Sentences with phrase «actually achieve any emission reductions»

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«We see no evidence of Kyoto actually leading to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, much less of stimulating the fundamental technological change that will be required to achieve the 60 - 80 % reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists tell us the world will need to achieve in order to prevent what the Framework Convention calls «dangerous interference with the atmosphere».»

The center's director, Charles Komanoff, noted the plan does not specify the rate of increase, and that the $ 5 - per - ton annual increase is actually «a little slow,» in terms of achieving rapid emissions reductions.

In both, he asserts that the current legislative proposals, by focusing incentives on deployment of today's wind and solar technology, could actually stifle the vital need to build the capacity for achieving deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions once the easier reductions are achieved.

I will argue that all the actions taken together until now to reduce our emissions of carbon dioxide will not achieve a serious reduction, and in some cases, they will actually make matters worse.

... per capita economic output would actually have to contract [by 0.85 % per year] in order to achieve the mid-century carbon emission reduction goal.

Now what that means is not to be pessimistic in the long term about our ability to reduce emissions from agriculture, just that it's going to be slower and harder to actually achieve deep reductions in the sector over the next 50 or 100 years.

The standard can help governments set emissions - reduction targets, meet domestic and international emissions reporting obligations to groups like the UNFCCC, and ensure that efforts to reduce emissions are actually achieving their intended results.

When actually set beside those few indvidual countries willing to bankrupt themselves to achieve a significant reduction in carbon emissions the temperature reduction achieved was absurdly trivial.