Sentences with phrase «cent reduction»

This translates into more than 40 per cent reduction in carbon emissions.

It more than pulls its weight, improving acceleration by 20 per cent and delivering a 50 per cent reduction in CO2.

That's a 5 per cent reduction on last year — but clearly a pretty small splash in a half a million - strong annual ocean.

The target: Right now, the target is a 12 per cent reduction from a plant's average intensity.

The 15 per cent reduction for wind is also fair, in my view.

A freeze or even a 50 per cent reduction seems meaningless.

Conversely, there is also a nearly 25 per cent reduction in fuel consumption and emissions.

This translates into more than 40 per cent reduction in carbon emissions.

THE resources sector has not been reassured by Ross Garnaut's latest report on a national emissions trading scheme, despite the 10 per cent reduction target by 2020 being labelled too low by environmental groups.

Primary schools are predicting a 2.6 per cent reduction while secondary schools forecast a minimal reduction in furniture expenditure of just 1.6 per cent.

A 2010 Prison Reform Trust report shows almost a 50 p er cent reduction in the reoffending rates of young offenders that took part in Northern Ireland's restorative justice programme.

In a speech, he did not give any indication of the size of the cuts ahead, but in an interview on the BBC Today programme, he dismissed speculation of a 35 per cent reduction as «way in excess of what we are talking about».

«This means that each treatment will result in a greater percentage of permanent hair reduction, which can be up to 90 per cent reduction after six to eight sessions,» says Patel.

Based on this data and other studies undertaken by BioCote, a 95 per cent reduction when compared to an unprotected environment is typical when BioCote technology is used in the real world.

Additionally, sixth forms have seen a 20 per cent reduction over the life of this parliament, in part to cover the unfunded costs of raising the participation age in education or training to 18.

Since buildings consume up to half of all energy in North America, the prospect of a 90 per cent reduction poses what green building advocates believe is the most affordable way to reduce energy costs and slash the emission of greenhouse gasses.

«Achieving the aspirational goal of 80 per cent reduction recommended by the IPCC would mean reducing emissions to 147 megatonnes CO2 equivalent.

The money will fund the province's efforts to meet emission targets set for 2012 in the Kyoto Protocol calling for a 6 - per - cent reduction below 1990 levels.

Myers calculated in his ruling a net opportunity loss in favour of First Majestic in the amount of US$ 89.6 million, after reducing an initial amount of US$ 111 million for the post-acquisition investments of Davila at the Bolaños Mine and applying a 15 - per - cent reduction contingency.

We were clear all along that our strategy would reduce auto insurance rates by 15 per cent on average over the next two years and would have an 8 per cent reduction within the first year.»

An agreement recognized the province had already met Canada's target of a 30 per cent reduction in emissions from 2005 by 2030.

Departments whose administrative spending occurred mainly in the central Whitehall departments, and were correspondingly less affected by reclassifications, showed rather smaller proportional changes (11 per cent reduction on average, compared to 32 per cent among the four departments with the largest administration costs).

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions Target Act passed setting a 33 per cent reduction target by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050, carbon neutral government legislated.

According to figures from the World Bank, the Chinese economy's carbon intensity — the amount of CO2 emissions relative to the size of economic output — has decreased by almost 70 per cent over the past three decades (see «Peak planet: Carbon dioxide intensity «-RRB-, and a further 20 per cent reduction from current levels is promised by 2020.

The Government plans to set a # 400 a week housing benefit cap for four - bedroom homes and a 10 per cent reduction for the long - term unemployed.

Longer term, deeper reductions will be needed to reach the UK's Climate Change Act target of 80 per cent reduction by 2050 from a 1990 baseline.

The role of now regular surveillance, screening and monitoring processes as recorded by the Health Protection Agency has also contributed greatly to a significant reduction in key infection rates of MRSA bacteraemia, a 75 per cent reduction since 2003/04, when more patients were dying from what are largely avoidable infections.

A 20 per cent reduction in funding would amount to $ 22 million in provincial savings that could easily be incorporated into the new Alberta School Nutrition Program that provides lunches for children in Kindergarten to Grade 6.

A fall of 5.6 per cent in new vehicle sales for the past year in Western Australia, to 100,234, takes to nearly 22 per cent the reduction in annual sales since 2012.

Western Australia has recorded a 38 per cent reduction in littering from 2008 and is at its lowest level in nine years, according to the 2013 - 14 National Litter Index.

An optimisation study on Bannerman Resources» Etango uranium project has found a 9 per cent reduction in pre-production capital costs to $ US793 million ($ A1.1 billion).

A definitive feasibility study on potash explorer Danakali's Colluli project in Africa has found a 30 per cent reduction in development costs to $ US298 million ($ A415 million).

As a founding member of the Fair Tax Coalition, The Vancouver Board of Trade played a lead role in achieving a one - per - cent reduction in business property taxes, bringing the total tax reduction to 10.2 per cent.

Importantly, none of these groups could point to federal government dysfunction on climate policy to defend their own inaction, he said, because the wild rhetoric of government dissidents like Craig Kelly does not reflect mainstream government policy for the nation to meet its Paris commitments for a 26 - 28 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.

Governing Council decided to incorporate in the base case projection a 0.2 per cent reduction in the level of global GDP by the end of 2018.

To what extent did Ministry of Energy and Mines staffing cuts and its 50 per cent reduction in mines inspections contribute to the dam failure on Aug. 4, 2014?

For a family making $ 15,000 and paying at the 10 percent rate, each $ 1 of state taxes leads to a 10 - cent reduction in federal taxes.

Its operating costs fell 24 per cent to $ 35.82 tonne compared with a year earlier, supporting an increase in underlying EBITDA to $ 20.5 million despite a 17 per cent reduction in revenue to $ 372 million.

So an eight per cent reduction in hydro bill kicks in next month, with further unspecified relief to come.

That week and the couple of weeks following saw a 35 per cent reduction in crime.

«All vegetarians together had on average a 22 per cent reduction in the risk of developing colorectal cancer, compared with non-vegetarians,» said Orlich.

Last month, the retailer announced it was making «strong progress» on its Eco Plan, citing an 83 per cent reduction in the use of plastic bags from 464 million to 77 million in just 12 months as one example.

That, combined with the company slashing its capital expenditure, its focus on efficiencies and a 10 per cent reduction in staff, was enough for S&P to maintain Orica's investment rating.

It indicates that a vegetarian diet (with dairy and eggs), a 66 per cent reduction in livestock production consumption, and technologies to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from soils and methane from ruminants, had the potential to reduce direct supply chain emissions by 15 - 20 per cent.