Sentences with phrase «emissions targets»

Meeting emissions targets requires limiting use of fossil fuel reserves.

This includes setting ambitious greenhouse gas emission targets across our entire value chain — operations, supply chain and products.

The country missed its carbon emission targets in 1992 and 2005.

Could it be because 2 °C allows politicians to set emission targets to be achieved in the future when they will be out of office?

There was criticism of carbon emission targets of 60 per cent by 2050 which environmentalists want strengthened to 80 per cent.

This story described great disagreements among nations on how to allocate national emissions targets on the basis of equity.

But they failed to agree on any binding emission targets.

At the last count, over 300 companies had committed to setting and meeting science - based emissions targets.

Looking ahead, about 5 % of projected MY 2017 production could meet the MY 2025 CO2 emissions targets.

Specifically, there would be more attention to decade - scale global emissions targets.

It has not, however, announced any specific emissions targets.

Is there a need for a transition away from oil and how we can achieve carbon emission targets at least cost?

To design around the cost uncertainty associated with ambitious emission targets, governments have put in place design features that effectively cap the cost exposure.

We compare the performance of a range of emissions and cumulative emission targets in estimating peak CO2 - induced warming.

What should we do if we can not hit emissions targets?

And, insist they set strong emissions targets in global climate agreements.

What amount of clean energy is needed to adequately reduce carbon pollution and meet current emissions targets?

In other words, the horse trading that has characterized the negotiations over carbon emissions targets during the past two decades could be put to one side.

Even when emissions targets point downward, they may not necessarily imply a significant departure from business as usual.

For some developing countries, actively pursuing emissions targets in the forestry sector might be the most appealing and powerful way for them to participate in the global effort to mitigate climate change.

Solutions often suggested include revising emissions targets or retiring allowances.

On this topic there is still much work to be done, as ambitious emission targets still need to be declared.

Suppose an optimal emissions target is 30 billion tons of CO2 per year.

Regardless, the team emphasized that meeting upcoming greenhouse gas emission targets will require deeper emissions cuts than just building natural gas plants with low methane leakage.

Most climate experts contend the world must shift from fossil fuels to cleaner alternatives to meet emissions targets.

The default national emissions target is a 5 % reduction relative to 2000 levels, at 2020.

Today, it's common for companies to set emissions targets.

Looking ahead, about 5 % of projected MY 2017 production could meet the MY 2025 CO2 emissions targets.

The findings show that reaching national and global emissions targets will be even more challenging than anticipated.

Including ocean acidification worries in carbon regulation would probably lower emissions targets, say researchers.

The country missed its carbon emission targets in 1992 and 2005.

The Australian and Japanese governments have weakened their carbon emission targets and continue to actively block attempts to provide financial assistance to people impacted by climate change.

; d) what are the implications of «lock in» to emissions cap, in particular no rules and principles for setting emissions targets for the commitment periods subsequent to Kyoto?

So not only is Canada on a trajectory to miss its GHG emission targets by a mile (1.6 kilometres), but that trajectory is moving in the wrong direction.

GCAM uses market forces to reach a specified greenhouse gas emission target by allowing global economics to put a price on carbon.

On a top - down basis, we take the study by the Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency published last October and already rreferenced above, which argues that an EU - wide emissions target of -55 % versus 1990 levels would be consistent with the objective of the Paris Agreement.

In the past decade, however, developed countries have increasingly replied on carbon - intensive imports from developing countries, where binding emissions targets under the Kyoto Protocol are not in effect.

The analysis concludes that if Canada had adopted best - in - country clean energy policies in 2008, it could be within reach (about six per cent) of meeting its international emissions target for 2020.

It will underpin international negotiations on new emissions targets to succeed the Kyoto agreement, the first phase of which expires in 2012.

The developed nations say big developing economies, such as China, India and Brazil, must submit to emissions targets if the world has any chance of halting dangerous climate change.

As we reported in 2015 in this Breitbart article titled China Shows How Much It Cares About Emissions Targets — With A Single Upraised Finger — China has always prioritized industrial growth above pointless sacrifices to imaginary green sky fairies.

Potential future action to align EU emissions targets with Paris accord may render all coal and lignite plants unprofitable