Sentences with phrase «meet the pledged target»

Not exact matches

Brand on target to fulfill goal to remove artificial colors and flavors; Deepens pledge to meet consumers» desire for simplicity, transparency and choice

Prof Appleby warned: «While waiting times remain low in historical terms, the rise against key target measures since this time last year shows how difficult it will be for the NHS to meet the prime minister's pledge to keep waiting times low as the spending squeeze begins to bite.»

The pair's speeches come a few days after Liz Kendall voiced support of free schools and pledged to meet the Nato target of spending 2 per cent of GDP on defence.

Elected on the back of a pledge to build 300,000 new homes each year, housing minister Harold Macmillan soon met and exceeded these targets, largely as the result of public sector rather than private sector construction.

In recent days, the Chancellor Phillip Hammond has hinted at a few of the measures he will announce on Budget Day to meet his pledge to build 300,000 homes a year — a more ambitious target than set by previous Governments.

The pledge unanimously passed and signed by the Town Board at its April 11 meeting went on to ask «the New York State Legislature to commit to these same clean energy goals, which would represent a 20 percent increase over the current New York State Energy Plan targets» and to urge «Governor Cuomo to adopt a statewide minimum energy efficiency target of three percent per year of annual energy savings for New York's utilities as part of his comprehensive energy efficiency program, to be announced on Earth Day 2018, and further urges that this program be implemented through a centralized planning process rather than in separate utility rate cases.»

Sport in our schools is essential to the sort of message that we seek to deliver, which is why we have pledged not just effort and time, but a huge amount of finance to meet those targets.

In principle such a bill should have little problem being pushed through as the Conservative party has also pledged to meet the UN target of 0.7 % of national income spent on international aid, though a spokesman for Douglas Alexander, the international development secretary, claimed that the Tories would not back the draft bill.

Klink touted the work Brazil has done to meet its Copenhagen target and exceed its pledge to cut deforestation by 80 percent from historic levels by 2020, as well as to weave climate change into the highest levels of government decisionmaking.

Andrew Warren, of the European Association for the Conservation of Energy, says member states will now not be able to meet CO2 targets pledged at last year's Earth Summit, because these required Community - wide efficiency standards, as originally planned in SAVE, and a Community - wide energy tax.

If, during that time, donors pledge to meet the target amount, the site charges the pledgers and passes along the money, minus an 8 % to 10 % commission, to the proposer, who then begins making good on the rewards and research.

According to a recent analysis from Resources for the Future in Washington DC, cuts of up to 5 per cent from existing plants could keep the US roughly on target to meet Obama's 2009 pledge to reduce US greenhouse gas releases by 17 per cent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels.

And in common with all other climate pledges so far, its INDC remains well short of what would be required to meet the agreed 2C target for avoiding dangerous climate change.

In a distributed statement, Fatih Birol, chief economist at the energy agency and the director of the annual World Energy Outlook, said that trends in emissions meant the world was running out of time if leaders were serious about meeting targets pledged in recent sessions of climate treaty negotiations.

Dec. 7, 1:11 a.m. Updated below With the latest round of contentious international climate treaty negotiations getting under way in Durban, South Africa, it's worth revisiting what would be required to meet ambitious targets set for greenhouse gases in California, a state that already has pledged meaningful action.

The problem is so big that even if developed countries were to increase their CP2 pledges, they could meet their more stringent targets by simply buying more surplus and without actually cutting their emissions.

And yet as she pointed out in her memorable speech on the convention floor, delivered on behalf of all of the assembled young people: «In that time, you've failed to meet pledges, you've missed targets, and you've broken promises.»

States and cities would need to meet a pledge to reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions to 28 % below 2005 levels by 2025, America's self - declared target under the Paris Accord deal.

So fossil fuel and agricultural emissions have been steadily rising, rather than falling to meet targets New Zealand has pledged to.

The report found that the gap between emissions levels consistent with meeting the target and levels expected if country pledges are met is likely to be 17 gigatons of CO2 in 2030 based on current trends.

Without specifically mentioning President - elect Trump's pledge to cancel any U.S. acceptance of the U.N. Paris CO2 emission - cutting agreement adopted last year, he said: «I can tell you with confidence that the United States is right now today on our way to meeting all of the international targets we have set.»

Canada must slash oil and gas emissions to meet 2020 target: report WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters Point Carbon)-- Canada should reduce the emissions it projects for its lucrative oil and gas sector 42 percent by 2020 in order to meet its global pledge to slash its emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels, a think tank said on Tuesday... http://www.pointcarbon.com/news/1.2257967?&ref=searchlist

However, it weakened language on national pledges, saying countries «may» instead of «shall» include quantifiable information showing how they intend to meet their emissions targets.

Current pledges alone are not enough to meet this 2 degree target, and the agreement includes a process to review and revise targets every five years, ramping up ambition over time.

These initial INDCs admittedly do not go far enough to meet the 1.5 °C target, but each country is required to renew its pledge with increasingly stringent targets every five years.

The US appears on track to meet it's 2020 emission reduction pledge under the 2009 Copenhagen Accord but will need to significantly accelerate the current pace of emission reductions to meet it's Paris Agreement targets.

'» (To be fair, Germany did step up this week when Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged $ 2.25 billion to help India meet its renewable energy targets.)

Their weakness, as the story went, was OK, because we'd be able to strengthen them — and properly support «stretch» pledges by countries that can't deliver on them without help — in time to meet the Paris targets.

(01/19/2010) A study issued by Indonesian government recommends a moratorium on peatlands conversion in order to meet its greenhouse gas emissions target pledged for 2020, reports the Jakarta Post.

The pledges get collected only when you meet the funding target.

The pledges do not get collected if the funding target is not met.