Sentences with phrase «key climate targets»

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Climate - change activists on Tuesday disrupted the flow of millions of barrels of crude from Canada to the United States in rare, coordinated action that targeted several key pipelines simultaneously.

From a climate point of view, the key expectation of Friday's meeting was that it would deliver enough emission reductions to hit Canada's 2030 target.

«Ministers believe that new nuclear could play a key role in keep the lights on and meeting our climate change targets - but they don't want to own up to supporting it,» committee chair Tim Yeo said.

The 2030 cuts would be a key step on the road to the government's legally binding target of an 80 per cent cut by 2050, as set out in the 2008 Climate Change Act.

He says that no climatologists think that these targets will be met as key coalition figures do not think climate change is real.

Environmental management can potentially devise separate strategies to target key phases in the lifecycle of males and females, respectively, with the aim of minimising the influence of climate change on their development and ultimately the success of the species.»

Nine democrats have given President Barack Obama a list of demands they want met in Copenhagen at the climate talks: Key among them is a call for verifiable targets from all major economies.

Still, Ogden noted, a number of key issues central to the 2015 agreement remain unresolved — like what legal form the deal will take, how countries will prove they are making progress on mitigation targets and how much money wealthy nations will pony up to help poorer ones cut carbon and prepare for the impacts of climate change.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the government's key climate science and meteorological agencies, is targeted for a 16 percent cut.

The authors of the paper, New feed sources key to ambitious climate targets, argue that algae could become an important feed for livestock that would help reduce carbon concentrations to pre-industrial levels in the next 80 years by changing land - use patterns and providing critical food inputs.

The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.

America's Power Army, the sister organization to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), sent an email this week to its Astroturf «army» laying out the coal lobby's plans to barrage key Democratic targets in the coming weeks to ensure that energy and climate legislation provides sufficient loopholes to maintain the Dirty Coal status quo.

Once it has decided on the appropriate range for a Paris - compliant UK climate goal, one final key question for the CCC will be how to meet this target, in practical terms.

The analysis by a team of scientists − including from Climate Analytics and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) − who have published key research papers on the science, impacts and policy aspects of the 1.5 ˚C limit is the centrepiece of a collection of content by Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience and Nature journals, titled Targeting 1.5 °C.

This means that only two emission targets — the peak rate and cumulative carbon emissions — are needed to constrain two key indicators of CO2 - induced climate change (peak warming and peak warming rate), as evidenced by the maximum - likelihood estimation method used above.

Atmospheric concentrations of carbon would stabilize at almost 600 parts per million, about 15 percent below what they would otherwise be but well above the 450 ppm level that scientists and political leaders have targeted as key to avoiding catastrophic climate change.

This includes 15 countries that subscribe to the European Union's Emission Trading Scheme (EU - ETS), a key tool to meet EU climate and energy targets.

Our findings relating to the rates of warming also show that only two emission targets (peak emission rate and cumulative carbon emissions to 2200) are needed to constrain two key indicators of CO2 - induced climate change: peak warming and maximum rate of warming.

(June 25) IPCC, key target of war on climate science, announces 831 experts to author Fifth Assessment Report

For example, preservation of interannual variability is critical when assessing the structure and probability of extreme events, including the climate response to volcanic eruptions, a key target in data - model comparisons.

Just under a third of existing coal - based power generation in the United States has been shut down, and the Obama administration has aggressively embraced the replacement of coal with gas as a key part of meeting its 2030 climate targets.

The Government of BC announced its Climate Leadership Plan, highlighting Passive House design and construction as key tool to achieving energy targets in the built environment.

We analysed five key climate and energy policies and found that India will be able to meet its 2030 GHG mitigation target through their full and effective implementation.

About Science Based Targets A partnership between CDP, WRI, WWF and the UN Global Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate Targets A partnership between CDP, WRI, WWF and the UN Global Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

Science - based targets are in alignment with a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, which is to limit the rise of global temperatures to well below 2 degrees C.

Ahead of the much - discussed «climate tutorial» in a federal court last week, Chevron quietly filed a memo with the court listing its key points and arguments in favor of dismissing the climate lawsuits, in which the cities of San Francisco and Oakland are targeting it and four other oil and gas companies.

Business is one of the key implementation partners for governments to achieve the climate targets laid out in the Paris Agreement.

The ads were targeted at key ridings in the battleground province of Ontario and were designed to undermine public support for the then Liberal government's climate change policies, according to various Friends of Science statements.

The key solution to this impasse is to require disclosure against current climate targets, however those targets might be achieved and regardless of whether management has deemed them likely.