«There is a risk of path dependency and future stranded assets if natural gas deployment expands significantly without long - term
emissions reduction goals in mind,» the report says.
As governments consider new emissions pledges, companies are taking the initiative to align their
own emission reduction goals with climate models of the 2 °C pathway.
And while state officials are confident they'll hit federal
emissions reduction goals far ahead of schedule, it will be harder to do so without the state's nuclear power plants.
As companies, cities, and states work to keep energy costs down and meet ambitious greenhouse
gas emission reduction goals, the choice should not be energy efficiency versus renewable energy.
Others argue that setting an agreement on a long - term target before setting short -
term emission reduction goals could stand in the way of making progress.
EnergyVision 2030 recommends a path to
meet emissions reduction goals by using market - ready technologies to build a cleaner, more modern energy system.
Given that the accord commits parties to the 2 degree Celsius goal of achieving climate safety, the logical next step in the process — agreeing
on emission reduction goals under the accord — will need to be tied to that temperature goal.
The EU - ETS is a target of severe criticism from European climate justice advocates due to permissive requirements, financial collapse of the price of credits, and consequent failure of the European market to
achieve emissions reduction goals.
«It's extremely important that GBCs worldwide align their net zero building certifications with the global
emissions reductions goals established by the international community in the climate agreement reached in Paris last December.»
... There is a clear need to reach consensus on how to carry out LCAs on biofuels, driven by national and international legislation which include
GHG emission reduction goals.
In the SRPP CO2 reduction regulations EPA told the states that they must meet entirely arbitrary CO2
emission reduction goals by passing new laws and regulations to govern the production and use of electricity, a vital necessity in the modern world.
«Similarly,» Wagner writes, «we can achieve US
emissions reduction goals for 2020 and possibly even 2030 through deployment of existing technologies.»
ComEd has also rewarded the efforts made by employees to reduce SF6 emissions by embedding the achievement of SF6
emission reduction goals into ComEd's compensation program.
GHG Protocol is working to give cities the standards and tools they need to measure their emissions, build more effective emissions reduction strategies, set measurable and more
ambitious emission reduction goals, and to track their progress more accurately and comprehensively.
Those proposals, announced over the past year, aim to reduce climate change - driving carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel - fired power plants and set power plant
CO2 emissions reductions goals for each state.
The problem is that the budgeted program investments coupled with historic CO2e emission reduction benefits from those programs calculated by the agencies are woefully short of what is needed to meet the
NYS emission reduction goals.
At Chevron, a similar resolution sought to make the oil company's current carbon
emissions reduction goals more challenging by syncing the targets with the global emissions limits needed to prevent runaway global warming.
In this dossier, the Clean Energy Wire and various energy and climate experts take a look at what the contested
emissions reduction goal means for Germany's reputation, how its coal industry will fare, how a continued renewables expansion can be funded and what else will be at the top of the country's energy transition agenda this year.
Projections of U.S. transportation energy use indicate that better vehicle efficiency and low - carbon fuels will not be sufficient to reach sectoral
emissions reduction goals if travel demand grows at pre-recession rates, so managing demand will be a key ingredient of climate policy for the sector.
Kerry announced on Saturday in Beijing that China and the United States had agreed to share information on their efforts to combat climate change ahead of 2015 UN-led efforts to
set emission reduction goals for after 2020.
Prior to 2007 scientists weren't sure
what emissions reduction goal to shoot for, but new evidence led researchers to reach consensus on 350 ppm if we wished to have a planet, in the words of NASA climatologist James Hansen, «similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.»
California is now poised to develop a solution that benefits forest communities and helps the state's businesses meet
emissions reductions goals cost - effectively,» said Environmental Defense Fund Tropical Forest Program Director Steve Schwartzman.
In other words, not only does Germany already have a far more
aggressive emissions reduction goal than most other developed nations, but it's also part of the EU, which has implemented a serious system to cap carbon emissions.
However, the USA (which should be leading the way as the largest historical emitter) can not commit to
serious emissions reduction goals if groups like Cato are successful in undermining climate legislation on a national level.
California's politically driven climate
alarmist emissions reduction goals are meaningless and completely unnecessary and threaten to produce massive damage to the states economy and to the lives and freedoms of all of its 37 million citizens.
The White House says that submitting the US's 26 to 28
percent emissions reduction goal early will spark global cooperation in December climate negotiations in Paris.
Backsliding by the U.S. will likely also cost reduced commitments by such varied states as India and China even as other countries like the UK, Australia, and Canada are likely to take U.S. climate inaction as their own excuse to renege on
past emissions reduction goals.
By diversifying the thermal energy sector to increase use of low - carbon renewable heating and cooling technologies (e.g., air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, wood pellet heating, solar thermal), Rhode Island can make significant strides toward achieving greenhouse gas
emission reduction goals while producing substantial economic benefits for the state.
If we act today to achieve the temperature and
emissions reductions goals outlined in the Paris Climate Agreement, and succeed in slowing the acceleration of sea level rise, about 380 communities could avoid chronic inundation this century.
When cities are trying to reach their Kyoto -
like emission reduction goals, how do they balance deed - restrictions and voter happiness, with sustainability projects (housing, composting, traffic), that don't fit under normal codes.
Speak Softly & Carry A Big Turbine For at least a decade, China has been perceived as unwilling to commit to
Kyoto emission reduction goals, a perception reinforced by the respective governments of the US, Canada, and Australia, and climate «deniers» supported by vested fossile fuel interests.
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