The Climate Group launched LightSavers in 2009, supported by the HSBC Climate Partnership, with the goal to accelerate the market adoption of outdoor LED lighting and smart-lighting controls.
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The idea of results-based finance is simple: instead of financing programs aimed at achieving your goal (whether lighting homes or immunizing children), pay a financial reward for the achievement of the goal and let the market find the best way to achieve it.
Samsung has a publicly-stated goal of becoming the leader in this market, and the company has a strong history of setting a goal of market leadership in key markets, then moving steadily towards that goal until it has been achieved.
In the past, firms were run with the goal of maximising market share (and hence jobs) rather than profits.
The goal was to keep the individual market premiums low by balancing out costs in the exchanges, so that the young and healthy would equally participate.
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Homeownership always has been the goal of the American worker, but as the economic momentum, which drove the market dropped dramatically, that goal has become harder to reach.
The New York Times captured the gleeful mood as the market approached its next goal post.
"To achieve the stated policy goal of stabilising growth and the jobs market, Beijing must step up policy easing to lift infrastructure investment in the coming months, " said Qu Hongbin from HSBC in Hong Kong.
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"Our goal in the domestic market remains simple and consistent: we intend to retain the market share that enables us to maximise profit, " said Mr Joyce.
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The next goal: 20 million members, or the mass market.
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The goal then is to create a fair market that enforces equal access to the grid and that allows big buyers a choice of supplier.
One partner might want the goal to be nothing short of market domination.
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Mirabilis's goal is to corner the market, says Yossi Vardi, the company's first investor and head of business development.
When we last saw Connectify, it had brought its Dispatch internet connection combining software to Kickstarter, doubled its funding goal and launched the product into market.
Our goal is to make the common market for European goods and services more accessible to businesses and consumers, boost our economy and set an international standard for online privacy.
For fiscal 2012, Tyson expects industry production of chicken to incur a slight decrease from the previous fiscal year with the goal of a gradual improvement of market pricing conditions.
Kerner's ambitions rest on his goal to vastly expand the market for trading in privately held shares--from a few well-known names like Facebook, Twitter and Zynga to hundreds of smaller, earlier-stage names.
Second, the G-20 emphasizes fostering a partnership of developed, emerging market and developing countries that share the goal of achieving sustained economic growth.
The FTP model lends itself to this goal and was also the right fit for our target market.
The program's goal is to increase the IT hiring pool while seeding the market with Sun-related expertise, says Pat Deagman, Sun's vice president and general manager of enterprise network services in Palo Alto, Calif.
The goal here is to further reduce mortgage costs and thus help the housing market.
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It was a plea for Europe to change itself for its own sake - abandoning the shared goal of "ever-closer union", accepting that the single market rather than the single currency was the key shared ambition and agreeing that powers should be returned to member states not inexorably transferred to Brussels.
Their goal: to make the travel booking market have the beauty of the social web.
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Our goal is to show that the market in the space between giving and investing, the market at the intersection of money and meaning, was not only real, but that it is big and growing.
That, in turn, would severely undercut the credibility of Europe's carbon market as a key element of the bloc's goal to reduce emissions 20% from 1990 levels by 2020.
That, in turn, would severely undercut the credibility of Europe's carbon market as a major contributor to the bloc's goal of reducing carbon emissions 20% from 1990 levels by 2020.
Holding rates of interest far below market levels (which is the goal of stimulus) alters patterns of consumption, savings, and investment.
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Microsoft was able to achieve this goal not only by catering to the core market (gamers) but by serving the broader market of mainstream entertainment consumers.
GM's ambition is to double its share in short order, as part of its goal to grab 20% of the world market, up from 16% today.
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