Sentences with phrase «reach environmental targets»

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Although its strong economic growth means overall emissions are still increasing, China has reached its 2020 «carbon intensity» targets ahead of time by implementing serious environmental policies and technological innovation.

Inspiration: The product or company adheres to an unusual or new mission targeting an issue or problem not yet widely addressed; its message / mission is clearly communicated, focused and effective, with real, wide - reaching potential or already proven positive social or environmental impact.

The researchers call for a need to move beyond a sole focus on mitigating the effects of climate change to reach solutions that consider global carbon reduction targets as well as local energy and environmental contexts.

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.

In an accompanying article on the paper also published in Nature Energy this week, Dr Alessandro Tavonim, researcher in environmental economics at LSE, praised the article for filling a research void in assessing the adequacy of national targets for reaching net - zero emissions.

Environmental enrichment, reducing stress in your cat's life, and keeping all the targeted items out of your cat's reach may help reduce this behavior.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

As Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, points out, no one knows how fast a major economy can decarbonise and policy therefore needs to focus less on targets and timetables that no one can be sure of reaching, and more on the tangible process for achieving goals such as the development of clean technologies that will be crucial in the decarbonising process.

However, the researchers point out that using solar geoengineering to hold global warming to 1.5 C would not have the same environmental effect as reaching the target using mitigation.

We've consulted experts who are proposing major targets for environmental change, and we're setting out the crucial steps necessary to reach them.