This report also highlights that
current emission reduction actions are insufficient to limit global warming to the 1.5 degrees needed to avoid the most catastrophic of predicted impacts.
The Bonn conference saw expert meetings on strengthening both adaptation and
emission reduction actions before 2020, and the functions and aims of the newly created Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples» Platform.
The further the Obama administration stepped out on the limb,
promising emissions reduction action that had not yet passed the U.S. Congress, the farther into the distance agreement receded.
During 2011, we at the American Carbon Registry (ACR) remained steadfast in our commitment to demonstrate the value of market - based approaches to accelerate
meaningful emission reduction actions.
A country can commit to implementing
specific emission reduction actions like advancing a feed - in tariff for renewable energy technologies, or alternatively to a certain outcome or result: for example to reduce emissions to a specific level.
«To better understand the global climate change response and
emissions reduction actions, we recommend the establishment of an international database of mitigation and adaptation options that builds upon this European study,» writes Reckien.
This proposed change will compromise the National Policy on Climate Change and
the emission reduction actions announced by Brazil in 2009 during COP 15.
The European Union (EU) deserves high praise for being the only major economy to have achieved all four
emissions reduction actions, despite the challenge of achieving agreement between 27 member nations.
(2) When people who have spent a lot of time and effort on trivial solutions discover they are trivial, there is a risk that they will conclude that
all emissions reductions actions are pointless.
Ditching the Bali Action Plan in favour of something new would simply be a way for A1 countries to be let off the hook while appearing to be committed to
emission reduction action.