Baseline and objectives of the project Sample Clauses

Baseline and objectives of the project. The proposed project and tool perfectly suit the requirement of the call proposal and would be a significant contribution to the Work Programme 2006 “ePARTICIPATION in the context of legislative processes”. The baseline of the project “Enabling citizen's initiative to eParticipation" is to develop a tool based on a modern ICT applications, which can play an essential role in helping to address new challenges in the involvement of citizens in decisions-making processes, to cope with the increasing complexity of legislative processes and to improve legislation as well as to help to reduce democratic deficits. In doing so, the tool will provide a good and potentially guiding example of ways to use ICTs for a better legislative process and for improved public participation at various levels of governmental decision making. In brief, the tool will be able to address the two topics of legislation and public participation, which are of central importance at EU, national and local level. Referring to the objectives for 2006, being put forward in the above mentioned work programme, the tool would mainly address the legislation proposal formation stage and the debate on draft legislation. In this regard, the tool will provide an opportunity for the visualisation of arguments and dialogue and an approach to reduce the complexity of legislation and to improve access and deliberation by non-specialists and regular citizens. Furthermore, the tool will provide a way to organise and structure legislative information, focusing on citizen’s and government’s needs and interests. The tool clearly offers the possibility to enhance interaction between citizens, parliaments and governments. Moreover, however, the tool will have as well further reaching application possibilities, as will be demonstrated later. Concerning the importance of the proposed service in terms of its public interest and its anticipated impact, the proposed tool has without any doubt the potential to make a significant and precious contribution. Based on a far reaching analysis and the substantial improvement of the already running “Today I Decide”-tool of the Estonian State Chancellery, a tool will be developed, which will allow people to have a fundamental impact on the work of their government and to provide citizens with a possibility to speak up in the legislative process on various governmental levels. The tool will be able to address problems of democratic deficits and to solve the problem of politi...
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  • Scope and Objectives 1. This Partnership Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the “Agreement”) defines the rights and obligations of the Parties and sets forth the terms and conditions of their cooperation in the implementation of the Project.

  • Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals The goals of this Agreement are to: ● Reduce wildfire risk related to the tree mortality crisis; ● Provide a financial model for funding and scaling proactive forestry management and wildfire remediation; ● Produce renewable bioenergy to spur uptake of tariffs in support of Senate Bill 1122 Bio Market Agreement Tariff (BioMat) for renewable bioenergy projects, and to meet California’s other statutory energy goals; ● Create clean energy jobs throughout the state; ● Reduce energy costs by generating cheap net-metered energy; ● Accelerate the deployment of distributed biomass gasification in California; and ● Mitigate climate change through the avoidance of conventional energy generation and the sequestration of fixed carbon from biomass waste. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefits of greater electricity reliability, lower costs, and increased safety by creating a strong market demand for forestry biomass waste and generating cheap energy. This demand will increase safety by creating an economic driver to support forest thinning, thus reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire and the associated damage to investor-owned utility (IOU) infrastructure, such as transmission lines and remote substations. Preventing this damage to or destruction of ratepayer-supported infrastructure lowers costs for ratepayers. Additionally, the ability of IOUs to use a higher- capacity Powertainer provides a much larger offset against the yearly billion-dollar vegetation management costs borne by IOUs (and hence by ratepayers). The PT+’s significant increase in waste processing capacity also significantly speeds up and improves the economics of wildfire risk reduction, magnifying the benefits listed above. The PT+ will directly increase PG&E’s grid reliability by reducing peak loading by up to 250 kilowatt (kW), and has the potential to increase grid reliability significantly when deployed at scale. The technology will provide on-demand, non- weather dependent, renewable energy. The uniquely flexible nature of this energy will offer grid managers new tools to enhance grid stability and reliability. The technology can be used to provide local capacity in hard-to-serve areas, while reducing peak demand. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the achievement of California’s statutory energy goals by substantially reducing the LCOE of distributed gasification, helping drive uptake of the undersubscribed BioMAT program and increasing the potential for mass commercial deployment of distributed biomass gasification technology, particularly through net energy metering. This breakthrough will help California achieve its goal of developing bioenergy markets (Bioenergy Action Plan 2012) and fulfil its ambitious renewable portfolio standard (SB X1-2, 2011-2012; SB350, 2015). The PT+ will also help overcome barriers to achieving California’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction (AB 32, 2006) and air quality improvement goals. It reduces greenhouse gas and criteria pollutants over three primary pathways: 1) The PT+’s increased capacity and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) module expand the displacement of emissions from conventional generation; 2) the biochar offtake enables the sequestration of hundreds of tons carbon that would otherwise have been released into the atmosphere; and 3) its increased processing capacity avoids GHG and criteria emissions by reducing the risk of GHG emissions from wildfire and other forms of disposal, such as open pile burning or decomposition. The carbon sequestration potential of the biochar offtake is particularly groundbreaking because very few technologies exist that can essentially sequester atmospheric carbon, which is what the PT+ enables when paired with the natural forest ecosystem––an innovative and groundbreaking bio-energy technology, with carbon capture and storage. Additionally, as noted in the Governor’s Clean Energy Jobs Plan (2011), clean energy jobs are a critical component of 2 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) requires projects funded by the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) to result in ratepayer benefits. The California Public Utilities Commission, which established the EPIC in 2011, defines ratepayer benefits as greater reliability, lower costs, and increased safety (See CPUC “Phase 2” Decision 00-00-000 at page 19, May 24, 2012, xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/PublishedDocs/WORD_PDF/FINAL_DECISION/167664.PDF). 3 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) also requires EPIC-funded projects to lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers that prevent the achievement of the state’s statutory and energy goals. California’s energy goals. When deployed at scale, the PT+ will result in the creation of thousands of jobs across multiple sectors, including manufacturing, feedstock supply chain (harvesting, processing, and transportation), equipment operation, construction, and project development. Additional Co-benefits: ● Annual electricity and thermal savings; ● Expansion of forestry waste markets; ● Expansion/development of an agricultural biochar market; ● Peak load reduction; ● Flexible generation; ● Energy cost reductions; ● Reduced wildfire risk; ● Local air quality benefits; ● Water use reductions (through energy savings); and ● Watershed benefits.

  • Objectives and Commitments 7.1 The Objectives of the Parties to this Agreement are:

  • Goals and Objectives The Parties acknowledge and agree that the specific goals and objectives of the Parties in entering into this Agreement are to:

  • Project Goals The schedule, budget, physical, technical and other objectives for the Project shall be defined.

  • Specific Objectives In accordance with Articles 34 and 35 of the Cotonou Agreement, the specific objectives of this Agreement are to:

  • Principles and Objectives 9.1.1 This Article recognizes and reflects the following principles:

  • Purpose and Objectives The purposes and objectives of this Agreement are:

  • OBJECTIVES OF THE AGREEMENT 7.1 The parties agree that key objectives of this agreement are;

  • Aims and Objectives 1.9.1 The aims and objectives of this Agreement are to:

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