Petrol taxes are designed to achieve three things: to reduce congestion, to reduce pollution and to raise money.
Provincial governments will also use the funds to build more efficient heating systems and to reduce pollution from coal-fired power plants.
Ferretti argued emissions trading allows companies such as these to make money on "hidden assets, " such as efforts to reduce pollution.
Beijing is under pressure to embrace more environmentally-friendly energy supplies to reduce pollution levels across the country and set a lead in the global fight against climate change.
The oil and gas industry has said the EPA has overestimated emissions of methane and argued that they already were working to reduce pollution, without the agency's intervention.
This suggests that the familiar bell-shaped curve reflects no immutable law, and that intelligent government policies might well help to reduce pollution levels even while countries are still relatively poor.
To reduce pollution, between July 20th and September 20th the city is aiming to halve the number of private vehicles on the roads by allowing those with odd-number licence plates to drive one day, and those with even-number plates the next.
Mr. HINCHMAN: We've chosen the stricter California program because it's the only policy option available to us that we can use to reduce pollution emissions from the transportation sector, which is the most polluting and fastest-growing problem in terms of air quality in the Northeast.
Authorities have asked the public to set off fewer fireworks in Beijing to reduce pollution, a new anti-extravagance drive has prompted government officials and state-owned companies to cancel their banquets at high-end hotels and a campaign against food waste is leading to half-portions in restaurants.
Scene Five: Now we have the richly childed Al Gore telling us that the way to reduce global warming pollution is to reduce family size.
In 2006 the Illinois Pollution Control Board adopted mercury pollution standards of its own, which required all coal plants to install technologies to reduce mercury pollution by 90% or more by 2009 and 2013.
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Should Africa sit down and wait for the major players to reduce industrial pollution?
Bottom line: Obama is likely to take more steps to reduce the pollution blamed for climate change.
MTBE, an additive mixed with petrol to reduce air pollution, had caused it to leak into water supplies.
In Beijing the authorities have shut down some factories and taken cars off the roads to try to reduce the pollution.
The legacy of the Great Smog was the Clean Air Act of 1956 which introduced a number of measures to reduce air pollution.
When we put in place new common-sense rules to reduce air pollution, we create new jobs building and installing all sorts of pollution-control technology.
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Tom Natan, at the National Environmental Trust, says that in the past, public disclosure has been a powerful force in getting businesses to reduce air pollution.
Moreover, it is economic growth that has provided the resources enabling us to dramatically reduce pollution and improve the environment, without trashing our standard of living.
But Ma doubts the authorities' ad hoc approach -- such as shutting down factories and construction sites to reduce air pollution -- would work in combating desertification.
When we put in place new common-sense rules to reduce air pollution, like we did in December, it was to prevent our kids from breathing in dangerous chemicals.
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But, eventually the government took action to reduce the pollution.
Homebase says it works "very closely with suppliers and in-store colleagues to ensure that customers are informed about how to reduce light pollution and considerate lighting when they purchase outdoor lighting".
The idea is to experiment with projects that pay farmers to reduce nutrient pollution, using money that would otherwise have been spent on expensive technology for use by institutions such as municipal water authorities.
Make a commitment to reduce carbon pollution.
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And it's often forgotten because this is an executive action that he did in concert with major automobile companies, but taken by itself this single action did more to reduce carbon pollution than any other action that has been taken, in our view.
Insurers can also encourage the transition to a low-carbon economy one built to forestall the worst effects of climate change by offering products and services that encourage clean and efficient energy, encouraging customers to adopt climate-change mitigation plans, and encouraging policymakers to act to reduce carbon pollution.
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One week prior to the summit, Jairam Ramesh, member and minister of state for environment and forests, told India's Parliament that the country should plan to reduce the ratio of pollution to production by 20% to 25% compared with 2005 levels, but like China, not accept a legally binding emissions reduction target.
The Compass4D project aims to reduce congestion and pollution caused by stop-start driving.
And, yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet -- because climate change is not a hoax.
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