Sentences with phrase «per cent reduction»

The slight drop in average sale price in seasonally adjusted data was mirrored by a one per cent reduction in actual sales for the month when compared to the same period last year.

All markets surveyed recorded increases in both daily and monthly parking rates with the exception of Montreal, which recorded a 3.45 per cent reduction in the monthly - unreserved median rate and Vancouver, which recorded a reduction in the median daily rate of 2.86 per cent.

Sales on properties valued at less than half of the provincial average (currently about $ 400,000 would be subject to a 50 per cent reduction in success fees (or $ 100 on both sides of the deal).

Let's hope Dryden gets the 30 per cent reduction that they're counting on.

An average participant sees a 30 per cent reduction in energy costs, and receives rebates of $ 2,250 for their improvements.

One found that communities who transitioned from government control to local First Nations community control of health services experienced a 30 per cent reduction in hospitalisation rates.

The iPad Pro 10.5 is Apple's latest and greatest tablet, featuring a 40 per cent reduction in bezels and a 20 per cent increase in display size over the iPad Pro 9.7.

The slightly redesigned iPad bridges the gap between the now discontinued iPad Pro 9.7 and the larger iPad Pro 12.9, bringing a 20 per cent increase in display size but a 40 per cent reduction in bezels for a similar footprint to 2016's model.

The new 10.5 - inch iPad replaces 2016's 9.7 - inch Pro model, offering a 20 per cent larger display and a 40 per cent reduction in bezel size, but how does it compare to the improved larger sibling?

Since then rates have decreased overall, but the road to achieving a 15 per cent reduction in rates is long and the final destination is still off in the distance.

«Since 2013 there has been a 70 per cent reduction in employment tribunal claims and I have experienced first - hand situations where clients have, for example, not been paid their correct final salary payment from a former employer and have not been able to pursue a claim as they can not afford the fees.»

The Pilot Program aimed to standardise co-operation credit in FCPA cases by allowing for a 25 per cent reduction in fines for companies that do not self - report misconduct, but later co-operate with a DOJ investigation.

In comparison, self - disclosure combined with full co-operation can lead to up to a 50 per cent reduction in fines or lack of prosecution.

This is not nearly enough to get us to the 30 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that Canada pledged to achieve by 2030 at the Paris climate conference.

For example, a facility that met its compliance target of 12 per cent reduction in carbon intensity could still see overall emissions rise 76 per cent by doubling its oil output.

The controversial and ineffective Kyoto Protocol's first stage comes to an end today, leaving the world with 58 per cent more greenhouse gases than in 1990, as opposed to the five per cent reduction its signatories sought.

The results showed that there was a 14 per cent reduction in the volume of summertime Arctic sea ice between 2010 and 2012 — but the volume of ice jumped by 41 per cent in 2013, relative to the previous year, when the summer was five per cent cooler than the previous year.

None of the models analysed by the IPCC [4] simulates an increase in this circulation with a warming climate, and the modelled response varies between essentially no change and a 50 per cent reduction.

Japan's government has promised a 90 per cent reduction in car tax and purchase tax plus discounted parking and highway fees for these vehicles, and Subaru aims to spread its ground - breaking technology by licensing to other manufacturers.

I'm planning a full - length post on Garnaut, but I thought I'd do a quick check on what would be involved in meeting the target of a 10 per cent reduction in emissions between 2000 and 2020.

Likewise, Rees and Collins (2006) show that if all the Himalayan glaciers were to disappear, there would be about a 33 per cent reduction in annual mean flow in the west compared to the 1990 level, whereas the decline in the east would be only about 4 - 18 per cent (31).

Assuming a company gets 90 per cent of its allowances for free, and can meet eight per cent of its remaining commitment through offsets, it could meet its compliance obligation either by a minimal two per cent reduction in its emissions, or the purchase of an equivalent number of allowances.

The position presented by the Great Barrier Reef Climate Change Alliance was that a 25 per cent reduction in emissions was needed by 2020, and that a market - based emissions reduction policy should be the central approach.

This translates into more than 40 per cent reduction in carbon emissions.

It's obviously necessary to look at the fine print, but a 25 per cent reduction would be consistent with a global contract and converge agreement which could achieve climate stabilization.

It is the Australian Government, which has consistently argued that a 15 per cent reduction on 2000 levels by 2020 as a responsible course.

However, it commits the Government to a 60 per cent reduction by 2050.

In the simulated case below, the «Low Carbon US» achieves a 56.7 per cent reduction in normalized greenhouse gas emissions with the bonus of an extra 7.8 per cent in total returns compared to the original index over the time period January 1, 2008 to August 31 2014.

Consequently, it would be lacking in political morality for the Australian Government to agree to a 25 per cent reduction to enable its ETS Bill to get through the Senate when it does not believe this should be the result of the Copenhagen meeting.

With the International Monetary Fund warning of the possibility of the global economy shrinking for the first time since World War 11, the chance of the US agreeing to a 25 per cent reduction in 2000 emissions by 2020 seems remote.

To become sustainable this requires a 33 per cent reduction in consumption.

As Nicholas Stern - the UK economist who compiled the Stern Review of the economics of climate change in 2006 - noted in a paper last year that one of the standard models used to calculate costs produced only a 50 per cent reduction in GDP if global temperatures rose 19 degrees.

Another is a B.C. - style low - carbon fuel standard, which requires a 10 per cent reduction in the carbon intensity of gasoline by 2020.

Australia's official position at the international climate change talks is to have a range of ambition from a 5 per cent reduction in 1990 emissions by 2020, out to 25 per cent, depending on what other countries do.

Over the following decade, the region's graduation rates increased, income levels rose, poverty fell, and the unemployment rate remained unchanged despite a 91 per cent reduction in logging on public lands.

To promise something like «a five per cent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020 ″ is not very helpful and is not attainable.

It's primarily about reducing fuel consumption - they're also targeting a 30 per cent reduction.

A fifty per cent reduction by 2120 is probably easily achievable — if we need to achieve it.

Take the Harper government's request to the now defunct National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy to cost out a 65 per cent reduction in GHGs.

«A 25 per cent reduction in TCR would mean the changes we expect between now and 2050 might take until the early 2060s instead... So, even if correct, it is hardly a game - changer.»

For example, in setting its emission goals, the European Union devised not one, but two separate targets: A 20 per cent reduction by 2020 if they continued to go it alone, and a 30 per cent reduction if countries like China and the U.S. also got serious about emissions.

We estimate a 30 per cent reduction in gross primary productivity over Europe, which resulted in a strong anomalous net source of carbon dioxide (0.5 Pg C yr - 1) to the atmosphere and reversed the effect of four years of net ecosystem carbon sequestration6.

So, if methane concentrations were reduced by 40 per cent, that would be equivalent to a 10 per cent reduction in CO2, or about 40 ppm.

Legislation mandated a 10 per cent reduction in the «average carbon intensity» of fuels used in B.C. by 2020.

The solar industry has been suggesting the scheme be changed, particularly in light of the 50 per cent reduction in module costs in the last 18 months, but it argued for a staged reduction to avoid havoc in the industry, and to end with a tariff that reflected the value of the solar put back into the grid (i.e. give it a value greater than coal).

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions Target Act passed setting a 33 per cent reduction target by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050, carbon neutral government legislated.

This equated to a 0.6 per cent reduction of greenhouse gases for the entire state's electrical generation from fossil fuels.

Data from the new TML study quantify for the first time the potential of such an integrated approach for the period 2014 - 2020 as follows: 6 per cent reduction for vehicle - related measures across the entire fleet; 2.5 per cent reduction through alternative fuels; and 13 per cent reduction through operations.

The Pembina Institute's analysis indicates that the oil and gas sector needs to make a 42 per cent reduction from its projected 2020 emission level for Canada to achieve its 2020 climate goals.

It's good news for the environment too: by supporting local and regional producers in the UK, Waitrose hopes to achieve a 15 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.