Sentences with phrase «emissions reduction goals»

Working together, we can reach our greenhouse gas emission reduction goals by 2025.

«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.

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

The present political approach is to set carbon emission reduction goals for 2025 or 2050.

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.

The deal includes pledges to reduce emissions and funding for countries who need assistance to reach emission reduction goals.

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.

For example, many countries have already established 2020 emissions reduction goals without accounting for the overall carbon budget.

Over time, these targets can be scaled up to sector - level emissions reduction goals and, ultimately, economy - wide GHG targets.

Lastly, corporations that move early to set net - negative emission reduction goals stand to generate large brand leadership benefits.

Another hybrid approach adjusts the tax to ensure specific emission reduction goals are met.

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.

Under the agreement each country has submitted a national strategy to meet its own emission reduction goals.

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.

without any mention of the global irrelevance and meaningless of the outcome of achieving these state emission reduction goals.

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.

Indeed, it goes much further than Kyoto in calling for an agreed long - term global emissions reductions goal.

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.

A more forgiving temperature target, like those implied by the EU's 20 % and even its 30 % aggregate emissions reduction goal, would not yield such daunting numbers.

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.

Last summer the state legislature established ambitious and unprecedented emissions reductions goals for 2030, without extending the authorization of Cap - and - Trade.

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.

He called for a stronger effort from Duke Energy and «stronger emission reduction goals that are based on efficiency and renewable energy sources.»

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.

Businesses that can't meet their yearly emission reduction goals purchase these CFIs.

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.

The H would also meet NASA's 70 % fuel reduction target, as well as the 75 % NOx emission reduction goal.

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.