Sentences with phrase «achieving emissions reductions while»

After the Paris Agreement, a major challenge will be achieving emissions reductions while promoting sustainable development and allowing nations flexibility to meet targets.

After the Paris Agreement, a major challenge will be achieving emissions reductions while promoting sustainable development and allowing nations flexibility to...

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Build on its record as the first government to achieve an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by working with provinces to reduce emissions from the oil and gas sectors while ensuring Canadian companies remain competitive.

«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.

While it's true that any single country's CO2 emissions reductions will make little difference, only if every nation agrees to limit CO2 emissions can we achieve significant cuts on a global scale.

It will soon become obvious that the scare campaign run by Mr Abbott and the Opposition has no basis in reality and that our plan will achieve cost - effective reductions in carbon emissions, while making most Australian households better off.

On the first criterion, Weitzman points out that while a carbon tax is more easily administered and more transparent than a cap - and - trade system, a carbon cap or a tax can both achieve cost - effective emissions reductions.

In December 2015 in Paris, all nations pledged to cut their emissions, while recognizing the urgency of achieving deep reductions in emissions.

While it may not be politically practical or desirable to abandon the Kyoto path altogether, it certainly seems prudent to open up other approaches to achieving global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

While not the most popular here, Paul Krugman says ``... the Chamber is telling us that we can achieve major reductions in greenhouse gases [40 % below 2005 CO2 emissions] at a cost of 0.2 percent of GDP» from now until 2030.

Since its inception in 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners have saved American families and businesses $ 430 billion in energy costs and 4.6 trillion kilowatt - hours of energy, while achieving broad emission reductions and helping to protect the climate.

The Challenge Vilvoorde asked Futureproofed to calculate its emissions and to develop a realistic roadmap to achieve the 20 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared to 2011, while meeting the requirements of the Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) of the Covenant of Mayors.

Any near - term action may come in the form of energy legislation that, while helping to reduce U.S. emissions, will not achieve the levels of reduction envisioned under a cap - and - trade scenario.

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) work with foreign governments towards a global agreement that reconciles foreign carbon emissions reduction programs to minimize duplicative requirements and avoids unnecessary complication for the aviation industry, while still achieving the environmental goals.

New WRI research shows India can achieve its emissions - reduction goal through existing policies while maintaining an annual GDP growth rate of 6 - 7 percent.

In the final scenario, for the same level of expenditure, investment in HELE would achieve a similar level of CO2 emissions reduction to the deployment of renewables in Europe, while generating up to three times more electricity.

Though scientific consensus must always be open to responsible skepticism given: (a) the strength of the consensus on this topic, (b) the enormity of the harms predicted by the consensus view, (c) an approximately 30 year delay in taking action that has transpired since a serious climate change debate began in the United States in the early 1980s, (d) a delay that has made the problem worse while making it more difficult to achieve ghg emissions reductions necessary to prevent dangerous climate change because of the steepness of reductions now needed, no politician can ethically justify his or her refusal to support action on climate change based upon a personal opinion that is not supported by strong scientific evidence that has been reviewed by scientific organizations with a wide breadth of interdisciplinary scientific expertise.

While JCM remains a small proportion of Japan's total emission reduction efforts, JCM does help Japan achieve other objectives.

As our newest Climate Savers partner and as a signatory of the Renewable Energy Buyers Principles, Avery Dennison has called for increased access to cost - effective renewable energy that will lead to measurable reductions in its greenhouse gas emissions while demonstrating to other companies the business and environmental value of scaling up to achieve a 2025 target.»

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.

While the states» 2005 Memorandum of Understanding committed to achieve a 10 percent cut in power plant carbon pollution by 2018, the region has already achieved a 40 percent reduction under the program, with emissions continuing to fall in 2017.

For example, businesses offered insights into how they are setting ambitious emissions reduction goals, achieving these goals on time or ahead of schedule, and subsequently increasing their ambition, all while boosting investment and employment.

While making legally binding commitments to reduce emissions is hard, promising to achieve those reductions decades in the future is not.

The bottom line is that while achieving the necessary GHG emissions reductions and stabilization wedges will be difficult, it is possible.

While there is some degree of coordination among various agencies and processes, the state needs to find better ways to coordinate and streamline the collective responsibilities of those agencies to achieve the state's greenhouse gas emission reduction, environmental protection, and reliability goals while reducing duplicative or contradictory proceWhile there is some degree of coordination among various agencies and processes, the state needs to find better ways to coordinate and streamline the collective responsibilities of those agencies to achieve the state's greenhouse gas emission reduction, environmental protection, and reliability goals while reducing duplicative or contradictory procewhile reducing duplicative or contradictory processes.

For the UK to be on track to achieve the emission reductions required by the Climate Change Act, it would have to become as carbon efficient as France by about 2015; which magnitudinous challenge would require the equivalent of the UK constructing and putting into service about 30 new nuclear power stations in the next five years, while retiring an equal amount of coal - fired generation!

The optimal policy approach to this integral technology is one that recognizes the emissions reductions that industry has and will continue to achieve, recognizes the effectiveness of state regulations, accepts the scientific evidence and avoids additional regulations that could discourage production while providing little or no additional environmental or safety benefits.

The Institute added that while concerns have been expressed about the trading scheme's impact on European business, trading was devised in response to businesses's desire for flexibility in achieving compliance and the scheme «should be judged in light of other options for emission reduction, not the status quo».

What we did say was that carbon regulations and pricing, while sufficient to achieve modest reductions in global carbon emissions, would not be sufficient to achieve the deep reductions that climate scientists and environmental organizations, including your own, have called for.