An international standard on water reduction has been launched in an effort to encourage businesses to use water more sustainably.
The Trust decided to branch out from its usual territory of measuring energy use and carbon footprints because there was not a global standard on water reduction, he added.
Many of these businesses stress packaging reduction, water or air conservation, and community development strategies.
For example, almost every manufacturer has targets for carbon footprint, waste reduction, water use, etc.
But technological advances and improvements in recovery methods, as well as reduction of water usage and greenhouse gas emissions, have made oil sands a viable and popular option for the future of U.S. energy.
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It also ignores the considerable value of services derived from the physical, biological, and chemical processes in natural ecosystems, including nutrient recycling, flood risk reduction, water cleaning and storage, climate regulation, and maintenance of biodiversity.
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Look at Seattle, where the Mariners saved themselves a million dollars by drastically cutting their energy usage ( over five years, a 45% reduction in natural gas usage, a 30% reduction in electricity, and a 25% reduction in water usage).
The Director-General and Mr Kuroda agreed to work together to institutionalize cooperation in the field of water management, disaster risk reduction and education.
The boat Race for Water is the ambassador of the Multi One Attitude Foundation, which has chosen to use sailing as a means to raise awareness on two essential issues: the preservation of oceans and the reduction of the water footprint.
The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), a UN system-wide initiative, will amplify the benefits from global to national levels of efforts to adapt to climate variability and change for improved health, water management, disaster risk reduction, agriculture and food security from 2013.
The practice caught on elsewhere, helping the farmers of the basin to get through the recent long drought using far less water than before yet with no reduction in output.
The committee were keen to know why Scottish Water was in a position of surplus reduction in cash terms.
At issue is the sale by Hungary's Ministry of Environment and Water of 800, 000 certified emission-reduction credits (CERs).
Three main topics will be tackled, namely removal of particulate and colloidal matter within drinking water production and in wastewater treatment, and reduction of colloidal carriers mobilised from waste disposals.
Among the improvements is a new 450, 000 square-foot state-of the-art paint shop that will consume dramatically less energy and water, resulting in an estimated 50 percent reduction in energy use per vehicle, GM said.
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In one unusual but revealing study, his researchers repeatedly immersed one side of people's bodies until it showed evidence of habituation, while keeping the other side warm -- and then turned them over and immersed the side that had never been in the cold water and found that there was still a significant reduction in their cold shock response.
He said any further tightening of water regulations must not leave farmers and growers facing a reduction in access.
This negative impact was modestly softened by our rollout of several water-saving initiatives, which we estimate will contribute a reduction of 1.4 percent annually starting this year.
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It said it would work with Thames Water and the Environment Agency to review the effectiveness of flood risk reduction measures.
This will most likely entail increasing the corn ethanol mix in petroleum, running up food costs, depleting water supplies, and causing environmental land damage while affording no net CO2 emission reduction.
The Youth Delegates will also have the opportunity to exchange ideas with Young Professionals of the UNESCO Science Sector specializing in the fields of water, biodiversity, ecology, earth sciences, science education, disaster risk reduction, and science policy.
Water is the common thread that links together much of what you addressed: poverty reduction, food security, and reducing vulnerability to disasters.
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.
Its Ohio River basin water-quality trading project will allow those facing high pollution-control costs to buy reduction credits from those whose costs are lower.
By the end of September, Mr Chidambaram should also receive a report recommending the reduction over five years of India's ubiquitous subsidies, on power, water and a great deal else.
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