The standard can help governments set emissions - reduction targets, meet domestic and international
emissions reporting obligations to groups like the UNFCCC, and ensure that efforts to reduce emissions are actually achieving their intended results.
The standard can help governments set emission - reduction targets, meet domestic and international
emissions reporting obligations to groups like the UNFCCC, and ensure that efforts to reduce emissions are achieving their intended results.
Not exact matches
But there are big pressures on developing countries to undertake new
obligations for
reporting on and monitoring their
emissions and their actions, and being subject to international review, far beyond what was agreed in Bali on what they would do.
The above illustration, following the assumptions about what equity requires made by the authors of the
report about how to determine US
emissions reductions
obligations, leads to the conclusion not only does the United States need to achieve zero carbon
emissions by 2020, the US must reduce its
emissions by -141 % from 1990 levels by 2025.
For instance the following illustration prepared by EcoEquity and the Stockholm Environment Institute shows that the US fair share of global
emissions, making what the authors of the
report claim are moderate assumptions of what equity requires, demonstrates that equity not only requires the US to reduce its
emissions to zero quickly almost immediately but that US
obligations to prevent a 2 degree C rise requires the US to substantially fund ghg
emissions reductions in other countries by 2025 despite achieving zero
emissions by 2020.
The
report concludes that there will be: «severe consequences for both the UK and the EU in terms of meeting their
obligations to reduce carbon dioxide
emissions.
Europe needs to introduce company - specific
reporting obligations for fuel suppliers so they can choose which fuels make up their supply and incentivise those with lower
emissions.»
Such action would also address Australia's international
obligations to develop and
report on national climate change adaptation strategies, and to achieve strong greenhouse gas
emissions reductions.
With this article, the first of a new series on environmental shipping law, we consider the amended Regulation 20165 / 757 which imposes new monitoring,
reporting and verification (MRV)
obligations of
emissions for voyages within the European Union territory... read more