Sentences with phrase «commitments on carbon emissions»

Governments attending the summit intend to announce new commitments on carbon emissions and new measures to support those commitments — including investments in renewable energy, public transit and more resilient infrastructure.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.»

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.

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).

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.

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.

Outgoing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, meanwhile, continued his attacks on Abbott for allegedly failing to live up to «international commitments» on reducing carbon emissions.

At the same time, current international commitments to reduce carbon emissions and rapid technological change have already led many fund managers to reconsider their investments in these potentially stranded assets, while a growing number of studies show that responsible investment portfolios typically offer returns on a par with or superior to, conventional investment portfolios.

Officials at Finance are co-chairing the «carbon pricing» working group, one of four federal - provincial - territorial groups established to fashion a national climate strategy that would put the country on the path toward meeting its international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was at the conference Monday, joined others who have complained that the plan appears to be backsliding on commitments for deep cuts in carbon - dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gasses needed to avoid tipping into a danger zone of climate - related floods and droughts.

Meantime, some 60 countries have made unilateral commitments on reducing carbon emissions.

And most important, we must demand that our leaders come away from the Paris climate negotiations with a strong commitment to reduce carbon emissions and put us on the path to a sustainable and prosperous future.»

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

THE COCA - COLA COMPANY World's biggest soft drinks manufacturer puts a lid on carbon The Coca - Cola Company's Climate Savers commitment consists of two complementary emissions reduction targets for its global manufacturing operations: • Stabilize emissions — grow the business, not the carbon • Reduce absolute emissions by 5 % in developed countries.

In light of the fact that any attempt to reach consensus on the operationalization of equity will run into conflicts with national interest, the paper recommends a completely new approach that would fund a new carbon revolution while abandoning the current approach in which nations make individual emissions reductions commitments consistent with what equity requires of them.

However the lack of emissions reductions commitments from the U.S. for the past few years puts decisions on finance into question, since many emerging economies like China and India who have only recently become high carbon emitting countries are loath to act until historical emitters, like the U.S., make a move.

With climate change negotiations set to begin in Copenhagen on December 7th, some nations are beginning to articulate commitments to renewable energy deployment in lieu of adopting binding carbon emission reductions.

The Government would therefore like to enshrine the commitments in the Energy White Paper 2003 to reduce CO2 emissions by 60 % on 1990 levels by 2050; and to achieve «real progress» by 2020 (which would equate to reductions of 26 - 32 %) towards the long - term goal within a new legal carbon management framework (outlined in Section 5).

This year, Shell Oil reneged on a commitment to reduce carbon emissions from a $ 13.7 billion expansion to conventional levels, even though this exposes them to litigation from environmental groups that threatens their project permitting.

While the Obama administration wants to reduce oil consumption, increase renewable energy supplies and cut carbon dioxide emissions, the world's oil giants are staying on the sidelines, balking at investing in new technologies favored by the president, or even straying from commitments they had already made.

Led by states and regions internationally, the Coalition brings together signatories and endorsers of the Under2 MOU, a commitment to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80 - 95 % on 1990 levels, or to two metric tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent per capita annually, by 2050.

The Coalition brings together leading states, regions and cities with a public commitment to reduce their GHG emissions by 80 - 95 % on 1990 levels, or two metric tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent per capita, by 2050.

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

They include a clear commitment to increase the 40 % target in case of linking the EU's emissions trading system (EU ETS) with other carbon markets, the way land use emissions are accounted for and the threat the existing surplus of emission allowances pose on the 2030 climate target.

Although some nations have acknowledged their ethical duties to base their INDC on ethically justifiable criteria, almost all INDC submissions have not explained how specific emissions reductions commitments link to a specific desired atmospheric ghg concentration levels and its associated carbon budget that will provide some level of confidence that a warming limit will be achieved nor why their ghg emissions reductions commitment is fair as a matter of distributive justice.

This week, however, the blog Moonbattery found a very interesting memo from Romney's office in 2005 announcing tough new regulations on emissions... Governor Mitt Romney today announced that Massachusetts will take another major step in meeting its commitment to protecting air quality when strict state limitations on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants take effect on January 1, 2006.

A spokeswoman for campaigners Divest London said the motion would force the mayor to reveal his position on fossil fuels and reinforce his intention to meet his commitment to reduce London's carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2025.

Minus the United States, emissions reductions are in the 15 - 21 % range below 1990 levels: If the 39 industrial nations included in the stats live up to those commitments — and some have unfortunately placed conditions on them, only making them if other nations follow suit, for example — that means their carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 will be somewhere 9.86 - 10.71 billion metric tons.

The former is to develop text on «appropriate commitments for limiting and reducing net emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.»

«We need serious commitments that reduce carbon emissions — these agreements merely tweak the long - term trend that keeps emissions on the increase.»

At The Climate Reality Project we believe COP21 is our best chance yet to secure a strong international agreement that includes meaningful emissions reductions commitments based on national circumstances, a system of periodic review for these commitments and a long - term goal of net zero carbon emissions.

Just as the Paris Agreement on climate change enters into force today, the UN has declared the need to go above and beyond the commitments made, with the projected carbon emissions for the year 2030 leaving us little chance of keeping warming to safe levels.

In addition, as Britain strives to deliver on its commitment to a 60 % reduction in carbon emissions, it is likely that there will be increasing pressure on building users to do their bit.

Petrobras CEO P edro Parente said: «By joining OGCI, one of the industry's leading initia - tives on climate change response, Petrobras re - news its commitment to reducing emissions and to a more efficient ener - gy matrix and reinforces its strategic command to be fully prepared for a low carbon world.