Sentences with phrase «environmental goals for»

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.

Reducing both tariffs and non-tariff market access barriers will lower the cost of new energy - efficient technologies, thereby spurring their utilisation and ultimately help broaden development and environmental goals for the world community at large.»

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.

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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.

Goal no. 8, on decent work and economic growth, calls for an endeavor «to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation,» and includes «equal pay for equal work.»

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.»

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It makes no sense that the provinces would deliberately circumvent Ottawa to produce a policy that is essentially a thumbs - up to pipelines and a bunch of rhetoric about environmental protection or any real goals for reducing our reliance on carbon fuels.

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.

That's why New Democrats are standing up for B.C. to ensure that we achieve our economic goals without sacrificing our environmental future.

The students Brooks examined in 2001, who had entered adolescence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, spent their formative years in a world predicted by Francis Fukuyama in 1992: «The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.»

Whereas for Reagan and Bush economistic goals were the goals, for Clinton and Gore they continue to be the dominant goals but environmental health is also an important goal that may require limitations to the pursuit of economic gain.

In short they are prepared for trade - offs between short - term economistic goals and environmental ones.

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

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Our goal is to make the transition easier for people and show them they can still enjoy the same flavours and textures they're used to without contributing to animal cruelty, health problems or environmental damage.

Every member of the pladis family — our employees, suppliers, customers, board of directors, and all our business partners — is encouraged to take responsibility for improving our environmental impact and meeting our goals.

«Our goal is to gain a better understanding of the economic and environmental impacts of healthy soil and identify hurdles that a proactive plan can address for farmers.»

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.

Tetra Pak has seen a rising demand among dairy processors for more sustainable filtration technology and water recovery systems, and the company believes it can continue to achieve its environmental goals despite the US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.

«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.»

The U.S. goal to halve food loss and waste by 50 percent demonstrates America's leadership on a global level in getting wholesome food to people who need it, protecting our natural resources, cutting environmental pollution and promoting innovative approaches for reducing food loss and waste.

At the Second Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 2) in May 2016, she sought to deliver on the ambitious environmental goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2016 / PRNewswire / — Today, The Rockefeller Foundation announced its collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and a partnership of 10 private sector and non-profit organizations to create «Further With Food: Center for Food Loss and Waste Solutions,» an online hub for the exchange of information and solutions that can help realize the national goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030.

Our new reduction goal demonstrates America's leadership on a global level in in getting wholesome food to people who need it, protecting our natural resources, cutting environmental pollution and promoting innovative approaches for reducing food loss and waste.»

NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2015 — Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Stan Meiburg announced the United States» first - ever national food waste reduction goal, calling for a 50 - percent reduction by 2030.

Highlights of these 2025 goals include McCormick's commitments to: — Source 100 percent of branded iconic ingredients sustainably; — Improve the livelihoods of 90 percent of smallholder farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; — Champion equality for women and people of color in leadership, and empower women farmers across the company's supply chain; and — Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering its carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

The main goal of Field and Technical Services LLC is to reduce environmental compliance costs while maintaining safe and compliant operations for their clients.

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Continued to advocate for 1 % of the state's operating budget to go to environmental programs, ultimately securing a commitment from Governor Baker to meet this goal by the end of his term.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

goals and rewards are simple environmental changes that are often enough for these young children.

May 5's executive budget will include funding for the facilities, Quinn said, noting, «We have prevented, by the council's advocacy, that backtracking away from that important environmental goal.»

Although they are all admirable goals, maybe the County Executive should move some of the focus from receiving awards and recognition for environmental achievements, Rail Trails, Veterans memorials, and other non life sustaining programs to jobs, jobs and more jobs?

«New York State has set visionary climate and clean energy goals — what was missing until today was the requirement to turn those goals for the electricity sector into action,» said Peter Iwanowicz, the executive director of the Environmental Advocates of new York.

But Keith Schue, a technical adviser for Otsego 2000, an environmental conservation organization based in Cooperstown, said reaching clean energy goals without nuclear plants would be difficult, it not impossible.

In a statement, Conor Bambrick, air and energy director for Environmental Advocates of New York, said the state's ambitious goals for renewable energy should be weighed in reviewing the project.

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.

The order gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the authority to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan, the set of rules that established goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil - fueled electricity plants through a national trading system.

«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.

Environmental groups are overjoyed, saying it's been a goal for years to fully finance the fund, which was created by the current governor's father, former Governor Mario Cuomo, 23 years ago.

In a statement, Conor Bambrick, air and energy director for Environmental Advocates of New York, said the state's ambitious goals for renewable energy should be weighed while reviewing the project.

Asked if they would support the town's goal of meeting all of its electricity needs through renewable sources by 2020, Paul Giardina, a Republican running for town board and a longtime official of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said that while he supports the goal, solar power is the only option that could be online by that deadline.

Environmental Advocates of New York says the Cuomo team deserves credit for its aggressive State Energy Plan, but cautions the goals may be just out of reach should the state go the way of re-firing outdated fossil fuel plants and raiding carbon abatement programs like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Environmental groups are overjoyed, saying it's been a goal for years to fully finance the fund, which was created by the current governor's father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, 23 years ago.

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.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover completed a Martian year — 687 Earth days — on June 24, having accomplished the mission's main goal of determining whether Mars once offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.

The state Department of Environmental Protection simultaneously released a report yesterday about New Jersey's greenhouse gas emissions, which Christie said showed that the state's emissions already stand below goals for 2020, making the program essentially moot.

The Environmental Protection Agency's latest survey for capitol improvement identifies the need to invest $ 298 billion over the next 20 years on wastewater and stormwater infrastructure to meet the Clean Water Act public safety goals of swimmable and fishable waters.