Sentences with phrase «emissions intensity targets»

IMO it's misleading, because the US administration is still insisting (a) on only discussing emissions intensity targets (for reducing, not total emissions, but only the rate of growth of US emissions), and US emissions intensity will reduce even under business as usual; and (b) the US administration is still insisting on only considering voluntary targets, despite the fact that even many major US corporations are calling for mandatory caps and despite the fact that there is no evidence that their existing voluntary targets have made any difference.

Set science - based absolute reduction or emissions intensity targets, plus other climate - related targets such as energy usage, renewable energy production or procurement, and waste

With the world watching, China's president Hu Jintao offered his country's biggest climate change initiative yet at the UN this morning, saying China would establish emissions intensity targets — not absolute targets, but cuts in emissions per unit of

Unless significant efforts are made on the U.S. end (through a commitment to a more stringent emission reduction target), China will stick to the emission intensity target announced in November 2009 as its international commitment.

Not exact matches

Although its strong economic growth means overall emissions are still increasing, China has reached its 2020 «carbon intensity» targets ahead of time by implementing serious environmental policies and technological innovation.

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.»

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.

When it decided to attach a price tag to carbon emissions, Alberta turned to the Gazette announcement, crafting a system targeting emissions above 100,000 tonnes per year through intensity targets.

The United States needs to develop strong new post-2020 targets; the European Union will decide on its 2030 targets later this year; and China needs to move from its current emissions intensity goal to setting a year in which absolute emissions will peak.

All other major players who have proposed targets have talked about total emissions, not intensity, which indexes emissions relative to economic growth.

For example, President Bush also committed to intensity targets in lieu of proposing any national medium or long - term cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

Translating the intensity target into emissions requires assumptions about the path of Chinese economic growth.

Future emissions estimated based on OECD projections for economic growth and steady progress towards the upper (65 %) or lower (60 %) end of China's carbon intensity target for 2030.

From ramping up its carbon intensity target to limiting coal use to implementing an emissions trading scheme, recent signs show that the country is already...

Target 3: Cut the Carbon - Intensity of GDP by 17 %: Slower energy demand growth combined with increased non-fossil energy supply curbed Chinese emissions growth in 2012.

The move comes because the company has made big inroads into its original target by cutting aircraft emissions intensity by 13.8 % efficiency and improving vehicle fuel efficiency by 16.6 % up until the end of the 2011 financial year.

Because we had to set a deadline for ourselves so that we could actually get our recommendations in the hands of the Chinese, our analysis unfortunately does not include China's most recent announcement regarding its target to reduce its carbon intensity per unit GDP by 40 - 45 percent by 2020 (see previous post «China to adopt «binding» goal to reduce CO2 emissions per unit GDP by 40 to 45 % of 2005 levels by 2020 «-RRB-.

The CPP specifies intensity rate targets for existing fossil fuel - fired electric generating units operating or under construction as of early 2014, with the stated aim of reducing carbon emissions in the power sector by 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030.

By the end of 2010, CLP met its first carbon - emission intensity reduction target of 0.8 kilograms of CO2 per kilowatt - hour and exceeded its 5 % renewable energy target for 2010.

«My view is that a Chinese target of a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions intensity between 2005 and 2020 would be a continuation of historical trends,» said Jim Watson, from the Tyndall Centre for climate change research in Britain [and whose report on China's carbon scenarios we've discussed on this blog; see previous post «Tyndall Centre Climate Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon»].

HP worked with WWF specialists to develop a science - based target for Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions and a supply chain GHG emissions intensity reduction goal for Scope 3 emissions.

As the last major economy to submit a target for a global climate pact, India is pledging to reduce the intensity of its carbon emissions and boost the share of electricity produced from sources other than fossil fuels to...

The four main elements were the carbon intensity goal, the emissions peak and forestry and clean energy targets outlined in November by Chinese President Xi Jinping in a joint announcement with Obama.

But its proposed emissions intensity scheme could boost green energy without any hard target at all.

China's energy intensity target is perennially referred to by Chinese negotiators in international talks, but also regularly mistaken by the foreign press as some carbon emissions reduction target.

China's 12th Five Year Plan (2011 - 2015) sets a national target for the reduction of carbon emissions, through the reduction of carbon intensity per unit of GDP by 40 - 45 % by 2020.

In general, an intensity target should only be set if it leads to absolute reductions in line with climate science or is modelled using a sector - specific pathway (e.g., SDA) that assures emission reductions for the sector as a whole.

Intensity targets are only eligible when they lead to absolute emission reduction targets in line with climate scenarios for keeping warming to within 2 °C or when they are modelled using an approved sector pathway or method by the Science Based Targets initiative (e.g. the Sectoral Decarbonization Apptargets are only eligible when they lead to absolute emission reduction targets in line with climate scenarios for keeping warming to within 2 °C or when they are modelled using an approved sector pathway or method by the Science Based Targets initiative (e.g. the Sectoral Decarbonization Apptargets in line with climate scenarios for keeping warming to within 2 °C or when they are modelled using an approved sector pathway or method by the Science Based Targets initiative (e.g. the Sectoral Decarbonization AppTargets initiative (e.g. the Sectoral Decarbonization Approach).

While the EU does not have a policy that directly addresses coal generation, the implementation of the EU's 2020 and 2030 climate and energy targets have set the framework for lowering the emissions intensity of Europe's power system.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

The intensity target, if dominating other elements of the INDC, national policies and actions, would lead to much higher 2030 emission levels of 15 - 16.9 GtCO2e.

Setting aside the carbon intensity target, China's INDC's actions and non-fossil energy target lead to GHG emission levels of around 13.6 GtCO2e in 2030.

The recommended 30 % target translates into large reductions in per capita emissions and in the emissions intensity of Australia's GDP.

Target 60 — 65 % improvement in emissions intensity from 2005 gives 12.8 — 14.3 GtCO2e of emissions in 2030 (INDC Scenario 1).

For intensity targets, emissions intensity remains at the targeted level after the INDC period.

INDC Scenario 1 shows the level of emissions consistent with meeting the INDC targets if independent GDP growth rate projections from the IMF and OECD are used for the intensity target calculations (see footnote 10 for more information).

But as the Authority's report shows (in Figure 3 of its report, see below), Australia's per capita emissions and emissions intensity at 2025 would still be much higher than those of the United States and more than twice Europe's, under their respective targets.

... BHP was on track to beat a target of a five percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions per unit of production by end - June 2007, and had set a target of a further 6 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 2012.»

This commitment is driven by a target to reduce emissions intensity per employee 30 % over the same time - period.

This commitment is driven by a target to reduce emissions intensity per employee by 40 % over the same time period.

Between 2005 and 2010, China cut its carbon intensity (CO2 emissions divided by gross domestic product) by 21 percent, and, last November, it unveiled expanded climate targets in a joint agreement with the US.

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

When China announced its carbon intensity targets (see previous post «China to adopt «binding» goal to reduce CO2 emissions per unit GDP by 40 to 45 % of 2005 levels by 2020 «-RRB-, it was careful to make clear that it was an «autonomous action» (some translated this as «voluntary action»).

It argues that a combination of a targeted carbon intensity level with an emissions cap on a particular sector at some point around or beyond 2020 is the bottom line, beyond which China can not afford to go until its per capita income catches up with the level of middle - developed countries.

Jotzo, F. and J.C.V. Pezzey, 2005: Optimal intensity targets for emissions trading under uncertainty.

Last November president Xi Jinping announced the country would target an emissions peak by 2030, building on its 2009 voluntary target to cut the carbon intensity of GDP 40 - 45 % by 2020.

As the intensity target for 2030 is 40 % of 2005 levels, this equates to 30.4 MtC per trillion yuan, giving CO2 emissions of 5690 MtC.

In 2016, BT achieved our previous science based target to reduce our carbon emissions intensity by 80 % on 1996/97 levels four years early and saved # 220 million through driving efficiencies in our networks, data centres and buildings in the process.

The EU, USA and other industrialised countries want to see a deal in which all major economies sign up to targets, either for emissions reductions or lower carbon intensity.