Sentences with phrase «neutrality goals»

The OFS develops and supports projects that work towards achieving zero - waste and carbon neutrality goals.

For example, the resilience work will include climate adaptation - specific goals (e.g., providing reliable access to power during increasing heat waves, or storms), while also supporting carbon neutrality goals (implementing low or no carbon - emitting solutions for those reliable power sources), and it will equally importantly focus on building community capacity to deal with a constantly changing climate, including changing extremes.

Carbonzero is pleased to provide our clients with carbon offsets of different standards and varieties to assist in meeting their carbon neutrality goals.

In 2011 the City of Seattle commissioned a study of potential pathways to achieve its carbon neutrality goal, and in 2015 the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance published a framework for cities on long - term deep carbon reduction planning.

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After Verizon beat the FCC in court in 2014, then - FCC chair Tom Wheeler turned to Title II of the 1934 Communications Act to achieve his goal of mandating net neutrality (the court had said that, without broadband providers being classified as common carriers, the FCC did not have the authority to force them to maintain an open internet).

«Benevolent neutrality» continues to be the goal of the court today.

Dr. Gary North, a major figure among the Dominionists, clarifies their goal and tactics: «We must use the doctrine of religious liberty... until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government.

Affirmative action is always defended as a temporary departure from the principle of race - neutrality in the service of the larger goal of racial equity.

If you have understood what I have been saying thus far, you will know that I view cultural neutrality as an impossible goal for schools.

This is a first - of - its - kind investment vehicle leveraging public money to raise private capital for sustainable land management and landscape restoration activities worldwide that contribute to the achievement of land degradation neutrality, one of the global targets under Sustainable Development Goal no. 15 «Life on Land».

The successful implementation of target 15.3 - on land degradation neutrality - can connect the dots between many of these goals and targets.

We must build on the global consensus around the Sustainable development goals, particularly on gender and on Land degradation neutrality to turn dreams into reality for poor rural women.

Land degradation neutrality is a simple but revolutionary idea that can connect the dots between most global goals and targets.

France, Canada and other partners have announced their financial support for the initiative, making the target to achieve land degradation neutrality by 2030 a realistic goal.

In under 2 years, since the adoption of the land degradation neutrality targeting under the Sustainable Development Goals, a seismic shift has taken place.

And there's been a lot of debate this election season as to whether neutrality, if feasible, is the right goal.

The goals on pension flexibility and pension neutrality provide suggestions for pension system structures that are both sustainable and fair.

The United Nations declared 2017 to be the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, and as Costa Rica continues to work toward its goal of carbon neutrality by 2021, the hope is that more events and organizations in the world take up the carbon neutral challenge.

It will surpass the esoteric Platinum LEED certification, and its design goals [PDF] include greenhouse gas - neutrality and net energy generation using a 250 - kilowatt fuel cell.

Together, the Berlin Show Orchestra and First Climate set out to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality.

One new addition to the suite of actions to create greater progress toward MIT's stretch goal of seeking carbon neutrality is a new class that will be offered in the spring 2018 semester, taught jointly by Director of Sustainability Julie Newman and professor of mechanical engineering Timothy Gutowski.

The Climate Action Plan includes specific short - and long - term actions Seattle needs to meet its ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

Establishing a strong long term goal of greenhouse gas neutrality and pursuing efforts to keep warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The Maldives and Costa Rica are the first countries to adopt a carbon reduction goal more ambitious than that of Plan B. 5 Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, describes climate neutrality as «an idea whose time has come, driven by the urgent need to address climate change but also the abundant economic opportunities emerging for those willing to embrace a transition to a Green Economy.»

«We remain committed to the goal of carbon neutrality for 2021.»

# 8 My attitude is that the ultimate goal is carbon neutrality, but that we have several decades to get there, and that the role of short - term carbon caps is primarily just to get us moving in the right direction.

Signing up to these initiatives will help both companies to deliver on their wider climate ambitions, for example Schneider Electric's target to achieve carbon neutrality in its ecosystem by 2030, and EDF's «Goal 2030» pledge to «go beyond the requirements of the two degrees Celsius trajectory set by COP21».

In the final days of the Paris climate conference, the idea of greenhouse gas emissions neutrality has emerged as a way to frame the long - term goal to limit the rise in world temperatures.

Ian Jacobs, president and vice-chancellor, UNSW, said in a statement that «this landmark initiative is an exciting step towards realising UNSW's goal of carbon neutrality on energy use by 2020 and reflects our commitment to making a positive global impact».

This is a milestone in the long - term goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

Düsseldorf's development strategy was to economically meet its ambitious climate goals of achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2050, which for this city in western Germany means reducing CO2 emissions to just 2 tons per capita.

But most importantly, early corporate leaders will have to stand up and commit to a «beyond - neutrality» goal, and show that it is possible to make steady progress towards that goal with a combination of the mitigation technologies of today and the carbon removal solutions that hold promise for our future.

These goals must be elucidated with language that does not include «net - zero» or «climate or carbon neutrality», which is language that also switches the burden to developing countries and furthers the interests of big corporations.

Left Coast is one of 14 wineries to complete Oregon Environmental Council's Carbon Reduction Challenge, and one of 6 to undergo an independent audit to achieve a goal of complete carbon neutrality.

Slippery Terms Considering its resource use — and its resources — Coca - Cola is uniquely positioned to adopt the «water neutrality» goals it has set out, and continue to be a global leader in corporate sustainability.

But the term Coca - Cola is using for its goals — «water neutrality» — which was coined at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, and which Coke will be unveiling again in the next few days is, well, quite slippery.

In a call with reporters, White House officials described the standards as «a huge deal», noting that the aviation authority has also proposed an aspirational goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2020.

The law's goal is to enforce political neutrality among civil servants: the act prohibits them from holding public office, influencing elections, participating in or managing political campaigns, and exerting undue influence on government hiring.

This article has been updated to reflect the mayor's recent expansion of the city's greenhouse gas reduction goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

The target includes the decommissioning of 13 GW of fossil power plants in Italy, with the long - term goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

The Court ruled explicitly that the goal of «neutrality» towards customers «must be considered legitimate» (paragraph 37) and that prohibiting signs of belief «must be considered strictly necessary» for achieving this (paragraph 42).

The Court noted that, in any event, «the means that the parties utilized in pursuit of their goal of a tax - neutral transaction, and not the goal of tax neutrality, are the primary focus of a rectification application.»

It is near impossible to see how such drastic measures could be justified under s. 1, either with respect to the goals (projecting the State's neutrality) or or the means chosen to achieve them.

I did also say... «Secularism and neutrality of the state are the only guarantees believers have to not see their religion interfered with on behalf of another... Whether restricting a person's freedom to wear religious symbols truly aids this goal of neutrality remains an open question.»

''... the unwillingness to accept the fact of mothers» role in childrearing within the context of custody policy conforms to the popular gender neutral focus at the expense of reality... even if the ultimate goal is gender neutrality, the imposition of rules embodying such a view within the context of family law issues is disingenuous since the effect is to the detriment of those who have constructed their lives around «genderized» roles.»