For example, many countries have already established 2020
emissions reduction goals without accounting for the overall carbon budget.
Not exact matches
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.
«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term
emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions
without having to square them with long - term
goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.
without any mention of the global irrelevance and meaningless of the outcome of achieving these state
emission reduction goals.
At the same time, if
emissions reductions are too modest over the coming two decades, it may no longer be possible to reach a
goal of 450 ppm CO2eq by the end of the century
without large ‐ scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal technologies.
According to the report, the current
emission reduction pledges associated with the Copenhagen Accord fall short of the 2020
goals required to provide a reasonable chance of limiting warming to 2 °C,
without requiring potentially infeasible post-2020
reduction rates.