Sentence examples for commitments to carbon reduction from inspiring English sources
And the announcement this week of the commitments to carbon reduction that countries were willing to accept under the Copenhagen "accord" caused scarcely a ripple.There are two explanations for this sangfroid.
Research by Lucid and Urjanet indicates that 73% of businesses expect their commitment to carbon reductions and sustainability to be the same while 21% plan to increase their involvement.
"Both major parties had strong commitments to carbon pollution reduction based on a range of conditions," he said.
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In addition, Mr. Bush, unlike President Clinton, opposes the commitment to carbon dioxide reductions made at an international gathering in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997.
Its BREEAM excellence rating means it will also contribute to UWS' commitment to 20% carbon reduction by 2014.
Although U.S. and Chinese leaders signed several agreements on clean energy initiatives, in part because of job creation goals, neither side was ready to make any binding commitments on carbon reduction.
The prospects for a meaningful worldwide climate agreement probably improved last November, with the election of Barack Obama, but his commitments to economic recovery and carbon reduction — to bringing the country out of recession while also reducing U.S. greenhouse emissions to seventeen per cent of their 2005 level by 2050 — don't pull in the same direction.
