Sentences with phrase «emissions target»

Given that the Cancun agreement can also be understood to legitimize any national ghg emissions target that is proposed voluntarily, even if it is insufficient to achieve the 2 °C temperature limit goal adopted by the Accord, let alone the duty to try and prevent any additional warming, the Cancun agreements can be seen as ethically problematic.

And so any national ghg emissions target is inherently a position on important ethical and justice issues and thus setting a national emissions reduction target based upon national interest alone fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny.

They suggest that only a minority of the task to meet Australia's emissions target will be achieved through domestic action, and the majority by buying emissions units overseas.

Australia's emissions target will inevitably be compared with other leading nations.

Australia's government boasts of being one of the few nations to hit its Kyoto emissions target.

Ros Kelly was the first in a long line of federal ministers to address themselves to the question of Australia's emissions target.

Even if Queensland meets its net zero emissions target, the actual climate benefit of doing so could be completely -LRB-?)

For that reason, carbon budgets and emissions target should be complemented by a carbon drawdown budget and target.

This limited range of pathways all have a rate of warming less than 0.2 °C per decade, which initially suggests that a cumulative emissions target could be used to constrain rates of warming, assuming that rates of decline are kept at less than 4 per cent per year.

The massive escalation in the states greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets between SB 32 versus AB 32 is huge with the reduced emissions target level declining from AB 32 levels of 431 million metric tons in 2020 to SB 32 levels of 259 million metric tons in 2030.

Gullo says the industry is hoping to negotiate a longer - term agreement that is aligned with Canada's 2030 emissions target.

However, questions remain about the long - term adequacy of the fund and its ability to achieve Australia's unconditional emissions target of 5 % below 2000 levels by 2020, and larger cuts beyond.

Those who heed the call to act by pricing carbon, setting a science - based emissions target and more will materially increase their odds of prospering.

I regard the UNFCCC policies that specify a single emissions target with a specified timetable to lack robustness: on the one hand, this might not be enough to prevent dangerous climate change, and on the other hand, it might not be necessary.

The government has also made a push to increase energy efficiency, diversify its energy mix, and pursue aggressive adoption of clean and renewable energy in order to meet China's 2030 peak carbon emissions target.

Given that any national ghg emissions target is implicitly a position on achieving an atmospheric ghg concentration that will avoid dangerous climate change, to what extent has the nation identified the ghg atmospheric concentration stabilization level that the national emissions reduction target seeks to achieve in cooperation with other nations.

To realize the benefits of renewables and meet the 2030 emissions target, 40 % of New England's generation needs to be Class I renewable (i.e., primarily wind and solar) in 2030.

The survey also covers expectations about future prices in the EU emissions trading scheme and credits under the Clean Development Mechanism, the Australian price floor and linking with the EU scheme, and the future of Australia's national emissions target.

Even if NSW meets its net zero emissions target, the actual climate benefit of doing so could be completely -LRB-?)

Using the NRDC policy framework, along with the proprietary outlook from IHS Inc. on energy efficiency and power demand, the Energy Institute report then assesses the costs and market impacts of meeting the Obama Administration's emissions target of 42 % reductions below 2005 levels by 2030.

Harnessing this clean, low - cost generation is critical to meeting the 2030 emissions target.

«Current projections show that Canada is halfway to meeting» its 2020 greenhouse gas emissions target.

MOSCOW (Reuters)- Russia plans to release 30 percent more greenhouse gases by 2020 under an emissions target scheme announced on Friday by President Dmitry Medvedev.

Edahiro says Japan is considering two types of approaches to determine its emissions target for 2020.

As a developing country, India is not bound to set a greenhouse gas emissions target, but Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said India has adopted what he called an «ambitious» National Action Plan on Climate Change with eight national missions covering both mitigation and adaptation.

Linking necessitates an international agreement on emissions levels between parties as linking changes the incentives to set an emissions target.

If a participant can not meet their own emissions limit, they must either purchase additional credits from participants that are successful in meeting their emissions target, or invest in emissions - reducing projects.

National action to fight climate change will also help to cut air pollution, according to the report, which said meeting the UK's carbon emissions target would lead each year to 5,700 less deaths and fewer hospital admissions for lung and heart problems.

WASHINGTON — A draft of a climate bill that Senate Democrats will formally introduce on Wednesday suggests that the legislation will include a more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions target than one passed by the House.

2007/04/24: ABC (Au): Greens» emissions target «crazy»: Howard Prime Minister John Howard says the Greens» policy to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 is both «crazy» and «irresponsible».

Perry's words do not commit the UK to tighter goals in general, or a net - zero emissions target, in particular.

This decision should light a fire under ICAO, which has been dragging its feet for over a decade on a vision for long - term decarbonization, arriving only at the mid-term emissions target of carbon neutral growth from 2020 levels.

Each EU member has an overall emissions target determined by the burden - sharing arrangements the EU has adopted to implement the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol.

According to the report, if Canada had adopted some key provincial policies in 2008, emissions would be 77 - million tonnes lower by 2020, bringing us close (within 5.6 per cent) to the international emissions target.

However, the government has not taken on a greenhouse gas emissions target, and its current energy efficiency targets don't qualify as particularly ambitious.

The leaders agreed to a +2 deg C target but would not agree on emissions target that could limit warming to 2 deg C.

It is a first step, but what good is a temperature target without an accompanying greenhouse gas emissions target?

In a summary, the authors — echoing a professor at the beginning of term — do add a warning: «The longer the nation waits to begin reducing emissions, the harder and more expensive it will likely be to reach any given emissions target.»

It is important that the sequencing of policy steps for achieving the emissions target build from obvious win - wins to more difficult steps such as establishing a shadow price for carbon.

The Obama administration had worked hard to implement a national emissions target of 54.4 US mpg (65.3 UK mpg) by 2025.

Chung Jeon, vice president of Samsung SDI Co. Ltd., cites a recent Deutsche Bank study forecasting demand for conventional hybrids, plug - in hybrids and extended - range EVs to grow to 17.3 million units — 20 % of global car sales — in 2020, when Europe's carbon - dioxide emissions target falls to 95 g / km from 140 g / km today.

A global warming target is converted to a fossil fuel emissions target with the help of global climate - carbon - cycle models, which reveal that eventual warming depends on cumulative carbon emissions, not on the temporal history of emissions [12].

The plan to extend the carbon market comes as state lawmakers and Brown (D) are engaged in negotiations to set a new overarching emissions target for 2030.

«If we have as a result of this meeting Brazil announcing it will make an absolute emissions target, I don't think it will be a small thing,» Rittl said.

Banbury MP Tony Baldry was told that the Government will fail to meet its carbon emissions target for 2010:

A senior Conservative MP is mounting an attempt to get an emissions target included in the upcoming energy bill, against the wishes of the government.

Canada's economy can't meet its emissions target because trying to do so would thwart the production gains slated for the oil sands.

Today, the Energy Forum released an open letter urging Premier Christy Clark to deliver a Climate Leadership Plan that gets B.C. back on track to its legislated emissions target for 2050.

The peak renewables body's support, however, is contingent on the policy being fleshed out, «and [it] addressing concerns in relation to the emissions target.»

One potential compromise that had been discussed involved remaining in, but adjusting the U.S. emissions targets.