Sentences with phrase «higher climate targets»

Among the EU countries, seven countries — Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Portugal — have indicated that they want the EU to strengthen its efforts and promise higher climate targets.

The immediate next step is to put forward a higher climate target through the development of the new 2050 zero - carbon strategy.

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He emphasized JPMorgan's ability in the new climate to earn a return on tangible equity of 17 percent, two points higher than the target before corporate tax cuts were enacted and nearly four points greater than the company delivered in 2017.

Klink touted the work Brazil has done to meet its Copenhagen target and exceed its pledge to cut deforestation by 80 percent from historic levels by 2020, as well as to weave climate change into the highest levels of government decisionmaking.

It's also the target of a high - profile campaign by environmental groups over its climate impacts and propaganda.

«If the true climate sensitivity really is as high as 5 degrees C -LSB-(9 degrees F)-RSB-, the only way our descendants will find that out is if they stubbornly hold greenhouse gas concentrations constant for centuries at our target stabilization level.»

The Virginia Early Warning System (VEWS) relies on readily available data — housed at the school — to predict which students are at risk for dropping out of high school; target resources at the school - and division - level to support students not on track to graduate while they are still in school and before they drop out; examine patterns and identify school climate issues that may contribute to disproportionate dropout rates.

Speaking of the backseat, if you prefer captain's chairs to the standard second row of seating, you'll want to target the higher trim levels, like the LT's sub-trims — LT1, which comes with alloy wheels, steering wheel mounted audio controls, trip computer and power driver's seat, or the LT2, featuring triple zone automatic climate control, power tailgate, and stereo system from Bose, and certainly the top of the line LTZ.

Apart from the normal climate control etc, that most high - end cars offer, the S650 energises the driver in monotonous driving situations i.e it produces targeted well - being atmosphere.

Building on my weekend «Reality Check on Ambitious Climate Targets,» here are two «Your Dot» views of energy and climate paths for California and the rest of the planet, one offered by Alan Nogee, an energy consultant who was until recently the leader of the Clean Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Thomas J. Crowley of the University of Edinburgh, a veteran of decades of climate research who here writes primarily as a resident of a place, Scotland, where energy prices are verClimate Targets,» here are two «Your Dot» views of energy and climate paths for California and the rest of the planet, one offered by Alan Nogee, an energy consultant who was until recently the leader of the Clean Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Thomas J. Crowley of the University of Edinburgh, a veteran of decades of climate research who here writes primarily as a resident of a place, Scotland, where energy prices are verclimate paths for California and the rest of the planet, one offered by Alan Nogee, an energy consultant who was until recently the leader of the Clean Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Thomas J. Crowley of the University of Edinburgh, a veteran of decades of climate research who here writes primarily as a resident of a place, Scotland, where energy prices are verclimate research who here writes primarily as a resident of a place, Scotland, where energy prices are very high.

Even with a low climate sensitivity, high emissions scenarios will lead to warming exceeding the nominal 2 °C target.

«My view is that a Chinese target of a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions intensity between 2005 and 2020 would be a continuation of historical trends,» said Jim Watson, from the Tyndall Centre for climate change research in Britain [and whose report on China's carbon scenarios we've discussed on this blog; see previous post «Tyndall Centre Climate Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon&rclimate change research in Britain [and whose report on China's carbon scenarios we've discussed on this blog; see previous post «Tyndall Centre Climate Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon&rClimate Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon»].

Much of the mainstream debate about climate targets has focused on allegedly high costs of targets in the range of 450 - 550 ppm CO2 - equivalent.

The government will ask what this higher ambition means for the UK's long - term climate targets, after the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes a special report on 1.5 C in early Oclimate targets, after the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes a special report on 1.5 C in early OClimate Change (IPCC) publishes a special report on 1.5 C in early October.

According to Climate Action Tracker, existing policies would already be enough to push Russia beyond the highest end of its 2030 target.

And with high climate sensitivity, a risk - averse target for 2 ˚C is around 350ppm CO2e — and all this is necessary just to meet a 2 ˚C target that is actually dangerous.

This action plan lays out concrete actions to help countries deliver on their Nationally determined contributions and sets targets for 2020 in high - impact areas, including clean energy, green transport, climate - smart agriculture, and urban resilience, as well as in mobilizing the private sector to expand climate investments in developing countries.

As tar sands oil has a much larger carbon footprint than conventional oil, climate change legislation targeted by Prop 23 would limit California's imports of high - carbon fuels — fuels that would likely include toxic tar sands oil from Alberta.

The ramping up of business action on climate change should give the government confidence it can achieve more emissions reductions and set policies that aim considerably higher than the current targets.

The US CLIVAR / OCB Southern Ocean Working Group was formed to identify critical observational targets and develop data / model metrics based on the currently available observational data, both physical and tracer, and the assimilative modeling (re) analyses, and evaluate and develop our understanding of the importance of mesoscale eddies in the heat and carbon uptake and of the response of the Southern Ocean to a changing climate, using high - resolution numerical studies and theory.

NGO Positive Money argues central bank needs new mandate to drive shift away from high carbon investments - or the UK risks missing its climate targets

This level of emissions reduction is consistent with the International Panel on Climate Change's «80x50» target for high - income countries.

«The world simply can not meet its climate targets unless high meat - consuming nations like the U.S. substantially cut emissions associated with meat - and dairy - intensive diets,» said

Specifically targeted to the needs of planners and allied professionals in low and middle - income countries where the challenges of planning for climate change are particularly high.

Press Trust of India: India has told a high - powered summit on climate change convened by UN chief Ban ki - Moon that if the developed world «walks the talk», the international community can certainly achieve the targets it has set to tackle climate change.

UN Secretary - General António Guterres will convene a high - level Summit in 2019 targeting sectors that could have the greatest impacts on reducing emissions and building climate resilience.

Our first World Climate targeted university students and young professionals, while the second one, conducted in January 2017, targeted younger youth in high school.

It's interesting to me that climate deniers often identify their targets as hierarchical, when they themselves rarely diverge from opinions handed down from «on high».

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

German emissions are thus at approximately the same level as they were in 2009 — an amount that is 150 million tonnes (carbon dioxide - equivalent) higher than the country's 2020 climate target, which was abandoned in 2017.

Given that a case can be made that current levels atmospheric ghg concentrations are already harming or putting people and ecosystems at risk, it is difficult to make an ethically acceptable case that atmospheric ghg concentration targets higher than current levels are justified unless consent is given by those who are already being harmed by warming or full compensation is made to those who through no fault of their own are harmed by climate change.

«It will not affect the international coal market in any way,» German climate economist Reimund Schwarze tells Pacific Standard via email, explaining that the CPP rules targeted mostly inferior, high - emissions coal in a market that's already been depressed by cheap oil and gas prices.

Commit to strong UK leadership at the highest levels in the EU and globally, to deliver EU energy and climate targets and to ensure global greenhouse gas emissions are falling by 2015.

Commit to making significant progress towards restoring the natural environment by 2020, including the doubling of UK woodland cover, meeting other habitat targets and ensuring that protected sites are in good condition; through utilising reforms to agricultural incentives, planning policy and other measures to create high quality landscapes rich in nature and able to adapt to climate change.

We conclude that targets for the long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse - gas concentrations aimed at preventing a dangerous human interference with the climate system should take into account this higher sensitivity of the Earth system.

The essence of the declaration is a recognition by financial institutions from around the globe that anthropogenic climate change is real, the cost of inaction will be extremely high, financial institutions must take greater action and integrate climate change into their everyday decision - making, and governments need to do more, namely set ambitious, long - term targets for emissions reduction.

This could be a substantial contribution, given that the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat projects that in 2030, global emissions will be 22 billion tons of CO2 equivalent higher than the level needed to stay on track towards the 1.5 - degree Paris Agreement target.

The most recent International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report states that «leveraging the mitigation potential in the [forest and agriculture] sector is extremely important in meeting emission reduction targets (robust evidence; high agreement).»

One point worth making is that if Lawson really feels that the high end emissions forecasts are unrealistic, then the costs of keeping to a climate - based target are much less — «Kyoto for free» as it were.

But that target may be too high to avoid dangerous climate change, Diffenbaugh said, noting that millions of Americans could see a sharp rise in the number of extreme temperature events before 2039, when the 2 - degree threshold is expected to be reached.

The Australian government was elected on a platform of solving the climate problem, but then, with the help of industry, it set emission targets so high as to guarantee untold disasters for the young, let alone the unborn.

Beijing officials had also criticised US climate ambition, suggesting that Washington's target of 26 - 28 % cuts by 2025 could be higher.

Few have suggested that below 2º C of warming the effects will be beneficial; the goal of setting that target is to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, and some still say it's too high.

While Abbott used to characterise the trade of international credits as «money that shouldn't be going offshore into dodgy carbon farms in Equatorial Guinea and Kazakhstan», the climate review says «access to high - quality international units will provide greater flexibility to business and government in meeting emissions reduction targets».