What we want to know is what is the trade off between these costs and these benefits: what mixture of climate change and the reduction in the use of fossil fuels leaves the maximum possible number of people as well off as they can be?
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The department hopes to see an 80% reduction in the use of carrier bags as a result of the levy.
In a report, 'Paper Cuts: Recovering the Paper Landscape', the institute says a reduction in use is essential, because of the consumption of raw materials that is involved in its production and disposal.
These shared components reduce complexity as well as add to the reduction in energy use and space.
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But the reduction in oil use from the first-generation Volt is negligible.
Those new features include advanced stain-fighting power, of course, but they also deliver energy savings and a reduction in the use of potentially toxic chemicals.
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Then, as now, reduction in the use of fossil fuels, de facto restrictions on the use of automobiles, higher taxes and forced reductions in living standards were the recommended policy responses.
President Bush himself has called for a 20 percent reduction in gasoline use over the next 10 years.
The banker's philosophy about making credit decisions was to use the concepts of asset enhancement and liabilities reduction as a framework for looking at financial structure and power.
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He wants to see an immediate reduction in pesticide use until the effects are better understood, and is pressing for the formation of a European Union environment unit to study the problem.
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These steps include the completion of a new strategic weapons treaty with Russia, a rebalancing of US nuclear policy towards a reduction in the potential use of nuclear weapons and their development, and a commitment to ask the US Senate to ratify the treaty banning nuclear tests.
If you use the January baseline that everybody else has used, there is enough deficit reduction to do the dollar-for-dollar to put you into 2013.
Hitachi, in flat-panel TV business, reduce fixed costs through the second half of fiscal 2009 from fiscal 2007, the reduction of overseas operations, including measures to improve profitability through the use of procurement, building a business model that specializes in technology management with low-risk differentiated has been working on.
Stagecoach is the single biggest operator of buses in the town and if it decided not use the bus station, there would be significant reduction in its use.
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Not to be forgotten, the recent and continuing reduction in coal use in America will be offset by increases in coal exports.
Any reduction in the amount of fuel we use translates into fewer convoys, and thus fewer lives lost protecting that fuel.
Rwanda had made good use of the aid money and there had been massive poverty reduction in the country, Mr Blair said.
Although the number of people with free bus passes has increased since 2006, the study found a reduction in overall bus use and walking.
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When Utah decided to close state offices on Fridays in 2008, the result was a 13 percent reduction in energy use.
Have the 1990s, with the cold war over, seen a reduction in drug use?
The Department of the Environment hopes to see an 80% reduction in bag use.
He says that he expects "some reduction in use" of drug-coated stents based on the panel's deliberations.
Water-cooling of this sort could also make a more direct contribution to the reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions, by promoting the use of solar energy.
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.
The markets are perfectly capable of winnowing things out on their own, and have already created a dramatic reduction in US greenhouse gas emissions thanks to the increased use of natural gas in power generation.
But the fact that centers were able to use at least one radiation-reduction technique in most patients "should serve as a wake-up call to cardiac CT laboratories that do not routinely use these methods, " Einstein writes in his editorial.
The card also includes a high-quality beam-forming microphone, which leverages CrystalVoice Echo Cancellation, CrystalVoice Focus and CrystalVoice Active Noise Reduction to enable gamers for the first time ever to use speakers and a desktop microphone while gaming without any sound other than the gamer's voice being transmitted through the microphone.
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The participants reduced their overall cigarette use by 40% and reported a substantial reduction in cigarette cravings.
The executive order sets a goal of a 10 percent reduction energy use in all federal facilities during peak energy-use hours.
One model which materialists use for their reductive view of consciousness is from physics: for instance, in the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics, the temperature of a gas is explained in terms of the mean kinetic energy of its constituent molecules.
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