Sentences with phrase «encourage over consumption»

As a result, our member companies are committed to responsible marketing practices which do not encourage over consumption of energy and are not aimed at children.

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Homeownership tends to encourage spending on durable goods and hence its depressed levels could explain why real U.S. consumption growth over 2011 - 2017 has been much weaker (by about half a percentage point annualized every quarter) than the pre-recession average.
«We certainly do not encourage nor recommend over consumption of energy drinks.
The study — which encouraged daily consumption of fruits and vegetables in exchange for payment — not only showed monetary incentives worked, but that participants increased their internal motivation to eat fruits and vegetables over time.
Putting public health programs in place that encourage fruit and vegetable consumption in the home, which could carry over to school.
To encourage investment in the emerging renewables sector, Japan's government in 2012 adopted a generous feed - in tariff program for new renewable energy projects, the result of which has been a glut of new mostly solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays coming online over the last 24 months, helping to increase the country's nonhydropower renewable energy portfolio to 2.2 percent of total consumption this year, according to government estimates.
The energy department and members of the Green Grid — which also includes Hewlett - Packard, IBM and Microsoft — signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to develop over the next three years a common set of metrics and tools for measuring data - center energy consumption, to encourage data centers to obtain energy savings assessments, and to train personnel to conduct energy savings assessments and use tools to identify energy efficiency enhancements.
Encouraging the consumption of olive oil over butter and cream, while increasing the amount of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, and fish promises to be more effective.
The point you are trying to make is so vital, so incredibly significant, that I would hope others could be encouraged to set their subjective discomforts aside, to put their ignorance and / or denial of reality aside, and acknowledge the ominously looming, human - driven predicament before humanity, the one apparently induced by the huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of global human over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities now overspreading the surface of the wondrous planetary home upon which God has blessed us to live so well.
In addition to the work in the World Energy Outlook, the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC since 2009, when G20 leaders took a major step toward reforming energy subsidies and committed to «rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption», the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC in support of their commitments.
Together, they committed to «rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption».
In November 2015, the leaders of Asia - Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) economies, reaffirmed their landmark 2009 commitment to «rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption while recognizing the importance of providing those in need with essential energy services».
TH: How do you respond to folks who might say that EVO is just encouraging more consumption, and that «green consumerism» is at best a green band - aid over the planet's real problems?
In addition, we strongly support efforts to rationalize and phase - out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption, and to continue voluntary reporting on progress.
Many economists of varying political stripes argue that — because a marginal dollar of cash income is taxable to employees, while a marginal dollar of health insurance is completely tax ‐ free — the exclusion encourages the purchase of overly generous insurance policies, and in turn leads to the overconsumption of health care.
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