Sentences with phrase «achieving the emissions reductions promised»

On the other hand, he has committed himself to achieving the emissions reductions promised by Labor.

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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.

Others saw Copenhagen as a success for achieving agreement on the long - term goals of the UNFCCC, new voluntary commitments from many developing countries, new levels of cooperation from China on verifying its voluntary emissions reductions commitments, and promises to mobilize significant amounts of money for adaptation in developing countries.

Canada's most recent annual emissions trend report projected that the country will achieve only half the nationwide greenhouse gas reductions it has pledged to make by the year 2020 — its promise to cut them 17 percent compared to 2005.

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

Despite claims it will keep temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, the United Nations body that oversees the Paris accord estimates that if every country were to achieve every promise by 2030, the total reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would be equivalent to just 60 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide.

Obama promised that the 17 percent emissions reduction by 2020 would be achieved, but has yet to announce any new goals for the U.S..