Sentences with phrase «meeting climate targets using»

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Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

Major electricity providers and some government officials in West Virginia, the state leading the charge against federal climate change regulations, want to use carbon trading to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to public records obtained by ClimateWire.

They then used an integrated climate - economic model and calculated the optimal price that we should put on emissions now in order to minimize the costs associated with meeting such a temperature target.

Effective remedies to improve instruction, learning and school climate (including, e.g., decreases in bullying and harassment, use of exclusionary discipline practices, use of police in schools, and student referrals to law enforcement) for students enrolled are implemented in any school where the school as a whole, or any subgroup of students, has not met the annual achievement and graduation targets or where achievement gaps persist.

They then used an integrated climate - economic model and calculated the optimal price that we should put on emissions now in order to minimize the costs associated with meeting such a temperature target.

If it does turn out that Russia uses its forests to meet its targets more in 2030 than it does in 2020, then its INDC for the Paris climate deal represents an overall weakening of ambition.

As the world seeks to make more efficient use of its energy resources, increase energy security and meet global climate targets, it is essential that cities take a leading role in the energy transition.

This differs from the commonly used term «carbon budget», referring to how much emissions are left to meet a climate target, such as avoiding 2C warming.

According to Gustavo Silva - Chávez, REDDX program manager at Forest Trends, «Countries can use REDD + to meet their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), or climate reduction targets.

EU law makers ruled that biofuels can compete with food production, contribute to climate change, and put pressure on land use — and so have set a limit on the quantity of biofuels that can be used to meet EU energy targets (at no more than 7 % of transport energy).

If companies believed today's allowances could be used to meet tomorrow's climate target, allowances would be a steal at $ 13.

The electricity network can be used proactively to meet Australia's climate and renewable energy targets.

Such restoration alone would go some way to meeting targets imposed by the government to reduce the threat of catastrophic global climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions that result from changes of land use and the combustion of fossil fuels.

To meet ambitious climate targets, we must transform our energy systems, how we use natural resources, and how we produce and consume goods and food.

The United States and the EU both took a pass on using international offsets to meet their targets, though their climate plans do not preclude the use of domestic carbon markets to lower emissions.

The Global Calculator uses data reviewed by international experts to look at scenarios for meeting the 2C target, which scientists say is needed to avoid dangerous climate change.

Dr Mike Cherrett of Climate - KIC, the EU climate initiative that co-led the project, added: «The calculator clearly highlights that we can meet out 2C target while maintaining good lifestyles — but we need to set ambitious targets on all fronts and use innovation to address climate change.Climate - KIC, the EU climate initiative that co-led the project, added: «The calculator clearly highlights that we can meet out 2C target while maintaining good lifestyles — but we need to set ambitious targets on all fronts and use innovation to address climate change.climate initiative that co-led the project, added: «The calculator clearly highlights that we can meet out 2C target while maintaining good lifestyles — but we need to set ambitious targets on all fronts and use innovation to address climate change.climate change.»

Fraser repeated the authority's view that policymakers need to use a «toolbox» of policies to reach an emissions reduction target, but he also said Ross Garnaut, an expert climate adviser to the former Labor government, had made some «good points» about the capacity of Direct Action — as so far outlined — to meet the targets.

ClimateCare works with business to develop bespoke Climate + Care programmes that resonate with a client's core brand and purpose and make smart use of budget to meet multiple environmental, social development and business targets.

[10] While many companies appear to believe that climate targets will not be met, we are unaware of any company (save Statoil) that endeavors to incorporate the physical and economic impacts of largely unabated climate change on the macroeconomic forecasts that drive their modeling, though that flows, ipso facto, from the suggestion that the world is likely to use far more fossil fuels than could safely be combusted whilst still achieving those targets.

Our report estimates the total cost over the next decade for achieving these targets, and then offers recommendations on how best to use public funds that may become available in the creation of a global climate fund to leverage the private capital needed to meet these goals.

While Abbott used to characterise the trade of international credits as «money that shouldn't be going offshore into dodgy carbon farms in Equatorial Guinea and Kazakhstan», the climate review says «access to high - quality international units will provide greater flexibility to business and government in meeting emissions reduction targets».