Sentences with phrase «ghg emission reduction goals»

... There is a clear need to reach consensus on how to carry out LCAs on biofuels, driven by national and international legislation which include GHG emission reduction goals.

This information will be used to inform the development of policies and regulations to encourage CHP and support the state's GHG emissions reduction goals.

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Mascarenhas estimates that applying her company's technology to the methane that's currently vented or flared could reduce Alberta's GHG emissions by 60 megatonnes — 35 % of Canada's 2020 reduction goal — at a cost of less than $ 1.70 per tonne.

Achieved and made significant progress in natural resource reduction targets including meeting its normalized greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goal and nearly meeting its energy use reduction target four years ahead of its 2020 deadline.

Carbon footprint quantification, analysis and reduction are key to preventing this, for example, by enhancing energy efficiency, mitigating carbon emissions by means of green energy and then compensating for remaining GHG emissions by investing in carbon offsets, with a final goal to becoming carbon neutral......

Emission pathways towards the long - term global goal for emission reductions require that global GHG emissions peak -LCB- between 2010 and 2013 -RCB--LCB- by 2015 -RCB--LCB- by 2020 at the latest -RCB--LCB- in the next 10 - 15 years -RCB--LCB- in the next 10 - 20 years -RCB- and decrease thereafter.

In addition to Sony's operational emission reduction targets, the company is also announcing additional 2020 commitments including a goal to reduce the annual energy use of their products by 30 per cent on average (compared to 2013 levels), a goal to increase the use of renewable energy, a target to reduce logistic - related emissions by 10 per cent, and a program to engage suppliers and contract manufacturers to reduce their GHG emissions.

The Code gives consumers confidence that companies are operating to robust procedures and that implemented carbon strategies are credible and emissions reductions are real, measureable, permanent, and independently verified — a step to the goal of reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

HP worked with WWF specialists to develop a science - based target for Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions and a supply chain GHG emissions intensity reduction goal for Scope 3 emissions.

Leading companies elevate their climate goals in response to science September 25, 2015: More and more companies are setting ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets that align with what the latest climate science says is necessary to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

These two prime competitors to ExxonMobil have set long - term GHG reduction goals and measure emissions from customer use of their products.

In addition, because each national emission reduction target commitment must be understood as an implicit position of the nation on safe ghg atmospheric concentration levels, setting national ghg emissions goals must be set with full knowledge of how any national target will affect the global problem.

Over time, these targets can be scaled up to sector - level emissions reduction goals and, ultimately, economy - wide GHG targets.

p > On November 15th, Governors of nine Midwestern U.S. states and the Premier of Manitoba signed the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord, a new agreement to establish regional goals and initiatives to increase energy security, promote renewable energy, and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

President Obama has already announced his goal of a 28 % reduction in America's GHG emissions by 2025, a 32 % reduction by 2030, and an 80 % reduction by 2050.

In the face of Republican opposition, President Obama has announced a goal of a 28 % reduction in America's GHG emissions by 2025, a 32 % reduction by 2030, and an 80 % reduction by 2050.

Palo Alto, Calif., February 15, 2017 — After setting and meeting two successive Scope 1 and Scope 2 absolute reduction goals for greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) 1, HP Inc. announces a new target to reduce the GHG emissions from its global operations by 25 percent by 2025, compared to 2015.

To meet our ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals, City departments track their GHG emissions and participate in an annual climate action program.

Architecture 2030's goal is to achieve dramatic and measurable reductions in the fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the Building Sector by transforming -LSB-...]

These goals include, among others, meeting the 50 percent RPS and meeting ARB - established utility - specific GHG emission reduction targets by 2030.

The European Union (EU) is unequivocally continuing down a path of global climate and energy leadership while bringing online more carbon - neutral fuel systems throughout its 28 member states, closing in on the 2020 goal of a 20 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from 1990 levels.

Therefore, from the standpoint of the environmental sufficiency goal, the Cancun agreements fail to satisfy the requirement that any post-Kyoto regime must assure that the international community is on a ghg emissions reduction pathway that will prevent dangerous climate change harms.

Once a global ghg atmospheric goal is determined, a nation's ghg emissions reduction target is also necessarily implicitly a position on the nation's fair share of safe global ghg emissions, an issue of distributive justice and ethics at its core.

Along this line there are several issues in particular about which greater awareness is needed including greater public understanding of the ethical implications of any nation's ghg emissions reduction commitment in regard to an atmospheric stabilization goal the commitment is seeking to achieve and the coherence or lack there of the national commitment to an acceptable equity framework.

Along with pledges from over 185 countries, the US committed to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 26 - 28 % below 2005 levels by 2025, building on its existing goal of a 17 % reduction below 2005 levels by 2020.

GHG Protocol is working to give cities the standards and tools they need to measure their emissions, build more effective emissions reduction strategies, set measurable and more ambitious emission reduction goals, and to track their progress more accurately and comprehensively.

The GBCs committed to align their ZNC definitions and programs to achieve a common carbon goal, one that will drive significant momentum in shifting industry and regulation towards substantial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions.

Decisions made in relation to Article 2 will determine the level of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere (or the corresponding climate change) that is set as the goal for policy and have fundamental implications for emission reduction pathways as well as the scale of adaptation required.

The «2030 Challenge» clearly outlines a global strategy to immediately stabilize and begin reducing building sector GHG emissions, with the goal of realizing a 60 % to 80 % reduction below today's level by 2050.

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.