Sentences with phrase «emissions goals while»

Regulators and utilities in states reliant on coal power throughout the nation are already scrambling to figure out how to meet their state's emissions goals while still ensuring reliable electric service.

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«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

Each of America's beverage companies has set goals to lower our emissions over time while continually improving efficiency.

We have also made significant strides toward our other 2020 goals to reduce water, energy and greenhouse gas emissions, while implementing more than $ 4.2 million of environmental and facility improvements.

And while state officials are confident they'll hit federal emissions reduction goals far ahead of schedule, it will be harder to do so without the state's nuclear power plants.

Those numbers are steadily decreasing, he said, but the goal he has put before the World Bank is lofty: ending extreme poverty by 2030 while also addressing skyrocketing inequality and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

While no countries put forward new targets, all of them — from emissions giant Australia to tiny Niue (population 1,398) inscribed their domestic carbon - cutting, fossil - fuel reducing, renewable energy and energy efficiency goals as part of the declaration.

Embracing that earlier «Republican vision,» he says, fits with Trump's goals of creating more jobs in rural America while enhancing energy security — and it would lower carbon emissions as well.

If oil prices remain high and governments make progress on their emissions goals, there's a possibility that the world has already hit peak oil, and that the next few years will see its use plateau for a while before dropping again.

The goal would be to reduce accidents and dramatically improve the flow of traffic while lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

Pieter Tans, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who wrapped up the panel, said that while governments and policymakers should still aggressively pursue the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, he did not believe that the most severe IPCC scenario, RCP 8.5, was likely.

«Regardless of which theory proves correct, the goal is the same — to reduce carbon emissions, we need innovation in the private sector; not excessive government regulation to stifle some industries while rewarding others.

While the administration argues that there are plenty of venues for more cuts that don't require legislative action, Jeff Holmstead of Bracewell & Giuliani, a former EPA air chief, said he doesn't see the United States achieving its initial goal of cutting emissions 17 percent by 2020, much less a heightened target of 26 percent by 2025.

And the potential for cuts in oil and gas methane emissions to help us achieve this goal, while benefiting the economy and society as a whole, is an opportunity we can't afford to miss.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

But while that goal helps automakers meet emissions goals, it doesn't sound all that fun for enthusiasts.

The Center promotes comprehensive multimodal approaches to reduce GHG emissions and prepare for the effects of climate change on the transportation system, while advancing DOT's core goals of safety, mobility, environmental stewardship, and security.

While zero emissions is the ultimate goal, the company is committed to ongoing innovation in technologies that increase efficiency and reduce emissions.

The goal of the company is to use plug - in technology to continue offering high performance vehicles while reducing CO2 emissions below 100g / km.

According to the automaker, «This innovation as well as the intelligent charging via an electric auxiliary compressor and an exhaust gas turbocharger all have the same goal: to enhance the hallmark AMG performance and driving dynamics, while at the same time reducing fuel consumption and emissions.»

HYBRID ELECTRIC UNIT FOR SEMI TRUCKS New regulations say that big tractor - trailers need to reduce fuel consumption and emissions 20 % by 2018, and while that may seem like a lot, there's new technology that can achieve those goals today.

The goal of this engine was to meet strict emissions regulations, while offering up a small performance increase as collateral.

And while greater cuts are needed here in America to avert a climate catastrophe, even this new goal means that as soon as Air Force One touches down at Andrews Air Force Base, President Bush should get working on an aggressive plan to cut United States emissions.

While there has been some talk that Mr. Bush is considering an eventual goal of halving emissions by 2050, no firm number has been disclosed today.

The goal five years ago was to build momentum to «seal the deal» on a binding climate treaty — a fruitless task given the divisions among the world's nations — while this conclave was centered on a more modest, but more concrete, achievement — «to raise political momentum for a meaningful universal climate agreement [notice there's no mention of the word «binding»] in Paris in 2015 and to galvanize transformative action in all countries to reduce emissions and build resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change.»

The bottom line, of course, is the uncomfortable reality that adapting to climate change is and will be a prime priority while mitigating emissions remains, for most countries, a generations - spanning long - term goal — unless and until some epic environmental disruption forces it to the front of the line.

This protects the environment and supports the State's goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 % while generating 50 % of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030.

By setting clear and ambitious goals, we want to inspire others to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions while creating business value and growth.

The agreement is the first to provide equal attention to reducing emissions and building resilience, while setting a firm goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 to 2 degrees C.

While enough small measures could help reduce emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 (the goal of the climate bill that died early in his first term), climate scientists caution that won't be enough to avert the worst impacts of global temperature rise.

While some of the Climate Leaders participating companies only made pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, others have achieved their stated goals.

While these sections are relatively clear in describing how generation from nuclear plants is accounted for in the emission rate goals, other parts of the EPA proposal suggest the possibility that «new» nuclear plants beyond those currently under construction may play a role in state compliance planning.

NY - GEO thanks Governor Cuomo, who has come to the rescue of 1,000 family - supporting geothermal jobs, while paving the way for New York to meet the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030.»

Observing that Kyoto hasn't come close to its goal of «an internationally harmonized binding system of emissions caps,» Weitzman shows why: the Kyoto framework induces each nation to game the system by attempting to maximize the efforts required of others while minimizing its own.

Our target is to reach 10 ppm sulfur in fuels by 2025 globally, while at the same time also supporting the introduction of vehicles emissions standards, contributing to the overall goal of the CCAC.

How can developing countries, especially middle - income countries, dramatically scale up energy use, and provide access to modern energy services to the billions who lack them, while keeping GHG emissions within the global goal of limiting dangerous temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, or even better 1.5 degrees?

(Reuters)-- The European Commission will hold three meetings this summer on how to ensure the bloc's industries can compete in global markets while meeting goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions, it said on Wednesday.

(2) work with foreign governments towards a global agreement that reconciles foreign carbon emissions reduction programs to minimize duplicative requirements and avoids unnecessary complication for the aviation industry, while still achieving the environmental goals.

While the retail giant has met some of its sustainability goals, it has failed to set science - based targets for climate emissions or speed up progress on renewables

The goal is to outfit buildings so they can keep the lights on after a storm, when the regular grid typically goes down, all while producing far fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

The energy trends envisioned in the New Policies Scenario imply that national commitments to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions, while expected to have some impact, are collectively inadequate to meet the Copenhagen Accord's overall goal of holding the global temperature increase to below 2 °C.

Relative to 2005 emissions levels, Canada's goal is a 17 % reduction, while the EU goal amounts to an aggressive 13 %.

If we implemented policies to meet our goals, a refinery in Canada would face a tradeoff between GHG emissions and a $ 100 / ton carbon price while the climate leaders in the EU would demand a payment of less than $ 40 from the same facility.

If you account for population growth, our modest goals see a reduction in per - capita emissions of over 30 % from 2005 levels while the EU goals seek an aggressive 17 % reduction.

New WRI research shows India can achieve its emissions - reduction goal through existing policies while maintaining an annual GDP growth rate of 6 - 7 percent.

While it is unwise to impose strict limitations, it is crucial to minimize the flexibility of emissions goals to ensure success.

The European Union (EU) is unequivocally continuing down a path of global climate and energy leadership while bringing online more carbon - neutral fuel systems throughout its 28 member states, closing in on the 2020 goal of a 20 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from 1990 levels.

The overall development goal of the Programme is to reduce forest emissions and enhance carbon stocks in forests while contributing to national sustainable development.

The Paris Agreement on mitigating climate change seeks to limit emissions with the goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 C above preindustrial levels while also pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C.

In many ways, I have seen California set ambitious climate goals by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions through stringent fuel emission standards while fighting back against the Trump Administration's plans for offshore drilling.