The phrase "a target for reducing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing goals or objectives related to decreasing something, such as costs, emissions, or waste.
Example: "The company has set a target for reducing its carbon footprint by 50% over the next decade."
Alternatives: "an objective for decreasing" or "a goal for lowering".
For example, New Jersey was the first states to set a target for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
Although the unemployment rate has declined, the FOMC said it remained "elevated" and set itself a target for reducing the numbers out of work.
And unless the welfare reform and work bill is amended, the UK won't even have a target for reducing income poverty".
The rules assign each state a target for reducing its carbon pollution from power plants, but allows states to create their own custom plans for doing so.
So when the government set a target for reducing class sizes within primary schools, these duly fell and secondary school class sizes rose.
The index found only 1.4% of asset owners had reduced their carbon intensity from the previous year and just 2% have a target for reducing the carbon risk for next year.
BEIJING — The Chinese government announced Thursday that it had set a target to slow the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, a day after the Obama administration set a provisional target for reducing United States emissions.
In response to another question from Jarvis, who has introduced a private member's bill to put in place a new target for reducing childhood poverty, the DWP confirmed that the life chances strategy was being replaced by a green paper on social justice in the New Year.
The central terminal of the primary afferent neuron, however, could still be a useful target for reducing spontaneous activity and could therefore play a role in the reduction of OA pain at rest.
The next year, Democrats advanced Senate Bill 32, an ambitious piece of climate legislation, which set a new target for reducing carbon-dioxide emissions: at least forty per cent below 1990 levels by 2030.
But a joint statement released by the White House did not contain a specific target for reducing the $375 billion trade deficit between the two countries, suggesting the White House had not secured the $200 billion reduction that senior Trump administration officials had said was forthcoming.
