Sentences with phrase «emissions commitments for»

Investments currently being made in energy - related infrastructure and equipment will lock in emissions commitments for decades to come.

Not exact matches

The second was President Obama's joint commitment for carbon - emissions cuts with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in November 2014.

Getting to an emission - free future will require a real commitment to research and development, technology development, and support for technologies as they enter the market — like ARPA - E, but at an even larger scale.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Nonetheless, many companies have taken note and established environmentally friendly practices to appeal to employees in this generation, setting up internal recycling programs, volunteer hours for neighborhood cleanups and commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

The research organization Oil Change International and other research organizations have concluded that, because of this high GHG emission feature, in order to meet our Paris Accord commitment (and save a habitable planet for future generations) 80 % of the Tar Sands must «stay in the ground».

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.

However, absent rapid deployment of carbon capture and storage, it is difficult to see how there is room for this level of emissions growth in pan-Canadian climate plan designed to meet the commitments in the Paris Agreement.

But we don't yet have a national emissions reduction target that any credible expert believes is capable of delivering on our Paris commitments for the machinery to deliver.

The objectives of the report were to understand the technology options Australia has at its disposal to meet its emissions abatement commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement as well as provide new economic opportunities for Australian industry.

Together, these commitments will contribute to improving food security, raising farmer incomes, reducing costs for companies, helping household budgets and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The conference's report calls for legislation that would enact in statute the state's commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as a measure that would enhance «green» or environmentally sustainable practices at state agencies as well as climate neutral goals at the state and city university campuses.

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.

However, a spokeswoman for the DfT insisted action had been taken to cut carbon emissions, including investing in public transport and a commitment to renewable fuels.

Industrialized nations took binding commitments, while developing countries could not even volunteer to do so — an architecture that would survive until last month, when the 195 nations in Paris agreed to an accord that calls for all nations to commit to emissions cuts regardless of their level of development.

This decrease is about five times larger than the annual emissions reduction target for the first commitment period (2008 - 2012) of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

Presently, announced commitments for CO2 - emission cuts from the various nations of the globe, particularly those form the developed countries grouped in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are more likely to deliver greenhouse gas concentrations of 550 ppm, says IEA executive director, Nobuo Tanaka.

Britain, said Hogg, would participate in the forth - coming negotiations on new commitments and it has agreed that all developed countries should be asked to commit themselves to achieving a target for total greenhouse gas emissions of between 5 and 10 per cent below 1990 levels by the year 2010.

It's unclear if the utility would have made the same investment without the legislative requirement, but Burns cites other commitments: The city of Burlington has vowed to go zero - emissions, for example.

This is why on 24 March millions of people across the world will come together for Earth Hour, to show their commitment to reducing global emissions and protecting people and wildlife from the impacts of climate change.

The first commitment period of that treaty, which calls for emission cuts only from industrialized countries, expires in 2012.

The Walt Disney Co. yesterday announced new guidelines for sourcing paper used in its popular lines of products and packaging, citing its long - standing commitment to conservation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction.

More important than 2013's increase in emissions is the Obama administration's commitment to reduce them through the Clean Power Plan, incentives for clean energy and the pact between the U.S. and China, he said.

The authors hope these results will provide further incentives for countries and the private sector to substantially increase their commitments and actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In January the European Commission determined that the CDM should be phased out for at least the more advanced developing countries, which would instead be pressured to accept binding commitments to limit emissions.

For example, substantial commitments to reduce carbon emissions from the US and China, Europe, and a host of high income countries form the basis of negotiations, while ten global cities representing 58 million people have drawn up ambitious plans to tackle climate change.

In Doha, in 2012, it was decided that for the second commitment period, international emissions trading and joint implementation would also provide the Adaptation Fund with a 2 percent share of proceeds.

To be counted as anything like a success, Bali must end with a cast - iron, inclusive, commitment for industrialised nations to cut emissions by between 25 and 40 percent by 2020.

The Carbon Brief article does a great job of highlighting the fact that «negative emission technologies» — or carbon dioxide removal («CDR») approaches are critical for enabling the global economy to achieve a «net zero» commitment.

Business analysts welcomed «Copenhagen Accord» — a climate deal involving all the major economies for the first time in making commitments to curb emissions, cementing a global shift to a low - carbon world.

For the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, 37 States, consisting of highly industrialized countries and countries undergoing the process of transition to a market economy, have legally binding emission limitation and reduction commitments.

LONDON (Feb. 27, 2017)-- As part of its commitment to creating a zero - emission, zero - fatality future for mobility, Nissan today showed to the media its real - world testing of next generation autonomous drive prototype vehicles taking place in the...

«Honda continues to set the standard for socially and environmentally - responsible automotive products and our commitment to alternative fuels will further expand with the zero emissions FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle coming to market this summer,» stated John Mendel, executive vice president of American Honda.

«The Honda FCEV Concept demonstrates the company's vision for the future of personal mobility and our commitment to developing advanced alternative fuel vehicles,» said Mike Accavitti, senior vice president of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. «As we work toward the introduction of our next - generation fuel - cell vehicle in 2015, our long - term experience with fuel - cell technologies will help us pave a way towards a zero - emissions future.»

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.

The answer to that question may come Thursday or Friday in Paris, where the world's biggest, and most polluting, countries are meeting in the third set of talks under Mr. Bush's effort to come up with a common goal for a long - term cut in greenhouse gas emissions, and specific commitments by countries in the nearer term.

A portion of a graphic in a United Nations Environment Program report shows the gap between commitments for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions filed with the United Nations by the world's nations (the orange band) and a track (blue) deemed safe.

Building on the new commitments on greenhouse gas emissions pledged by China and the United States, Razak laid out a strategy for his country (facilitated by wealth derived from abundant oil and gas reserves) to become a leader in developing renewable energy and pursuing energy - efficient design.

This is the difference between countries» pledged commitments to reduce emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases after 2020 and scientifically calculated trajectories giving good odds of keeping global warming below the threshold for danger countries pledged to try to avoid in climate talks in 2010 (to «hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels»).

U.S. officials at U.N. climate negotiations here said Tuesday that they would not embrace any overall binding goals for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions before President Bush leaves office, essentially putting off specific U.S. commitments until a new administration assumes power in 2009, according to several participants.

The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.

Peter Baker reports from L'Aquila, Italy, where the Group of 8 industrial powers is holding its annual summit meeting, that no agreement was reached on a concrete global commitment for big cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions.

Another roadblock for Mr. Obama is Europe, which has been seeking commitments from rich countries for much deeper, faster cuts in emissions than the Obama administration has been willing to approve.

Called «Many Heavens, One Earth,» the meeting is intended to generate commitments for actions by religious organizations, congregants and countries that could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases or otherwise limit the human impact on the environment.

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.

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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).

These well - intentioned advocates mistakenly focus on the short - term change in emissions among participating countries (for example, the much - heralded 5.2 % cut by the Annex I countries in the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period), when it is the long - term change in global emissions that matters.

At a summit in Manila earlier this month, the expanding Climate Vulnerable Forum, including 43 nations and 1 billion people, pressed for concrete commitments in Paris from rich countries both to more ambitious emissions cuts and aid.