Sentences with phrase «domestic emissions reductions targets»

One very straightforward way of reducing that gap, of course, is for countries to tighten their domestic emissions reductions targets (more on that below).

Not exact matches

In order to achieve target emissions levels, countries had two options: either take actions to reduce their own domestic emissions, or pay someone else to reduce their emissions and thus offset the country's domestic emissions with reductions somewhere else.

It demonstrates that its intended emissions reductions are achievable through domestic measures and says explicitly that its use of carbon credits is «not included as a basis of the bottom - up calculation of Japan's emission reduction target».

The government says that its 2030 emissions reductions targets are a «bottom - up calculation... based on the amount of domestic emission reductions and removals assumed to be obtained» by this strategy.

In support of the Paris Agreement, science - based targets from leading companies demonstrate to policy - makers the scale of emission reductions that are achievable to positively influence international climate negotiations and domestic climate policy.

Requires the President, if the NAS report finds that emission reduction targets are not on schedule or that global actions will not maintain safe global average surface temperature and atmospheric GHG concentration thresholds, to submit a plan by July 1, 2015, to Congress identifying domestic and international actions that will achieve necessary additional GHG reductions.

While the PNMC carbon budget to 2020 targets a reduction of approximately 30 % in emissions against as a business as usual scenario, it still represents an absolute increase of over 100 % on 2005 levels, providing some scope for domestic pre-salt oil consumption.

Yet there are also some areas where the INDC could be strengthened, such as focusing more on a domestic transition to a low carbon economy and limiting the use of emissions reductions beyond Swiss borders towards its own target.

Ask your neighbour: does the national 5 % reduction target mean that Australia's domestic emissions will be reduced by 5 %, or does it mean that they will increase by 11 %?

India set a domestic emissions intensity reduction target of 20 to 25 percent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels, excluding its agricultural sector.

As the international community and domestic lawmakers figure out how to meet their emissions reductions targets in a cost - effective way, many are looking to innovative mechanisms that channel finance towards enhancing the ability of forests and other natural land areas to absorb carbon from our atmosphere.

The standard can help governments set emission - reduction targets, meet domestic and international emissions reporting obligations to groups like the UNFCCC, and ensure that efforts to reduce emissions are achieving their intended results.

The standard can help governments set emissions - reduction targets, meet domestic and international emissions reporting obligations to groups like the UNFCCC, and ensure that efforts to reduce emissions are actually achieving their intended results.

«EU must have an early, clear and ambitious position on its domestic emission reductions through to 2030,» the letter said, adding that Europe has a leading role to in building momentum and negotiating tougher targets from the world's largest emitters in the lead up to crucial UN climate talks in Paris in 2015.

«Withdrawal of the Clean Power Plan, adoption of an alternative domestic strategy or failure to achieve the US emissions reduction target would not violate the agreement,» wrote Susan Biniaz, a former State Department adviser, and Daniel Bodansky, a law professor at Arizona State University, in a recent analysis of legal issues related to the Paris Agreement.

The future of Obama's emission reduction targets is uncertain, thanks to the US's domestic politics.