Sentences with phrase «environmental targets at»

«Industry continues to stand behind its scheme which not only meets the NSW Government's environmental targets at a lower cost than a CDS, but also ensures that consumers are not unnecessarily penalised and jobs are not unnecessarily put at risk,» he said.

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But I didn't want just to throw money at social and environmental problems; I wanted to offer targeted help and entrepreneurial thinking where it would be most effective.

Nigel Bankes, chair of natural resources law at the University of Calgary, said he believes the province will lose on the validity question because it is targeting a federally approved project, even though the legislation covers broad environmental concerns.

This is having a negative effect on China's competitiveness at the very low end of the value chain, but higher wages are feeding into higher consumption, while the authorities continue to target transportation and environmental infrastructure for investment.

report every five years to the Murray - Darling Basin Authority on the achievement of environmental outcomes at a Basin scale, by reference to the targets to measure progress towards the environmental objectives in Schedule 7 (Basin Plan Schedule 12, item 7).

A commitment to environmental sustainability lies at the heart of the Scotch Whisky industry which has now unveiled even more ambitious green targets, from responsible water use to cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

A former staffer in the Texas Legislature, and a survivor of the political side of the dot - com boom (he was co-founder of a targeted search engine for politics and policy), Delany was online communications director at the National Environmental Trust and the National Women's Law Center before returning to consulting.

New Outdoor Tourism Promotion: Cuomo said the state will launch a new campaign specifically targeted to promote outdoor tourism, including a partnership with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to launch the Official NY State Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife App; Office of Parks Recreation & Historic Preservation with an early camping discount program; and a partnership with the Campground Owners of NY, which will represent I LOVE NEW YORK at RV shows nationwide.

Environmental Commission chair Jen Metzger, a Democrat who has often been the target of Hassett's ire at Town Board meetings, was elected councilwoman with 1,162 votes.

«The amazing achievement of the last going - on - seven years is that citizens at the grassroots level have held off a trillion - dollar payday because we have fought so hard and well to require meaningful regulation of oil - and - gas extraction,» said Walter Hang, president of Toxics Targeting, an environmental database firm.

Worst of all, Osborne made his view known brutally that the government wasn't going to throw any more money at environmental targets which were unaffordable in austerity (of his own making of course).

National emissions targets based on the science of climate change «would be a significant difference,» said Dale Marshall, an energy analyst at Environmental Defence Canada, which has not endorsed a candidate.

«The responses of fish species to extreme weather events will need to be considered when planning management strategies to ensure efforts are appropriately targeted to maintain key population segments and critical evacuation routes,» said Dave Secor, the study's co-author at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.

Angela Strecker, an environmental science professor at Portland State University and the study's co-lead author, said that species distribution models can help predict all the places where a given species could live based on their environmental preferences, and using these models can help target conservation efforts to areas where they would have the most impact.

One miRNA can target multiple genes, but their expression is often hijacked by cancer cells and disrupts multiple cancer - causing or tumor - suppressing pathways,» says Shuk - Mei Ho, PhD, director of the CCC and Jacob G. Schmidlapp Chair of Environmental Health and professor at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

Because most cases of Parkinson's disease appear to be at least partially caused by environmental factors such as pesticide exposure, these findings support the approach that targeting α - synuclein could slow or stop the progression of Parkinson's in most people with the disease, said study lead author Jeff Bronstein, a professor of neurology and director of movement disorders at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

The new center has a golden opportunity to make a mark: Last week, the Chinese government announced a 4 trillion yuan ($ 586 billion) economic stimulus package largely targeted at infrastructure projects that, IUE and Aberdeen researchers hope, will incorporate environmental technologies from the get - go.

Wynne was the chief author of a joint report, Biodiversity Challenge, published by environmental groups at the end of last year, which proposed more than 500 targets for the conservation of species and habitats.

Of the more than $ 1.3 billion budgeted for federal nanotech research in fiscal year 2006, only $ 38 million was targeted at investigating environmental, health and safety risks; the rest was earmarked for research and development.

This new work, described in a study published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, is the first to successfully demonstrate the approach of going from carbon dioxide directly to target products, namely ethanol and ethylene, at energy conversion efficiencies rivaling natural counterparts.

«Our findings suggest that DDT may be targeting the system in the body that keeps blood pressure under control,» said Michele La Merrill, a toxicologist at the University of California, Davis and lead author of the study published today in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Ladd - Acosta's research is focused on integrating genome - wide genotyping, genome - scale epigenetic and prenatal environmental exposure data, at a population level, to understand how these factors influence autism risk and to identify biologic pathways that could serve as molecular targets for prevention and intervention efforts.

This center fosters collaborations among researchers at MD Anderson Smithville, in Houston and with other instutions in central Texas to reach the goal of understanding how environmental exposures influence cancer outcomes in the human population by identifying new targets and strategies for cancer prevention and treatment.

In an accompanying article on the paper also published in Nature Energy this week, Dr Alessandro Tavonim, researcher in environmental economics at LSE, praised the article for filling a research void in assessing the adequacy of national targets for reaching net - zero emissions.

«Our study lays the foundation and opens the possibility that fibers targeting this group of gut bacteria could eventually become a major part of your diet and your treatment,» said lead author Liping Zhao, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

Project teams are engaged to support the school up to three years post completion to make sure everything works as it should, and that the energy and environmental performance targets, promised at the outset, are actually met.

The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.

Most of their resources are targeted at middle and high school, and have an environmental focus (though the units are integrated across other content areas).

His administration — with help from Republicans in Congress — has often targeted environmental rules it sees as overly burdensome to the fossil fuel industry, including major Obama - era policies aimed at fighting climate change.»

Estimate of Swedish tax shifting based on Paul Ekins and Stefan Speck, «Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 243.

At its firs global supply - chain summit in Beijing, Walmart, the world's largest retailer, launched an ambitious program dubbed the «Global Sourcing Responsibility Initiative» that will require its Chinese suppliers (which may number up to 20,000 according to China Daily) to abide to potentially costly energy efficiency targets, to be verified by third party audits, among other environmental and social goals.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

This report from the Green10 group of environmental organisations working at EU level examines the environmental record of the outgoing European Commission which it concludes is worringly off target.

The state has targeted solar investments at affordable housing properties since the landmark environmental policy year of 2006, when Multifamily Affordable Solar Homes (MASH) program rebates were first offered to the public through the California Solar Incentive (CSI) program.

Michael Oppenheimer, a former chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund who and now a professor at Princeton University, concedes that the two - degree target is imperfect.

As Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, points out, no one knows how fast a major economy can decarbonise and policy therefore needs to focus less on targets and timetables that no one can be sure of reaching, and more on the tangible process for achieving goals such as the development of clean technologies that will be crucial in the decarbonising process.

Ecoterrorism.Eco - terrorism is defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as «the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against people or property by an environmentally oriented, subnational group for environmental - political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature.»

Helby, P., 2002: EKO - Energi - a public voluntary programme: targeted at Swedish firms with ambitious environmental goals.

This new work, described in a study published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, is the first to successfully demonstrate the approach of going from carbon dioxide directly to target products, namely ethanol and ethylene, at energy conversion efficiencies rivaling natural counterparts.

Manish Ram, from the energy and climate unit at environmental group Greenpeace, said the country's solar energy target was «very feasible» and there was no reason why India, with its warm, sunny climate, could not generate more.

Last week, the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (ECI) held a conference aimed at responding to the ambitious target set by the Paris Agreement to «pursue efforts» to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 C.

Environmental pressure group WWF - UK says that at least 1.7 million electric vehicles (EVs) will be needed by 2020 and 6.4 million by 2030 if the UK is to achieve its climate change targets.

Paulo Moutinho, a senior climate researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), also praised the government's willingness to establish an absolute target, as opposed to a reduction against a hypothetical future, as other developing countries have done, but said he was disappointed in the forestry component.

At the time, I was managing the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Climate Leaders program, working with companies to measure emissions using the GHG Protocol and to set emissions reduction targets.

The data set, available at this website, includes information on, among others, date, the target Member State, the legal domain or subject matter (e.g., competition, environmental protection, free movement of goods), and the official docket number given to the case by the European Court of Justice.

Todd Litman (2007), Win - Win Emission Reduction Strategies: Smart Transportation Strategies Can Achieve Emission Reduction Targets and Provide Other Important Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits, VTPI (www.vtpi.org); at www.vtpi.org/wwclimate.pdf.

Developmental change occurs as a result of reciprocal interactions between the intrinsic characteristics of a child and his environmental context, making the child both the producer and product of the environment.50 Behavioural inhibition may initiate a child in one of a number of directions, and the targeted outcome can result from a host of predisposing pathways.10 Research must therefore account for a number of potential moderating factors that can come into play at various points throughout development.

underfunding by governments in rural and remote areas targeted at meeting the objective of environmental equity by 2001;