Sentences with phrase «hit emissions targets»

What should we do if we can not hit emissions targets?

Many parties bound by the Kyoto Protocol are faltering in efforts to hit emissions targets.

Not exact matches

The automaker has claimed that its new diesel engines will hit the European Union's beefed - up emissions targets by improving filters and building in electric generators to start cars.

It's hard to put an exact time on it, but I do think we can still hit the Paris Agreement's target of net zero emissions by the second half of this century.

From a climate point of view, the key expectation of Friday's meeting was that it would deliver enough emission reductions to hit Canada's 2030 target.

The climate deal struck late Friday in Ottawa committed premiers and the prime minister to work together to hit our country's emission targets.

However, the Jaccard paper also includes a second scenario, one where Canada hits its target by pairing a far lower price — $ 40 a tonne — with smart regulations to cut emissions from buildings, transportation and industrial process.

No doubt about it: if they're built and filled, new pipelines would grow Canada's emissions and make it harder to hit our targets.

It requires the UK to steadily reduce its harmful greenhouse gas emissions and hit legally - binding carbon targets.

«Even with the strongest possible assumptions, we can not hit carbon emissions targets by energy and process efficiency within the existing system,» says Allwood.

If nations hit their reduction targets, global carbon dioxide emissions would level off, even as electricity demand continues to rise.

As state - owned energy enterprises in China continue to have a big say in policy matters, the country's goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions may not necessarily hit Beijing's desired statistical target.

The last update, the Kyoto Protocol, only binds three dozen industrialized countries to cut emissions, and many of the adherents are not on track to hit their targets by 2012, when its terms expire.

Nitrous oxide and sulfur hexafluoride contain no carbon, yet emissions — measured by estimating how much carbon dioxide would exert the same climate effect — count in countries hitting or missing targets and the like.

The findings have cheered environmentalists and climate campaigners, who see signs that the country could hit proposed targets for emissions in 2020 without too much cost or disruption.

Even if Russia is to hit the more stringent 30 % end of its target, this means that the country can grow its emissions by 41 % between 2012 and 2030.

This is weaker than the EU's target of a 40 % reduction in emissions by 2030 on 1990 levels, and the US target of a 26 - 28 % reduction in emissions by 2025 on 2005 levels — although Jonathan Grant, head of sustainability and climate change at PwC, suggests Japan does need to decarbonise at a slightly faster rate than the EU and the US to hit its target.

The US has a long way to go to hit its 17 % emission reduction target according to the World Resources Institute (Source: SolarWorld)

If the country's economy grows enough then the target could be hit, provided industry becomes more efficient in its use of fossil fuel produced power, even if total carbon emissions actually rise.

The two targets suggest that Russia's emissions will continue to rise after 2020, peak at some stage, and then decline until they hit 2020 levels once again.

In most models that show the world reducing emissions enough to hit the 2 °C climate target, «solar energy emerges only as a minor mitigation option» — around 5 to 17 percent of global electricity supply in one representative study used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

75 % of the housing stock will need to be upgraded to A2 BERs by 2050 if Ireland is to hit its 80 % CO2 emissions reductions target.

It is governments engaging in treaties and passing laws to hit certain CO2 emission targets that CHOOSES what future emissions will be.

But for larger organizations seeking to hit emissions reduction targets and meet broader sustainability goals, there are a number of other criteria to consider when choosing your offset provider.

For example, the EU countries and Canada are deliberately CHOOSING to limit their emissions by trying to hit the Kyoto Protocol targets.

To hit our 2020 target, we need to cut emissions by 170 million tonnes: approximately equivalent to the total greenhouse gas output of Alberta.

Australia's government boasts of being one of the few nations to hit its Kyoto emissions target.

The falling prices could damage the North Sea and fledgling fracking industries and make it harder for the UK to hit its legally binding targets to cut carbon emissions.

In short, California's new rooftop solar mandate might make it more expensive for the state to hit its renewable energy and carbon targets without yielding any net new solar build or emission reductions.

In a nutshell, hitting Paris targets will mean both that developed nations start rapidly reducing toward net - zero emissions by mid-century and that developing nations find a different path to prosperity than the one traveled by the countries around them holding all the wealth and still, on a per - capita basis, emitting the most carbon.

It's really kind of a sliding scale - if we start today, we'd need less drastic cuts and we'd have more time to hit a given emissions target.

Any policy to cut emissions will impose a cost, so the Government's 26 - 28 % by 2030 target will be a «hit» to real GDP that will account for a large chunk of the $ 600 billion.

«We estimate that by actively increasing farm yields, the UK can reduce the amount of land that is a source of greenhouse gases, increase the «sink», and sequester enough carbon to hit national emission reduction targets for the agriculture industry by 2050.»

Attempts to negotiate a new market mechanism hit a wall at the UN's climate negotiations in Warsaw in November, with developing countries, including India, resisting pressure from the EU to establish a new scheme before an overall emissions reduction target had been established.

We need only an 11 percent emission reduction below existing (2015) levels to hit CPP targets, not a 32 percent emission reduction.

Every single analysis published since the final CPP rulemaking finds that, even if optimistic scenarios don't come to pass, states need do little to hit EPA emission targets.

If some kind of political change makes governments serious about hitting the 1.5 — 2.0 ËšC temperature targets from the Paris Agreement, it will mean doing everything possible to rapidly reduce emissions, from imposing high carbon prices to mandating the abandonment of especially harmful technologies and practices like burning coal and using exceptionally filthy fuel for international maritime shipping.

Quantity targets enforced by treaty don't foster effective cooperation, they hinder it... to succeed, measures to curb emissions need to be sustained for decades... Binding emissions targets are too rigid... The best instrument for coordinating climate - change efforts is the price of carbon... For most countries, the simplest and clearest way to hit the price target would be with an outright carbon tax.

If the United States left its emissions untouched for the next decade and then tried to hit its target for 2030, the necessary cuts would become so drastic and disruptive that they'd never pass the legislature.

There was also less support for carbon capture and storage, new nuclear build, small - scale hydropower and natural gas stations as viable ways to hit targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.