Sentences with phrase «ambitious emissions reduction plan»

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«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.

Sustainable energy activities at NWHC began in 2010 when the Carbon Trust assisted the college in developing a five ‑ year # 2m Carbon Management Plan (CMP), which set an ambitious target for the reduction in carbon emissions by the end of August 2015.

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.

Feb. 2017: California Air Resources Board (CARB) develops a draft Scoping Plan for meeting California's ambitious 2030 emissions reductions objectives.

In total, Sanders» plan aims for a 40 percent reduction of U.S. emissions, which is more ambitious than his chief rival Hillary Clinton's.

Even though the Dutch government already had a reasonably ambitious GHG emissions reduction plan in place, the court held that it was insufficient given international recognition at COP16 in 2010 that developed countries need to reduce their emissions 25 to 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 in order to avoid 2 C of warming.

The new plan could lay the foundations for a compromise agreement that imposes ambitious new emission reduction targets, which may lack legal backing but still could serve to mobilize a significant increase in low carbon investment.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced an ambitious acceleration of energy efficiency in New York, including a comprehensive plan to achieve a new target for significant greenhouse gas emission reductions, decrease consumer energy costs and create job opportunities.

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.