Sentences with phrase «ambitious goals for countries»

The Paris Agreement sets ambitious goals for countries around the world and creates a policy framework for their implementation and further development.

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So it's no surprise, German electricity sector emissions are actually rising slightly — and the country's leaders are now considering scrapping an ambitious climate goal for 2020.

Countries such as Japan, Germany, and Australia have all established ambitious targets for broadband connectivity, employing a mix of public dollars and regulatory incentives with the goal of establishing universal access to affordable, fast connectivity.

«If countries wish to break the poverty cycle and achieve (post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals), they will have to set up ambitious national minimum target investments for STI, including special allotments for the promotion of basic science and science education and literacy.»

Furthermore, France's Emmanuel Macron has set ambitious goals both for his country and the European Union, the success of which may determine the trajectory and stability of the bloc.

Also, Brookfield Renewable Partners is well - positioned to expand as countries set ambitious goals for the use of renewable power.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

Considering this contrasting reality, it is only fair to celebrate Sony's new climate goals and to invite other companies in the country to follow suit in order to make a stronger case to the government in Japan for the adoption of more ambitious targets that enable a smooth transition towards a low - carbon economy.

Hawaii's legislature passed two bills this week setting the state on a course for becoming carbon neutral by 2045 — the most ambitious goal of its kind in the country.

«Without a doubt, it is in the utmost interest of a large number of countries to pursue the 1.5 - degree C target, as ambitious or idealistic it may appear to date, and to see it anchored as a binding goal...» she wrote in an article for Climate Change Responses.

In an in - depth review of Australia's energy policies released today, the International Energy Agency (IEA) lauds the country's ambitious goals for developing a low - carbon economy but warns that they will require significant investment.

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 legislation...

For example, while countries around the world have set an ambitious goal to restore 350 million hectares of degraded lands by 2030, one study found carbon removal potential through restoration and several other measures across several billion hectares.

Clarity and transparency are critical for understanding whether the NDCs are collectively ambitious enough to limit global temperature rise to 2 °C, the Paris Agreement goal, as well as to foster accountability, trust, and understanding amongst countries.

And in China, offshore wind companies say the guaranteed price for the electricity they generate is set too low to stimulate rapid growth, calling into question whether the country can hit its ambitious goals for 2015 and 2020.

Ambitious economy - wide mitigation targets are central to ensuring that international emissions trading supports the goals of the Agreement, as they provide strong incentives for countries to ensure the environmental integrity of units they transfer to others.

The challenges for Germany will be accelerating that transition, phasing out coal production, meeting the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement, and ensuring that this movement to clean energy is a just and fair one for the country's many fossil fuel workers.

The U.S. Department of Energy's ambitious goal to use wind power for 20 percent of the country's energy needs by 2030 has upped the demand for land on which wind turbines can be built, says Brandon Blevins of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy in Knoxville, Tenn..