Sentences with phrase «achieved substantial emissions reductions»

In recent years, APS has achieved substantial emissions reductions through an emissions reduction strategy focused on properly utilizing an SF6 recycling gas cart to reclaim, purify and reuse their SF6 gas during equipment service or repair.

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.

However, Australia can not just rely on business action if we are to achieve the substantial emissions reductions needed to avoid dangerous climate change.

The report shows that introduction of Alternative Wetting and Drying in irrigated rice fields could achieve substantial emission reductions by 2020.

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Additional action to achieve the 2025 target represents a substantial acceleration of the current pace of greenhouse gas emission reductions.

Achieving the 2025 target will require a further emission reduction of 9 - 11 % beyond our 2020 target compared to the 2005 baseline and a substantial acceleration of the 2005 - 2020 annual pace of reduction, to 2.3 - 2.8 percent per year, or an approximate doubling;» Substantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarsubstantial acceleration of the 2005 - 2020 annual pace of reduction, to 2.3 - 2.8 percent per year, or an approximate doubling;» Substantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarSubstantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarbonization.

Natural ventilation is achieved through openings in the external timber cladding of the venue resulting in substantial carbon emission reductions.

Mexico's national oil company serves as a case study to demonstrate that substantial potential exists to use sectoral offsets to achieve cost - effective emissions reductions.

Increased efficiency is achieved by means of a longer trading period (8 years instead of 5 years), a robust and annually declining emissions cap (21 % reduction in 2020 compared to 2005) and a substantial increase in the amount of auctioning (from less than 4 % in phase 2 to more than half in phase 3).

The only practical means for reducing America's carbon emissions to the extent that the Progressive Left believes is necessary is to use the EPA, acting in its lawfully assigned role as lead agency for achieving substantial carbon pollution reductions, as the primary enforcement tool for constraining America's GHG emissions.

Taken together, the studies demonstrate that NAMAs in the transport sector have the potential to achieve significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions and provide a substantial contribution to sustainable development.

It has become obvious that all the green energy plans mandated to reduce EU emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) will not achieve substantial reductions.

The measures announced by Obama, including vehicle emissions standards and restrictions on coal - fired power stations appear set to achieve further substantial reductions, again while yielding net economic benefits.

(2) The country has developed a nationally appropriate mitigation strategy that seeks to achieve substantial reductions, sequestration, or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions, relative to business - as - usual levels.

It is conceivable that such enhanced actions, repeated across willing states and cities across the U.S., and with support from independent consumers in non-participating states, could achieve substantial reductions of emissions, particularly within the electricity and transportation sectors.

The GBCs committed to align their ZNC definitions and programs to achieve a common carbon goal, one that will drive significant momentum in shifting industry and regulation towards substantial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions.

By diversifying the thermal energy sector to increase use of low - carbon renewable heating and cooling technologies (e.g., air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, wood pellet heating, solar thermal), Rhode Island can make significant strides toward achieving greenhouse gas emission reduction goals while producing substantial economic benefits for the state.

Any serious effort to achieve a substantial reduction of GHG emissions in California can't use EMV numbers applied to renewable energy investments as a measure of success or failure.