Sentences with phrase «reduce building sector»

The «2030 Challenge» clearly outlines a global strategy to immediately stabilize and begin reducing building sector GHG emissions, with the goal of realizing a 60 % to 80 % reduction below today's level by 2050.

Sixteen of the world's leading architectural institutions sign the Las Vegas Declaration, a commitment to reduce the Building Sectors GHG emissions.

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Mr Dawson said the downturn in the residential building sector, which he estimated had reduced by about 30 per cent in the past year, had affected the fund's revenue.

Build on its record as the first government to achieve an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by working with provinces to reduce emissions from the oil and gas sectors while ensuring Canadian companies remain competitive.

Soon after, more than 75 companies, organizations and local governments called on the government to take action to reduce carbon pollution from the buildings sector.

China's investment in high - tech industries is squarely aimed at the traceable goods sector — building the capacity to export even more goods and reduce their reliance on imports.

Champions 12.3 will complement and build upon ongoing successful UN programs to reduce food loss and waste including SAVE FOOD and Think.Eat.Save, efforts such as EU FUSIONS and the global Food Loss & Waste Protocol, private sector action like the Consumer Goods Forum's Food Waste Resolution, and other initiatives.

Projects under Build Smart NY will decrease government energy use, reduce energy costs and increase jobs in our growing energy - efficiency sector.»

Champions 12.3 will complement and build upon ongoing successful UN programs to reduce food loss and waste including SAVE FOOD and Think.Eat.Save, efforts such as EU FUSIONS and the global Food Loss & Waste Protocol, private sector action like the Consumer Goods Forum's Food Waste Resolution, and other initiatives.

Mass house building is firstly intended to create demand in the economy, but by solving our chronic housing shortage, we reduce our private sector rents, and thereby counter poverty.

But reducing emissions from the transportation sector is an increasingly important theme for Obama as he works to build a legacy of climate change action.

McCarthy said the administration will build upon vehicle fuel emissions rules, regulations to reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from refrigeration and air conditioning units, and future proposals to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production, as well as EPA's proposal to cut carbon emissions from the power sector.

For instance, if the transportation sector one day shifts to a smaller fleet of self - driving vehicles and if builders are able to reduce steel demand by using alternate materials — like, say, wood - framed buildings — it could drastically reduce the overall metal footprint.

In the UK, the built environment sector needs to find a further 39 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from the 1990 baseline in order to meet the government's target to reduce carbon emissions in the sector by 50 per cent by 2025.

Daytime cleaning Daytime cleaning is now used widely across all business sectors, but it is especially useful for schools, with so many young people moving around the building, it ensures it is cleaned at optimal times, reducing the risk of infections spreading.

At a time when the energy capacity gap is reaching a critical point, it is particularly important in public sector buildings where the bills are paid for by the State, to reduce energy use in public sector buildings.

To this end, we will devise science - based strategies to reduce inequalities in opportunity early in life, and will work to build broad - based support for implementing those strategies in both the public and private sectors.

Before joining ASCD, Carter served for nine years as the superintendent of schools in Norfolk, Va., where he succeeded in reducing the dropout rate, built a partnership program with the private sector, implemented a districtwide school improvement program, established an early education center for 3 - year - olds and their parents, and implemented a regional scholarship foundation for public school students.

These include reducing inertia in social and economic systems; building on a growing public desire for governments to act on climate change; removing implicit and explicit subsidies; reducing the influence of vested interests that increase emissions and reduce resilience; enabling the shifts from ineffective governance and weak institutions to innovative leadership in government, the private sector and civil society; and engaging society in the transition to norms and practices that foster sustainability.

• Sets a goal to reduce carbon pollution by at least 3 billion metric tons cumulatively by 2030 — more than half of the annual carbon pollution from the U.S. energy sector — through efficiency standards set over the course of the Administration for appliances and federal buildings;

Building on a history of working together to reduce air emissions, Canada and the U.S., commit to take action to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, the world's largest industrial methane source, in support of achieving our respective international climate change commitments.

By tying the mortgage interest - rate buy - down proposed in our Plan to specific energy reduction targets and homeowner investments, three highly beneficial and desired results are achieved: 1) new demand for Building Sector jobs is immediately generated, benefiting not only the Building Sector, but all the industries and sectors that support the Building Sector, 2) a homeowner's monthly mortgage payments and energy bills are significantly reduced, providing disposable income and making it much more likely that they can meet their payments, and 3) creation of a new $ 236 billion per year renovation market that does not currently exist.

It is designed to reduce emissions in six provinces, working with provincial, district and commune authorities, local communities and the private sector, with the objective to «enhance Viet Nam's ability to benefit from future results - based payments for REDD + and undertake transformational changes in the forestry sector», with a focus on «the implementation of national policies, measures and national strategies or action plans that could involve further capacity - building, technology development and transfer and results - based demonstration activities».

So right across the sector we see hospitals being built with fewer beds because the only way they can find the money to pay off the private consortium is to reduce the size of the hospitals being built and supply fewer doctors and nurses.

As states and regions set targets for reducing building - sector energy consumption, it is increasingly critical to scale up deep energy retrofit work...

On March 10 Seattle took a key step on its path to be carbon neutral by 2050, when Mayor Ed Murray signed three energy efficiency ordinances that will reduce carbon pollution in the building sector.

In a move that could have global implications, China, which has the largest farming sector in the world, has signaled it will be shifting its focus toward more sustainable agricultural methods, which includes practices like promoting organic production, building biogas digesters and reducing water usage.

«With a clean electricity system comes opportunities to reduce fossil fuel usage in these sectors: for example, electric vehicles displace petroleum use and electric heat pumps avoid the use of natural gas and oil for space and water heating in buildings.»

UN Secretary - General António Guterres will convene a high - level Summit in 2019 targeting sectors that could have the greatest impacts on reducing emissions and building climate resilience.

Building on the U.S. Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, in January 2015, the Administration announced a goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025 and has committed to finalize recently proposed standards for methane emissions from the oil and gas sector in 2016.

«When it comes to building products, reducing the carbon footprint from concrete is one of the most significant actions that the building sector can take.»

Climate mitigation through energy efficiency in the residential and commercial sectors will improve local and regional air quality, particularly in large cities, contributing to improved public health (e.g., increased life expectancy, reduced emergency room visits, reduced asthma attacks, fewer lost working days) and avoidance of structural damage to buildings and public works.

«The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its membership have fought long and hard to reduce fossil fuel use in the building sector, and they've had great success.

The report examines ways of reducing emissions from seven key sectors: energy supply, buildings, transport, industry, agriculture, forests and waste.

More than 80 Ukrainian energy efficiency stakeholders contributed to the findings in this report, which recommends the widespread rollout of residential building envelope refurbishments, installation of building energy control systems and meters, replacement of inefficient appliances and equipment (including motors), information campaigns to reduce wasteful energy consumption and other programmes across sectors.

«The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its membership have worked with great success to reduce fossil fuel use in the building sector.

This new case study shows how the state of Upper Austria is activating both the consumer and supply sides through information and capacity building measures to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the heating sector.

Joint statement from Carbon Market Watch and Transport & Environment (T&E) on publication of EU climate policy designed to reduce emissions across sectors agriculture / transport / building / waste EC proposal includes potential loopholes — endangers real - world delivery of EU 2030 climate target Brussels 20 July 2016.

Building on New York State's support for private sector solutions to lower the cost of clean energy, C&I Carbon Challenge gives large energy consumers the flexibility to tap into their in - house expertise to reduce their carbon footprints and control their energy costs.

One key way to do that is to reduce and ultimately phase out the CO2 emissions produced by the building sector by transforming the way buildings are designed, built, and operated.

And since heating can account for a significant percentage of home energy use (according to Lancey CEO Raphaël Meyer, up to 67 % in Europe, whereas the US puts it at about 42 % in the United States, and the IEA says that almost 80 % of energy demand in the buildings sector is from heating), this represents a great opportunity for both homeowners and rental property owners alike to reduce both their costs and their environmental impact.

Energy - efficient building designs can significantly reduce the energy demands of both sectors.

Ontario will encourage the construction of near net zero and net zero energy and carbon emission homes and buildings to reduce emissions in the building sector.

«Earlier, more than 300 property brokers» shops were running in the Ansal Arcade building in sector 18, Noida [National Capital Region] which were reduced to 50 post demonetization; but recently those dealers have reopened their offices after they tried their hands and earned huge profit in cryptocurrency brokerages.

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The Closing the Gap framework commits to reducing this disadvantage, with cross-government-sector initiatives and investment, reflecting the need to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of the Aboriginal community.1 Activity in the primary health care sector, with its focus on prevention, early intervention and coordination of care complements these efforts to build healthier communities.

Central to efforts to build healthier communities is the Aboriginal community controlled health service (ACCHS) sector; its focus on prevention, early intervention and comprehensive care has reduced barriers to access and unintentional racism, progressively improving individual health outcomes for Aboriginal people.

«Working with leading U.S. companies in a variety of sectors, we believe that we can achieve the nation's goals of reducing energy use and carbon emissions, plus set an example that other commercial building owners can follow.»

The goal of the EEB Hub is to reduce energy use in the Greater Philadelphia commercial buildings sector by 20 percent by 2020.