Sentences with phrase «emissions reduction goal means»

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According to an analysis done by the council that accompanied the new plan, the carbon tax - and - dividend system would «allow the United States to meet the upper end of its 2025 Paris commitment,» meaning it would achieve the goal of a 28 percent emissions reduction that the U.S. promised under the major international Paris climate agreement.

Carbon footprint quantification, analysis and reduction are key to preventing this, for example, by enhancing energy efficiency, mitigating carbon emissions by means of green energy and then compensating for remaining GHG emissions by investing in carbon offsets, with a final goal to becoming carbon neutral......

The goal of a 50 - percent cut by 2050 leaves out the baseline, meaning it's presumably a reduction from today's emission levels.

What's really meant in a comment like «if one's goal is to limit climate change, one would always be better off spending the money on immediate reduction of CO2 emissions» is «if one's goal is limiting LONG - TERM climate change».

So by all means, let's make ambitious long - term emissions reduction goals.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

Regardless of the dubious science and documented injustices of offset schemes, Governor Brown, the oil and gas industry, and their allies among a few of the big green groups have continued to aggressively promote the use of offsets as a primary means to achieving California's emission reductions goals.

The vague wording left countries at odds over whether INDCs were just meant to reference future emission reduction targets, or whether they should also include additional goals.

Offsetting through our integrated Climate + Care projects means you not only fund emission reductions to address your unavoidable carbon footprint, but deliver measured outcomes which can contribute to the UN Global Goals and your other business objectives.

Secondly, the absence of increased emission reduction targets by other developed countries meant the EU stuck to its fairly unambitious goal of reducing its own emissions by 20 % by 2020.