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Furthermore, progressive carbon offsets such as NativeEnergy's Help Build projects are designed to deliver habitat conservation alongside carbon offsets — not just as a happy coincidence — to help companies meet non-carbon environmental goals as well as carbon reduction targets.

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.

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.

Since then companies have been drawn to CSR, attracted by nice - sounding, if vague notions such as the «triple bottom line» (the idea that companies can simultaneously serve social and environmental goals as well as profits).

Not exact matches

The B.C. Centre for Social Enterprise defines it broadly as «revenue - generating businesses with a twist,» that twist being that the social enterprise has two parallel goals — to earn revenue, but just as important, to achieve positive social, cultural or environmental outcomes.

Over 2,500 initiatives and innovations have been honoured by the AEF since its inception in 1992 (they receive over 100 nominations every year), raising public awareness of environmental preservation as a necessary goal alongside economic growth and natural resource development.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

«Removing these monies from classrooms, and redirecting them to private sector entities such as Encana, directly affects our ability to meet both our educational and environmental goals,» said McEvoy in a letter to the education minister.

2X as likely as the overall investor population to invest in companies targeting social or environmental goals

Countries such as the United States are already leading, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency setting the nation's first ever food waste goal: a 50 percent reduction by 2030.

As public concern for unchecked management of plastic waste grows, national governments are responding with lofty goals to mitigate a looming environmental crisis.

Trending Story: California releases five - year water plan As California experiences one of the driest winters on record, the California Natural Resources Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture released the final California Water Action Plan, laying out goals and vision for the next five years... Today's News -LSB-...]

California releases five - year water plan As California experiences one of the driest winters on record, the California Natural Resources Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture released the final California Water Action Plan, laying out goals and vision for the next five years...

All of the practices have the goal of enhancing environmental stewardship and social responsibility as well as grape and wine quality.

«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.»

Operations in which Hormel Foods has significant (or majority) control are under the company's water use reduction goal, as it is part of the company's direct environmental footprint.

As part of manufacturing products, solid waste has a direct impact on the company's environmental footprint, thus Hormel Foods factors in solid waste minimization as a company goaAs part of manufacturing products, solid waste has a direct impact on the company's environmental footprint, thus Hormel Foods factors in solid waste minimization as a company goaas a company goal.

Looming issues, including environmental and corporate responsibility as well as ever - present goals relating to safety and profits make investing in IoT a no - brainer.

«That's part of the goal of the district to increase our environmental education — to get the kids exposed to their natural environment as much as possible,» Quayle said.

With our children's futures in mind, it is our goal as a company to continually strive to achieve social responsibility, ethical standards and environmental sustainability.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

As of January 1, I left my day job at the National Environmental Trust to devote my time to helping a diverse array of advocacy groups, companies and campaigns use the «net to help spread their messages and achieve their political and communications goals.

«The Thruway Authority is committed to an unprecedented level of environmental stewardship on the New NY Bridge project, and also to keeping tolls on the new spans as low as possible; this innovative financing package helps us achieve both goals.»

As the state's environmental watchdog, the DEC will be responsible for approving or denying this project based on a variety of factors, including whether New York can meet its climate goals with the ongoing development of a fossil fuel infrastructure.

They were greeted at the state capitol by Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua), State Sen. Tom O'Mara (R - Big Flats), chair of the Senate's Environmental Conservation Committee, Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and by a tweet from Gov. Andrew Cuomo denouncing the incinerator as inconsistent with his administration's public health and environEnvironmental Conservation Committee, Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and by a tweet from Gov. Andrew Cuomo denouncing the incinerator as inconsistent with his administration's public health and environmentalenvironmental goals.

A mayoral spokeswoman said de Blasio would work with the council to reduce plastic - bag waste as part of the city's environmental goals but declined to weigh in on the proposal.

Governor Cuomo directed the State to engage community members, environmental advocates, and government partners at all levels to create the New York Offshore Wind Master Plan.2 Then, as part of his 2017 State of the State Address, Governor Cuomo set a nation - leading offshore wind energy development goal of 2,400 MW by 2030, enough to power up to 1.2 million New York households.

Brand - name businesses — including clothing companies Nike Inc., Gap Inc., Guess and Levi Strauss & Co., and tech firms Adobe Systems, Nokia Corp. and HP Inc. — are setting the goals as part of a partnership launched by the United Nations and environmental groups.

Science policy is an area of public policy which is concerned with the policies that affect the conduct of the science and research enterprise, including the funding of science, often in pursuance of other national policy goals such as technological innovation to promote commercial product development, weapons development, health care and environmental monitoring.

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

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

There will also be a battle over the renewable electricity standard (RES) as environmental groups and allied lawmakers call to raise the renewable - electricity goals.

History lesson With the advent of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the CEQ was set up to ensure that the federal government adequately conducted the newly required environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the CEQ was set up to ensure that the federal government adequately conducted the newly required environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment came to pass.

However, the push to extend lifelines to nuclear power has collided with the goals of other environmental activists who have spent decades railing against reactors as expensive and unsafe, creating cracks in the coalition that helped bring nations to an international agreement to fight climate change.

«Our goal was to show exactly how environmental protection can reduce poverty in poorer nations rather than exacerbate it, as many people fear,» says co-author Paul Ferraro, a professor of economics and environmental policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

To make up for those shortcomings, the report called for a research program, including smaller scale field trials, whose goal «should be to improve understanding of the range of climate and other environmental effects of albedo modification, as well as understanding of unintended impacts.»

«Planting can achieve other environmental goals, such as reducing erosion and salinity risk and potentially providing habitat.

«As the world community pursues new sustainable development goals, policymakers need to know who is leading and who is lagging on energy and environmental challenges,» said Daniel C. Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Hillhouse Professor at Yalenvironmental challenges,» said Daniel C. Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Hillhouse Professor at YalEnvironmental Law & Policy and the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University.

Every major goal that international bodies have established for global environmental policy as of 2010 has been postponed, ignored or defeated.

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

Hornig says that the goal is to one day have a predictive genetic test that targets a person's potential for neural disorders, such as autism, on which environmental toxins are likely to impinge.

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The goal of his latest research is to better understand the widespread political polarization occurring around environmental issues such as climate change.

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«Dr. Tsuang's ultimate goal is to help prevent psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and other mental illnesses before their onset, and to identify traits that might predispose a person to developing this type of devastating illness, either because of genetic or environmental causes,» said Lewis L. Judd, M.D., Mary Gilman Marston Professor and Chair of UCSD's Department of Psychiatry.

The eventual goal is to predict how microbial communities will react to environmental conditions such as droughts and to manage these communities to improve the yields, nutritional content or the carbon storing capacity of plants, for example.

Among Desmond - Hellmann's most distinguishing contributions was establishing precision medicine — which aims to collect and analyze massive amounts of data (genomic, molecular, environmental and clinical) to identify the root causes of diseases and to develop targeted therapies to treat them — as a goal for UCSF and the nation.