Sentences with phrase «achieve emission goals»
Europe is seeing ever more division in debate over next steps to achieve its emissions goals.
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And 14 % were committed to aligning their goals with climate science, which requires deep cuts in emissions to achieve Paris agreement goals, up from 9 % last year.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Debt - ridden Spain and Italy could hinder the European Union from achieving its goal of cutting greenhouse emissions under an international climate pact, the EU's environmental agency said Wednesday.
RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.
These goals will be achieved through a progressive carbon tax system, which place levies on carbon emissions.
Canadian technology, knowhow and energy products were presented as key to reducing global emissions and helping our partners achieve their goals.
And, of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's means to achieve the ends of contributing to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agreement.
We are now working toward achieving by 2020 new goals for reducing solid waste, water use, greenhouse gas emissions, nonrenewable energy use and packaging.
«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.
We have implemented a universal process to achieve our sustainability goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, solid landfill waste and water consumption.
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.
The bill would put into law the government's long - term goal to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, and set out how it could be achieved.
Of course, there's not just the congestion - combating part of the plan to consider; as the city and state both move to uphold the Paris climate accord — which seeks to combat climate change and lower carbon emissions — encouraging people to drive less seems an obvious way to get New York closer to achieving that goal.
Beauchamp, whose group helped organize that event, said to achieve Cuomo's stated goals to increase renewable energy and reduce emissions, the state needs to say no to fossil fuels.
The CCC recommendations, which cover the 2023 - 2027 period, aim to achieve Britain's ultimate goal of cutting emissions by 80 % by 2050.
Marshallese President Hilda Heine said in a statement Friday that the resolution had made the Marshall Islands a little safer from catastrophic sea - level rise, a goal that a «landmark sectoral cap» on emissions and periodic updates would help achieve.
Of that total, 21 billion gallons must come from sources that reduce greenhouse - gas emissions by 50 percent or more — a goal that algae neatly achieve.
Researchers at Oxford University recently proposed demolishing 80,000 inefficient homes a year — many of them century - old structures in town and city centers — to achieve the British goal of a 60 percent reduction in greenhouse - gas emissions by 2050.
«Many cities have outlined goals to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions, and obviously tree - planting is one way to achieve that goal,» said Chang Zhao, a graduate student in the Geographical and Sustainability Sciences department at the UI and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal PLOS One, «but our study shows it plays a minor role and that we need to focus on reducing carbon emissions over removing them.»
So far, several Canadian provinces and territories have decided how they are going to achieve their share of Canada's overall carbon emissions reduction goal.
He argued that the report originally used 2020 as the benchmark of emissions growth to measure whether achieving the goal is reachable.
There are multiple mitigation pathways to achieve the substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades necessary to limit, with a greater than 66 % chance, the warming to 2 degrees C — the goal set by governments.
He said there were signs of progress, such as a plan in June by U.S. President Barack Obama to achieve a goal for cutting emissions by 2020 and the start of carbon trading in China.
The 2015 deal is unlikely to include deep enough emissions cuts to achieve a U.N. goal set in 2010 of limiting temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit).
If that smaller group's offer is sufficient — that is, if it promises to reduce emissions by the proportional amount necessary to achieve the global goal — then it should be successful in the larger venue.
This goal can be achieved by ending deforestation (on a net basis) and by cutting our current fossil - fuel - based emissions by one third.
The surest way to achieve these goals would be for the United States to set a rising price on climate emissions, or create a «feed - in» electricity tariff that subsidizes an expansion of renewable power, as Germany and Canada's Ontario province have done, said Rooney.
While the administration argues that there are plenty of venues for more cuts that don't require legislative action, Jeff Holmstead of Bracewell & Giuliani, a former EPA air chief, said he doesn't see the United States achieving its initial goal of cutting emissions 17 percent by 2020, much less a heightened target of 26 percent by 2025.
The administration has embraced a goal of 17 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, but it hasn't told us how that would be achieved.
According to an analysis done by the council that accompanied the new plan, the carbon tax - and - dividend system would «allow the United States to meet the upper end of its 2025 Paris commitment,» meaning it would achieve the goal of a 28 percent emissions reduction that the U.S. promised under the major international Paris climate agreement.
A Brookings Institution expert wrote that setting aside some of the carbon tax revenue — $ 30 billon is the suggested starting point — to be used for clean energy research and development might help the plan achieve its emissions reduction goals.
To avoid this, governments at climate talks in Paris this December need to set conditions that will achieve an early peak in global energy - related emissions, review their commitments every five years, and translate the 2C goal into a long - term emissions goal, the IEA said.
In a recent comment article in Nature, leading climate scientists identified achieving zero emissions from land - use changes and deforestation as one of six milestones that must be met within the next three years if we are to meet the goals set out in the Paris Agreement.
New Paradigm: Under one scenario to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (Sustainable Development Goal target 15.3), additional commitments in the land use sector, namely to restore and rehabilitate 12 million hectares of degraded land per year could help close the emissions gap by up to 25 % in the year 2030.
And the potential for cuts in oil and gas methane emissions to help us achieve this goal, while benefiting the economy and society as a whole, is an opportunity we can't afford to miss.
This is assuming that we don't achieve any significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions - after all, our goal of limiting warming an additional two degrees Celsius (3.6 °F) is likely utterly unattainable.
To achieve this goal, we've partnered with Carbonfund, supporting third - party validated renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation projects globally to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the threat of climate change.
Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.
The European Union has just announced that it wants to improve emissions by 20 % in 2015, and to achieve that goal, it is tightening emission regulations starting from...
That's crucial since it will help Land Rover achieve its goal of exceeding a 20 % improvement in CO2 emissions.
Nissan is committed to playing a role in addressing these challenges by making transportation safer, smarter and more enjoyable, with the ultimate goal of achieving zero - emissions and zero - fatalities.
HYBRID ELECTRIC UNIT FOR SEMI TRUCKS New regulations say that big tractor - trailers need to reduce fuel consumption and emissions 20 % by 2018, and while that may seem like a lot, there's new technology that can achieve those goals today.
We seek to share with all Parties to the UNFCCC the vision of, and together with them to consider and adopt in the UNFCCC negotiations, the goal of achieving at least 50 % reduction of global emissions by 2050, recognizing that this global challenge can only be met by a global response, in particular, by the contributions from all major economies, consistent with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.
The discussion talks explicitly about how diminishing terrestrial and ocean carbon sinks over time require reduced CO2 emissions from fossil fuels / land use to achieve stabilization goals at various levels (e.g. 550 ppmv of CO2 in the atmosphere).
But deep divisions persisted over how to set a long - term global goal for cutting emissions and what to expect from individual countries in charting their own paths toward achieving such a goal later in the century.
The World Resources Institute (via the Green blog) has done a study concluding that with a lot of heavy lifting, existing federal and state initiatives could come fairly close to achieving the United States» short - term climate goal, set by President Obama in climate treaty talks last December, of a cut in emissions by 2020 to a level 17 percent below that measured in 2005:
An assessment belied by the fact that quite a few nations met their Kyoto goals and have already achieved significant emissions reductions; that Paris NDCs are much more inclusive and ambitious, and there is already visible action toward meeting them; and that beyond treaty obligations and commitments, carbon intensity is falling over much of the world including the US and China.
Of course, if you're serious about stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, achieving the American goal in 2020 is just step one in what would have to be a centurylong 12 - step (or more) program to completely decouple global energy use from processes that generate heat - trapping emissions.
An assessment belied by the fact that quite a few nations met their Kyoto goals and have already achieved significant emissions reductions...; that Paris NDCs are much more inclusive and ambitious, and there is already visible action toward meeting them... the global energy economy is visibly changing now.
In this regard, the developed major economies will implement, consistent with international obligations, economy - wide mid-term goals and take corresponding actions in order to achieve absolute emission reductions and, where applicable, first stop the growth of emissions as soon as possible, reflecting comparable efforts among them.