Sentences with phrase «other environmental goals»

Tax incentives that encourage owners to make properties more energy efficient or satisfy other environmental goals and mitigate potential damage from natural disasters;

Those steps could move the world toward population reduction, the sine qua non of sustainability, and without which none of the other environmental goals are likely to be reached.

The remaining and more subtle issue is whether these three facilities can replace Indian Point and not jeopardize other environmental goals.

«Building green» is an umbrella phrase that encompasses numerous small but interconnected decisions we can make about materials, design, and building methods that collectively reduce energy use, improve health, and achieve other environmental goals.

«Planting can achieve other environmental goals, such as reducing erosion and salinity risk and potentially providing habitat.

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 environmental goals.

• The city plans to complete a «comprehensive sustainability plan» that will contain strategies to enhance urban forestry, alternative energy, green building and other environmental goals.

Not exact matches

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

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We have also made significant strides toward our other 2020 goals to reduce water, energy and greenhouse gas emissions, while implementing more than $ 4.2 million of environmental and facility improvements.

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.

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.

Silent goals (environmental changes) and active goals (child directed goals based on choice and control) are some of the other tools used within the S - CAT ® Program.

Samuels and other environmental advocates are concerned that while Cuomo has put forth progressive goals and policies, the governor has not been aggressive enough in solidifying them into state laws to push New York ahead.

Although they are all admirable goals, maybe the County Executive should move some of the focus from receiving awards and recognition for environmental achievements, Rail Trails, Veterans memorials, and other non life sustaining programs to jobs, jobs and more jobs?

Science policy is an area of public policy which is concerned with the policies that affect the conduct of the science and research enterprise, including the funding of science, often in pursuance of other national policy goals such as technological innovation to promote commercial product development, weapons development, health care and environmental monitoring.

However, the push to extend lifelines to nuclear power has collided with the goals of other environmental activists who have spent decades railing against reactors as expensive and unsafe, creating cracks in the coalition that helped bring nations to an international agreement to fight climate change.

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.»

To make up for those shortcomings, the report called for a research program, including smaller scale field trials, whose goal «should be to improve understanding of the range of climate and other environmental effects of albedo modification, as well as understanding of unintended impacts.»

ESA's goal is to provide reliable information that can be used to advocate and establish policies designed to improve the environment, Zehner says, adding, «We are offering the first steps needed for monitoring greenhouse gases and other environmental areas.»

He spends about a third of his time carrying out research into how the values and goals of environmental sustainability can be integrated into business and management decisions in construction and other industries.

«This has profound implications for the current policy debate that frames environmental goals and economic goals as at odds with each other.»

«Our goal is to identify compounds with medicinal, environmental and other uses that can be renewably produced in substantial amounts at a reasonable cost.»

This center fosters collaborations among researchers at MD Anderson Smithville, in Houston and with other instutions in central Texas to reach the goal of understanding how environmental exposures influence cancer outcomes in the human population by identifying new targets and strategies for cancer prevention and treatment.

«Dr. Tsuang's ultimate goal is to help prevent psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and other mental illnesses before their onset, and to identify traits that might predispose a person to developing this type of devastating illness, either because of genetic or environmental causes,» said Lewis L. Judd, M.D., Mary Gilman Marston Professor and Chair of UCSD's Department of Psychiatry.

«Our goal is to develop a comprehensive risk assessment of ocean acidification in combination with other environmental stressors and the often complex relationships and to widely communicate our findings to the public and decision makers.»

This Bioenergy Technologies Office helps solve this equation by supporting research on which bioenergy crops to grow and how to grow them; technologies designed to convert biomass to fuels and other products; and analysis methods for determining how well the production processes achieve their economic and environmental goals.

Given the depredations of the human species (as a whole) on the Earth's other life forms and living systems, environmental conservation is indeed a praiseworthy goal.

In others, you need to solve an environmental puzzle to progress to the stage goal.

I hear echoes of «Wilson's Law» above, and also some resonance with articles I've written focusing on how environmental and animal - welfare groups, while often working toward shared goals (an end to whaling, for instance) rarely use the same arguments, with one focused on population statistics and the other on ethics.

Even with the logic in driving efficiency, doesn't it still make sense to have an «all of the above» plan in shifting to less - polluting energy options, given how a shift from coal to natural gas — while not perfect by any means — also syncs with environmental goals related to other pollutants (mercury, etc.)?

Teddy was a conservationist not a preservationist... He adopted Pinchot's philosophy that all resources should be used efficiently, even natural resources; this discounted other values and goals that we now consider in the «public interest»... While he did much to advance environmental policy... He also set up the contention in regulatory agencies that today plague our ability as citizens to obtain objective and independent information.

At its firs global supply - chain summit in Beijing, Walmart, the world's largest retailer, launched an ambitious program dubbed the «Global Sourcing Responsibility Initiative» that will require its Chinese suppliers (which may number up to 20,000 according to China Daily) to abide to potentially costly energy efficiency targets, to be verified by third party audits, among other environmental and social goals.

The point of coastal management is not to pit environmental and social goals against one other, but rather forge a degree of sustainable compatibility.

However, a debate remains around how best to accomplish that goal and whether carbon pricing policy must also be tasked with addressing broader social and environmental challenges (like other pollution problems, worker displacement, economic inequality, etc.).

The report therefore provides a technical guide and recommendations that will help U.S. state policymakers to enable the potential of Canadian clean electricity imports to help meet CPP standards and other state - level environmental policy goals.»

The U.N. Environmental Program examined more than 500 internationally agreed goals and objectives adopted at the Earth Summit and other such meetings.

California environmental goals include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 % from 1990 levels by 2030 and by 80 % by 2050, as well as reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other health - harming pollutants in areas of the state with the highest levels of air pollution by 2032.

Find out about WWF's other global goals and key drivers of environmental problems.

This update on the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) program includes recent news from each of SEARCH's three Action Teams as well as highlights from other activities that contribute to SEARCH goals, including the Sea Ice Prediction Network, the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook, and the Arctic Observing Open Science meeting.

In 1989 the Board, for the first time in 16 years, amended the Association's goals and objectives to highlight a growing concern about carbon taxes and other fees which would increase energy costs to consumers — a concern as important to us as are environmental sensitivity and competition among energy suppliers.

Like ExxonMobil, Chevron also emphasizes potential conflicts rather than synergies between climate solutions and other societal goals: «As we work to address climate change, we must create solutions that balance environmental objectives with global economic growth and our aspirations for a better quality of life for people across the world.»

Consistent with the goal of the NSF Program for Long - Term Observations in the Arctic, NPEO increases the availability of long - term environmental data in the Arctic by providing data and infrastructure for other polar science and climate investigations.

The household cooking and heating sector represents one of the best opportunities for the Coalition to affect quick and significant measures to reduce SLCPs and meet the climate goals of the global community while achieving other health, gender, environmental, and development benefits.

Attempts to significantly influence climate impacts based on just controlling CO2 and a few other greenhouse gases emissions is an inadequate and incomplete policy for this purpose.The goal should be to seek politically and technologically practical ways (with minimal cost and maximum benefit) to reduce the vulnerability of the environment and society to the entire spectrum of human - caused and natural risks including those from climate, but also from all other environmental and social threats.

Two Celsius is a goal adopted by the EU, some other nations and many environmental groups as a threshold for «dangerous» climate change.

Ambitious economy - wide mitigation targets are central to ensuring that international emissions trading supports the goals of the Agreement, as they provide strong incentives for countries to ensure the environmental integrity of units they transfer to others.

In my last blog, I detailed major missteps of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its oversight of the Hudson River Superfund cleanup of toxic PCBs, including allowing the polluter, General Electric, to decommission its massive dredging operations before the agency determined whether the cleanup had met its goals, and ignoring pleas from other federal agencies and evidence that more dredging is needed to restore the river's health.

SEARCH is a collaborative program with an adaptive structure built to achieve SEARCH goals and engage the research community, government agencies and other Arctic stakeholders in the study of Arctic environmental change.

This is their National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA); «a set of actions complementary to national goals and objectives of other multilateral environmental agreements to which Bangladesh is one of the signatories» (Ministry of Environment and Forest, 36).