Sentences with phrase «ambitious climate effort»

The report — Norway's fair share of an ambitious climate effort — is the firs major report that we have done since we updated and generalized the Greenhouse Development Rights system, and re-released our calculator as the Climate Equity Reference Calculator.

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Over the next year we will go further in our efforts to eradicate fuel poverty and to deliver against our ambitious climate change targets.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are today calling for more ambitious climate change targets, stronger commitments to halt the loss of biodiversity in Wales and more concerted efforts for Wales to become a Zero Waste Nation.

The already broad and ambitious efforts of developing countries to build their own clean, climate - resilient futures will be supported by scaled - up finance from developed countries and voluntary contributions from other countries.

Climate change experts said the data set was the most ambitious effort so far to hold individual carbon producers, rather than governments, to account.

While village leaders are working on an ambitious — and expensive — effort to relocate the entire community to the mainland nearby, Shishmaref schoolchildren as young as five are learning about the shift in the climate that will change their lives.

California launched an ambitious effort Wednesday to expand renewable energy and increase energy efficiency, advancing Gov. Jerry Brown's plans for battling climate change.

The brief suggests that in order to foster policy coherence and help ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected in all climate action.

The new power plant rules — which will be formally announced by the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday morning — represent the most ambitious effort by Barack Obama or any other president to deal with climate change.

An aim to keep global mean temperature «well below» 2 °C of that which existed before the industrial era, and to «pursue efforts» to keep it even below 1.5 °C — a more ambitious target than has ever been mentioned in the wording of a climate agreement before.

The Paris Agreement builds upon the Convention and for the first time brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.

The Climate Action Tracker assumes continued emissions reductions in future decades at a level of effort no more, or less, ambitious than that implied by the INDCs.

Climate Solutions concurs with California's Governor Jerry Brown, who has advocated for a 50 % reduction in petroleum use by 2030, an ambitious, but achievable goal if concerted efforts are marshaled to:

Fortunately, there are other approaches: A breakthrough in the global effort to negotiate a fair and ambitious climate treaty would help a great deal.

It is based on an «extremely ambitious» level of climate mitigation effort where emissions peak immediately and reduce by a maximum rate of 6.1 per cent per year, a fair bit faster than the 5.5 per cent considered in the first study.

The 2DS continues to be the ETP's central climate mitigation scenario, recognising that it represents a highly ambitious and challenging transformation of the global energy sector that relies on a substantially strengthened response compared with today's efforts.

For the next decade — as the emerging science was becoming increasingly robust, and as international efforts to curb heat - trapping emissions gained steam and calls for action grew more urgent — the company persisted in emphasizing the lingering uncertainties of climate science and the costs of ambitious policies, the documents show.

About Science Based Targets A partnership between CDP, WRI, WWF and the UN Global Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

However, the majority of these greenhouse gas reduction targets are still not ambitious enough to align with the global effort to keep warming below 2 °C, the temperature limit scientists say is necessary to prevent some of the most disastrous consequences of climate change.

Despite ambitious efforts to cope with the effects of water shortage and climate change, Morocco faces a dauntingly dry century.

With the solar and electric car industries growing rapidly, and political efforts to halt climate change becoming ever more ambitious, the energy and transport sectors look set to change dramatically over the next few years.

The document suggests that in order to foster policy coherence and help ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected in all climate action, including agreements to be negotiated at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected in all climate action, including agreements to be negotiated at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate climate action, including agreements to be negotiated at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Climate Change.

31 March, 2018 — Despite ambitious efforts to cope with the effects of water shortage and climate change, Morocco faces a dauntingly dry century.

Reporting from Toronto — In a last - minute turn in global climate talks, international negotiators agreed over the weekend to adopt more ambitious plans than expected to trim government subsidies to oil companies worldwide, part of a broader effort to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.

Mr. Obama's plan, part of a formal written submission to the United Nations ahead of efforts to forge a global climate change accord in Paris in December, detailed the United States» part of an ambitious joint pledge made by Mr. Obama and President Xi Jinping of China in November.

Their commitment to make ambitious reductions shows how significantly business action can contribute to the global effort to mitigate climate change.

Washington state Governor Jay Inslee announced last week his proposal for an ambitious carbon tax to reduce emissions, calling upon the state legislature to «step up» efforts to slow climate change.

While many scientists and climate change activists hailed December's Paris agreement as a historic step forward for international efforts to limit global warming, the landmark accord rests on a highly dubious assumption: to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 °C (much less the more ambitious goal of 1.5 °C), we don't just need to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to essentially zero by the end of this century.