Sentences with phrase «energy efficiency policy areas»

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- Governments offer myriad tax supports and other policies to help businesses in a wide range of areas, from skills training to capital investment tax credits to export insurance to rebates for increasing energy efficiency.

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

In addition to pricing carbon, aggressive policies are needed in three key areas: energy efficiency, low carbon energy, and land - use, which includes forest conservation and agriculture.

EESI advances policy solutions that will result in decreased global warming and air pollution; improvements in public health, energy security and rural economic development opportunities; increased use of renewable energy sources and improved energy efficiency; and the protection of areas such as the Arctic and coastal regions.»

Dutch policy in the area of climate change, energy efficiency and renewables is very ambitious, and results may fall short of the objectives.

Work will focus on five thematic areas, covering data and statistics; energy efficiency; renewables, including system integration; policy guidance and modelling; and technology development and innovation.

Based on country interviews it considers identified priority areas like capacity building for policy makers, training, HFC alternatives technology, energy efficiency, public private partnerships, and gender balance and inclusion of women and youth in the growing refrigeration and air conditioning sector.

(Sec. 209) Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary to provide grants to: (1) increase energy efficiency, siting, or upgrading transmission and distribution lines serving rural areas; or (2) provide or modernize electric generation facilities that serve rural areas.

Areas of past emphasis have included utility generation, planning, and policy; renewable energy start - ups; programs and products to support efficiency; smart meters; energy and resource modeling; and natural gas markets.

(I can respect a country like Japan signing up to this group they are one of the most efficient countries in the world in regard to using resources, even China is looking to implement policies to increase resource efficiency and sustainability, but countries like the US and Australia with their lack of an energy and resource efficiency policies lack any credibility in this area.)

Specifically, policy needs to recognise that investing in areas such as renewable energy and energy efficiency is not risk free, and therefore needs to be designed to allow investors to make appropriate returns relative to the risks that they are taking and the costs, risks and returns of other investment opportunities.

Other possible areas of improvement for the US would be in passenger vehicle fuel economy, public transportation, the efficiency of freight transport, water efficiency policy, and requirements for large companies to conduct energy audits and hire energy managers.