Sentences with phrase «emissions pledges play»
Contrast what Stager writes with the tiny 2020 - 2030 window in which all of the Paris «intended» emissions pledges play out.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
The indifference reflects widespread public doubt that human activities play a significant role in global warming, a tone set by President Vladimir Putin, who has offered only vague and modest pledges of emissions cuts ahead of December's U.N. climate summit in Paris.
Business also has a critical role to play in closing the gap between the efforts pledged by governments and the emission reductions required.
The group's energy and global warming policy director, Myron Ebell, played a key role in convincing President George W.Bush to reverse his campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from the utilities industry.
Prior to the earthquake and nuclear crisis, Japan's government had pledged to reduce CO2 emissions to 25 % below 1990 levels by 2020, a challenge that would be virtually impossible should coal or LNG play a greatly expanded role in the nation's electricity system.