Sentences with phrase «environmental policy commitments»

One «bloke» made a comment that «trying to get sound environmental policy commitment out of a politician is like playing chess with a duck, they just poop on the board then waddle around quacking like they won the game».

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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.»

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

«We care deeply about our industry's impact on the environment; our operations reflect the priority and longstanding commitment we have to a clean environment,» said Kate Krebs, ABA senior environmental policy advisor.

The campaign — held the same month as Earth Day — is designed to inform and engage policy leaders, media, wine trade and consumers about the California wine community's major commitment to environmental and community stewardship.

Goldsmith defended the Government on environmental policy, saying it had been «unfairly chastised» and that «twice as many environmental commitments as anything else... [are] being delivered».

«Until they make a commitment to updating the state's regulations and the legal framework, we would oppose them moving forward in New York,» said David Gahl, policy director of Environmental Advocates of New York.

Adesina said the presidential address would highlight, among other key issues, Nigeria's commitment to implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions and policy actions aimed at tackling climate change through environmental sustainable efforts.

«I look forward to working with management and employees to demonstrate our commitment to being a leading corporate citizen, to implementing stronger environmental policies, and to providing reliable and affordable power,» Donald Evans, new chairman of Energy Future, said in a statement last week.

In a two - paragraph section on «Our Republican Party's Commitment to Conservation,» the 2012 platform notes that environmental policy «must balance economic development and private property rights in the short run with conservation goals over the long run.»

[81] While these contingent commitments are not an obligation and do not guarantee receipt of RRIF or TIFIA credit assistance, as applicable, they represent an agreement between the DOT and a project sponsor to provide credit assistance subject to the satisfaction of all of the terms and conditions for credit assistance set forth under the RRIF or TIFIA statutes, as applicable, including satisfaction of Federal eligibility requirements (such as the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) and the availability of budgetary authority for such credit assistance.

Environment: OverDrive's headquarters is in a LEED certified building; OverDrive has a written policy documenting commitment to the environment and has stated objectives for environmental aspects of the company's operations

These two commitments result in terribly kinked phone cords and not - quite dry wetsuits around Ocean Conservancy's Santa Barbara field office.Greg received a bachelor's degree in political science and public policy from UC Santa Barbara, and served as Community Affairs Director for Environmental Defense Center prior to joining Ocean Conservancy.

Phyllis has a continuing interest and commitment to increasing educational opportunities in environmental science and policy, particularly at K - 12 and informal levels.

Our Environmental Management Policy and Commitment considers running our operations in a responsible way, according to the following:

At the same time, the State Department is working to slash global emissions of potent industrial greenhouse gases called HFCs through an amendment to the Montreal Protocol; the Environmental Protection Agency is cutting domestic HFC emissions through its Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program; and, the private sector has stepped up with commitments to cut global HFC emissions equivalent to 700 million metric tons through 2025.

He was deeply impressed not just by the no taxi policy, but by the commitment to environmental principles which clearly runs throughout the architecture and the office.

Otto Edenhoper, Co-Chairman of the IPCC Working Group III, and a lead author of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007, demonstrated his commitment to impartial scientific enquiry with his remarkable statement, «One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.

den Elzen, M. G. J., Höhne, N., Brouns, B., Winkler, H. and Ott, H. E. (2007) Differentiation of countries» future commitments in a post-2012 climate regime: an assessment of the «South - North Dialogue» Proposal, Environmental Science & Policy, 10, 185 - 203.

«By ending ivory trade on its Japanese site, Rakuten has demonstrated its commitment to progressive environmental policies and global conservation leadership,» said Amy Zets Croke, EIA Policy Analyst.

Therefore, there is certain to be an expectation that President Dilma Roussef will send a clear message to the world showing that Brazil will meet the commitments announced in Copenhagen, avoiding a stain on the country's prestige and avoiding setbacks in its environmental policy.

Key recommendations presented in the document include: adopting migration and conflict - sensitive adaptation policies; promoting regional environmental cooperation in addressing climate change, migration and conflict; rooting national adaptation policies in the Green Economy and promoting the creation of green jobs; strengthening preventive action; and using conflict and / or migration risk to prioritize investments and build donor commitment to long - term engagement in the Sahel.

His actions today demonstrate his commitment to ending Obama's radical environmental policies which resulted in the worst ten year GDP growth since the data has been collected including the Great Depression.

The closure of the San Onofre Generating Station (SONGS) imposed enormous economic, environmental and health impacts, and undermined California's climate policy commitments.

In addition, the report stresses Exxon's commitment to energy and environmental policies based on «sound science.»

Yet here we see a man, with associations to commercial interests in the implementation of environmental policy (contrast with the speculation that surrounds sceptics who have worked with the oil industry), with a clear commitment to the environmental ethics espoused WWF, who is responsible for determining the UK's policy over the next 45 years.

Current technological, economic, and policy trends make such commitments exceedingly risky, both from a financial and environmental perspective.

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

After a one - year uptick in deforestation, forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon resumed its downward trend, falling 18 percent for the 12 months ended July 31, 2014... A combination of law enforcement, government policies, new protected areas, forest monitoring, pressure from environmental groups, and private sector commitments — including a moratorium on deforestation for soy production, which was unexpectedly renewed for another 18 months in late November — are credited for the decline.

The government has also secured commitments from a diverse range of organizations, many of whom have stood on opposite sides of agricultural and environmental policy debates in the past, to work together to improve pollinator survival rates.

In its November 2005 «Environmental Policy Framework,» Goldman Sachs stated that» [v] oluntary action alone can not solve the climate change problem» and expressed a commitment to «work [ing] to develop partnerships with other organizations to help identify and promote effective and efficient regulatory / policy approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.&Policy Framework,» Goldman Sachs stated that» [v] oluntary action alone can not solve the climate change problem» and expressed a commitment to «work [ing] to develop partnerships with other organizations to help identify and promote effective and efficient regulatory / policy approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.&policy approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.»

I believe they would, however, do well to invest in green companies that make a compelling case for their financial commitment over an investment of equal economic value if everything else considered is the same besides their respective environmental policies.

How buildings are used, in energy terms, is becoming a crucial issue: energy costs are rising; various policy drivers (such as display energy certificates) mean that there is increasing awareness of the environmental impact of the built environment; and the pricing and rationing from the CRC (carbon reduction commitment) will begin to bite over the next few years.

These are commonly the preliminary documents I ask to check off, reserving the right to seek additional information: ● The most recent title commitment or policy and all related documents ● The most recent ALTA survey and topographic study for the property ● Copies of all blueprints and as - built drawings ● The Zoning Compliance Certificate and all zoning approvals, variances and pending applications ● Declaration of covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations and easements ● Any third - party engineering and environmental reports, including, but not limited to Phase I and Phase II reports, mold abatement reports and underground storage tank testing and closure reports, NFR letters, appraisals, With Texas being the top state in the US for contributions to state gross domestic product and jobs created / supported by commercial real estate development, how do you recommend the legal sector should change in order to support this growth?

The hybrid vehicle premium reduction is part of the sustainable development policy we adopted and shows our commitment to meeting environmental targets.