So we know that moving forward it's going to be necessary if we're going to meet those targets for some changes to take place among those countries.
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Fuel duty has also served as a useful environmental weapon, since it accurately targets a pollutant and changes behaviour.
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"The club has decided that, to achieve its well known targets, it is essential to make changes to the management, " said a Southampton statement.
As far as fixing the problem, it helps that governments are moving toward harnessing alternative energy resources in order to tackle climate change--but the time line for meeting international climate-change targets by 2020 and beyond means policy changes are too gentle, the group says.
Critics fear the changes are being "rushed through" to meet Treasury targets, and that the new system will drive more people into poverty.
The government said those targets "didn't work" and its changes were simplifying the planning system.
We're working on them with the police, trusting in their professionalism, asking them to make the changes that are necessary in return for tearing up the pointless targets and paperwork and giving them the freedom to do the job they desperately want to do.
The lawsuit targets the plane operator for failing to make the necessary changes to the floatplane.
With oil prices so high, small changes can save a lot of money, which is why companies that adopted ambitious emissions-reduction targets around the time of Copenhagen have tended to stiffen, not slacken, them.
We know from other research that heavy users are highly resistant to price changes, so if high consumers of sugar sweetened drinks are equally resistant, soda taxes will miss their intended targets.
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