Sentences with phrase «future environmental targets»

Having smaller, lighter and more efficient cars in the model range will also contribute to a significant reduction in Land Rover's overall fleet CO2 emissions, something that is fundamental to meet strict future environmental targets.

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Collectively, the results underscore the importance of Commonwealth and other held environmental water for maintaining and improving the ecological condition of these two waterways, and improve our ability to deliver targeted environmental flows into the future.

«We are confident that we can meet all of our planned environmental targets this year and be well prepared for the future years.

«I call on every Lib Dem who supports a low carbon future to join Labour, businesses and environmental groups and vote for a 2030 decarbonisation target,» he said.

The researchers envision future bots that could sense chemicals or light and navigate toward a target for medical or environmental applications.

It is not mentioned in any of the 169 targets, yet many people think it is a decisive factor for global environmental change and future human wellbeing,» says IIASA World Population Program Director Wolfgang Lutz, a study coauthor.

The Madagascan environmental authorities presented the national targets for land degradation neutrality to ensure sustainable future growth.

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.

Included in this set of studies are the following: Carolyn Fischer (Resources for the Future) and Richard Newell (U.S. Energy Information Administration, on leave from Duke University), «Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation»; Stephen Schneider (late of Stanford University) and Lawrence Goulder (Stanford University), «Achieving Low - Cost Emissions Targets»; and Daren Acemoglu (MIT), Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn, and David Hemous (Harvard University), «The Environment and Directed Technical Change.»

The bill targets Obama's proposal for the Environmental Protection Agency to set the first national limits on heat - trapping carbon pollution from future power plants.

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.

When asked about concrete CO2 targets, Chu responded by giving lengthy descriptions of energy - saving building codes and pointing out the environmental benefits that could be achieved if the roofs of all buildings in the United States were painted white in the future.