Sentences with phrase «carbon emissions commitments»

When presented with a blank space for their carbon emissions commitments, one wonders whether climate change foot - draggers like Australia or Canada will be tempted to write in «gonads» or something similar.

Not exact matches

The second was President Obama's joint commitment for carbon - emissions cuts with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in November 2014.

Last week, Trump signed an executive order rolling back former President Barack Obama's climate change policies, including the Clean Power Plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants — a key factor in the United States» ability to meet its Paris commitments.

The real news of this week's LNG carbon emissions news was almost lost in the shuffle: British Columbia has reaffirmed its commitment to climate action.

Importantly, none of these groups could point to federal government dysfunction on climate policy to defend their own inaction, he said, because the wild rhetoric of government dissidents like Craig Kelly does not reflect mainstream government policy for the nation to meet its Paris commitments for a 26 - 28 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.

However, absent rapid deployment of carbon capture and storage, it is difficult to see how there is room for this level of emissions growth in pan-Canadian climate plan designed to meet the commitments in the Paris Agreement.

Trump vowed during the campaign to void U.S. commitments made in Paris last year to curb climate - changing carbon emissions, and to tear down regulatory barriers that he viewed as impeding development of coal, oil, and natural gas.

While this significant step should be lauded as follow - through on important election and international commitments, it is another step toward embedding a disconcerting dissonance that still exists within the federal approach to assigning a monetary value to carbon emissions.

The Pulmuone Company also displayed their commitment to sustainability by not only reducing organic solvents but also cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

When Mr Cameron stood up to speak for the second time, he questioned the prime minister's commitment to securing an international agreement on cutting carbon dioxide emissions to follow the Kyoto protocol which expires in 2012.

To be clear, banning onshore wind farms means ruling out the cheapest form of renewable energy, which somewhat undermines their very next pledge - a commitment to cut carbon emissions «as cheaply as possible».

The plans have provoked the ire of environmental groups and the Liberal Democrats, who claim it is a measure of the government's tenuous commitment to lowering carbon emissions.

· Meeting international climate change commitments of reducing carbon emissions by 80 % (from the 1990 baseline).

The UK needs to take «great action» on climate change or it will miss its commitment to cutting carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, MPs have warned.

However, a spokeswoman for the DfT insisted action had been taken to cut carbon emissions, including investing in public transport and a commitment to renewable fuels.

Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Jerry Brown, of California, issued a joint statement reaffirming their commitments to exceeding targets of the now - jeopardized plan, and reducing carbon emissions.

Energy - A commitment to take carbon emissions out of the economy by 2025 and through Green investment banks to allow communities to insulate 5 million homes over 10 years.

The world must achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, they write, with greenhouse gas emissions peaking by 2020 — a rate that is not in line with the voluntary commitments made by countries in Paris.

He is referring to a commitment first made by China ahead of the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks to reduce its economy's overall carbon emissions per unit of GDP to 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

Bringing fire and illegal logging under control is key to reaching our national commitment to reducing carbon emissions.»

The team of authors emphasized that the low cost of conducting their project means that the same approach can be rapidly implemented in any country, thereby supporting both national and international commitments to reduce and offset carbon emissions.

Environmentalists, many of whom believe that the term «clean coal» is an oxymoron, nonetheless view the project's cancellation as yet another indication that the Bush administration lacks the commitment required to reduce the rate of growth in atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions.

Analysts said they believe the measure will help shift dynamics in the international climate change talks, where developing and industrialized countries continue to struggle over taking legally binding commitments to cut carbon emissions.

China is resisting international oversight of steps it takes to reduce carbon emissions, and the United States has flatly refused to help mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in climate finance to poor and vulnerable countries until it gets some commitments from China on transparency.

According to an analysis done by the council that accompanied the new plan, the carbon tax - and - dividend system would «allow the United States to meet the upper end of its 2025 Paris commitment,» meaning it would achieve the goal of a 28 percent emissions reduction that the U.S. promised under the major international Paris climate agreement.

The European Union was about to divvy up its combined commitment to cut carbon emissions, but Brexit could undermine that plan

The bad news is that despite many countries pledging to cut carbon emissions in the coming decades, the current commitments may not be enough to limit warming to the world's agreed upon goal of 2 °C (3.6 °F).

For example, substantial commitments to reduce carbon emissions from the US and China, Europe, and a host of high income countries form the basis of negotiations, while ten global cities representing 58 million people have drawn up ambitious plans to tackle climate change.

In order to meet the EU's mandatory GHG emission - reduction targets and the renewable energy commitments discussed below, much of this new generation must qualify as low - carbon and renewable.

Leading doctors are backing legal action against UK government ministers on the grounds that they have not fulfilled their commitments to cutting carbon emissions in line with the Climate Change Act of 2008 and the Paris Agreement objective of limiting warming to 1.5?

Since China implemented its first building energy codes in the 1980s, the country has expressed a commitment to reducing energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions through improved codes, Evans said.

The Carbon Brief article does a great job of highlighting the fact that «negative emission technologies» — or carbon dioxide removal («CDR») approaches are critical for enabling the global economy to achieve a «net zero» commitment.

Business analysts welcomed «Copenhagen Accord» — a climate deal involving all the major economies for the first time in making commitments to curb emissions, cementing a global shift to a low - carbon world.

o a target of cutting CO2 emissions by 25 % (now 35 %) per passenger journey by 2012 o a 10 - point plan to reduce all other environmental impacts o a commitment to neutralise the carbon from all passenger journeys from the date of Eurostar's move to St Pancras International (14 November 2007), by offsetting them through investment in projects that reduce the same amount of CO2

Specifically, they say: «The implication is that, in the absence of efficient, large - scale capture and storage of airborne carbon (emphasis mine), carbon emissions that have already occurred or will occur in the near future result in a commitment to climate change that will be irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia and longer.»

The sentence I just quoted implies pretty strongly that, in the presence of efficient (or for that matter inefficient) large - scale capture and storage of airborne carbon, carbon emissions that have already occurred or will occur in the near future might not result in a commitment to climate change that is irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia and longer.

-- «That's why I'm calling on the Congress to fully fund my Administration's Future Gen program to build clean coal power plants that will reduce our competitivity with foreign sources of oil and increase our commitment to carbon emissions.»

The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.

As he did with China, Obama can negotiate with Canada to gain commitments on the prime goal of those fighting the pipeline, cutting carbon dioxide emissions, Bloomberg says.

With recent new commitments from Europe, this means that countries responsible for more than half of the world's carbon dioxide emissions are accelerating their emissions cutting plans, according to a White House official who spoke only on condition of anonymity.

An assessment belied by the fact that quite a few nations met their Kyoto goals and have already achieved significant emissions reductions; that Paris NDCs are much more inclusive and ambitious, and there is already visible action toward meeting them; and that beyond treaty obligations and commitments, carbon intensity is falling over much of the world including the US and China.

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).

Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine, and Robert Socolow of Princeton (best known for his work dividing the climate challenge into carbon «wedges») have written «Commitment accounting of CO2 emissions,» a valuable new paper in Environmental Research Letters showing the value of shifting from tracking annual emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants to weighing the full amount of carbon dioxide that such plants, burning coal or gas, could emit during their time in service.

In our press statement we will be posting tomorrow morning we reaffirm our ongoing commitment to the reduction of global carbon emissions as part of our «Road to Zero» environmental plan.

Participants reaffirmed that the risks posed by ongoing climate change require a strong commitment to mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, adaptation to unavoidable climate change, and development of low - carbon energy sources, independent of whether climate intervention methods ultimately prove to be safe and feasible....

With this new bill, regardless of the criticisms that some like Leitão may have for it, Brazil has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to reduce its carbon emissions without the mandate of an international treaty like the one the environmentalists were hoping would result from COP15.

Your purchase will fund a portion of our commitment, made on our customers» behalf, to purchase 100 percent of the carbon dioxide - equivalent verified emissions reductions («VERs») to be produced by the Project over a specific period of time, usually its first 10 years of operations.

Through improved operational practices, your organisation could achieve significant reductions in energy consumption and carbon emissions, and increase stakeholder engagement through your commitment to sustainability.

Often when business action is discussed, we focus on commitments only, but even more significant are the efforts by business to engage in fundamental market transformation (such as a commitment to no net deforestation or zero carbon emissions by 2050).

Sofidel Group (known in Italy mainly for its Regina brand) is re-launching its commitment to the environment by broadening its agreement with WWF's Climate Savers, based on the voluntary definition of substantial reduction plans for carbon dioxide emissions through the implementation of innovative strategies and technologies.