abatement

基本解釋

This clever little chart shows the relative opportunity costs of different abatement activities.
它憑借一條溫室氣體“減排成本曲線”成為知名的氣候變化咨詢師，這張小小的圖表巧妙地描繪了不同減排行動之間相對的機會成本。
The project, which targets industrial pollution, sells emission reductions to the Bank and others, with a portion of the revenues going to the government’s new pollution abatement program.
這個定位于工業(yè)污染的項目把減少的排放賣給世行和其它機構，將收入的一部分用于政府新的減輕污染方案。
Forests and plants remove carbon from the atmosphere, potentially accounting for more than 40% of carbon abatement opportunities between now and 2020.
從現在到2020年期間，森林和其他植物吸收大氣中的碳，有可能提供超過40%的碳減排機會。

Residential prices have dropped double digits for three years running with no abatement in sight.
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Since then, many observers have viewed his example as the ultimate in penalty abatement.
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Perhaps the IRS has assessed penalties against the taxpayer for which the taxpayer should seek abatement.
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Abatement means a reduction in the strength or power of something or the reduction of it.