We spoke with the local lighthouse keeper, Victor de la Toba, and learned about his efforts to track turtle mortality and encourage shifts in fishing practices.
It installed more than 20,000 smart meters, connected them via a fibre-optic network, launched a website to track power use and has started to offer pricing plans that encourage shifting consumption to off-peak hours.
When asked what would encourage testing, participants referenced educational campaigns and provision of food supplies to encourage shifting of priorities, as well as other services to meet survival needs and alleviate barriers to testing.
Used effectively, green taxes should encourage a shift towards environmentally-friendly behaviour.
That would further encourage the shift of jobs, investment and profit abroad — exactly the wrong policy direction.
His purpose, along with cofounders Richard Ely and Henry Carter Adams, was to encourage a shift in thinking away from laissez-faire policies.
We want to encourage a shift in the way that young people are taught; we want to encourage schools to embrace new approaches and new ways of working.
To encourage the shift, Seoul is buying electric cars for public use and offering subsidies for transport companies switching to green vehicles.
Mr. Cha says the government's strategy has helped encourage a shift in perceptions of environmental industries, which were largely overlooked even a few years ago.
Nonetheless, the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's health care law, has helped encourage a shift to Advocate's payment model.
The 8% and 10% taxes on other cars will not change.The government says the new tax will encourage a shift to more fuel-efficient cars.
