peak in the next 10 to 15 years and be reduced to very low levels, well below half of levels in 2000 by 2050,

There's more of a discrepancy between the average price of a first home and all homes in Vancouver, where average first home prices are about 20 per cent below the average for the overall market.

He told me what he does, in order to evade the ECN fees, he places non-marketable limit order of 1 cent BELOW the bid price when buying and 1 cent ABOVE Ask when selling.

Correlation between S&P 500 members also hovers near a record low, siting 47 per cent below the six - year average.

I mean gold is making all time highs, [but] silver is 70 per cent below its all time high.

The dollar was higher at 8:30 a.m., at 69.05 cents US — about 0.62 of a U.S. cent below the Thursday closing price.

Furthermore, the Tire Pressure Monitor system permanently monitors air pressure and warns the driver as soon as the air pressure in the tires drops more than 30 per cent below the ideal level.

Which equates to a drop of between 3 and 5 per cent below the figures recorded by the outgoing models.

If implemented, Labour's proposals would increase 16 to 18 spending per pupil to # 5,800, equivalent to 8 per cent over the parliament, but this would still leave sixth form spending «about 11 per cent below» the # 6,500 per pupil amount the party would give to secondary schools.

However, the think tank says both parties» plans would «still leave spending per pupil on 16 to 18 - year - olds in 2021 - 22 around 14 per cent below its peak in 2011 - 12».