Sentences with phrase «emission levels by»

I can't see how it is possible to achieve a Carbon emissions target anywhere close to 10 % of 1990 emission levels by 2050.

The legislation, which is modeled after the successful acid rain trading program of the 1990 Clean Air Act, would require a reduction to 2000 carbon dioxide emission levels by the year 2010, and a reduction to 1990 levels by the year 2016.

Further supporting this, a group of 13 states led by California, Washington, and New York, representing roughly one - third of U.S. GDP, has established the U.S. Climate Alliance to support action to achieve the U.S. national target of 26 - 28 percent below 2005 emission levels by 2025.

One reason for the uptick in coal - fired generation in Europe has been the looming deadline for the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive, which will require older coal plants to meet lower emission levels by the end of 2015 or be mothballed.

Much of the farmed salmon are transported by plane or shipped to various destinations, further adding to total emission levels by as much as fifty percent.

Further, the diets could generate up to 134 percent of California's goal of reaching 1990 emission levels by 2020.

To hold global warming in check requires reducing current emission levels by as much as 70 percent by 2050, compared with 2010 levels, and nearly eliminating such pollution by 2100.

Examples of winery GHG tracking needs include meeting future regulatory requirements, such as AB 32, which requires the state of California to reach 1990 carbon emission levels by the year 2020.

Nationwide, if only 15 percent of residential property owners took advantage of such programs, the emissions reductions would contribute 4 percent of the savings needed for the U.S. to reach 1990 emissions levels by 2020 — all at no net cost to local, state or federal governments because owners pay back the loans.

The cap - and - trade program has been selling carbon allowances since 2012 under California's economywide ceiling on 1990 emissions levels by 2020.

Environmentalists want to take the pledges in hand but create a mechanism to increase their «ambition» as part of a binding agreement next year committing rich countries to cuts of 25 to 40 percent below 1990 emissions levels by 2020.

With global carbon emissions expected to rise by 31 % between 2011 and 2030, the Energy Institute's analysis found that EPA regulations would reduce this overall emissions level by just 1.8 percentage points.

The US March announcement on its reduction targets for 2025 was met with mostly, but not uniformly, positive responses from nations around the world because the new commitments were a significant increase over the US commitment made in 2009 to reduce US ghg emissions by 17 % below 2005 emissions levels by 2020.

Although it is speculation, it would appear that the reference by the United States to an 80 % reduction commitment by 2050 originally made to the G8 was influenced by a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007, p776) which concluded that developed nations needed to reduce ghg emissions by 25 % to 40 % below 1990 emissions levels by 2020 and 80 % to 95 % by 2050 for the world to have any reasonable chance of limiting warming to 2 °C.

Perhaps the most important factor behind May's auction is the state's reliance on sector - specific programs and regulations to meet its goal of returning to 1990 greenhouse gas emissions levels by 2020.

The executive order calls for Florida to each 2000 emissions levels by 2017.

As we have previously explained in EthicsandClimate.org there is now a scientific consensus that developed countries must limit their ghg emissions by as much as 25 % to 40 % below 1990 emissions levels by 2020 and between 80 % and 95 % below1990 levels by 2050 to have any reasonable chance of avoiding dangerous climate change which would require atmospheric ghg concentrations to be stabilized at 450 ppm.

Not exact matches

The business also said it was setting itself the goal of slashing its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050, compared to 2005 levels.

By 2030, California aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 40 % below 1990 levels, a plan that includes deriving at least 50 % of its electricity needs from renewable energy.

The state recently vowed to further slash carbon pollution by reducing emissions 40 % below 1990 levels by 2030.

Emerging evidence makes it clear that the installation of software to defeat emissions controls was not the result of some rogue operation — it was driven by decisions made by the company's top engineers and approved at the highest levels.

The goal was to decrease emissions to 17 % below 2005 levels in 2020 and 26 - 28 % by 2025.

The United States, under former President Barack Obama, had pledged as part of the Paris accord to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025 to help slow global warming.

An agreement by the International Maritime Organization to cut the shipping industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent — from 2008 levels — by 2050 will not be easy, but it can be done, Norway's Minister of Climate and Environment said.

The compromise plan, which will cut emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050 compared with 2008 levels, fell short of more ambitious targets, they added.

Trump may find it easier simply to oppose President Barack Obama's domestic plans to reduce U.S. emissions by between 26 and 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

The compromise plan, which will cut emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050 compared with 2008 levels, fell short of more ambitious targets.

European Union countries along with the Marshall Islands, the world's second - biggest ship registry, had supported a goal of cutting emissions by 70 to 100 percent by 2050, compared with 2008 levels.

An agreement to cut the shipping industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent — from 2008 levels — by 2050 will not be easy, but it can be done, a Norwegian minister said.

In fact, Houston aims to cut CO2 emissions 80 % by 2050 from 2005 levels.

While Germany's official Energiewende strategy calls for a transition from fossil fuel and nuclear energy to renewable energy, and reduction of emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, the recently formed German government is more conservative than the previous governments.

A TD - Pembina - Suzuki study released seven weeks ago projected that cutting Canadaâ $ ™ s carbon emissions by 20 % below 2006 levels, or even 25 % below 1990 levels, would only modestly reduce overall Canadian GDP.

Nationally, however, Ontario's efforts to cut the amount of carbon pollution from electricity generation are more than offset by the growth in emissions from the oil sands, which are expected to triple by 2020 from 2005 levels.

This INDC puts forward «an economy - wide target to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 30 % below 2005 levels by 2030.»

Last week, President Obama unveiled new regulations that will reduce emissions from coal - fired power plants by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

The US committed to reduce emissions by 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2025, and for the first time China accepted a cap on its emissions, pledging...

Environment: The NDP promises to cut Canadian greenhouse gas emissions to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

Central to the Green Shift is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, 40 percent by 2035, and 60 to 80 percent by 2050.

It aims to increase carbon emission reductions from 25 % of 2007 levels to 38 % by 2030, above Singapore's pledge of a 36 %, its CDL Future Value 2030 document states.

The B.C. Climate Leadership Team appointed by Christy Clark highlighted that increases to the carbon tax are necessary if B.C. is going to have a good shot at achieving its 2050 emissions reduction target (80 per cent below 2007 levels by 2050).

Under that scenario, Duke would phase out coal completely by 2050, reducing the company's carbon emissions to nearly three - quarters below 2005 levels.

Under the Alberta carbon emissions cap, oil sands production will be allowed to grow by 53 per cent above 2014 levels.

Any reduction in oil sands output from the levels imposed by the emissions cap will create even more surplus pipeline export capacity without the Trans Mountain project.

«We are committed under the Copenhagen Accord to reduce our total greenhouse gas emissions to 17 % below 2005 levels by 2020.

The U.S. signed the protocol only with the understanding that target goals could be met in other ways than by actually reducing emissions to the designated level.

The Chinese, brilliantly cynical, and joined by India and a number of African states, have hit upon a perfect non-starter: The climate problem was created by the West, the industrialized nations, so they should fix it, cutting their emissions to forty percent below 1990 levels, until the developing nations have had a chance to catch up.

The company pledged to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions connected to General Mills products by 2025 and achieve sustainable emission levels in 2050.

Europe is already in the vanguard of climate change action: a European Environment Agency report published last month said within five years emissions on the continent may have been slashed by a quarter on 1990 levels, «meeting and overachieving» its 2020 target of 20 per cent.

California dairy farmers — from the nation's leading agricultural state — are facing pressure to lower methane emissions under the state's ambitious new greenhouse gas reduction laws, which include methane emission reduction targets of 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030.

Dairy farmers in California are already facing pressure to lower methane emissions under the state's ambitious new greenhouse gas reduction laws, which include methane emission reduction targets of 40 % below 2013 levels by 2030.