Sentences with phrase «co2 emissions reductions goals»

Those proposals, announced over the past year, aim to reduce climate change - driving carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel - fired power plants and set power plant CO2 emissions reductions goals for each state.

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Economic value of energy efficiency can drive reductions in global CO2 emissions End - use energy efficiency can deliver a third of the CO ₂ savings necessary by 2050 to meet climate goals 17 April 2018

The Global Carbon Project's analysis, which compares the world's actual CO2 output with four generations of emissions scenarios used by the IPCC, concludes that «significant emission reductions are needed by 2020 to keep 2 degrees Celsius as a feasible goal,» echoing the recent U.N. assessment.

We are not making the investments needed to meet a long - term goal of 80 % reductions in CO2 emissions by mid century.

These new powertrain products — combined with weight reductions of 100 kg (220 lbs) on next - generation vehicles, improved aerodynamic design to reduce drag, and the introduction of electric devices like the fuel - saving stop / start system called i - stop (currently available in Japan and Europe)-- will contribute to meeting the Mazda's global 2015 fuel economy improvement goal of 30 %, with an accompanying drop in CO2 emissions of 23 % (compared to 2008).

What's really meant in a comment like «if one's goal is to limit climate change, one would always be better off spending the money on immediate reduction of CO2 emissions» is «if one's goal is limiting LONG - TERM climate change».

Since, if I understood correctly, scientists point out that the reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere, even if all emissions stopped today, will take decades, I believe positively and steadily moving toward the goal will be most effective for the long - term.

New York is part of RGGI so there already is a tax (auction proceeds) on electrical generating unit CO2 emissions, there is a Climate Action Plan goal of an 80 % reduction of CO2 emissions from 1990 levels by 2050, and the State's draft Energy Plan is about to go public.

As part of this commitment, Chevrolet is investing in local, community - based carbon - reduction projects throughout the U.S. with a goal of reducing up to eight million tons of CO2 emissions.

Both industry at large and energy providers are currently confronted with serious energy policy challenges in Europe: The EU's climate and energy goals stipulate a 40 % reduction of CO2 emissions by 2030, which poses almost unsolvable problems for energy - intensive industries.

The Heathrow protesters» running battles with the police might give the impression that the protest was radical, and its aims at odds with the establishment, but Climate Camp's ultimate goal of 90 per cent reductions in UK CO2 emissions by 2050 is only 10 per cent more than the Conservative party has pledged.

The Clean Air Act lacks any other mechanism for economy - wide CO2 regulation, and the Administration will say it is legally and politically justified by both the inability of existing policy to meet either the specific U.S. commitment at Paris, an 80 percent emissions reduction, or the longer - term, 2 - degree goal to which the world is collectively committed.

The EIA's projections for carbon reductions estimate that the plan, as it is proposed, will likely realize Obama's stated goal of cutting U.S. CO2 emissions 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030.

The Government would therefore like to enshrine the commitments in the Energy White Paper 2003 to reduce CO2 emissions by 60 % on 1990 levels by 2050; and to achieve «real progress» by 2020 (which would equate to reductions of 26 - 32 %) towards the long - term goal within a new legal carbon management framework (outlined in Section 5).

The LEGO Group conducted an engagement programme with suppliers, Engage to Reduce (E2R) to report and minimise CO2 emissions, and during the next three years it will step - up the programme to include more than 80 % of its supply chain and set goals for CO2 reduction based on climate science.

The implication: in addition to rapid reductions in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use, we'll likely need big industrial CCS processes to generate negative emissions via approaches like sustainable bioenergy coupled with CCS and / or direct air capture (DAC) + sequestration to make our climate goals a reality.

Using a 20 - year GWP for methane, the 50 % goal would achieve reductions of over 2,300 MTCO2e (the equivalent of India and the EU's combined CO2 emissions from coal combustion in 2012) and the 75 % goal would reduce emissions by around 3,400 MTCO2e (nearly as much as all CO2 emissions from coal combustion from OECD countries in 2012).

While a shift in electric generation to natural gas from coal has played a significant role in recent reductions in U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, more will need to be done for the U.S. to meet its goal of reducing GHG emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

The author contends, based on a recent NASA study by Drew Shindell of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, that reduction of particulate emissions is hurting efforts to reduce global warming from CO2 — an own goal by the Green Team.

«The goal of this process is ultimately to ensure that when the next generation of aircraft types enter service, there will be guaranteed reductions in international CO2 emissions,» Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, president of the Icao council said.