Sentences with phrase «emission targets in»

The mechanisms help to stimulate green investment and help Parties meet their emission targets in a cost - effective way.

True, and I agree that they are a vast improvement on the Republican party... but you are seriously not telling me that Obama's emission targets in Paris are high enough, his dilly dallying over the tar sands pipelines, just to name a couple are even remotely good enough?

However, not even 12 months after the much - hyped meeting in the Danish capital, such an ambition has already been placed under intense scrutiny with a range of studies serving to suggest that the emission targets in place within individual nations makes an increase of 4C far more likely in the long - term.

The CDM - the U.N.'s main carbon market set up by the Kyoto Protocol - has helped to channel almost $ 400 billion to carbon - cutting projects in the developing world by allowing investors to earn credits they can sell for use in meeting emission targets in richer nations.

The mechanisms help to stimulate green investment and help Parties meet their emission targets in a cost - effective way.

That, to my mind, is probably the more important purpose of something like Kyoto (imperfect though it may be), rather than the achieving specific emissions targets in the 2008 - 2112 time period.

For some developing countries, actively pursuing emissions targets in the forestry sector might be the most appealing and powerful way for them to participate in the global effort to mitigate climate change.

The US is trying to reach a global agreement on binding emissions targets in which developing countries would abide by specific requirements on emissions.

If nations create emissions targets in line with their fair share of safe global emissions and if sub-national entities comply with national targets, these entities could make an ethically respectable argument that they are complying with their ethical obligations.

Emissions targets in the future will be determined not by politicians (you know, those people we elect once every few years to make decisions), but deferred from politics, to a committee.

As a result, the combination of APA and ACELA achieves less energy savings than ACES and increases the cost of meeting the greenhouse gas emissions targets in both bills.

Diane Holdorf, Chief Sustainability Officer, Kellogg Company, said: «As one of the first ten companies to have approved science - based greenhouse gas emissions targets in 2015, we've already invested in energy efficiency and low carbon technologies.

Not exact matches

In World Bank fashion, he set out targets for 2020, 2030 and 2040, with an ultimate goal of an 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 205In World Bank fashion, he set out targets for 2020, 2030 and 2040, with an ultimate goal of an 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 205in carbon emissions by 2050.

One potential compromise that had been discussed involved remaining in, but adjusting the U.S. emissions targets.

The automaker has claimed that its new diesel engines will hit the European Union's beefed - up emissions targets by improving filters and building in electric generators to start cars.

The target we tend to look at is an 80 to 100 percent reduction in electricity sector emissions by 2050.

A new carbon emissions reduction target has been set before talks in Paris, but taxpayers are now footing the bill - not the big polluters.

Overall, CDP said 89 % of companies in a wider survey of more than 1,000 companies had some form of carbon emissions targets, up from 85 % in 2016.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accused the carmaker of illegally using hidden software to allow excess diesel emissions on Thursday but CEO Sergio Marchionne said the news would not affect the company's financial targets, according to reports in Italy.

An agreement recognized the province had already met Canada's target of a 30 per cent reduction in emissions from 2005 by 2030.

«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.

The shipping sector, along with aviation, avoided specific emissions - cutting targets in a global climate pact agreed in Paris at the end of 2015, which aims to limit a global average rise in temperature to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius from 2020.

Alberta's regs allow facilities that beat their regulatory targets in one year to bank the surplus to offset emissions in future years.

Greenpeace has targeted Volkswagen with a new website and set of spoof ads that send up the automaker's award - winning, Force - inspired Super Bowl ad, accusing the company of opposing key environmental laws in Europe relating to CO2 emissions.

Recent data shows that exhaust carbon emissions fell 3.7 % in Europe last year, and the European Union has set a target for cutting average emissions in new cars to 130 grams per kilometer by 2015.

Munich prosecutors targeted BMW's headquarters in search of evidence of possible emissions cheating, further tarnishing the reputation of German carmakers.

How much the agreement reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and through that reduces warming, will depend on whether countries meet their targets for curbing emissions and deploying renewable energy and whether they ramp up their ambition in the years ahead.

One of the more interesting inclusions in the finalized Clean Power Plan is the «Clean Energy Incentive Program,» which incentivizes states that move more quickly on meeting their carbon emissions targets.

with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

However, the government added, such targets should be «ambitious enough to lead to absolute reductions in emissions and thus support the establishment of a fixed cap on emissions.»

The approach the government had in mind was the following: target the largest polluters, those with emissions over 100,000 tonnes per year, and use «intensity targets.»

According to the Pembina Institute, federal oil and gas emissions regulations crafted after Alberta's system would have to set the fee for contributing to the fund at least $ 100 per tonne in order for Canada to be able to meet its 2020 target.

Emissions reductions: The intensity target doesn't guarantee a reduction in the absolute level of emissions, the Pembina InstituEmissions reductions: The intensity target doesn't guarantee a reduction in the absolute level of emissions, the Pembina Instituemissions, the Pembina Institute notes.

The peak renewables body's support, however, is contingent on the policy being fleshed out, «and [it] addressing concerns in relation to the emissions target.»

The climate deal struck late Friday in Ottawa committed premiers and the prime minister to work together to hit our country's emission targets.

In December 2015, the world agreed to the Paris Accord; to slash greenhouse gas emissions to hold global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C (over what it was before the Industrial Revolution), and, if we miss that target, to as far below 2 degrees as possible.

Must - reads: Henry Aubin on the Order of Canada; Graham Thomson in Kandahar; Vaughn Palmer on BC's emissions targets.

Ontario will release a detailed five - year action plan in 2016, which will include commitments to meet the province's 2020 emissions reduction targets, and establish the framework necessary to meet targets for 2030 and 2050.

With federal Labor promising to lift the emissions targets if it wins office at the next federal election, state Labor governments in Victor...

Cement technology roadmap plots path to cutting CO2 emissions 24 % by 2050 Joint low - carbon technology roadmap by IEA and the CSI outlines investment and policy needs to meet global emissions reduction targets in cement production 6 April 2018

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle Published in the Hill Times — December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Opinion: The B.C. NDP's changes in the budget update still fall short of what is needed for the province to meet its emissions reduction targets

«This is a critical moment to develop a viable energy strategy, based on science and evidence, to address our future energy needs and emissions - reduction targets,» Mr. Hughes argues in the report.

How else could he argue, as he did recently in a Maclean's opinion piece, that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — and along with it, increased GHG emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would jeopardize Canada's climate change plan and make it impossible to meet our emissions reduction target under the UN Paris Agreement?

Alberta's 19 coal plants produce as much greenhouse gas as the major oilsands producers, though the oilsands are often targeted in the province's battle to reduce its share of carbon emissions.

Today, I am pleased to announce another important building block in our Climate Change plan — designed to help us achieve our targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to generate real emission reduction opportunities across the economy.

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.

Smurfit Kappa recently announced in its 2016 Sustainability Development Report that it has already cut CO ₂ emissions by 23 %, well on the way to meeting its 2020 target of 25 %.

Reducing energy waste in manufacturing and improving production line efficiency is essential if manufacturers are to comply with mandatory greenhouse gas emissions regulations and EU targets - and it'll also help lower energy bills.

State Labor governments are expected to fall in line behind the Turnbull government's National Energy Guarantee, but are keen to ensure a future Shorten Labor government can increase carbon emission reduction targets.