Sentences with phrase «good efficiency policies»

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However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

The guide uses best practices from multiple sources including industry, academic and government experts to address water conservation and efficiency, water quality protection, soil conservation and management, air quality protection, human resource management, energy conservation and efficiency, integrated pest management, weather monitoring and preventive planning, selection of appropriate insurance policies and tools, and proactive business planning and management.

This process makes sure this agency is up to date with all legal & policy matters as well as increases operational efficiency and effectiveness.

«Our empirical results suggest that local entrepreneurial activities or self - employment can also reduce adverse impacts of trade shocks, and it is advisable to better coordinate these kinds of policies in order to achieve greater policy efficiency,» the researchers said.

Based around a website www.less-en.org, LessEn showcases best practice through events, campaigns and a current knowledge bank of case studies, policy summaries, energy efficiency products and building efficiency news.

Her research has been focused predominately on K - 12 public education fiscal policy, as well as the competitive and efficiency effects of school choice on the public school system.

Who better understands school policy, procedures, operational efficiencies, and pedagogical practices than the «true» customer — the student?

All this demonstrates the efficiency, reliability and low running costs which led to the success of the car not only among individuals but also in fleets, where the Giulietta is Italy's best - selling car and is making its way into the corporate policies of Europe's biggest companies.

Effective Coverage knows how to match you and a policy to get the best coverage and the best price, and our core values include efficiency and education about what it is you're buying.

Villa Kalimaya was designed by fusing the very best of modern Balinese architectural elements with elegant modern European architectural design that makes Villa Kalimaya a contemporary tropical architectural masterpiece with top class finishes and superior amenities without compromising efficiency and environmentally friendly policies in the running of the villa.

«Improvements in the Company's performance are the result of strategic business development measures being carried out through the «Quick Wins» program, as well as a tight cost efficiency policy that was put into effect at the beginning of the year,» he said.

Drawing on global best practice policies, we undertake to remove barriers, establish incentives, and implement standards to aggressively accelerate deployment and transfer of key existing and new low - carbon technologies, such as energy efficiency; solar energy; smart grids; carbon capture, use, and storage; advanced vehicles; and bio-energy.

Reducing America's «vehicle miles traveled» should be at the top of federal transportation policy, alongside better vehicle fuel efficiency.

Power companies are well on their way to meet the Plan's targets, thanks to the fact that the electricity industry has already started rapidly moving away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Plan.

He has helped create and build the industry through sound public policy, legislation and establishment of trade ally networks as well as the delivery of cost - effective residential energy efficiency programs.

Monitor trends in energy use and CO2 emissions: follow the evolution of 50 global energy efficiency indicators to better understand policies» impact.

It presents a structured framework of policies and measures to promote energy efficiency investments for climate change mitigation and sustainable development, as well as to develop a menu of energy efficiency policies and measures.

To realise the tremendous potential for improvements across the board, energy efficiency needs a well designed, sustained policy push.

This guidance document highlights best policy practices for promoting energy efficiency in the UNECE region and beyond.

This analytical report aims to help policymakers and their advisors wishing to initiate or develop policies promoting energy efficiency in buildings to assess the most efficient mix of policy measures for a given environment as well as to design new initiatives.

Public policy can provide incentives for improved insulation and more energy - efficient heating and cooling units for residences and businesses; but even the best efficiency programs can not eliminate the need for heating in colder states, and for air conditioning in hotter, humid states.

«A properly designed revenue - neutral price on carbon will improve economic efficiency, promote better environmental outcomes than existing policy and allow market forces to determine the course to a lower - carbon future.»

The report calls for improved efficiency of water use, better knowledge development and training, the integration of climate - smart production models, increased investment in agricultural development and harmonization of national policies and actions.

The renewable energy findings from the ISO's analysis should be front and center, particularly because higher renewable energy levels are more consistent with New England states» policies, which call for increasing levels of renewable energy as well as energy efficiency.

Based on many years of evidence that prove energy efficiency is a good deal for Ohioans and their economy, we think good policy should get back to work.

However, in terms of UK policies on energy efficiency, NGOs and academics argue that focusing on environmental as well as money - saving messages, and making the connection between single initiatives such as home insulation and the bigger picture, are important for trying to reduce the rebound effect.

Still, government policies, as well as cost reductions across the energy sector, enable a doubling of both renewables — subject of a special focus in this year's Outlook — and of improvements in energy efficiency over the next 25 years.

The problem is one created by making «efficiency» an end of energy policy — a good, in and of itself.

While bold policy initiatives are likely needed to ensure that homeowners, industry and other players make the necessary changes, McMahon notes a silver lining: «The good news is efficiency has gotten less costly as we've gotten more experience with it.»

If policymakers provide financial assistance to existing nuclear plants, they should at the same time strengthen policies such as renewable electricity standards (RES) that stimulate the growth of low - carbon renewable energy as well as energy efficiency programs and policies.

For example, the figure above shows how aggressive climate - friendly policies in the IEA's ambitious «450 Scenario» (a 2 degree - focussed scenario) could provoke increases in deployment of renewable energy and efficiencies, as well as a relatively big contribution from CCS by 2035.

And he does not mention the potential efficiency advantages of using carbon tax revenues to reduce other taxes such as taxes on work and thereby use climate policy to improve overall economic well - being.

This is why governments need to pay serious attention to energy efficiency, encouraging policies that determine how well we use energy.

The past 15 years have seen some good progress, with a steady expansion of mandatory policies focused on improving energy efficiency.

It's a business decision that was driven by the reality that we no longer need by 2030 the output of Diablo Canyon and that from a policy perspective and from an economic perspective, it was better to replace the portion that is needed for our customers with energy efficiency and renewables.

The good news is that policies put into place over the last three decades — including appliance efficiency standards, voluntary labeling programs like ENERGY STAR, and state energy - savings targets — have already helped offset rising demand for electricity and saved consumers billions of dollars.

The IEA recommends that governments adopt a strategic approach to energy efficiency, supported by well - designed efficiency policies and a strong focus on implementation and enforcement.

Projections of U.S. transportation energy use indicate that better vehicle efficiency and low - carbon fuels will not be sufficient to reach sectoral emissions reduction goals if travel demand grows at pre-recession rates, so managing demand will be a key ingredient of climate policy for the sector.

SACE, as part of the Just Energy Memphis partnership, will be focused on informing implementation of current local weatherization and low - income energy efficiency initiatives and using these programs, and lessons learned, to help create better energy efficiency policies for housing in North Memphis that can inform programs across our region.

While some of the reduction from the big oil companies is probably due to the crash in oil prices that began in 2014, leading to lower activity across the energy industry, all five majors have enacted climate and efficiency policies, as well as anti-pollution measures, the report said.

«We are actively researching best policy practice to deliver energy efficiency improvements in transport, appliances, buildings and industry, and we will report on our efforts to the next G8 summits», Mr. Mandil said.

Policy makers would be well served to think carefully about how heavily we should depend on efficiency - related emissions reductions in these and similar sectors of the global economy, the report concludes.

In announcing his appointment, IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said that Mr. Millard's work at DECC «resulted in the production of quality data meeting both national and international needs, as well as establishing new approaches for monitoring energy efficiency policies, improving the timeliness of data, e.g. quarterly renewables data, and new analysis such as diversity measures in oil and gas imports».

The current forecast is markedly lower than the forecast in the 2007 Integrated Energy Policy Report, primarily because of lower expected economic growth in both the near and long term as well as increased expectations of savings from energy efficiency.

New technology developments as well as new policy instruments, such as emissions trading, joint implementation, and clean development mechanisms, can promote a cleaner environment, while simultaneously increasing energy efficiency and enhancing security.

In particular, the high feed - in tariffs for solar photovoltaics can be up to ten times higher than those provided to wind and even higher than investments in efficiency, diverting money away from other policies where it would have been better employed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Energy policy should be better balanced towards demand side and energy efficiency.

The emails were obtained by the Energy and Policy Institute via a series of public records requests to Ohio House Majority Floor Leader Bill Seitz and other state legislators involved in campaigns to roll back Ohio's renewable energy and energy efficiency standards, as well as bail out failing coal and nuclear power plants.

Moreover, I would suggest that those of us in «the electorate» who are well - informed about this issue are well aware that changes in public policy — including putting a price on carbon pollution, directly regulating GHG emissions, and providing effective support for the development and deployment of efficiency and renewable energy technologies on a scale at least comparable to the subsidies that fossil fuels have received for a century — are far more effective than the options that any individual can currently choose, and are in fact crucial to making more such options available to all of us.

With the American Clean Energy & Security Act just passed in the House, let's look at what WWF has to say about how well the G8 countries, plus five developing nations are doing in terms of climate change policy: The 2009 G8 Climate Scorecards rank the members of the G8 on a range of issues — emission trends since 1990, growth of renewable energy and renewable energy policy, emissions per capita and per unit of GDP, CO2 per kWh of electricity, industrial energy efficiency, transport policy, among others.