Sentences with phrase «binding emissions targets»

The massive economic growth in India and China could prove a stumbling block in the drive to seal legally binding emissions targets in Cancun and could hinder progression toward low carbon renewable energy.

The US is trying to reach a global agreement on binding emissions targets in which developing countries would abide by specific requirements on emissions.

Instead of a target, the energy bill includes a clause that would require the government to make a decision on whether or not to set a decarbonisation target in 2016 at the same time as binding emission targets are set for 2030 through the next carbon budget.

At the most recent U.N. climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, Chinese leaders accepted an agreement that could force them to take binding emissions targets by 2020.

For example, Finland and Denmark adopted legally binding emissions targets earlier this year.

India may still maintain it will not accept binding emissions targets, but it's sure stepping up on solar power, and now on carbon storage through forest preservation.

In the past decade, however, developed countries have increasingly replied on carbon - intensive imports from developing countries, where binding emissions targets under the Kyoto Protocol are not in effect.

Where the top down approach focused on legally binding emissions targets and timetables has had no appreciable effect on global emissions, a bottom up bilateral and multilateral approach focused on real commitments to put clean energy infrastructure in the ground might begin to move the needle.

CFR Fellow Michael A. Levi says the Bali climate conference made some headway on deforestation but questions the rush to a deal on setting binding emissions targets.

But they failed to agree on any binding emission targets.

Quantity targets enforced by treaty don't foster effective cooperation, they hinder it... to succeed, measures to curb emissions need to be sustained for decades... Binding emissions targets are too rigid... The best instrument for coordinating climate - change efforts is the price of carbon... For most countries, the simplest and clearest way to hit the price target would be with an outright carbon tax.