Emissions mitigation action is now an integral part of responsible corporate management.
Not exact matches
Amid the bureaucratic fog of
emission targets, «Annex I parties» and
mitigation actions, it is easy to lose sight of the goal.
Establishing a single global standard for reporting greenhouse gas
emissions will empower local governments to accelerate their
actions and access funding for
mitigation and adaptation projects,» said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, chairman of C40.
The discussions, they said, should culminate with the adoption of more ambitious economywide
emission reduction targets by developed countries and
mitigation action plans from developing countries at the next major U.N. climate conference slated for Doha, Qatar, in November.
Industrialized countries like the United States will report on the progress of their
emission reduction commitments, while developing countries will report on their
mitigation actions — a slight distinction, but an important one.
In the future, enhanced N2O
emissions from natural soil such as sub-Arctic tundra might mask the isotope effect caused by
mitigation actions derived from agriculture.
They scrutinized adaptation plans which incorporate urban planning and development
actions that lead to the abatement or reduction of vulnerability to climate change, and
mitigation plans that include
actions such as improved energy efficiency and renewable energy generation to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions.
Partnerships are built around various drivers: for example supporting the Polar regions in a period of rapid change; educating the public about polar sciences and climate; contributing to climate change awareness;
mitigation and adaptation; defining and implementing CSR
action plan; implementing technology solutions for low carbon
emissions.
Mitigation — reducing
emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate
action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their
emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate
action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.
AGW / CC
Mitigation — 22 national academies and societies of science from around the Commonwealth call for urgent Government
action and Net Zero GHG
Emissions
The agency chose these
actions because it said they all meet these criteria: They can result in significant near - term
emissions reductions, do not curb economic growth, rely only on existing technologies and proven policies and produce significant benefits beyond climate change
mitigation.
By committing to targets for
emissions cuts and financing for developing countries for
mitigation, forest protection and adaptation, G8 countries can build trust and confidence and lead the way on global climate
action - both for the MEF as well as for the UN negotiations which will culminate in Copenhagen in December.
All -LCB- developed country Parties -RCB--LCB- all Annex I Parties and all current European Union (EU) member States, EU candidate countries and potential candidate countries that are not included in Annex I to the Convention -RCB--LCB- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries, countries that are not OECD members but whose economic development stages are equivalent to those of the OECD members, and countries that voluntarily wish to be treated as developed countries -RCB--LCB- shall -RCB--LCB- should -RCB- adopt legally binding
mitigation commitments or
actions including economy - wide quantified
emission limitation and reduction objectives16 for the period from -LCB- 1990 -RCB--LCB- 2013 -RCB--LCB- XXXX -RCB- until -LCB- 2017 -RCB--LCB- 2020 -RCB--LCB- XXXX -RCB-, while ensuring comparability of efforts among them, taking into account differences in their national circumstances.
At the same time, the developing major economies will pursue, in the context of sustainable development, nationally appropriate
mitigation actions, supported and enabled by technology, financing and capacity - building, with a view to achieving a deviation from business as usual
emissions.
There are
mitigation actions on
emissions and the finance.
Fast
Mitigation: «If we want to reduce the threat of climate change in the near future, there are
actions to take now: reduce
emissions of short - lived pollutants such as black carbon, cut
emissions of methane from natural - gas fields and landfills, and so on,» says Stanford climate scientist Ken Caldeira.
Countries later submitted
emissions reductions pledges or
mitigation action pledges.
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The rate and magnitude of future human - induced climate change and its associated impacts are determined by human choices defining alternative socio - economic futures and
mitigation actions that influence
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Action: FAO On Climate Change Adaptation
It compiles cases demonstrating that aligning the
actions of stakeholders involved in Reducing
Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) and Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) can make a greater and more sustained contribution to the forest sector's «
mitigation potential» and to addressing the core drivers of weak forest governance.
As a developing country, India is not bound to set a greenhouse gas
emissions target, but Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said India has adopted what he called an «ambitious» National
Action Plan on Climate Change with eight national missions covering both
mitigation and adaptation.
The joint assistance project Capacity building for CO2
mitigation from international aviation aims at providing assistance to a selected group of 14 States in Africa and the Caribbean to support their efforts in developing and implementing their States»
Action Plans on CO2
emissions reduction from international aviation, to establish aviation environmental systems for
emissions monitoring at the State level and to identify, evaluate and implement
mitigation measures in selected States.
According to UN Environment, existing commitments by nations fall well short of what is needed to meet warming targets and
emissions will not fall quickly until the world undertakes much more ambitious
mitigation actions.
Particularly, it underscored what were, for India and other developing nations, four «non-negotiables»: The countries would never accept legally binding
emissions cuts, unsupported
mitigation actions, international measurement, reporting and verification of unsupported
mitigation actions, and the use of climate change as a trade barrier.
The forest management reference levels for some Annex I Parties have been set in a way that allows them to hide increases in
emissions from managing their forests and therefore allows them to avoid undertaking
mitigation actions in other sectors.
(Sec. 265) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a research program to: (1) identify the factors affecting consumer
actions to conserve energy and make improvements in energy efficiency; and (2) make grants to institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use, the potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits, the ability to reduce GHG
emissions through changes in energy consumption habits, increasing public awareness of federal climate adaptation and
mitigation programs, and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, 12 California, 7, 68, 102, 128, 169 - 170, 187, 196, 232 - 234, 245 California Energy Commission, 232 Cambridge Media Environment Programme (CMEP), 167 - 168 Cambridge University, 102 Cameron, David, 11, 24, 218 Cameroon, 25 Campbell, Philip, 165 Canada, 22, 32, 64, 111, 115, 130, 134, 137, 156 - 157, 166, 169, 177, 211, 222, 224 - 226, 230, 236, 243 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), 15 Cap - and - trade, 20, 28, 40 - 41, 44, 170, 175 allowances (permits), 41 - 42, 176, 243 Capitalism, 34 - 35, 45 Capps, Lois, 135 Car (see vehicle) Carbon, 98, 130 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), 192 Carbon Capture and Storage Association, 164 Carbon credits (offsets), 28 - 29, 42 - 43, 45 Carbon Cycle, 80 - 82 Carbon dioxide (CO2), 9, 18, 23, 49 - 51, 53, 55, 66 - 67, 72 - 89, 91, 98 - 99, 110, 112, 115, 118, 128 - 132, 137, 139, 141 - 144, 152, 240
emissions, 12, 18 - 25, 28 - 30, 32 - 33, 36 - 38, 41 - 44, 47, 49, 53, 55, 71 - 72, 74, 77 - 78, 81 - 82, 108 - 109, 115, 132, 139, 169, 186, 199 - 201, 203 - 204, 209 - 211, 214, 217, 219, 224, 230 - 231, 238, 241, 243 - 244 Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center, 19 Carbon Expo, 42 Carbon, footprint, 3, 13, 29, 35, 41, 45, 110, 132 tax, 20, 44, 170 trading, 13, 20, 40, 43, 44, 176, 182 Carbon monoxide (CO), 120 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), 44 Carlin, George, 17 Carter, Bob, 63 Carter, Jimmy, 186, 188 Cato Institute, 179 CBS, 141, 146 Center for Disease Control, 174 Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 62, 139 Centre for Policy Studies, 219 CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 96 Chavez, Hugo, 34 Chicago Tribune, 146 China, 29, 32 - 33, 60 - 62, 120, 169, 176, 187 - 188, 211, 216, 225 - 226, 242 - 243 China's National Population and Planning Commission, 33 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60 Chirac, Jacques, 36 Chlorofluorocarbons, 42 - 43, 50 Choi, Yong - Sang, 88 Christy, John, 105 Churchill, Winston, 214, 220 Chu, Steven, 187 Citibank (Citigroup), 40, 176 Clean Air Act, 85, 128 - 129 Clean Development Mechanism, 42 Climate
Action Partnership, 14 Climate alarm, 4, 13, 21, 32, 35, 38, 56, 102 - 103, 115 - 117, 120, 137, 156, 168, 173, 182 Climate Audit, 66 Climate change, adaptation, 39, 110, 112
mitigation, 16, 39, 110 Climate Change and the Failure of Democracy, 34 Climate Change: Picturing the Science, 121 Climate Change Reconsidered, 242 Climate conference, 38 Cancun, 18, 29, 36 - 37, 124 - 125, 242 Copenhagen, 33, 36, 109, 125, 156, 158, 175, 241 - 242 Durban, 13, 36 - 37, 166, 242 - 243 Climategate, 2, 67, 152, 158 - 170, 180, 182, 242 Climate Protection Agreement, 12 Climate Research Unit (CRU), 48, 67, 120, 147, 152 - 153, 158 - 160, 162 - 163, 165 - 167, 169 Climate Science Register, 142 Climatism, definition, 2, 7 Clinton, Bill, 176, 178 Clinton Global Initiative, 176 CLOUD project, 96 Club of Rome, 21, 186 CO2Science, 59, 61 - 62, 66, 131 Coal, 19 - 20, 39 - 41, 80, 126, 128 - 129, 175, 185 - 186, 188 - 190, 192 - 196, 199 - 201, 209, 214, 217, 219, 222, 229 Coase, Ronald, 145 Coca - Cola, 138 Cogley, Graham, 156 Cohen, David, 220 Colorado State University, 117, 181 Columbia University, 7 Columbus, Christopher, 58 Computer models, 16, 51 - 53, 56, 67, 72, 74,77 - 79, 82, 87, 89 - 91, 94, 105, 110 - 111, 120, 124, 138 - 140, 168, 171,173, 181, 238, 240, 246 Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, 15 Consensus, scientific, 12 Copenhagen Business School, 134 Coral, 53 Corporate Average Fuel Economy, 22 - 23 Cosmic Rays, 72, 93 - 99, 180 Credit Suisse, 176 Crow, Cheryl, 30 Crowley, Tom, 167 Cuadrilla Resources, 224 - 225 Curry, Judith, 164, 167 Cycles, natural, 3, 16, 57, 62 - 63, 66 - 69, 72, 80, 99, 103, 138, 238, 240 Milankovich, 62, 67, 80 Cyprus, 134 Czech Republic, 12, 37
This paper analyses «fair and adequate»
emission reduction ranges for 2025, 2030 and 2050 for Brazil, India and South Africa, largest economies and a set of African countries (part of MAPS —
Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios Programme).
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actions to reduce
emissions («
mitigation») and adapt to a changing climate.
(ii) the activity will be conducted as part of an eligible country's nationally appropriate
mitigation strategy or as part of an eligible country's
actions towards providing a nationally appropriate
mitigation strategy to reduce, sequester, or avoid
emissions being implemented by the eligible country;
(A) has entered into an international agreement to which the United States is a party, under which such country agrees to take
actions to produce measurable, reportable, and verifiable greenhouse gas
emissions mitigation; or
«(II) encourage countries to take nationally appropriate
mitigation actions to reduce or avoid greenhouse gas
emissions, or sequester greenhouse gases.
Danger of Undermining
Emissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas e
Emissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult
actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas
emissionsemissions.
The document's absence of land - sector
emissions -
mitigation efforts and of detailed
actions makes it impossible to say whether Canada's ambitions adequately reflect its capacities and responsibilities.»
No skeptic or conservative is preventing any of this effective
action on
emissions mitigation.
Beginning in 2005, the Institute embarked on a «fast -
action» climate
mitigation campaign to promote strategies that will result in significant reductions of
emissions, temperature, and impacts in the near - term, focusing primarily on strategies to reduce non-CO2 climate pollutants, to complement cuts in CO2.
Global anthropogenic N2O
emissions are rapidly increasing and are expected to almost double by 2050 unless
mitigation action is accelerated.
Using comprehensive
emissions data, London will be able consider a greater range of
mitigation actions and prioritize them more effectively.
In Cancún, the imperative of including agriculture and biofuels; or to decide on a blueprint for
mitigation of
emissions caused by bunker fuels; or to define system - wide, large - scale levers for market - based
action on
mitigation and adaptation; or, establish new approaches that differentiate and foster innovation for climate from technological drivers in other areas and in the past, were all avoided.
Under the Cancun agreements developing countries agreed to take «Nationally Appropriate
Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), supported by technology and finance, «aimed at achieving a deviation in
emissions relative to «business as usual»
emissions in 2020.
• New biennial reports by developed countries on their progress in reducing
emissions and support provided; and by developing countries on their greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories,
mitigation actions, needs and support received.
Mitigation refers to an
action that will reduce or prevent greenhouse gas
emissions, such as planting trees in order to absorb more CO2.
First was «business as usual»: increasing
emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases with no mitigation action (the scenario used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emissions Scenar
emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases with no
mitigation action (the scenario used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on
Emissions Scenar
Emissions Scenarios A1B).
China's National Climate Change
Action Program, published in June 2007, provides for three major
mitigation efforts that, in combination, reduce greenhouse gas
emissions:
Many negotiators tell Ecosystem Marketplace that REDD itself is no longer a contentious issue, but that things get hairy when they try to digest the decision made in Bali to expand the land - use debate from REDD alone into broader issues of «conservation, sustainable management of forests, changes in forest cover and associated carbon stocks and greenhouse gas
emissions and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks to enhance
action on
mitigation of climate change and to the consideration of reference levels.»
There is a real risk that negotiators and civil society groups will continue to consider the early entry into force of the Paris Agreement as the pinnacle of necessary
action on climate change, when in reality the Parties to the Agreement must increase their ambition to cut carbon
emissions and support the massive
mitigation and adaptation financing of developing countries who bear a disproportionate burden of climate change impacts.
It was also agreed that developing country Parties take nationally appropriate
mitigation actions in the context of sustainable development that would be supported and enabled by technology, financing and capacity building with the aim of achieving a deviation in
emissions relative to «business as usual»
emissions in 2020.
mitigation of
emissions, including the design of national policy instruments, the roles of market failures such as in technological innovation, and the role of institutions in managing international collective
action.
While the introduction of a tax - based
mitigation system would take the world significantly forward, the Review has come to the view that only an international agreement that explicitly distributes the abatement burden across countries by allocating internationally tradable
emissions entitlements has any chance of achieving the depth, speed and breadth of
action that is now required in all major emitters, including developing countries.