Sentences with phrase «about meeting climate targets»

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.

«If we are serious about meeting climate targets, then the reality is that eventually we will have to start shutting down coal - fired power plants.

Not exact matches

Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green party, said: «If we are serious about meeting UK and EU targets on climate emissions, we must halt airport expansion and say no to new airports - the government urgently needs to change its position on an extra runway at Heathrow and expansion at Stansted.»

In a distributed statement, Fatih Birol, chief economist at the energy agency and the director of the annual World Energy Outlook, said that trends in emissions meant the world was running out of time if leaders were serious about meeting targets pledged in recent sessions of climate treaty negotiations.

Ahead of a major international climate summit in Paris, the study makes an interesting contribution to the debate about the role of negative emissions in meeting the 2C target.

Hansen, noted for his outspokenness on the topic of climate change and his willingness to venture into an advocacy role that many other climate scientists try to avoid, has previously voiced his concern about the 2 - degree warming benchmark, saying in 2011 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) that, «the target that has been talked about in international negotiations for 2 degrees of warming is actually a prescription for long - term disaster.»

And think about how much energy usage has to be eliminated to meet even the most basic climate targets.

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.

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.

Add in concern about the impact of increased pipeline capacity on climate change and the ability to meet Canadian targets under the Paris Accord, and the sun is going down on Liberal popularity on the West Coast.