Sentences with phrase «with voluntary reduction»

† The subsidized yield reflects the yield calculation with voluntary reduction currently in effect.

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This reduction was driven primarily by restructuring charges associated with the fiscal 2017 store closures and voluntary early retirement program.

The government should establish a national food waste reduction target, with retailers forced to publish figures on their food waste, after a voluntary approach has proved «inadequate», says Parliament's EFRA Committee.

«With our Francesco Rinaldi To Be Healthy pasta sauce, we've elected to participate in the voluntary national sodium reduction initiative,» said LiDestri.

While not commenting directly on Coles - whose new free - range standard is 10,000 hens per hectare, almost a seven-fold reduction in space from the voluntary guidelines - ACCC commissioner Sarah Court said the watchdog believed 10,000 hens per hectare was not consistent with consumers» understanding of free range.

It set voluntary targets for salt levels in 62 categories of packaged food and 25 categories of restaurant food to guide food company salt reductions of 25 % by 2014, with an intermediary milestone in 2012.

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].»

A cross-sectional analysis of state government employees from Sally Coleman Selden and Donald P. Moynihan found that states with higher pay for state employees experience lower turnover.26 This reduction in turnover from increased compensation helps to explain the common finding that employees» productivity can increase when they are paid higher wages.27 Furthermore, Selden and Moynihan found that states with a higher percentage of state employees covered by collective bargaining agreements have lower voluntary turnover, even after taking into account the effect of unionization on pay increases.28

The European Union, home of the EU Emissions Trading System, hosts the largest number of buyers — both compliance - driven and voluntary — since even companies in unregulated sectors are more familiar with market - based mechanisms for emissions reductions.

Keurig Green Mountain coffee roasters challenged their own success with voluntary carbon reduction targets and, in partnership with NativeEnergy, helped create the

Sofidel Group (known in Italy mainly for its Regina brand) is re-launching its commitment to the environment by broadening its agreement with WWF's Climate Savers, based on the voluntary definition of substantial reduction plans for carbon dioxide emissions through the implementation of innovative strategies and technologies.

Keurig Green Mountain coffee roasters challenged their own success with voluntary carbon reduction targets and, in partnership with NativeEnergy, helped create the Alex Little Soldier Wind Turbine project — the nation's first, tribal - owned, large scale wind turbine on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota.

Let's say we could get a reduction of today's 30 GtCO2 / year down to 20 Gt / year CO2 by year 2030 with this voluntary plan.

Reasons for the 2006 - 2012 trend include an increase in plunger lift use for liquids unloading, increased voluntary reductions over that time period (including those associated with pneumatic devices), and RECs use for well completions and workovers with hydraulic fracturing.

The International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA) has become synonymous with best practice in the voluntary carbon market and all members only use offsets verified under the most widely respected compliance and voluntary standards.

In order to address this concern, states with carbon regulations have typically included mechanisms to preserve the carbon reduction benefit of voluntary renewable energy.

The ability to influence policy related to voluntary carbon markets and to respond with other carbon reduction and offset providers, by speaking with a unified and respected voice, to Governments, NGOs and other stakeholders.

The least extreme advocate voluntary poverty — the most extreme the reduction of global population to a few hundred million this century with the bulk of the Earth left to «rewild».

Prior to her current responsibilities, Lori was integrally involved in AGA's pipeline safety and environmental advocacy, including participating in the development of the EPA STAR program to encourage voluntary operations reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, serving on the executive steering team of the Department of Transportation's distribution integrity management program, and participating in the launch of the Common Ground Alliance — a collaborative organization with the goal of reducing excavation damage of underground facilities.

As we have seen above, the commitments made according to the Copenhagen Accord and Cancun agreements that have been ratified by the Cancun agreements leave at the very minimum a 5Gt gap between emissions levels that will be achieved if there is full compliance with the voluntary emissions reductions and what is necessary to prevent 2 °C rise, a warming amount that most scientists believe could cause very dangerous climate change.

First Climate has long - standing experience with the registration of international emission reduction projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the voluntary Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) as well as the Gold Standard.

This time, they have proposed a formula of «concentric differentiation» that sets out three main bands of responsibility: rich developed nations in the centre with large mandatory emission cuts, poorer nations on the outside with zero obligations and great flexibility, and emerging economies in the middle with a basket of options for significant voluntary reductions.

I had a brief chat with Kelley right after she posted the report, and asked her how voluntary offsets usually fit into a company's emission - reduction program.

Chidiak, M., 2002: Lessons from the French experience with voluntary agreements for greenhouse - gas reduction.

With the EU highly unlikely to use offsets unless government agrees to deepen a proposed carbon reduction target beyond 40 %, the main source of demand for forest offsets in the short term might be restricted to California's carbon reduction scheme and the voluntary carbon market.

The American Carbon Registry, a leading voluntary and California compliance Cap - and - Trade Offset Project Registry, in 2012 approved a methodology developed by Tierra Resources, which quantifies the greenhouse gas emission reductions and carbon sequestration associated with restoring degraded deltaic wetlands in the Mississippi Delta.

The program, called «CORSIA» (Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), will be phased in, with a voluntary pilot phase running from 2021 through 2023, then a second voluntary phase from 2024 through 2026, and a final phase, running from 2027 through 2035 that is mandatory for all countries except the very poor.

The time is right for companies around the world to demonstrate leadership on climate action by aligning corporate voluntary greenhouse gas reduction targets with climate science.

Experience with the voluntary carbon market shows REDD projects can lead to real reductions, if only a portion of avoided emissions is tradable, it factors in the total deforestation in a jurisdiction and creates a buffer for uncertainty.

In 2006 Nike completed a decade - long voluntary GHG emission reduction project to replace the gas in the air bags in their athletic shoes, which were originally filled with sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), a greenhouse gas 22,200 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

Negotiate a voluntary disclosure agreement, tax pardon, or tax amnesty on the taxpayer's behalf, and bringing the client up - to - date with his or her unfiled taxes or unreported offshore assets without prosecution or penalty and often with an interest reduction;

Wife argued on appeal that the trial court erred when it found Husband's voluntary termination of employment justified a reduction of the spousal maintenance obligation in accordance with A.R.S. Section 25 - 327 (A).

In addition, cooperation with CVM is considered for the reduction of penalties and negotiation of lower payments in settlement agreements, as also happens with mitigation of the impacts of the violation and voluntary disclosures.

However, more secretaries opted to take voluntary redundancy than were required, with 41 taking up the offer, equating to a reduction of 30.3 full - time equivalent (FTE) roles.

When a voluntary reduction is implemented, it must comply with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).