Sentences with phrase «environmental goals»

It is possible to meet environmental goals without sacrificing jobs and economic development.

In 2011, we completed our first set of environmental goals.

• The city plans to complete a «comprehensive sustainability plan» that will contain strategies to enhance urban forestry, alternative energy, green building and other environmental goals.

Some states may have more ambitious environmental goals (or a greater desire for revenue sources) than those embodied by a national carbon tax, and might maintain their state - level policies.

Make that stories — of opportunity, cutting - edge technologies and key contributions toward environmental goals, just to name three.

-- An exploration of the impact of economic turmoil and dropping oil prices on environmental goals.

As the participants began talking about how they thought about and related to the natural world, barriers lowered and shared environmental goals were identified.

It is increasingly clear, however, that countries are recognizing the power of tax restructuring to reach environmental goals.

In doing so, the luxury hotel brand known for its industry leading sustainability programming becomes the first hotel brand to meet this ambitious environmental goal.

«This effort to solve global warming puts to rest all the excuses for doing nothing: This bill is bipartisan, it achieves environmental goals by encouraging innovation and American ingenuity, and its flexible approach is supported by industry,» said Mark Van Putten, president of the National Wildlife Federation.

Even with the logic in driving efficiency, doesn't it still make sense to have an «all of the above» plan in shifting to less - polluting energy options, given how a shift from coal to natural gas — while not perfect by any means — also syncs with environmental goals related to other pollutants (mercury, etc.)?

Progressive carbon offsets such as NativeEnergy's HelpBuild projects are designed to deliver land reclamation benefits alongside carbon offsets — not just as a happy coincidence — to help companies meet non-carbon environmental goals as well as carbon reduction targets.

We should be debating more incentives for renewables, not dropping them, because Texas has to find ways to reduce emissions and save water — key environmental goals for the state.

projects are designed to deliver land reclamation benefits alongside carbon offsets — not just as a happy coincidence — to help companies meet non-carbon environmental goals as well as carbon reduction targets.

Our goal is to build trust among our Company's broad set of stakeholders by promoting socially responsible practices across our supply chain, setting aggressive environmental goals, improving the products we sell and making impactful advancements in communities — all with a commitment to transparency and two - way dialogue.

«The DMPI plant has substantially exceeded even the high environmental goals set by the company for the treating more than 13,000 cubic metres a day of wastewater, or nearly five million cubic metres a year.»

This is an Earth Day shout - out to the dozen undergraduate students in the inaugural semester of our new Pace University Environmental Policy Clinic, a year - round course in which student teams, instead of studying for tests, work with nonprofit groups, communities or other partners to pursue achievable environmental goals.

The fifth edition of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO - 5) assessed 90 of the most important environmental goals and objectives and found that significant progress had only been made in four.

In 2010, Amsterdam developed ambitious environmental goals in its Amsterdam Energy Strategy 2040.

This body was created by the world's nations in 2012 to elevate deliberations around global environmental goals to a level similar to those on poverty, health, security, trade and the like.

In his parting post, Rosenberg says he sees signs that a prime goal of the website, making environmental goals that might once have been considered radical the new normal, is achievable: Read more...

Balancing multiple environmental goals at the same time, assessing local versus global impact of different projects, is at the center of environmentalism now and the in future.

The negligence of EU environmental policy in the Commission's 2004 Guidelines on Application of Article 81 (3) of the Treaty and the 2010 Guidelines on Horizontal Co-Operation Agreements is seriously worrying in that respect, particularly since EU environmental policy is based increasingly on market based instruments (e.g. emissions trading, tax instruments, voluntary environmental agreements) to achieve EU environmental goals.

Goffman has led the development of cutting - edge climate policy for more than 30 years from multiple positions on Capitol Hill, at the Environmental Defense Fund, and at EPA including the first cap and trade program for air pollution, which provided a convincing demonstration of the power of markets to achieve environmental goals cost effectively.

Additionally, states without formal environmental goals tend to have the greatest wind conditions, alleviating the regulatory hurdle.

Our ultimate environmental goal is to be a carbon negative business, offsetting more than we emit.

The one day initiative fits with Vancouver's Greenest City Action Plan and with environmental goals laid out in the city's recently - released Food Strategy.

DuPont — one of the first companies to publicly establish environmental goals 20 years ago — has broadened its sustainability commitments beyond internal footprint reduction to include market - driven targets for both revenue and research and development investment.

«The program gives winegrowers environmental goals to work toward while rewarding them with reduced costs and, potentially, reduced regulation as they move well beyond compliance.»

A caucus of 33 lawmakers has been formed to back progressive environmental goals, the group announced on Thursday.

When the mayor expanded the city's living wage law by executive order — rather than include the Council on deliberations — Mark - Viverito expressed only grudging frustration, and a disagreement over the city's environmental goals culminated in two quietly competing proposals.

«The company holds fundraisers for its PAC to continue to bring together people who all have the same environmental goals,» said Suez spokesman Mike Martino, formerly an aide to Mangano.

Heath said relying on nuclear power to meet environmental goals ignores many costs inherent in the technology, including the uncertain prospects for disposing of nuclear waste.

«New York City officials claim it is more expensive to recycle than to send trash to landfills and incinerators for disposal, and that they have to weigh those costs against environmental goals.»

«This has profound implications for the current policy debate that frames environmental goals and economic goals as at odds with each other.»

In the face of competition, they often resist environmental goals they see as threatening their ability to remain competitive and profitable.

The silencing suggests that the administration values «pro-growth» policies over environmental goals and stands with industry, no matter the cost.

The SF6 team is responsible for setting annual program targets and reduction goals for SF6 as part of ComEd's overall corporate environmental goals.

We provide high - efficient, safe, green insulation options, from cellulose and Intello Plus to Gutex, keeping homes and businesses at a comfortable temperature while reducing energy costs, and keeping in mind the greater environmental goal of reducing greenhouse gasses.

It's very incrementalist and it's not really thinking about the big environmental goals, which is what do we really need to do about energy and environment over the next 50 years.

California environmental goals include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 % from 1990 levels by 2030 and by 80 % by 2050, as well as reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other health - harming pollutants in areas of the state with the highest levels of air pollution by 2032.

Looking back over the last 10 years, the RFS and its resulting promotion of corn ethanol as a leading oxygenate supplement to conventional transportation fuels did not meet intended environmental goals.

Alliance Of Automobile Manufacturers: The vice president of the trade group said «she's a pragmatic policymaker» with «aspirational environmental goals, but she accepts real - world economics.»

Major environmental goals for this project include treating 100 % of waste prior to being sent to landfills, and reducing overall waste sent to landfills by 83 % by 2017.