Sentences with phrase «global emissions reductions goal»

Indeed, it goes much further than Kyoto in calling for an agreed long - term global emissions reductions goal.

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Island nations threatened by sea level rise, such as the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific, have for years urged the IMO to push for a 100 percent emissions reduction by 2050 as the only strategy consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels.

Published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper concludes that limiting the increase in global average temperatures above pre-industrial levels to 1.5 °C, the goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, is not yet geophysically impossible, but likely requires more ambitious emission reductions than those pledged so far.

The Global Carbon Project's analysis, which compares the world's actual CO2 output with four generations of emissions scenarios used by the IPCC, concludes that «significant emission reductions are needed by 2020 to keep 2 degrees Celsius as a feasible goal,» echoing the recent U.N. assessment.

The ambitious goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels may be compromised merely due to the warming caused by the reduction of fine emission particles.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

These new powertrain products — combined with weight reductions of 100 kg (220 lbs) on next - generation vehicles, improved aerodynamic design to reduce drag, and the introduction of electric devices like the fuel - saving stop / start system called i - stop (currently available in Japan and Europe)-- will contribute to meeting the Mazda's global 2015 fuel economy improvement goal of 30 %, with an accompanying drop in CO2 emissions of 23 % (compared to 2008).

The declaration states: «In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.»

And then there will be the major economies leader meeting in July — that's the one I'll be going to — where we will seek agreement on a long - term global goal for emissions reductions, as well as an agreement on how national plans will be part of the post-2012 approach.

In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.

We seek to share with all Parties to the UNFCCC the vision of, and together with them to consider and adopt in the UNFCCC negotiations, the goal of achieving at least 50 % reduction of global emissions by 2050, recognizing that this global challenge can only be met by a global response, in particular, by the contributions from all major economies, consistent with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.

Emission pathways towards the long - term global goal for emission reductions require that global GHG emissions peak -LCB- between 2010 and 2013 -RCB--LCB- by 2015 -RCB--LCB- by 2020 at the latest -RCB--LCB- in the next 10 - 15 years -RCB--LCB- in the next 10 - 20 years -RCB- and decrease thereafter.

An assessment belied by the fact that quite a few nations met their Kyoto goals and have already achieved significant emissions reductions...; that Paris NDCs are much more inclusive and ambitious, and there is already visible action toward meeting them... the global energy economy is visibly changing now.

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,

They're also examples of how the private sector and communities in developing countries can work together to help meet global emissions - reduction 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.

You probably guessed that if the goal is to instill incentives that will bring about big emission reductions fast enough to avoid runaway global warming, the answer is B, the marathon.

Yet understanding how delay makes achieving the goals of preventing dangerous climate change extraordinarily more challenging also requires some knowledge about how increasing atmospheric concentrations affect global emissions reductions pathways options.

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.

Peaking global emissions by 2015 and adopting a long - term reduction goal -LRB--80 % globally by 2050) are issues of survival.

In addition, because each national emission reduction target commitment must be understood as an implicit position of the nation on safe ghg atmospheric concentration levels, setting national ghg emissions goals must be set with full knowledge of how any national target will affect the global problem.

This agreement is referred to as the Bali Roadmap which also called for articulating a «shared vision for long - term cooperative action,» including a long - term global goal for emission reductions.

At Chevron, a similar resolution sought to make the oil company's current carbon emissions reduction goals more challenging by syncing the targets with the global emissions limits needed to prevent runaway global warming.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

(2) work with foreign governments towards a global agreement that reconciles foreign carbon emissions reduction programs to minimize duplicative requirements and avoids unnecessary complication for the aviation industry, while still achieving the environmental goals.

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.

without any mention of the global irrelevance and meaningless of the outcome of achieving these state emission reduction goals.

«The time is now for world leaders to sign an emissions reduction agreement that includes five - year reviews of their commitments, a long - term goal, and the global prioritization of renewable energy.

The White House says that submitting the US's 26 to 28 percent emissions reduction goal early will spark global cooperation in December climate negotiations in Paris.

Because this global challenge can only be met by a global response, we reiterate our willingness to share with all countries the goal of achieving at least a 50 % reduction of global emissions by 2050, recognizing that this implies that global emissions need to peak as soon as possible and decline thereafter.

Catalyze immediate, urgent and drastic emission reductions: «In line with what science and equity require, deliver urgent short - term actions, building towards a long - term goal that is agreed in Paris, that shift us away from dirty energy, marking the beginning of the end of fossil fuels globally, and that keep the global temperature goal in reach.»

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.

This agreement was referred to as the Bali Roadmap, which also called for articulating a «shared vision for long - term cooperative action,» including a long - term global goal for emission reductions.

Once a global ghg atmospheric goal is determined, a nation's ghg emissions reduction target is also necessarily implicitly a position on the nation's fair share of safe global ghg emissions, an issue of distributive justice and ethics at its core.

Yet the actual emissions reduction target identified by South Africa does not explain how it is quantitatively linked to an atmospheric concentration goal that will achieve a warming limit or why its emissions reduction target represents South Africa's fair share of safe global emissions.

Offsetting through our integrated Climate + Care projects means you not only fund emission reductions to address your unavoidable carbon footprint, but deliver measured outcomes which can contribute to the UN Global Goals and your other business objectives.

The world can not hope to hit the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's goal of cutting global emissions in half by 2050 if reductions only come from developed countries.

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».

About Science Based Targets A partnership between CDP, WRI, WWF and the UN Global Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate cGlobal Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate cglobal effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

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.

As delegates flock into Panama's final meeting on Shared Vision, ECO has few hopes that the world will be much closer by the end of this week to agreeing on a peak year and a long term reduction goal for global emissions.

The «2030 Challenge» clearly outlines a global strategy to immediately stabilize and begin reducing building sector GHG emissions, with the goal of realizing a 60 % to 80 % reduction below today's level by 2050.

Announcing their new climate goals today, Electrolux, L'Oréal and Mahindra Sanyo Special Steel are among the latest companies to have emissions reduction targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a collaboration between CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

The L'Aquila text is ambiguous in several key ways, as it specifies only that the peak must be «as soon as possible» and omits the reference year against which goal the 50 % reduction in «global emissions» by 2050 is to be calculated.

China can make these emissions reductions within the tight constraints of a global 2ºC target while still meeting development and economic growth goals over the next four decades.

«Achieving this goal will require deep global emissions reductions, with most countries including Australia eventually reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero or below.»

The ambitious goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels may be compromised merely due to the warming caused by the reduction of fine emission particles.

Although emissions reduction targets are at the core of the Paris Agreement, the Paris Agreement also includes a Global Stocktake Process for evaluating global progress towards the goals of the agreement and for identifying new mitigation opportunities and, over time, strengthening the nationally determined contributions (Global Stocktake Process for evaluating global progress towards the goals of the agreement and for identifying new mitigation opportunities and, over time, strengthening the nationally determined contributions (global progress towards the goals of the agreement and for identifying new mitigation opportunities and, over time, strengthening the nationally determined contributions (NDCs).

The single line in the proposal Harper apparently found inadmissible was: «We call for a long - term global goal as well as binding commitments to deep, absolute emission reductions by developed countries.»