Sentences with phrase «against emissions goals»

Supermarket giant reports solid progress against emissions goals, but there is less encouraging news on food waste

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Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Liu also argued against setting a too - tough long - term goal on reducing carbon emissions, or sharply limiting the number of degrees the planet warms this century, because that would involve huge lifestyle and economic changes.

Summary: Promises to cut emissions by 26 % to 28 % in 2025 against a 2005 baseline, confirming an existing goal jointly announced with China in November.

EPA's «Goal Computation Technical Support Document» (TSD) accompanying the Federal Register Notice allows generation from «under construction» and «at risk [of retirement]» nuclear plants to count against the affected generation (in the denominator, as indicated in the equation below) used to compute the emission rate goals for each state.24

This has sparked a growing realisation that so - called negative emissions might be necessary to meet the goals of Paris, where an overspend against the carbon budget is paid back by pulling CO2 from the air.

But the shareholder resolution asking the company to set greenhouse gas and emissions reductions goals was defeated: even though it got a respectable share of the vote — 26.8 % of voting shares supported the resolution — 73.2 % voted against.

The main goal of EU's climate policy, they claim, is to create a market for the Danish and German renewable technologies and Poland is the only one bravely going against EU's madness about reducing emissions.

Danger of Undermining Emissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas eEmissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissionsemissions.

By purchasing Gold Standard credits from this project, companies will not only reduce carbon emissions, they will finance a world - leading community - impact project that delivers against a number of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals: reducing deforestation, tackling fuel poverty and reducing household air pollution.»

In many ways, I have seen California set ambitious climate goals by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions through stringent fuel emission standards while fighting back against the Trump Administration's plans for offshore drilling.

The UK's Climate Change Act 2008 sets a legally - binding goal for an 80 % emissions cut in 2050, against a 1990 baseline.

The L'Aquila text is ambiguous in several key ways, as it specifies only that the peak must be «as soon as possible» and omits the reference year against which goal the 50 % reduction in «global emissions» by 2050 is to be calculated.

But over the past three years, as they have devoted tremendous resources to the fight against TransCanada Corp.'s proposed oil pipeline, they potentially have diverted vast resources from other goals many environmentalists consider more important, such as limiting power plant pollution and taxing carbon emissions.