Sentences with phrase «carbon emission reduction targets»

Important decisions about the 80 % carbon emissions reduction target by 2050 haven't been taken.

All proposals must include a three - year carbon emissions reduction target and identify the path to achieving the target.

State Labor governments are expected to fall in line behind the Turnbull government's National Energy Guarantee, but are keen to ensure a future Shorten Labor government can increase carbon emission reduction targets.

Talks here will shape the Copenhagen negotiations, where agreement must be reached on carbon emission reduction targets needed to avoid dangerous climate change.

A new carbon emissions reduction target has been set before talks in Paris, but taxpayers are now footing the bill - not the big polluters.

Indeed, on Tuesday — one day before the Netherlands decision was announced — a county superior court in Washington state ordered the state's Department of Ecology to reconsider a petition asking the agency to strengthen the state's carbon emission reduction targets based on the latest climate science.

Dr. Thorning: If policy makers have not seen credible estimates using appropriate economic models the lost GDP and reduced employment they might think that meeting the McCain - Lieberman carbon emission reduction targets is virtually costless.

Saudi Arabia is also a signatory to the Paris Agreement on climate change, but it has not been clear as to how it intends to achieve its carbon emissions reduction targets.

Government departments across Whitehall are failing to meet their carbon emission reduction targets, a report finds.

The dispute centers on Australia's carbon emissions reduction target.

As more and more countries around the world struggle to meet their carbon emission reduction targets, they are looking for all kinds of solutions to work around the problem.

Developing countries are angry the U.S. and European Union and other rich industrialised countries refuse to increase their carbon emission reduction targets or agree to additional [continue reading...]

China's energy intensity target is perennially referred to by Chinese negotiators in international talks, but also regularly mistaken by the foreign press as some carbon emissions reduction target.

Together, we can drive forward climate action and support national Governments in increasing the ambition of their carbon emissions reduction targets.

Whether the country can still reach its imperilled 2020 carbon emissions reduction targets and what this means for the future of coal - fired power production is set to be at the heart of the energy transition debate.