Sentences with phrase «targeted industry meetings»

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In a technical briefing this morning, government staff admitted building an LNG industry will make it challenging to meet its greenhouse gas reductions targets.

Some VC firms have mandates that prevent them from investing outside of their target industry, so don't take it personally if they decided not to meet you or finance your business.

Po Hou, Managing Partner, Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry, Deloitte China said: «The Chinese government is striving to meet new climate targets for 2030.

The approach of targeting poor performers was met with a favourable response from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which stated that «introducing a targeted [rather than for all votes at all companies] binding vote regime would focus attention on the most concerning cases and give shareholders the teeth to truly have the final say on top executives» pay.»

The region was showcased through industry visits, targeted business - matchmaking meetings and networking opportunities.

«A John Horgan New Democrat government will put forward a climate action plan before the next election that will have real targets to cut carbon pollution, with a commitment to meet them, and will have a plan to create many new clean technology and renewable energy jobs while protecting our existing industries from unfair competition.

NIZO also said that the research is targeted at meeting the needs of different food industry segments that deal with cocoa - dairy, sugar and chocolate confectionery, biscuit and bakery, ice cream and desserts.

Follow these 10 tips to improve production line efficiency in food and drink manufacturing and cut energy costs in your plant as well as meet industry sustainability targets.

«Industry continues to stand behind its scheme which not only meets the NSW Government's environmental targets at a lower cost than a CDS, but also ensures that consumers are not unnecessarily penalised and jobs are not unnecessarily put at risk,» he said.

Critics say the electricity sector must do more to meet Australia's economy - wide emissions reduction target because emissions cuts are easier and cheaper to achieve in electricity than in agriculture, transport or industry.

The Low Emissions Technology Roadmap provides an independent, science - based analysis of the technology options in the energy sector that can help Australia meet its 2030 emissions reduction target and create new opportunities for local industry.

We partnered with the Department of Environment & Energy to develop a comprehensive analysis of the technology options available to help Australia meet its emissions abatement targets and create new opportunities for Australian industry.

Industry newcomer Em + Pact is carving out an underserved niche in the $ 600 million protein bar category by targeting women with products that are crafted to meet their specific nutritional needs and by working with nonprofits to empower them to be «goal...

Industry regulator Ofwat has condemned as «unacceptable» Thames Water's failure to meet its leakage targets for the second year running.

Committee chair Mary Creagh said: «Billions of pounds of investment is needed in clean energy, transport, heating and industry to meet our carbon targets,»

«The government needs to set out in more detail how it will meet its target of at least one - for - one replacement of the sold homes, particularly given issues such as the availability of land, the capacity of the building industry and the uncertainty of income from council home sales.»

The industry is therefore on target to meet the halving waste to landfill target for these two particular waste streams.

Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

According to Series lead Professor Boyd Swinburn from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, «The key to meeting WHO's target to achieve no further increase in obesity rates by 2025 will be strengthening accountability systems to support government leadership, constraining the role of the food industry in the formation of public policy, and encouraging civil society to create a demand for healthy food environments.»

And so does setting ambitious goals: Early on, I doubted industry could meet some of the aggressive targets that EPA set for reducing air pollution, but I ultimately saw these goals spur innovation and creative solutions that led to setting even higher standards.

The work found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

The new study, led by Professor Scott, found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- Australia faces a A$ 17 billion ($ 13.3 billion) exodus of investment from its windfarm industry because of a political deadlock, threatening to deal the country a major economic blow and kill hopes of meeting a self - imposed clean energy target.

Australia faces a $ 13.3 billion exodus of investment from its windfarm industry because of a political deadlock, threatening to kill hopes of meeting a self - imposed clean energy target

Local officials, charged with meeting aggressive economic targets for their region's industry, tend to ignore national environmental regulations, covering up spills and building new power plants behind the backs of central government regulators.

But they caution: «While a voluntary target based approach works to encourage industry reductions, the targets need to be coupled with the forceful government or quasi-government agency to ensure that all sectors of the food industry are aware of the targets and reducing salt in their products to meet [them].»

Organized by an Asheville, N.C. - based environmental group called the Dogwood Alliance, the protest is the latest move by activists to draw attention to the wood pellet industry's growth in the South, where they allege forests are being chopped down unsustainably so European nations can meet renewable energy targets.

Although GM refuses to set a specific target date, some industry watchers are predicting a 1996 introduction for the Impact — long enough to give GM a chance to do the necessary fine - tuning, but soon enough to give the company a running start at meeting tougher vehicle emission laws slated to take effect in 1998.

But the industry has a long way to go in meeting its targets.

The buyers can be targeted by industry segment, demographic profile or geographic area, and the list counts can be modified to meet individual budget requirements.

There is no industry norm or target, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or hasn't met a large number of authors.

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(05/18/2012) The palm oil industry has hired lobbying powerhouse Holland & Knight to help overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's finding that palm oil - based biodiesel fails to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets under the country's Renewable Fuels Standard, reports The Hill.

Power companies are well on their way to meet the Plan's targets, thanks to the fact that the electricity industry has already started rapidly moving away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Plan.

The Clean Power Plan (CPP) regulations do recognize the ability for fossil energy with CCS technology to help states meet their targets, but do not mandate it, citing high cost as a barrier to implementation across the entire industry.

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.

LONDON (Reuters)- Nuclear reactors are not being built rapidly enough around the world to meet targets on curbing global warming, a report by the World Nuclear Association, an industry body, said on Tuesday.

In Europe, BP joined Shell in sculpting a winning industry push to scrap the EU's renewable energy and energy efficiency goals, in favour of a single greenhouse gas target for 2030 that could be met by an increased use of natural gas.

It assumes, that the industry, buildings and transport sector will meet their own targets anyway, which — especially in the transport sector with a target of minus 40 percent compared to today's levels — is from today's point of view an more than optimistic estimate.

Older turbines will need to be replaced more quickly than the industry estimates while many more will need to be built onshore if the Government is to meet renewable energy targets by 2020.

«Yet policymakers also seldom set targets they don't have evidence that industry can meet.

Environmental Audit Committee chair Mary Creagh said: «Billions of pounds of investment is needed in clean energy, transport, heating and industry to meet our carbon targets.

The plan includes measures to significantly cut emissions from transport, buildings and industry to help the government meet its target of a 66 % cut on greenhouse gas emissions...

Lacking policies to boost new technologies — and the needed funding — the UK won't meet European targets for 2020 or lead the world in a major new industry.

We recognize the extent to which the natural gas revolution and increased flexibility of the electricity sector eased the task of meeting short and medium climate targets, at the same time providing price stability for industry, business, and households.

The European offshore wind energy industry needs to attract between $ 50 billion and $ 69 billion over the next seven years to meet a target of 25 GW of offshore wind power.

The share of nuclear power in the electricity mix is today 11 % and this will rise to 12 % under current policies, however it must reach 18 % by 2040 to meet COP21 climate targets yet current prices do not provide the necessary signals to nuclear industry investors.

Meeting the ambitious climate change targets agreed upon in Paris last December will require deep transformation of the global economy — especially in energy systems, transportation systems, and industry — over the next several decades.

26 that the government believes post-2020 marine energy will have a much bigger role to play in meeting low - carbon targets... In Australia, marine energy could provide more than 35 percent of power, according to the Australian Clean Energy Council, a renewables industry group.

Alberta's oil sands producers should be allowed to significantly increase their greenhouse gas emissions, even if that means forcing other sectors to take on additional expensive obligations to meet Canada's climate change targets, an industry executive says.