Sentences with phrase «meet environmental goals»

Sainsbury seem very pleased with this involvement with wind power: «With this project, Ecotricity has helped us to meet our environmental goals and our energy needs.

It is possible to meet environmental goals without sacrificing jobs and economic development.

To help meet its environmental goals, customers can now choose between three hybrid powertrains.

Heath said relying on nuclear power to meet environmental goals ignores many costs inherent in the technology, including the uncertain prospects for disposing of nuclear waste.

To help meet these environmental goals across the company, we invest in our facilities and establish specific metrics to improve the efficiency of our operations.

Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing may help governments create local jobs, improve home values and meet environmental goals.

We find that this comprehensive approach lowers the cost of meeting environmental goals but also carries with it profound implications for agriculture: Unmanaged ecosystems and forests expand, and food crop and livestock prices rise.

Just make wind energy works not only for meeting your environmental goals, but also fits your family's financial needs... you don't want to set yourself up for disappointment when the energy savings aren't as high as you expected.

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«Removing these monies from classrooms, and redirecting them to private sector entities such as Encana, directly affects our ability to meet both our educational and environmental goals,» said McEvoy in a letter to the education minister.

Every member of the pladis family — our employees, suppliers, customers, board of directors, and all our business partners — is encouraged to take responsibility for improving our environmental impact and meeting our goals.

After extensive consultation, the pan-European organic movement has produced a set of goals and a strategy to help the sector meet the political developments, environmental challenges and market trends it may face between now and 2030.

While retail giants are not popularly associated with sustainable development, UK - based Marks & Spencer and Tesco, and US giant Walmart, have made progress in meeting ambitious environmental and social goals throughout their supply chains.1

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

Continued to advocate for 1 % of the state's operating budget to go to environmental programs, ultimately securing a commitment from Governor Baker to meet this goal by the end of his term.

Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

As the state's environmental watchdog, the DEC will be responsible for approving or denying this project based on a variety of factors, including whether New York can meet its climate goals with the ongoing development of a fossil fuel infrastructure.

Local environmental activists are calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to «move away from dirty and dangerous fossil fuels» in order to meet goals contained in a state energy plan.

And tough new rules from the federal Environmental Protection Agency on power plant emissions will make closing Indian Point that much harder, if the state is to do so and still meet its other environEnvironmental Protection Agency on power plant emissions will make closing Indian Point that much harder, if the state is to do so and still meet its other environmentalenvironmental goals.

- Help New York reach its goal of 50 % of energy needs met by renewable sources by 2030 - «[T] he Department of Environmental Conservation and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to undertake a comprehensive study to determine the most rapid, cost - effective, and responsible pathway to reach 100 percent renewable energy statewide.»

Asked if they would support the town's goal of meeting all of its electricity needs through renewable sources by 2020, Paul Giardina, a Republican running for town board and a longtime official of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said that while he supports the goal, solar power is the only option that could be online by that deadline.

The Environmental Protection Agency's latest survey for capitol improvement identifies the need to invest $ 298 billion over the next 20 years on wastewater and stormwater infrastructure to meet the Clean Water Act public safety goals of swimmable and fishable waters.

The state attorney general, Patrick Morrisey (R), is leading a 24 - state lawsuit to kill it, and the state Legislature last year passed a law that limits the kind of plan that the state's environment agency, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), can write to meet federal goals.

Anastas is leaving the EPA to return to academia but still maintains that green chemistry «can meet environmental and economic goals simultaneously»

The findings highlight the importance of accounting for the time lag between deforestation and its environmental impacts in meeting conservation goals.

The week after Warsaw, Stern met with Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Dan Utech, White House Associate Director for Energy and Climate Change at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Domestic Policy Council Rick Duke, and others to discuss the goals with the State Department pushing for what one person called «maximum ambition.»

EPA administrater Carol Browner said: «The success of these first auctions proves that utilities and the public are taking emission trading seriously and that a market - based approach to environmental policy can succeed in meeting the dual goals of environmental protection and economic growth.

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These will be major steps toward meeting DOE's environmental remediation goals.»

California is now poised to develop a solution that benefits forest communities and helps the state's businesses meet emissions reductions goals cost - effectively,» said Environmental Defense Fund Tropical Forest Program Director Steve Schwartzman.

Hamlin draws on her background in landscape design and horticulture to help plan environmental learning activities that meet teachers» instructional goals.

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.

The plan assessed various alternative fuels and developed fuel portfolios to meet California's goals to reduce petroleum consumption, increase alternative fuels use, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase in - state production of biofuels, without causing a significant degradation of public health and environmental quality.

Their goal is to create sustainable community based accommodations that also meet high standards for best environmental practices.

The department already provides environmental stewardship at hundreds of DoD installations throughout the United States and around the world, working diligently to meet resource efficiency and sustainability goals as set by relevant laws and executive orders.

The goal, to my mind, can be to build the foundations of an energy system sufficient to meet human needs, with limited environmental costs, as the world heads toward and beyond a mid-century crest of some 9 billion people seeking decent lives.

Meet your environmental and social responsibility goals by investing in new sustainability projects, like the Green Dream Farm Methane Reduction Project.

Meanwhile, state subsidies are also under consideration in Connecticut, where Dominion, the owner of the Millstone 2 plant, though profitable, has argued it will need incentives to help the state meet long - term economic and environmental goals.

Scientists, environmental leaders and hundreds of thousands of citizens across the country had urged the president to take action to protect critical habitat from oil spills, to aid the transition to a clean energy future and to help the United States meet the carbon reduction goals necessary to avert the worst effects of global climate change.

The Department already provides environmental stewardship at hundreds of DoD installations throughout the United States and around the world, working diligently to meet resource efficiency and sustainability goals as set by relevant laws and executive orders.

To meet our nation's economic and environmental goals, America needs a comprehensive energy policy that draws on our nation's diverse energy supplies, including renewable and alternative sources such as energy recovery from plastics.

This finding, announced in September by the EU Joint Research Center and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, doesn't mean that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has yet decreased, but it could mean that we may be able to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement in slowing global warming.

To meet our nation's economic and environmental goals, ACC supports an «all of the above» energy strategy that takes timely advantage of America's own energy resources — conventional and shale natural gas, oil, wind, nuclear, solar, etc. — to diversify energy supply and power our economy.

Or, department - level aspects of meeting these environmental and energy goals.

Costa Constantinides, NYC Council Member and Chair of the Council's Environmental Protection Committee, said, «If we are going to have any real chance at meeting our 80 by 50 goal, it's vital that we move away from fossil fuel extraction.

The website environmental platform had four sub-sections including «Addressing Climate Change» and «Meeting our Kyoto goals».

The immediate impetus to the current frenzy apparently came from a secret meeting of veteran environmental activists with the goal of falsely «establish [ing] in [the] public's mind that Exxon is a corrupt institution that has pushed humanity (and all creation) toward climate chaos and grave harm.»

It stresses that main challenges and priorities related to climate change have provoked a national shift, which will require the creation of new green jobs, re-training or greening of existing ones in order to meet specific environmental goals.

Help Build carbon offsets are helping Esurance to meet their environmental and social impact goals and create shared value for consumers and the company.

For years, Canada's environmental groups have been clamoring for the government to come clean on the disconnect between our policies and our stated goals on climate change and to commit to a plan to meet them.

Beyond Coal is one of the most successful environmental campaigns in history and will be a central strategy for the US to meet its Paris goals.