By 2020 the country aims to emit 40% less greenhouse gas than it did in 1990, exceeding the ambitious 30% reduction set by the European Union.
Railtrack faces fines both this year and next unless it meets tough new train delay reduction targets set by regulator Tom Winsor.
The Alberta government website says the province is the first jurisdiction to set mandatory reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions.
The 2010 figures were the first in which annual emissions reduction targets to be set under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act.
Sequestration's critics are legion, but it may be a requirement to meet the 2020 greenhouse-gas-reduction goals most countries set for themselves prior to the Copenhagen talks.
He is open to serious, realistic, concrete proposals about how we can get from here to there when we talk about building a balanced package that achieves the kind of deficit reduction target that he set, and that the Simpson-Bowles commission set, and that others have set.
But he said that the US would not be in a position to meet the European Union demands to set a carbon reduction target of between 25 and 40% by 2020.
The Aberavon AM was very critical of the 3% reduction year on year target set by the One Wales agreement to reduce carbon emissions which has not been reached, and claimed that sustainability's report did not "begin to scratch the surface" of the problem.
Although the government has called for a "significant reduction", it has not set a specific target.
The current recruitment freeze "means the constabulary is set to achieve the reduction in police officer posts by April", a force spokesman said.
The Monetary Policy Committee has not made such a dramatic reduction in rates since it was set up 11 years ago--the last time borrowing costs fell so fast in one day was in 1993.
Japan should develop and advance a regional framework for controlling green house gases that set specific targets for emissions reduction.
The Goals were adopted ten years ago as a set of targets about poverty reduction, conquering hunger, expanding education, improving health care, and protecting the environment.
The BlackBerry maker remains in last place for its complete failure to disclose to Greenpeace its GHG emissions or to set public targets for the reduction of emissions by 2015.
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For example, the United States is working closely with Russia to reach an agreement that would establish links between our computer emergency response teams and our nuclear risk reduction centers to build cooperation and to set up lines of communication in the event of an alarming incident.
The government has made a commitment to tackle climate change and has set a 3% annual emission reduction target.
Moreover, besides having adverse effects on jobs and incomes, a slower recovery would lead to less actual deficit reduction in the short run for any given set of fiscal actions.
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In particular, Obama called for Congress to come back after Christmas and work with him on a limited agreement to prevent tax hikes on the middle class, extend unemployment insurance and set a framework for future deficit reduction steps.
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Ministers are now likely to set a new target of a further reduction of at least 40% by 2010.
For poverty reduction to be a priority, governments have to set themselves targets, not all of which they may find desirable.
And I think it was necessary for us to set out on the path of deficit reduction without delay after the election.
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That, in my view, is the risk we would have run if we had not set out on the path of deficit reduction.
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This broke a taboo on the restructuring of debt to multilateral agencies, and set up a framework for systematic debt reduction in return for overdue economic house-cleaning.
One set of small-scale sunshine-reduction experiments discussed in Asilomar would send plumes of various sulphurous fluids in the stratosphere to find out which would best produce a haze of small particles similar to those that cool the planet after a large volcanic eruption.
This modeled application of an STT-MRAM integrating the memory as cache memory and recorded a two-thirds reduction in power consumption by a standard mobile chip set carrying out standard operating functions, a result confirming that the new MRAM element has the lowest power consumption yet achieved.
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The coalition's greatest achievement has been to set the country on the course of deficit reduction.
But such policies offer a hollow promise of tobacco use reduction, tread on international laws and treaties, and set the EU on a slippery slope towards further restrictions on consumer information.
Although the bank's income has fallen by 14% in the first nine months of the year, this was outstripped by further benefits from cost-cutting - which saw 4, 796 jobs cut - and a reduction in the amount of money it has had to set aside for losses on past loans that have turned bad.
It has been set up by the health board's harm reduction service and will be held every Wednesday evening from 18 May.
Earlier this year the executive set further road traffic accident targets, including the reduction of deaths and injuries by 40% and a 50% reduction in accidents involving children, by 2010.
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