Sentences with phrase «states meet its climate target»

State - level actions to boost efficiency and ramp up clean energy will play a central role at reining in power sector emissions and helping the United States meet its climate target to reduce emissions 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

Not exact matches

A big part of President Obama's climate legacy will be the U.S. Clean Power Plan, which will cut pollution from U.S. coal plants — and, importantly, allows imports of new Canadian clean power to help states meet their targets.

In its report released in November 2015, the multi-sectoral team clearly stated that its 32 recommendations are a package: picking and choosing among them will not set B.C. on a course to meet its climate targets.

The U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition of 14 states and Puerto Rico, announced Wednesday its members are on track to meet their targets under the Paris Climate Accord.

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WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2015 the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Paris, France and entered into a historic agreement in which 195 nations, including the United States, were signatories and agreed to determine their own target contribution to mitigate climate change by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, among other terms (the «Paris Agreement»);

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.

Dec. 7, 1:11 a.m. Updated below With the latest round of contentious international climate treaty negotiations getting under way in Durban, South Africa, it's worth revisiting what would be required to meet ambitious targets set for greenhouse gases in California, a state that already has pledged meaningful action.

The United States did not specify any target for itself at this meeting, which saw the debut of the Obama administration in climate negotiations (to applause).

Governor Cuomo and U.S. Climate Alliance Announce States are on Track to Meet or Exceed Targets of Paris Climate Agreement

The EnergyVision 2030 Progress Report for Maine gauges the state's progress toward necessary clean energy targets and summarizes policies that together will allow the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on the path to meet a 75 % to 80 % reduction from 2003 levels, consistent with the Act to Provide Leadership in Addressing the Threat of Climate Change.

The role of the United States as a climate leader is also at stake, with an uncertain future for the Clean Power Plan, U.S. commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the country's ability to meet its national target to reduce emissions 26 - 28 percent by 2025.

Exports do not count against meeting federal or state carbon reduction targets even though they certainly have just as much impact on climate as if they did.

In September, China and the United States announced they had formulated a «common vision» to secure an ambitious global climate agreement at the highly anticipated United Nations» climate meeting in Paris later this year; and that the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitting nations will stand together at the Paris meeting to push for emissions targets that «ramp up over time in the direction of greater ambition.»

The California Air Resources Board (CARB), which implements state climate policy, calculated that complementary policies are expected to deliver about 70 % of the total mitigation required to meet the state's 2020 target.

Climate negotiators Todd Stern of the State Department and John Podesta, a senior advisor to Obama, firmed up targets in meetings with the Chinese last week.

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.

Implementation of the rules is considered essential to the United States meeting emissions - reduction targets in a global climate agreement signed in Paris last month.

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 European Union's 28 heads of state and government are meeting today and tomorrow to strike a deal on climate and energy targets for 2030.

The inescapable climate point here is that while there's lots of talk about meeting climate targets, holding international conferences and summits to develop action plans — the United States already is achieving results.

The most recent International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report states that «leveraging the mitigation potential in the [forest and agriculture] sector is extremely important in meeting emission reduction targets (robust evidence; high agreement).»

The answer is this: As other nations craft climate action plans and strategies, as they look to technologies and innovations to meet global emissions targets, the United States is showing the way — largely because of clean - burning natural gas produced by America's game - changing energy revolution.