Sentences with phrase «achieving their emission reduction targets»

The document also provides new modelling analysis to demonstrate the crucial benefits that an international carbon market established under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement could provide in reducing the costs to countries of achieving their emission reduction targets.

When you inject capital from a program like the GreenON Industries program, it allows companies to achieve the emission reduction targets stipulated by the legislative requirements as well as allowing them to invest their capital into a project that might not otherwise have a reasonable return on investment (ROI).

During the first Kyoto Protocol commitment period, NEDO assisted with Japan's effort to achieve its emission reduction target using the CDM.

In 2001, the US leaving took a lot of oomph out of the Kyoto Protocol and was a major blow to achieving the emissions reductions it targeted.

Not exact matches

Saudi Arabia is also a signatory to the Paris Agreement on climate change, but it has not been clear as to how it intends to achieve its carbon emissions reduction targets.

By providing a breakdown of the remaining emissions by sector, this analysis can help identify what additional GHG reduction policies are required to achieve these targets.

The B.C. Climate Leadership Team appointed by Christy Clark highlighted that increases to the carbon tax are necessary if B.C. is going to have a good shot at achieving its 2050 emissions reduction target (80 per cent below 2007 levels by 2050).

Today, I am pleased to announce another important building block in our Climate Change plan — designed to help us achieve our targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to generate real emission reduction opportunities across the economy.

Critics say the electricity sector must do more to meet Australia's economy - wide emissions reduction target because emissions cuts are easier and cheaper to achieve in electricity than in agriculture, transport or industry.

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.

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 decarbonization.

But we, who have to a large extent built up our industries and economies on coal, oil, steel and cement have, in my opinion, a responsibility to lead the way and develop measures which can show the rest of the world that it is possible to achieve ambitious emission reduction targets,» says Johan Rootzén.

To achieve the 70 - percent reduction target for carbon dioxide emissions used in the study, additional steps would be needed — and before 2023.

This report assesses the global emissions impact of using certified emission reductions — or CERs — to achieve post-2020 climate targets.

Countries are considering using CERs from emission reductions up to 2020 to achieve post-2020 mitigation targets, under both the Paris Agreement and the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).

The CO2 extraction required to reach a given target atmospheric CO2 level therefore depends on the prior emission history and target timeframe, but the amount that must be extracted substantially exceeds the net reduction of the atmospheric CO2 level that will be achieved.

Japan's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a 26 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from 2013 levels.1 To achieve this, the Japanese government has set carbon targets for all sectors backed up by a national carbon tax and Tokyo emissions trading scheme.

UV January # 52 Thomas says: 5 Jan 2018 at 5:38 PM Quoting Published Peer - Reviewed Science Papers: «Our results suggest that achieving any given global temperature stabilization target will require steeper greenhouse gas emissions reductions than previously calculated.»

The text and summaries circulating on the Web show that the bill contains plenty of mechanisms — some dubious — aimed at easing the path toward achieving the 2020 target of a 17 - percent reduction in emissions from 2005 levels.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

All of these efforts help HP chip away at achieving its science - based emission reduction target.

«To achieve the target of an 80 % reduction in (UK) carbon emissions by 2050 virtually all our electricity will need to come from clean sources.»

In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol laid out target emission reductions and the different mechanisms by which countries could achieve those targets.

If you select an annual 1.5 % energy savings target, building codes (high), combined heat and power (medium), ESCO programs, and utility - scale solar PV (high), the results show that those policies together can achieve a 20 % reduction in 2012 emissions, at a lower cost than many other compliance options.

In order to achieve target emissions levels, countries had two options: either take actions to reduce their own domestic emissions, or pay someone else to reduce their emissions and thus offset the country's domestic emissions with reductions somewhere else.

Fairmont Hotels and Resorts achieve global CO2 reduction target Fairmont Hotels & Resorts today announced that it has achieved WWF Climate Savers program targets, reducing its operational CO2 emissions by 20 per cent below 2006 levels.

It is clear that the building energy code targets set in Section 201 are not only essential for achieving the energy consumption and GHG emissions reductions needed, but that they also are the most cost effective approach for doing so.

The federal government has proposed rules to control emissions and set a target of achieving a 40 -45-percent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020 — something we can do at bargain prices.

Hence, strategies to reduce urban emissions are essential to solving the climate crisis and cities will play a vital role in achieving the carbon reduction targets required to keep the earth at a viable temperature.

«Our results suggest that achieving any given global temperature stabilization target will require steeper greenhouse gas emissions reductions than previously calculated,» Brown and Caldeira wrote in the study.

The ramping up of business action on climate change should give the government confidence it can achieve more emissions reductions and set policies that aim considerably higher than the current targets.

Achieving permanent, long term emissions reduction targets are no different.

«The evidence of history is that the sizes of the targets are less damaging than the plans required to achieve them... These emission reduction plans will lay down blueprints for achieving sector targets and such plans create winners and losers.

To achieve the government's official target of an 80 - percent reduction in Japan's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, it is vital to promote a shift to carbon - free energy sources.

Mitigation scenarios that achieve the ambitious targets included in the Paris Agreement typically rely on greenhouse gas emission reductions combined with net carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the...

AXIOM: Current global business - as - usual carbon emissions reductions are nowhere near what they need to be to achieve the 2C climate target.

Targets and timetables - A target is the reduction of a specific percentage of heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions from a baseline date (e.g., below 1990 levels) to be achieved by a set date or timetable (e.g., 2030).

In a landslide decision, constituents in 11 districts voted over 81 percent in favor of legislation that will achieve an 80 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts by 2020 instead of the state's target of 2050.

Requires the President, if the NAS report finds that emission reduction targets are not on schedule or that global actions will not maintain safe global average surface temperature and atmospheric GHG concentration thresholds, to submit a plan by July 1, 2015, to Congress identifying domestic and international actions that will achieve necessary additional GHG reductions.

By fulfilling what the prime minister, Tony Abbott, had called his «pledge in blood» to repeal the tax, Australia has left itself with no legal basis for trying to achieve its international 5 % greenhouse gas emissions reduction target.

It says it will now achieve its 5 % emissions reduction target, compared with 2000 levels, by 2020 with its Direct Action policy, which will offer competitive grants over the next four years to companies and organisations that voluntarily reduce emissions.

The commitments made by countries in Paris, on their own, did not achieve sufficient reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to meet the agreed target.

Given that any national ghg emissions target is implicitly a position on achieving an atmospheric ghg concentration that will avoid dangerous climate change, to what extent has the nation identified the ghg atmospheric concentration stabilization level that the national emissions reduction target seeks to achieve in cooperation with other nations.

Overall, the EU will only scrape its target of an eight percent reduction in emissions relative to 1990 levels and will rely heavily on buying carbon credits from developing countries in order to achieve it.

Clearly, support from the community and local government has been instrumental in helping us secure our Environmental Approval,» said Kerry Adler, President and Chief Executive of SkyPower Corp. «We look forward to continuing to support Premier Darrell Dexter's mandate to achieve the government's aggressive renewable energy and emission reduction targets.»

The AB 32 year 2020 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets (year 2020 levels reduced to year 1990 measured levels) could be achieved by primarily addressing electricity generation and industrial sector greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts through increased use of renewable energy, energy efficiency and fuel substitution efforts.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

All proposals must include a three - year carbon emissions reduction target and identify the path to achieving the target.

Regardless of what policy options are available, renewable heat deployment must accelerate to achieve a long - term clean energy transition and meet global emissions reduction targets.