Sentences with phrase «making meaningful reductions»

Not exact matches

Sinking economies and soaring unemployment are depressing tax revenues and making meaningful deficit reductions impossible and politically intolerable.

The Victorian dairy farmer co-operative's application for merger authorisation, made public on Tuesday night, claims a merger with WCB will «not generate any meaningful reduction in the market for the acquisition of raw milk.»

While reports of a meaningful personal income tax reduction are positive, the fact remains that the financial impact of these proposals are so significant that an unprecedented amount of regulatory reform would be needed to make this deal net neutral.»

Local authorities of all parties could make meaningful council tax reductions if they saved a modest ten per cent in these three non-priority areas.»

Early approval will make it harder to include meaningful class size reduction, as well as other changes identified through community input, in the final budget.

So for example, here's some bad luck, from the GISS press release cited in # 13 and given the U.S. refusal to participate in Kyoto or otherwise make meaningful GHG reductions:

The international problematization of large families and the celebration of carbon reduction impacts heavily, I think, on the way women conceive of themselves and their room to make meaningful decisions.

Clearly, a reduction target of this magnitude is meaningful only if it is taken to signify a combined obligation to, on the one hand, make reductions domestically and, on the other, invest in international reductions.

Clearly, a reduction obligation this large is only meaningful if it is understood as a composite, two-fold obligation to, on the one hand, make reductions domestically and, on the other, invest in reductions internationally.

A price on carbon emissions will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Washington State and spur the development of new, renewable energy alternatives, and represents an important first step toward making meaningful progress toward carbon reduction in Washington State and protecting both birds and people in a warming world.»

Since international climate change negotiations began in 1990, the United States has yet to adopt meaningful greenhouse gas emissions reduction legislation For almost 20 years arguments against US climate change legislation or US participation in a global solution to climate change have been made that have almost always been of two types.

These questions are organized according to the most frequent arguments made against climate change policies which are claims that climate change policies: (a) will impose unacceptable costs on a national economy or specific industries or prevent nations from pursuing other national priorities, (b) should not be adopted because of scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts, or (c) are both unfair and ineffective as long as high emitting nations such as China or India do not adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction policies.

The letter, organised by Australian National University climatologist Andrew Glikson, calls on the federal government to make «meaningful reductions of Australia's peak carbon emissions and coal exports, while there is still time».

For many countries, tackling oil and gas methane emissions, including as a component of their Intended Nationally - Determined Contributions to the UN agreement to be adopted this year in Paris, could make a meaningful contribution to their overall GHG reductions by 2030.

Yes it will achieve meaningful reductions and yes it can help set the table for and establish market conditions more amenable to the much deeper reductions we will need to make.

A meaningful reduction can be made to the appropriate sentence because of the participant's changed circumstances