Sentence examples for Abatement from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression of.
- The abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
At the moment it "meets the government's objective that the mechanism will not be a driver of abatement towards the 2020 target", AIG said.
These investments will deliver a positive return to the CEFC, with a cost of abatement in the order of negative $2.40 per tonne CO2e.
In 2013, the CEFC's investments of $536m mobilised on average $2.90 of private sector investment for every $1 of CEFC investment and will achieve abatement of 3.88m tonnes of CO2e per annum.
And that is even before taking into account that much of the abatement bought in this first auction will not happen until after 2020.
The initial auction under Direct Action's $2.55bn emissions reduction fund was revealed last week to have purchased 47m tonnes of carbon dioxide abatement at $14 per tonne – a result environment minister Greg Hunt claimed was "stunning" and proved Australia would easily meet its 2020 target of a 5% reduction compared with 2000 levels by 2020.
That task now requires less than one third of the abatement originally thought necessary because emissions have fallen without government action – partly because of the closure of manufacturing industry.
The report does not produce new modelling or quantify the costs associated with structural adjustment or abatement, but it synthesises a body of existing research to highlight the fact that it is becoming cheaper to cut carbon emissions.
The state authorities in Alabama, for instance, now have a noise-abatement ordinance that makes the thumping sound from car stereos played at more than 80 decibels a punishable offence.
That sort of gap will be hard to close without huge and costly investments in carbon-abatement technologies, or offsets and credits, or both.
Mr Snow at the water department has counted more than 200 entities, from cities and counties to fisheries and reclamation or irrigation districts and even mosquito-abatement boards, that share responsibility in such a way that nobody has any.
Manufactures include medical instruments and supplies, a variety of electrical equipment and instruments (including microelectronic components and systems), pollution-abatement equipment, chemicals, fertilizer, and food products.
