Sentences with phrase «adopt emission reduction targets»

If a wealthy nation with high per capita emissions refused to adopt emission reduction targets, it would be impossible to persuade developing countries to adopt targets in subsequent commitment periods.

The NSW government has adopted an emissions reduction target of zero net emissions by 2050.

Shadow environment minister Mark Butler has responded, calling the modelling «ridiculously outdated» and noting that the ALP did not adopt emissions reductions targets at its national conference (although significant targets for renewable energy were a signature part of the conference agenda).

Queensland has adopted emission reduction targets of 30 % below 2005 levels by 2030 and zero net emissions by 2050 in order to do its «fair share in the global effort to arrest damaging climate change».

Those developed nations that have acknowledged that they should act to limit warming to 2 °C have not adopted emissions reduction targets at levels the IPCC recently concluded would be necessary to limit warming to 2 °C — namely, of 25 % to 40 % by 2020.

The Victorian government has adopted emission reduction targets: a 2020 target of 15 - 20 % below 2005 levels and zero net emissions by 2050.

Those developed nations that have acknowledged that they should act to limit warming to to 2 degree C warming have not adopted emissions reduction targets at levels the IPCC recently concluded would be necessary to limit warming to 2 degree C of 25 % to 40 % by 2020.

As well as this, the Science Based Target Initiative announced that 100 companies have now adopted emissions reductions targets in line with the scale required by global climate goals, showing the unstoppable momentum for climate action among global businesses.

Not exact matches

By framing the issue in terms of a carbon budget based around cumulative emissions, the IPCC's most recent report showed that it doesn't necessarily matter what short - term emissions reduction targets are adopted, or which country cuts emissions by a particular amount relative to another nation's pledges.

The CPRS actually rewards the major corporate emitters for failing to act despite having been on notice since at least 1997 that the emission reduction targets would be adopted.

In addition, practical measures being adopted by businesses to reduce emissions are still in the early stages and there needs to be an acceleration of actions to reach even our 2030 emissions reduction target.

By 2018, at least 300 high - impact companies, representing at least 2 GT of emissions, will have committed to adopt science - based GHG emission reduction targets and more than 100 of these companies will have approved science - based targets.

Early last year Gulledge and several colleagues suggested that policymakers modify their all - or - nothing approach to a temperature target, instead adopting a «climate security» strategy borrowed from defense planning: Aim for an ambitious target, but prepare for the consequences should emissions - reduction measures fall short.

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

To reduce Scope 3 emissions, Nabtesco Corporation commits to have the top 70 % of suppliers in terms of total purchase value set their own GHG reduction targets by 2025, towards the aim that these suppliers adopt science - based GHG reduction targets by 2030.

To reduce Scope 3 emissions, Stora Enso commits to have 70 % of suppliers and downstream transportation suppliers in terms of spend set their own GHG reduction targets by 2025, towards the aim that these suppliers adopt science - based GHG reduction targets by 2030.

«The main explanation for the falling prices in carbon markets around the world is the very modest emission reduction targets adopted for the period up to 2020,» said Anders Nordeng, senior carbon analyst at Point Carbon and co-editor of the report.

Washington state, like the entire West Coast, is a leader on forward - thinking climate policy with legislative targets for emission reductions, a greenhouse gas inventory of major emitters, and a Clean Air Rule adopted by the Inslee Administration.

Cities and counties are taking real steps to tackle climate change — from expanding their use of renewable energy to adopting aggressive emissions reductions targets and investing in sustainable infrastructure.

Quebec has adopted a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of 37.5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030.