Sentences with phrase «environmental targets which»

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).

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The Obama administration is hoping to target power plant operators through the Environmental Protection Agency Clean Power Plan, which requires that they reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

The CRA denies the audits, which have targeted environmental and anti-poverty groups, have government interference

«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.

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.

Ethics and environmental issues are as important to us as they are to our customers, which is why we have made social and environmental targets integral to the way we work.

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.

Without descending into the detail of policy appraisal or the delivery of operational targets — both things that my environmental audit committee will scrutinise — the best snapshot of effort will come from the big policy packages that define the government's agenda, and which have the greatest environmental impact.

Further studies and environmental monitoring could help identify the most harmful pollutants, which ones should be targeted for reduction in gasoline formulations and in optimization of engines and exhaust treatment technologies, the researchers conclude.

Meanwhile, existing coal - fired power plants, many of which date to the 1970s or earlier, will continue to face pressure to close as other environmental regulations target conventional coal pollutants like nitrogen oxides, mercury and particulate matter.

This opens up the possibility for the production and use of sentinel circuits, which produce other bioactive compounds in response to environmental or cellular changes, to target a range of diseases including cancer.»

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.

When faced with environmental regulations and the costs they impose, companies may relocate to a less - regulated jurisdiction, taking with them jobs and contributing to «leakage» in which targets of regulation, such as carbon emissions, are not reduced, just redistributed.

One idea environmental groups are starting to float is a hybrid approach in which countries might offer a binding target for 2025 and an «aspirational,» or what some call «indicative,» target for 2030.

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.

«In addition to identifying the impacts of the emissions from this particular coal - fired power plant on fetal health, the usefulness of this study's identification strategy is its potential application to other studies examining the impact of upwind states» power plant emissions, which have been the target of a series of environmental regulations, such as the EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule,» adds Yang.

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.

To coordinate their size and growth with current environmental conditions, cells rely on the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway, which senses cellular stresses, growth factors, and the availability of nutrients, such as amino acids and glucose.

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.

Cells rely on the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway — which senses the availability of nutrients — to coordinate their growth with existing environmental conditions.

Methods: Comparative analysis of 36 genomes representative of the Lp species was used to identify specific PCR targets, which were then evaluated in silico on 545 sequenced genomes and in vitro on 436 Legionella strains, 106 respiratory samples, and three environmental samples from proven ST47 sources.

It's contains antioxidant - rich vitamins which can aid in shielding the skin from environmental aggressors and may also target those premature signs of skin aging we all dread (think: fine lines, wrinkles, and dark spots).

A neophyte «hacker» becomes the target of the FBI after he unknowingly taps into a high - tech embezzling scheme which could cause a horrific environmental disaster in this suspenseful drama.

We have a goal that each major academic discipline has an AP target course that all students will complete prior to graduation (e.g. AP English Language, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP US History), but we also strive to offer a variety of elective AP courses (e.g. AP English Language, AP Calculus AB, AP Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, AP Spanish Language, AP Microeconomics, AP World History, AP Human Geography, AP Art History, and AP Music Theory) which will further expand and enhance a student's education and learning.

The new plan is more restrictive than the 2009 environmental report on oil and gas drilling, which was written before fracking became a prime target of local environmental groups.

«Under a plan the NRDC has proposed, the Environmental Protection Agency could develop safeguards under which each state would have its own carbon reduction target, tailored to its specific energy mix,» said President Frances Beinecke, in a statement this week.

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.

This technical document analyzes the potential and existing contributions of broadband towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal 7 (MDG7), which targets environmental sustainability, including reducing CO2.

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.

Energy efficiency plays a unique role as building block # 4 in the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) proposed Clean Power Plan, which sets carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rate targets for existing power plants by state.

The report, which covers the 2011 - 2012 period, said faster - than - expected economic growth was to blame for China's failure to meet environmental targets ranging from energy [continue reading...]

Lomborg was quoted in a piece titled, «Climate change real, deadly says David Attenborough,» in which Lomborg says that «the UN should focus on more cost - effective environmental policies,» and increase their global target for limiting warming from 2C to 3C: [15]

As I've said elsewhere, it is hard to believe the US Government doesn't have the professional expertise in the application of environmental law needed to write a truly effective GHG reduction strategy, including a corresponding regulatory framework which can stick like glue to its targeted emitters — assuming the regulatory framework is properly designed and structured.

However, the former options are not without consequences (such as environmental externalities), which complicate the cost and benefit assessment for the target.

Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe / PA Ministers have been urged to bring forward their 2040 ban on new diesel and petrol car sales by a decade, a move which an environmental thinktank said would almost halve oil imports and largely close the gap in the UK's climate targets.

The White House called its approach a crucial step to achieving the ambitious greenhouse - gas emissions targets President Obama announced last November in Beijing, but some environmental advocates said the plan, which relies heavily on voluntary efforts, failed to go far enough.

The League of Conservation Voters, which along with other environmental campaigners spent heavily on the contest, noted that it had unseated several members of its «dirty dozen» target list.

Many climate scientists and policymakers have targeted a 2 C temperature increase as the maximum threshold beyond which the planet is likely to experience serious environmental damage.

This may set alarm bells ringing for environmental NGOs and clean energy industries, which have already condemned the package for a lack of legally - binding targets.

Thirty - eight youth previously assigned to two mental health units were provided with treatment as usual (TAU) plus a one - day trauma training for staff, while 36 youth placed on three mental health units during the same time frame were provided with the intervention, which included TAU combined with environmental modifications, additional trauma training for staff, and a TARGET group for youth.

And so it was that I began to delicately explain that our atmospheric / environmental conditions were quite different from the conditions that exist in the area of the world from which they had emigrated, and that Canadian building standards and building material standards were only targeted to our hostile (by comparison) Canadian conditions.