Sentences with phrase «ambitious climate plan»

But a well - weighed set of rules is far and away preferable to a rushed political compromise that would substantially water down the EU's ambitious climate plan.

In a follow up email, Travis Nichols, a Greenpeace spokesman, told Slate «It is unusual for a leading candidate to have such a comprehensive and ambitious climate plan, so we want to make sure it gets the attention it deserves.

At the same time, Alberta now has an ambitious climate plan that includes a carbon tax and hard cap on oil sands emissions.

Perhaps most notably, Patricia Scotland, the secretary - general of the Commonwealth of Nations and a personal hero of Hawken, has adopted Drawdown as a template for an ambitious climate plan she will be announcing for the nations next year.

Last November, groups representing more than a thousand B.C. organizations, companies, and local governments called for an ambitious climate plan.

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Meeting the $ 100 billion commitment and getting a signal by COP24 for the upcoming Green Climate Fund funding round will be vital if countries are to collective agree to present more ambitious climate plans by 2020.»

Not exact matches

U.S. companies are still among the most ambitious in setting targets to combat global warming despite President Donald Trump's plans to quit the 195 - nation Paris climate agreement, a 2017 survey showed on Tuesday.

The most high - profile case is his ongoing lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan, Obama's most ambitious climate - related regulation.

This problem is compounded by the fact that Canada has yet to formulate a credible climate change plan to meet its less than ambitious 2020 targets (see here and here) or the 2030 targets put forward in Canada's current INDC.

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

Mr. Obama's mention certainly qualifies as high praise for Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips, as they spearhead Alberta's ambitious Climate Leadership Plan.

Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips unveiled the Alberta government's ambitious Climate Leadership Plan in Nov. 2015 after months of consultation.

We encourage the First Ministers, through their continued collaboration, to forge an ambitious clean growth and climate action plan.

But, of course, most of our work is forward - thinking and includes ambitious and exciting plans to connect people with nature and protect vital habitat in the age of climate change.

But far more ambitious plans than those contained in the coalition agreement are needed to tackle runaway climate change.

Unveiled late Friday by the state Public Service Commission, a cost analysis of the plan projects it could cost the state more than $ 3.6 billion through 2030 to reach ambitious clean energy goals backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but reductions in climate - changing greenhouse gases would create benefits worth more than $ 8 billion.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are today launching their ambitious five point plan to fight climate change.

«Only a plan that combines carbon pricing with ambitious regulations in every sector of the economy will result in emissions reductions deep enough to reach our current climate targets and put Canada on a path to exceeding those targets.»

The discussions, they said, should culminate with the adoption of more ambitious economywide emission reduction targets by developed countries and mitigation action plans from developing countries at the next major U.N. climate conference slated for Doha, Qatar, in November.

By Alister Doyle and Nina Chestney OSLO / LONDON (Reuters)- World governments are likely to recoil from plans for an ambitious 2015 climate change deal at talks next week, concern over economic growth at least partially eclipsing scientists» warnings of rising temperatures and water levels.

For example, substantial commitments to reduce carbon emissions from the US and China, Europe, and a host of high income countries form the basis of negotiations, while ten global cities representing 58 million people have drawn up ambitious plans to tackle climate change.

Early in his second term, President Obama launched an ambitious Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate climate change.

The new agreement also establishes the principle that future national plans will be no less ambitious than existing ones, which means these 188 climate action plans provide a firm floor and foundation for higher ambition.

The 77 represented U.S. and Chinese regions have pledged to establish ambitious climate targets, report on their greenhouse gas emissions, establish climate action plans, and expand bilateral cooperation.

This major emitters» process should include, inter alia, national, regional and international policies, targets and plans, in line with national circumstances, an ambitious work program within the UNFCCC, and the development and deployment of climate - friendly technology.

Early in his second term, President Obama launched an ambitious Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading internatiClimate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading internaticlimate impacts, and leading internationally.

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has an ambitious plan to scale up green infrastructure, using green roofs, land conservation, permeable pavement and other approaches to help slow and absorb water during the extreme precipitation events that are becoming more common with climate change.

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

Since the United States and China worked together to set ambitious climate targets last year, leading by example, many of the world's biggest emitters have come forward with new climate plans of their own.

The climate activist group, 350.org, warned it planned to «fill up the room during government consultations» and then «mobilize en masse» to push the government to take «bold and ambitious climate action.»

As a developing country, India is not bound to set a greenhouse gas emissions target, but Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said India has adopted what he called an «ambitious» National Action Plan on Climate Change with eight national missions covering both mitigation and adaptation.

The Climate Action Plan includes specific short - and long - term actions Seattle needs to meet its ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

Just two months ago, the leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum met in the Marshall Islands, where they adopted the Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership and pulled together a list of ambitious plans to transition their island economies to renewable energy.

While Washington debates about whether to get serious on our climate and energy policies, Beijing this week released China's five - year energy development plan, laying out an ambitious «all of the above» strategy that where lacking in specifics more than makes up for in vision (the plan, in Chinese; and Google translated).

Last year at COP21 in Paris, development banks like the World Bank — whose «ambitious» targets are laid out in a Climate Change Action Plan also revealed Thursday — were deemed instrumental in financing poor countries to help enable them to cut their carbon emissions as well as adapt to climate change eClimate Change Action Plan also revealed Thursday — were deemed instrumental in financing poor countries to help enable them to cut their carbon emissions as well as adapt to climate change eclimate change effects.

These policy reforms, as well as India's commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change, have all contributed to ambitious plans to build 175 gigawatts of renewable power capacity, much of it solar, by 2022.

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.

Absolute cap to come into effect, climate adviser says on the day after US announces ambitious carbon plan

As understanding abrupt climate change becomes increasingly crucial, ambitious plans for studying these icy environs will be ever more important.

¶ While Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is busy deleting the role of humankind in causing climate change from the state's websites, Eau Claire, the 68,000 - strong former factory town in northwestern Wisconsin, has adopted an ambitious sustainability plan to achieve carbon neutrality and to get 100 % of its energy from renewable sources.

It's important that other countries follow suit with their own ambitious, comprehensive plans — both to curb climate change globally, and to keep the glaciers on top of Switzerland's majestic mountains.

He did call the plan «an ambitious framework to put our nation on a path to a clean energy economy,» adding that Clinton «emerged as a strong leader in solving the climate crisis and ensuring our country's economic security» due to the proposal.

New York Times blogger Andrew C. Revkin echoed Wasserman's sentiments in his recent article Obama's Ambitious Global Warming Action Plan, «Of course this climate plan is just rhetoric until it is translated into on - the - ground actiPlan, «Of course this climate plan is just rhetoric until it is translated into on - the - ground actiplan is just rhetoric until it is translated into on - the - ground actions.

The Maldives and Costa Rica are the first countries to adopt a carbon reduction goal more ambitious than that of Plan B. 5 Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, describes climate neutrality as «an idea whose time has come, driven by the urgent need to address climate change but also the abundant economic opportunities emerging for those willing to embrace a transition to a Green Economy.»

Ambitious Corporate Climate Action Driving Delivery of Paris Goals Business Commitments Need Reinforcing by Strong National Policies Marrakech, Morocco, 9 November, 2016 - Private sector leaders have come together at the COP 22 Business & Industry day to call for countries to fully implement their national climate action plans (the NDCs) through strong domestic legislaClimate Action Driving Delivery of Paris Goals Business Commitments Need Reinforcing by Strong National Policies Marrakech, Morocco, 9 November, 2016 - Private sector leaders have come together at the COP 22 Business & Industry day to call for countries to fully implement their national climate action plans (the NDCs) through strong domestic legislaclimate action plans (the NDCs) through strong domestic legislation...

This «ABC» approach says policymakers should aim for an «ambitious» target for reducing carbon emissions, while «building» for, or adapting for, greater warming than targeted, and engaging in «contingency» planning for future climate emergency.

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.

(10/27/14) California must nearly eliminate emissions from electricity to meet ambitious climate goals for 2050, but each of the primary available technologies for generating emission - free technology has problems and any choice will require concerted planning and early strategic investments, according to a new technical paper by the California Council on Science and Technology.

Rather than ruminating on a worst - case scenario — one where world leaders leave the event without a plan to combat climate change — participants of the side events focused on making sure that what we get will be a «FAB deal»: fair, ambitious, and binding.