Sentences with phrase «ambitious emissions pledge»

Ray of the Day: EU victorious in lack of ambitious emissions pledge.

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Published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper concludes that limiting the increase in global average temperatures above pre-industrial levels to 1.5 °C, the goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, is not yet geophysically impossible, but likely requires more ambitious emission reductions than those pledged so far.

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.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

At a U.N. summit in September to kick off the drafting of an international climate change accord, Obama spoke bluntly of American responsibility for global warming and pledged to unveil ambitious steps over the next year to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

At the center of the U.S.'s role in that agreement is its ambitious pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent below their 2005 levels by the year 2025.

If nations keep to past pledges while significantly upping their ambition in emissions cuts, if money starts to flow to the developing world and forest - nations, and if the new 2020 agreement is not only hugely ambitious, but actually has some teeth, this may possible.

This is illustrated by China's extremely ambitious New Energy investment programs, and even more tellingly by global comparisons based on post-Copenhagen emission - reduction pledges.

Disappointment in Brazil Brazil was seen by many in Copenhagen as a pioneer among developing nations for its ambitious pledges to reduce CO2 emissions, and for so effectively reducing the rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

And it looks like that's exactly what Norway plans to do, by pledging not only bold emissions reductions by 2020, but by setting an impressively ambitious sort of 100 % reduction by 2030.