Sentences with phrase «resource productivity»

Raising resource productivity through improved efficiency and reducing resource waste could lower resource consumption and GHG emissions, bringing economic gains and promoting more equitable access to resources, the IRP said.

Part of the abstract: Metrics on resource productivity currently used by governments suggest that some developed countries have increased the use of natural resources at a slower rate than economic growth (relative decoupling) or have even managed to use fewer resources over time (absolute decoupling).

Skilled in teaming with business leaders to define complex issues and translate them into strategic business solutions to grow business more profitably and improve resource productivity and effectiveness.

We will set targets as appropriate taking into account resource productivity, based on the work of the OECD in furthering efforts to optimize resource cycles.

A few years later, Schmidt - Bleek, who founded the Factor Ten Institute in France, showed that raising resource productivity even more — by a factor of 10 — was well within the reach of existing technology and management, given the right policy incentives.

The first of the TAR chapters (Chapter 7) was largely devoted to impact issues for human settlements, concluding that settlements are vulnerable to effects of climate change in three major ways: through economic sectors affected by changes in input resource productivity or market demands for goods and services, through impacts on certain physical infrastructures, and through impacts of weather and extreme events on the health of populations.

Human resources productivity, such as onboarding new associates, training new hires, collecting associate reviews, etc.,

Kitty leads WRI's engagement in the post 2015 Development Agenda, and also embraces work on the international climate regime; the role of the private sector in development; global indicators on resource productivity and efficiency; and inequality.

The rural exodus drives other, mutually reinforcing efficiencies as well, increasing both economic and resource productivity.

In practice this means massive efforts to enhance energy efficiency and resource productivity, avoiding unintended secondary consequences.

Others meet customers each day, support their resource productivity ambitions, and enable their journey towards zero emissions.

ESM 272 - Energy and Resource Productivity [4 units] Suh Options for improving energy and resources productivity are evaluated from technology, economics, and policy point of view.