Sentences with phrase «for achieving carbon neutrality»

This executive summary of the full report, Bending the Curve: 10 scalable solutions for carbon neutrality and climate stability, presents pragmatic paths for achieving carbon neutrality and...

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«Cutting trees for fuel is antithetical to the important role that forests play as a sink for CO2 that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere,» Schlesinger writes in an article published yesterday in the journal Science, adding later that carbon neutrality «is only achieved» if harvested forests are allowed to regrow more biomass than was lost.

In the words of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, achieving carbon neutrality «requires transformative rather than incremental approaches,» with a roadmap for long - term and deep reductions in the building, energy, and transportation sectors.

In 2011 the City of Seattle commissioned a study of potential pathways to achieve its carbon neutrality goal, and in 2015 the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance published a framework for cities on long - term deep carbon reduction planning.

There are other ways for companies and campaigns to achieve carbon neutrality.

To compensate for the remaining unavoidable, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon offsets offer the best option for achieving climate neutrality.

For Schneider Electric, contributing to the process of achieving carbon neutrality is an ambitious and productive challenge.

Signing up to these initiatives will help both companies to deliver on their wider climate ambitions, for example Schneider Electric's target to achieve carbon neutrality in its ecosystem by 2030, and EDF's «Goal 2030» pledge to «go beyond the requirements of the two degrees Celsius trajectory set by COP21».

Although newer vehicles will be more fuel efficient, CO2 emissions continue to rise because of the growth in vehicle travel and the increase in congestion and because we have not assumed carbon neutrality for new dwellings as these have yet to be achieved in mass market building.

Düsseldorf's development strategy was to economically meet its ambitious climate goals of achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2050, which for this city in western Germany means reducing CO2 emissions to just 2 tons per capita.

The fee works by making the cost to achieve carbon neutrality a line item in the operating budgets of Microsoft's business units across more than 100 countries, establishing a powerful incentive for each group to find lower - carbon alternatives and to invest in carbon - saving initiatives and innovations.

The ACR Corporate Excellence award was presented to Microsoft for the company's leadership in setting an internal price on carbon in order to achieve 100 percent carbon neutrality while driving company - wide efficiency and innovation.