Sentences with phrase «carbon targets»

So taking this at face value the extra cost of meeting carbon targets — according to this one study — could be up to # 320 billion.

Second, governments have limited the cost exposure of carbon targets.

You can't be serious about carbon targets and not be serious about a carbon price... The world we're in is a world that cares about carbon.

It is governments which set the low carbon targets and correct market failures; and the degree of support for policies shown by governments is a major part of perceived risk for investors.

In the existing proposal, only a small fraction of nuclear power counts toward state carbon targets.

They are serious about renewable energy and real carbon targets and the green economy.

In our quest to achieve ambitious carbon targets in Scotland, projects like this take us another good step towards our goals whilst having the additional merit of preparing the next generation to be more aware of the environmental challenges we all face.»

Japan's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a 26 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from 2013 levels.1 To achieve this, the Japanese government has set carbon targets for all sectors backed up by a national carbon tax and Tokyo emissions trading scheme.

Asked if West Virginia's coal units can meet EPA's carbon targets under the state law, DEP senior policy adviser and counsel Thomas Clarke said, «We just can't get there.»

This was supposed to bridge the gap to meeting the UK's legally binding carbon targets.

To put it as simply as possible: California's experience shows that decarbonizing the electricity sector is both possible and profitable, but to reach its ambitious carbon targets, the state will now have to decarbonize transportation — which brings a whole new and daunting set of difficulties.

(A charity, Plan B Earth, is currently pursuing a legal case arguing the government must tighten UK carbon targets in light of the Paris Agreement.

The role of businesses will be crucial in fighting global warming, with the private sector expected to provide the vast majority of investment needed particularly in energy sector to achieve carbon targets in order to invest appropriately.

It is unlikely their offer will be accepted, however - while the government insists it is doing a huge amount to tackle climate change, particularly on an international level, Tony Blair has said the introduction of annual carbon targets would be impractical.

Airport expansion plans and an over-reliance on buying in emission credits to meet domestic carbon targets are negatively affecting efforts to convince other countries to take a tough stand on climate change, the environmental audit committee has found.

But lawmakers failed to pass the bill extending carbon targets through 2030, S.B. 32, on their first attempt last year, and Republican state senators commissioned a legal opinion finding that they may need legislative authority beyond Brown's order (ClimateWire, April 25).

Energy demand needs to be reduced to alleviate pressure on the security of the UK's energy supply and to meet national and international carbon targets.

We have the choice to change our «reckless and self - destructive behavior,» still — yet the Copenhagen conference in 2009 was anticipated to enact carbon targets that would have led to 770 parts per million of atmospheric carbon.

«We are well on track to achieve our current carbon target,» said chief sustainability officer Daniel Schmid in a statement.

This week, the UK Green Building Council said 1.4 homes would need insulating every minute, between now and 2050, if carbon targets are to be met.

For years, the sticker shock of carbon targets impeded action.

Only the US and Saudi Arabia made an official objection to the draft text, with Brazil opposing the absolute carbon target.

China set its first ever carbon targets in 2009, in the run - up to the Copenhagen summit, which was attended by Obama, Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel and other world leaders but ended in a weak deal with non-binding targets.

Meanwhile, similar cap - and - trade legislation in Washington state — which traced back to 2007, when the state's then - governor, Democrat Christine Gregoire, signed an executive order imposing carbon targets on the state — got caught up in the great right - wing backlash of 2008 — 2010 and died in the state Senate.

In which we battle over carbon targets, green tokenism and the economics of climate change.

They provide a very useful factoid, a very useful way for concisely talking about the required carbon target, which frankly I wish I had thought of myself:

In November 2011, the State Council approved a package of policies and measures aimed at meeting the energy and carbon targets included in the 12th Five ‐ Year Plan.

While Speth has said he sees battery - powered cars as a way to grow its global workforce of 40,000, the high emissions of the carmaker's petrol and diesel vehicles mean it has to go electric to meet stringent new European carbon targets.

Professor Paul Ekins, one of the report's authors, told MPs and peers home heating would «have to change radically» to meet carbon targets.

Three alternative abatement scenarios were developed to establish an ambitious low - carbon target for Hongqiao area.

It requires the UK to steadily reduce its harmful greenhouse gas emissions and hit legally - binding carbon targets.

Committee chair Mary Creagh said: «Billions of pounds of investment is needed in clean energy, transport, heating and industry to meet our carbon targets,»

«I reject entirely the idea we are not completely committed to meeting our carbon targets.

The IPPR says a carbon target for the energy sector will save the economy # 163m if gas prices rise in line with expectations, or # 249m if gas prices are higher than expected.

There must be annual commitments from government to meet its carbon targets.

At 9:30 p.m., Freyberger called for the two graduate students monitoring Experimental Hall A to ask them to insert their carbon target into the beamline.

The electrons shown were measured in Hall A's right High Resolution Spectrometer after impinging on nuclei in the carbon target.

«It's essential we stick to our carbon targets and press on with CCS,» Hirst says.

The continued reliance on coal and lignite, however, means Germany has failed to reduce its carbon emissions, and is due miss its 2020 carbon targets.

And they urge the government «to show real leadership and revise the carbon target in line with the Paris Agreement (and on the basis of equity and the precautionary principle) as a matter of urgent and immediate priority.»

In an open letter published by The BMJ, 18 health professionals, including The BMJ's Editor in Chief Dr Fiona Godlee, are supporting campaign group Plan B's legal challenge to force the government to revise its 2050 carbon target, saying it is inconsistent with the Paris Agreement temperature objective.

According to Climate Progress, the report, Climate Policy and Industrial Competitiveness (pdf), completed by the economists, climate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto Protocol.

In turn, this will make it more politically feasible to further lower the carbon targets.

The emissions from existing power plants in China and the United States, for example, represent 53 and 21 percent, respectively, of each nation's carbon budget to meet its carbon target from all sources, according to the study.