This involves recasting the Renewable Energy Directive, and occurs at the same time as the European Council has asked the Commission to produce an updated 2050 greenhouse
gas emissions reduction plan.
Even though the Dutch government already had a reasonably ambitious
GHG emissions reduction plan in place, the court held that it was insufficient given international recognition at COP16 in 2010 that developed countries need to reduce their emissions 25 to 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 in order to avoid 2 C of warming.
The EU was particularly vocal, and in November, the European Parliament approved a proposal to include shipping in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) from 2023, unless the IMO approved an
ambitious emissions reduction plan.
Mexico's
detailed emissions reduction plans specifically mention action to reduce deforestation to zero by 2030, increasing reforestation, restoring ecosystems, and improving agricultural sustainability.
Shipping and aviation were not included in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, on the understanding that these sectors would come up with their
own emissions reduction plan soon afterwards.
By participating in networks and partnerships, policymakers and institutions not only develop awareness and understanding, but also share knowledge about the best practices for incorporating HFC emissions into GHG accounting, and best implement
integrated emission reduction plans that include HFCs.
Though still, if the LLNL says aggressive development could lead to commercial fusion by 2030, I wouldn't be pinning any climate change / carbon
emission reduction plans on it...
via: Yahoo New / AFP Carbon Emissions Reduction European Union Agrees to
New Emissions Reduction Plan: 20/20/20 by 2020 Time for Plan B: Cutting Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2020 53 % of Global Carbon Emission Come From the Developing World: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ok, between your rough calculation and tonto52's / max's discussion about ocean sink uptake, the range of estimated temp increase could be 2.2 deg C (worse case) and 1.0 deg C (best case) if a stringent 50 %
emission reduction plan were successfully implemented.
327 major corporations have now committed to align
their emission reduction plans with the goals of the Paris Agreement through the Science Based Targets initiative — and 85 of those companies have already had their science - based targets (SBT) approved.
And, in some cases, the bills grant legislatures the power to veto their states» carbon
emission reduction plans.
«The evidence of history is that the sizes of the targets are less damaging than the plans required to achieve them...
These emission reduction plans will lay down blueprints for achieving sector targets and such plans create winners and losers.
But what has become clear has been the need from poorer countries for much stronger signals that the funding they have been promised to implement
their emissions reductions plans will be delivered.
Refineries are allowed to claim a 10 % credit against any carbon taxes they pay if the funds are used to implement
an emission reduction plan, approved by the Department of Commerce.
the region which will take part in
the emissions reduction plan (the United States, or for the more optimistic, the industrialized nations of the world),
NRDC Response # 1: «In fact, because money - saving energy efficiency is a central strategy under EPA's
emissions reduction plan, EPA projects that the average American household's electric bill will go down, not up.
The soonest any country can formally withdraw is four years after the Paris Agreement went into effect, or 2020 — but Trump made it clear at the G20 summit in July that the US would «immediately cease» any effort to honor
the emissions reduction plan (known as a nationally determined contribution or NDC) that the Obama Administration committed to in ratifying the accord.
Well, Australia just announced its own carbon
emission reduction plan and it does even less than the EU plan.