Sentences with phrase «emissions mitigation pledges»

Falling energy prices, fiscal pressures and emissions mitigation pledges made by 191 countries for the 2015 Paris Agreement create an opportune time for reform.

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In fact, the mitigation pledges collected under the ongoing Cancun Agreements, conceived during the 2010 climate talks, would lead to global average temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius, according to multiple analyses — and may not lead to a peaking of greenhouse gas emissions this decade required to meet that goal.
Framed as a way to broaden the set of mitigation solutions, I think the conversation on carbon removal can help bring more parties to the climate negotiation table and can encourage deeper emission reduction pledges than would otherwise occur.
Countries later submitted emissions reductions pledges or mitigation action pledges.
The COP, by decision 1 / CP.17, noted with grave concern the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties» mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with having a likely chance of holding the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C or 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.
Emissions Reductions: The Copenhagen Accord provides for countries to voluntarily commit to GHG mitigation plans in two separate annexes, one for developed country targets and the other for the voluntary pledges of major developing countries.
At and since the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit, 42 developed countries have pledged economy - wide emissions cuts within specific timeframes and 98 developing countries have pledged to put in place specific mitigation actions between now and 2020.
Rajasa's remark directly contradicts an earlier statement by Agus Purnomo, head of the secretariat of Indonesia's National Climate Change Council, that part of the billion dollars pledged by Norway would be used to compensate palm oil developers and timber companies that would lose forest concessions under the emissions mitigation program.
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