Sentences with phrase «gas emission reduction goals»

For the United States to minimize long - term energy costs and meet greenhouse gas emission reduction goals, both energy efficiency and renewable energy will need to play a substantial role.

In the past month, the city of Minneapolis and its two investor - owned utilities adopted the nation's first clean energy partnership, with a wide range of goals including meeting the city's ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.

By diversifying the thermal energy sector to increase use of low - carbon renewable heating and cooling technologies (e.g., air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, wood pellet heating, solar thermal), Rhode Island can make significant strides toward achieving greenhouse gas emission reduction goals while producing substantial economic benefits for the state.

«Key to achieving our greenhouse - gas emission reduction goals in Canada and the U.S. is cleaning our shared electricity grid and using that non-emitting electricity to power other sectors.

Working together, we can reach our greenhouse gas emission reduction goals by 2025.

It gave birth to the Kyoto Protocol which set greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.

-- The Secretary of Transportation shall establish appropriate requirements, including performance measures, to ensure that transportation plans developed under sections 134 and 135 of title 23 of the United States Code sufficiently meet the requirements of this section, including achieving progress towards national transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.

-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall promulgate, and update from time to time, regulations to establish national transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, standardized models and methodologies for use in developing surface transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets pursuant to sections 134 and 135 of title 23 of the United States Code and methods for collection of data on transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions.

Strategies to achieve all cost - effective energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals include promoting the development of zero net energy buildings, increased building and appliance standards, and better enforcement of those standards.

Not exact matches

RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

Environmentalists fear that the production and processing of the gas for export could upend the province's aggressiveclimate change policies, which include an emissions - reduction goal and an unusual carbon tax system.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

Achieved and made significant progress in natural resource reduction targets including meeting its normalized greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goal and nearly meeting its energy use reduction target four years ahead of its 2020 deadline.

The executive order signed by Cuomo on Thursday affirms New York state's climate and clean energy goals, including a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2030 and an 80 percent reduction in emissions by 2050.

Researchers at Oxford University recently proposed demolishing 80,000 inefficient homes a year — many of them century - old structures in town and city centers — to achieve the British goal of a 60 percent reduction in greenhouse - gas emissions by 2050.

The dairy industry has set a goal of 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

The administration has embraced a goal of 17 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, but it hasn't told us how that would be achieved.

This is assuming that we don't achieve any significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions - after all, our goal of limiting warming an additional two degrees Celsius (3.6 °F) is likely utterly unattainable.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

Being aware of those different costs, we know which things really bring dramatic greenhouse gas reductions, particularly given the goals, reflected in the Paris climate agreement, of getting close to zero emissions.

The premise of the show is that 12 home - owners are given $ 15,000 (Canadian, of course) to renovate their houses with the goal being a maximum reduction in energy and water usage, and the biggest reduction in greenhouse gas emission.

But the president's move to expand such controls to existing plants can, all by itself, get Obama a long way toward his goal of a 17 percent reduction in US greenhouse gas emissions — from 2005 levels — by 2020.

The European Union believes that an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, the goal of its Roadmap 2050 plan, is the winning strategy for long - term prosperity.

Maryland's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act of 2009 requires the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020 and directs the Maryland Department of the Environment to develop a plan to accomplish that goGas Reduction Act of 2009 requires the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020 and directs the Maryland Department of the Environment to develop a plan to accomplish that gogas emissions 25 percent by 2020 and directs the Maryland Department of the Environment to develop a plan to accomplish that goal.

The Pembina Institute's analysis indicates that the oil and gas sector needs to make a 42 per cent reduction from its projected 2020 emission level for Canada to achieve its 2020 climate goals.

The Code gives consumers confidence that companies are operating to robust procedures and that implemented carbon strategies are credible and emissions reductions are real, measureable, permanent, and independently verified — a step to the goal of reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The agency's reporting program helps provide a better understanding of greenhouse gas emissions, and improves the ability to track progress toward meeting reduction goals.

Leading companies elevate their climate goals in response to science September 25, 2015: More and more companies are setting ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets that align with what the latest climate science says is necessary to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

Help the US to achieve its 2025 greenhouse gas reduction goals and put US emissions on a path to help keep global temperature increases well below 2 degrees Celsius.

The target sets the goal of 40 % greenhouse gases emission reduction and 27 % renewable energy generation by 2030.

p > On November 15th, Governors of nine Midwestern U.S. states and the Premier of Manitoba signed the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord, a new agreement to establish regional goals and initiatives to increase energy security, promote renewable energy, and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissioGas Reduction Accord, a new agreement to establish regional goals and initiatives to increase energy security, promote renewable energy, and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissiogas (GHG) emissions.

Renovating New York City's buildings to high - performance standards when they change hands is crucial to the City reaching its ambitious goals of an 80 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

But the shareholder resolution asking the company to set greenhouse gas and emissions reductions goals was defeated: even though it got a respectable share of the vote — 26.8 % of voting shares supported the resolution — 73.2 % voted against.

«New York has adopted one of the most aggressive greenhouse gas reduction policies in the nation, and these continued investments in infrastructure supporting zero emission vehicles is one more way to help reach these goals, reduce our carbon footprint and combat climate change,» Governor Cuomo said.

«(1) whether the programs under Safe Climate Act and other Federal statutes are resulting in sufficient United States greenhouse gas emissions reductions to meet the emissions reduction goals described in section 702, taking into account the use of offsets; and

There are caveats to that, however: Though a 2050 greenhouse gas reduction goal has been adopted in California, the Obama administration's current goal for the U.S. is to cut emissions by up to 28 percent below 2005 levels within 10 years.

Palo Alto, Calif., February 15, 2017 — After setting and meeting two successive Scope 1 and Scope 2 absolute reduction goals for greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) 1, HP Inc. announces a new target to reduce the GHG emissions from its global operations by 25 percent by 2025, compared to 2015.

Regardless of the dubious science and documented injustices of offset schemes, Governor Brown, the oil and gas industry, and their allies among a few of the big green groups have continued to aggressively promote the use of offsets as a primary means to achieving California's emission reductions goals.

These projects are expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4.3 million metric tons - equivalent to taking 49,000 cars off the road for the next 19 years - and help the state achieve its goal of a 40 percent emissions reduction by 2030.

To meet our ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals, City departments track their GHG emissions and participate in an annual climate action program.

Mahindra's challenge is the first of what will be multiple «Summit Challenges» that aim to accelerate greenhouse gas reductions at a rate that will ensure worldwide emissions start trending downward no later than 2020 — a goal that must be met to prevent dangerous temperature rise.

Architecture 2030's goal is to achieve dramatic and measurable reductions in the fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the Building Sector by transforming -LSB-...]

Prior to her current responsibilities, Lori was integrally involved in AGA's pipeline safety and environmental advocacy, including participating in the development of the EPA STAR program to encourage voluntary operations reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, serving on the executive steering team of the Department of Transportation's distribution integrity management program, and participating in the launch of the Common Ground Alliance — a collaborative organization with the goal of reducing excavation damage of underground facilities.

We are told by the federal government that increasing oil and gas production and meeting emissions reduction targets are mutually compatible goals.

To help ensure these goals are met and greenhouse gas emission reductions are realized, large utilities will be required to develop and submit Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs).

The European Union (EU) is unequivocally continuing down a path of global climate and energy leadership while bringing online more carbon - neutral fuel systems throughout its 28 member states, closing in on the 2020 goal of a 20 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from 1990 levels.

Along with pledges from over 185 countries, the US committed to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 26 - 28 % below 2005 levels by 2025, building on its existing goal of a 17 % reduction below 2005 levels by 2020.

The text states that to achieve the temperature goal: «Parties aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, recognizing that peaking will take longer for developing country Parties, and to undertake rapid reductions thereafter in accordance with best available science, so as to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century».

The GBCs committed to align their ZNC definitions and programs to achieve a common carbon goal, one that will drive significant momentum in shifting industry and regulation towards substantial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions.

Leaders from around the world are coming together with an overarching goal of creating a deal to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature increase to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.