Sentences with phrase «greenhouse gas reduction targets»

In many countries, governments and corporations have to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets.

About 81 percent of the world's 500 largest companies have set greenhouse gas reduction targets.

The agreement asks each sovereign nation to set its own greenhouse gas reduction targets and report on those targets every five years.

The time is right for companies around the world to demonstrate leadership on climate action by aligning corporate voluntary greenhouse gas reduction targets with climate science.

Smart companies understand the risks posed by climate change and demonstrate leadership by setting science - based greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Set greenhouse gas reduction targets to at least 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

SB 350 established California's 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target of 40 percent below 1990 levels.

It sets a new, more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target for the US (although the target will only bring emissions slightly below 1990 levels, which isn't as aggressive as climate scientists have advocated).

This can help the United States to meet ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets while minimizing the cost of transitioning to a clean energy future.

Comments: Governor Brown Establishes Most Ambitious Greenhouse Gas Reduction Target in North America

DLCD adopts greenhouse gas reduction targets, supports the Oregon Sustainable Transportation Initiative, works to address natural hazards, and supports community transportation plans through its Transportation & Growth Management Program.

Then in early August, EPA issued the final version, which included a number of changes from the proposed version, including a two - year pushback to 2022 for the interim compliance deadline, and a new greenhouse gas reduction target from existing power plants of 32 % (up from the original 30 %) by 2030.

The new Climate Leadership Team will provide the provincial government with advice and recommendations on how it might best meet its legislated greenhouse gas reduction targets.

The outcome of summit hopefully will be a new international protocol that will bind industrialized nations to more stringent mandatory greenhouse gas reduction targets until 2016.

By Amy Egerter, RMI September 12, 2017 Cities have set aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets over the past few years.

The statement points out that, even if countries meet their existing greenhouse gas reduction targets under the agreement, a recent report from the United Nations projects «a global temperature rise of 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.»

The expansion of the industry also runs counter to B.C.'s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, a commitment to reduce carbon pollution 33 per cent below 2007 levels by 2020, he said.

Under such a scenario, as forecasted by the National Energy Board, the rest of the economy would be forced to contract its emissions by 47 per cent in order to meet promised greenhouse gas reduction targets set by the Paris talks.

The DUP are the most reluctant party to embrace greenhouse gas reduction targets.»

«The 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target included in the proposals displays a shameful scale - back of ambition.

Aprll 17, 2017 Joint Agency Workshop on Potential Methodologies to Establish Publicly Owned Utility Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets for Integrated Resource Planning

Despite never ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, America has surpassed the ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets laid out in the treaty.

Department of State negotiators, including several climate diplomats who helped shape the Paris Agreement, were still part of the U.S. team this year, and at COP23 they helped advance the process of establishing more transparency for reporting progress toward global greenhouse gas reduction targets, says Camilla Born, a climate policy analyst with E3G, a London - based think tank.

Portraits of Energy Systems for Meeting Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets examines a variety of scenarios for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

For governments and municipalities, Bernhardt says Passive House provides a meaningful and reliable tool to reduce building energy consumption and achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Turnbull (right) advocates a tougher greenhouse gas reduction target than Labor.

But Sutley says that the Department of Defense, with numerous programs to shift to greener fuels and reduce oil dependence, has set one of the most aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets government - wide: 34 percent by 2020.

Over 1,300 U.S. - based businesses, representing $ 25 trillion in market capitalization, have voluntarily adopted greenhouse gas reduction targets, the new America's Pledge report finds.

Today, we are proud to announce an ambitious goal: We aim to enlist 100 companies to commit to setting science - based greenhouse gas reduction targets in 2015 and 250 companies by 2020.

Find out how the provincial Natural Gas Strategy (including fracking) makes it impossible for us to meet B.C.'s legislated greenhouse gas reduction targets.

It flies in the face of science, fairness, common sense and the Governor's own greenhouse gas reduction targets to build new fracked gas power plants at a time when climate change is the most pressing issue facing our nation and the world.

«This hike in new coal power capacity highlights the urgent need for the EU to move to a 30 % greenhouse gas reduction target for 2020, to introduce an Emissions Performance Standard, and to end decades of subsidies for new coal build and its fuel,» says the EWEA report.

This was a step completely outside the global reach of Boeing or the world's airlines: New aircraft fuels that met greenhouse gas reduction targets had to be developed and tested to meet tough aircraft standards.

The Science - Based Targets initiative aims to enlist 100 companies in 2015 to commit to setting greenhouse gas reduction targets based on the latest climate science.

The current Conservative government abandoned ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets set by a Liberal predecessor government that had endorsed the Kyoto Protocol.

They know that America will meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets with or without the White House.

In a technical briefing this morning, government staff admitted building an LNG industry will make it challenging to meet its greenhouse gas reductions targets.

Major electricity providers and some government officials in West Virginia, the state leading the charge against federal climate change regulations, want to use carbon trading to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to public records obtained by ClimateWire.

Yet the accord is not designed to punish a country if it does not meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets.

«Poor countries are not going to sit idly by and just impose reductions in food production to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets,» Schwartzman said.

Greenpeace International is calling on the European commission to come forward with proposals for a binding renewable energy target of 45 % and a greenhouse gas reduction target of at least 55 % by 2030.

Cracking the Code: A Much - Awaited Approach for Dramatically Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions In a major announcement today, Edward Mazria and Architecture 2030 have released an unprecedented and much - anticipated guide for every city, county and state in the nation to swiftly meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets of the 2030 Challenge.