Sentence examples for legislated target from inspiring English sources

What the government did when it was elected was to scrap the Brumby Labor government's legislated target to cut the state's greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.

"In order to change any legislated target there must be, in the words of the Climate Change Act, a 'significant change in circumstances'," David Kennedy, chief executive of the CCC, told the Guardian.

In its annual report to Holyrood, the committee urged it to adopt "stretching" targets to install low carbon heating in 30% of homes by 2030; increase electric vehicle sales to 65% of new car and van sales by 2030, and cut emissions from electricity production from 220 gCO2/kWh to below Scotland's legislated target of 50 gCO2/kWh, by greatly expanding renewables.

However, alongside legislated targets to reduce carbon emissions, there are legal obligations to protect, maintain and improve the condition of the marine environment.

The article concludes on the inappropriateness of the values legislated as target indicators, and stresses the need for their immediate revision.

In light of the chancellor's gas strategy, we need the government to explain how it reconciles its plans with the climate change committee's warning that it will breach our legislated carbon targets.

In his letter, Miliband says: "The Labour government legislated for the target of cutting the UK's carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 on 1990 levels in the climate change act.

He could also put the states back in their box by setting a more ambitious federal renewable energy target, legislated over a longer time horizon, to give certainty to investors, who are again fretting about having to endure another toxic cycle of finger pointing about climate change.

In 2012 the ACT Government legislated greenhouse gas targets to reduce its emissions by 40 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020, 80 per cent by 2050, with no net emissions by 2060.

They have legislated the goal of inflation targeting and the target, albeit with varying degrees of flexibility, and thus give the practice strong political endorsement.

As the metal content in tea is not legislated, the performance criteria targeted for the LoD for aqueous plant extracts were 10% of the limit values (μg L−1) for drinking water: As - 10; Cd - 5; Cr - 50; Cu - 2,000; Pb - 10; Ni - 20; Fe - 200; Al - 200; and Mn - 50 (Council of the European Union [1998]).