Sentences with phrase «establishing environmental targets»

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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.

QAI is dedicated to conformance with the requirements of ISO 14001, and to the continual improvement of its environmental management system by establishing and meeting environmental targets and objectives.

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.

in a middle - term, exploit the experimental systems established, to identify the direct causative factors (genetic, environmental, iatrogenic) involved in the initiation of chromosomal alterations and disease progression, and to identify new therapeutic targets;

Second is the environmentalist's myth that climate change is an «environmental problem,» best addressed by treaties establishing targets and timetables for the reduction of harmful emissions.

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.

Second, it is more difficult to reduce excessive weight in adolescents and adults once it becomes established; therefore, it may be helpful to initiate obesity prevention interventions during early childhood.16 There is a growing consensus that the appropriate period to target obesity prevention interventions is the early years in a child's life.17 The aim of the present review was, therefore, to examine the evidence for environmental influences on dietary determinants of obesity, focusing on younger children (birth to 8 years).