That is a valid part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when you want to talk about a certain entity or person decreasing the amount of something that they consume. For example, "John is committed to reducing its consumption of fast food."
An increase in availability increases the consumption of kerosene, implying that a reduction in availability probably due to scarcity may cause a price hike, thereby reducing its consumption since price affects it.
This decrease in MAT activity has been proposed to be an adaptative mechanism to spare ATP, whose levels are usually compromised under pathological situations, by reducing its consumption in SAMe and GSH synthesis and leaving it available for other basic cellular functions [ 17].
Despite reducing its consumption forecast by half a million barrels a day, the agency still expects oil demand to grow by 1.2percentthis yearandand 2.3percentt next year.
Solar urban design is a "new phase" of sustainable urban planning, a phase that has wide horizons of development and could provide new solutions to the worlds energy problem by reducing its consumption and improves the performance of future buildings.
For example, therapy 11 increases X concentration by reducing its consumption in the forward reaction involving parameter k 1, and by reducing its degradation dependent on parameter k -3.
Although the United States cannot unilaterally lower the price of oil, it can reduce its consumption, by using oil more efficiently and by developing alternative sources of fuel.
A nation that must drastically reduce its consumption of fossil fuels must be willing to gamble.
He said cutting subsidies for meat production would be the least controversial way to reduce its consumption.
Because tariffs increase the price of an imported commodity, they may also reduce its consumption.
The "iron law" of public health states that reducing the availability of a substance reduces its consumption, which reduces health harms.
In 2014, the park reduced its consumption by about ten per cent from the year before, simply by installing automatic shutoff valves on bathroom sinks and water fountains.
