Sentences with phrase «existing emission reduction targets»

Together, we explore what it would entail for your company to be sector - leading in carbon efficiency and how you can go beyond your existing emission reduction targets.

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The British think tank Chatham House says that merely applying existing recommendations from health bodies to limit meat consumption would generate a quarter of the remaining emissions reductions needed to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, a key target of the Paris talks.

And although companies are pledging to do more than ever to reduce emissions, «disparity [exists] between companies» strategies, targets and the emissions reductions» that climate scientists say will be necessary to limit the rise in average global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius.

In parallel to the renewables target, the commission proposes to cut Europe's carbon emissions by 40 % by 2030 compared with 1990 levels, up from the existing 20 % reduction goal for 2020.

The pending rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are widely expected to set emission - reduction targets for existing power plants and allow states to craft their own plans for how to meet the standard.

Under Section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act, the EPA standards for greenhouse gas emissions from existing sources set reduction targets at 25 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 30 percent by 2030.

If your company already has an emissions reduction target, the letter confirms your interest in joining the initiative and having your existing target independently verified against a set of science - based criteria.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

In particular, we are fighting a new U.S. - backed attempt to replace the existing binding targets for emissions reductions with a weak, ineffective system of pledges.

It may be that ambitious emissions - reduction targets can be achieved with existing technology, yet new technologies could help.

On Monday morning, President Obama announced a new target for carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants: a 30 percent reduction by 2030.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

Ukraine associates with Copenhagen Accord under the following conditions: - To have the agreed position of the developed countries on quantified emissions reduction targets of the Annex I countries; - To keep the status of Ukraine as a country with economy in transition and relevant preferences arising from such status; - To keep the existing flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol; - To keep 1990 as the single base year for calculating Parties commitments; - To use provisions of Article 3.13 of the Kyoto Protocol for calculation of the quantified emissions reduction of the Annex I countries of the Kyoto Protocol for the relevant commitment period.

We need only an 11 percent emission reduction below existing (2015) levels to hit CPP targets, not a 32 percent emission reduction.

Since total global ghg emissions in 2010 already stood at 50.1 GtCO2e, and are increasing every year, reaching a 44 GtCO2e target by 2020 is extraordinarily daunting and much greater ambition is needed from the global community than can be seen in existing national ghg emissions reduction commitments.

It joins a network of 2030 Districts working to meet the energy, water and vehicle emissions reduction targets for existing urban areas and -LSB-...]

This was the only existing legally - binding set of specific emissions reductions targets.