Sentences with phrase «in meeting climate goals»

Despite the large role that many climate models suggest carbon removal solutions can play in meeting climate goals, it remains very difficult to identify what research the US Government is pursuing today in relation to carbon removal.
To that end, we are looking forward to continuing our cooperation with the UNECE in demonstrating the role of coal in achieving universal energy access and the importance of low emission coal technologies in meeting climate goals.

Not exact matches

The administration says they want to meet the COP 21 climate change goals, which were laid out in Paris last year.
Meanwhile, failure to agree on climate doesn't stop countries from moving ahead in meeting the Paris agreement's goals, or exceed them if they want to.
Economic value of energy efficiency can drive reductions in global CO2 emissions End - use energy efficiency can deliver a third of the CO ₂ savings necessary by 2050 to meet climate goals 17 April 2018
At a recent meeting of Indian provincial environment and forestry ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that nuclear energy will play a critical role in helping the country to meet both its energy security and climate change mitigation goals.
It will serve you well when you meet with your provincial and federal counterparts to hammer out how the two levels of government will work together to help Canada achieve the climate change goals it agreed to in Paris.
The reports show the progress we've made in our five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), and how we are on track to meet our ambitious 2020 sustainability goals.
LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.
Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.
The Committee on Climate Change advises the UK government, and administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, on how to meet these challenging goals in the most cost - effective way.
Let us move beyond this budget cycle and make the SDGs flow through the DNA of Ghanaians in our efforts to meet the 2030 targets for the Sustainable Development Goals and the embedded Paris Agreement for climate action.
Today's report, written by consulting firm Impetus for Greenpeace, warns the government needs to invest heavily in energy efficiency if it is to meet its climate change goals.
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;
In fact, the mitigation pledges collected under the ongoing Cancun Agreements, conceived during the 2010 climate talks, would lead to global average temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius, according to multiple analyses — and may not lead to a peaking of greenhouse gas emissions this decade required to meet that goal.
Also spurring growth in the industry is a number of pro-electric vehicle policies and incentives that have been adopted in California, in part because the state is counting on electric vehicles to help it meet its ambitious climate change goals.
The World Energy Outlook suggests that unambitious pledges made at last year's United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Copenhagen will mean that much tougher action is needed after 2020 if the world is to meet the goal of limiting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to 450 parts per million (p.p.m.).
Yet in a white paper released Monday, the European Commission said that to meet climate goals by midcentury, gasoline - and diesel - run cars must disappear from cities.
«By setting this goal, we acknowledge there is a problem,» President Bush told representatives of 17 nations attending the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change held in Washington, D.C., this week.
In the «climate action» scenario, those sectors relied on a greater percentage of cleaner automotive and power technologies to meet the IPCC climate goals.
The goal is to get models to the point where they can have skill in predicting features like drought or seasonal hurricane activity a few years ahead, said climate scientist Doug Smith, who leads the Met Office effort.
In a recent comment article in Nature, leading climate scientists identified achieving zero emissions from land - use changes and deforestation as one of six milestones that must be met within the next three years if we are to meet the goals set out in the Paris AgreemenIn a recent comment article in Nature, leading climate scientists identified achieving zero emissions from land - use changes and deforestation as one of six milestones that must be met within the next three years if we are to meet the goals set out in the Paris Agreemenin Nature, leading climate scientists identified achieving zero emissions from land - use changes and deforestation as one of six milestones that must be met within the next three years if we are to meet the goals set out in the Paris Agreemenin the Paris Agreement.
The goal of the COP21 meeting in Paris is to limit global temperature rise to two degrees Celsius — the temperature threshold that should avert some of the most severe effects of climate change.
Capitalizing on the world - class wind resources in the region can help both provinces meet aggressive climate change goals in a cost - effective way.
The study, published today in Nature Climate Change, throws open the debate about how to meet the stringent temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.
A 2017 study in the American Meteorology Society's Journal of Climate found that if countries meet the overall goal of keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius via the «maximum technically feasible» cuts in fossil fuel use, the Arctic could see.84 degrees Celsius in warming by the middle of the century as sulfate decreases.
Canadian officials say their small decrease in carbon emissions is short of what's needed to meet the country's Paris climate agreement goals.
«The Department is proud of its commitment to investing in our infrastructure, improving our climate resiliency, and finding innovative ways to meet our sustainability goals,» said Assistant Secretary for Administration and Chief Sustainability Officer Jeff Marootian.
Whereas PPM Data is immediate and accurately measurable and comparable to the «real world» be it back to human emissions, be it sources, be it sinks, be it ocean acidity, be it climate forcing long term and more than anything the dynamics of PPM is easily explained and communicated as a Definitive Yardstick or success or failure in meeting Goals (imho).
Having taken us to task for somehow not properly handling the uncertainties in climate science — an error we did not commit, as I document above — he then proceeds to offer a horrifically misleading summary of what the IPCC actually found about the achievability and cost of meeting the 2 degree goal.
Although this meeting was planned before Francis was selected, many participants were hoping some of the themes might influence that document, particularly with the United Nations closing in on a set of Sustainable Development Goals and a fresh effort to negotiate a new climate treaty coming to a head in late 2015.
Late this week, the countries responsible for more than 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions will meet in Paris in the third round of climate and energy discussions organized by the Bush administration, aimed ostensibly at finding a common long - term goal for emissions limits.
It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»
The findings by a team of scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center and Boston University add new urgency to the critical need for aggressive global and national - scale efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.
Yesterday evening, the 350 campaign organizers invited reporters and bloggers to join Bill McKibben on a conference call to discuss the goals of the new effort which centers on sending both Barack Obama and John McCain thousands of invitations to the UN Climate Meetings taking place this December in Poznań, Poland.
This could hinder our ability to meet the goals set during the landmark climate agreement in Paris last December 2015.
Save the average American family nearly $ 85 on their annual energy bill in 2030, reducing enough energy to power 30 million homes, and save consumers a total of $ 155 billion from 2020 - 2030; Give a head start to wind and solar deployment and prioritize the deployment of energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.»
In the wake of those moves, China and others have used the multilateral assessment process to ask how, or whether the US now intends to meet its previously pledged climate goals.
In the first round the negotiations led to a projected temperature by the year 2100 of about 3.1 °C, after the second round, negotiations improved the climate outlook with a 2.9 °C temperature increase, thus not meeting the expected Paris agreement goals.
Between 2040 and 2050, nearly 100 percent of new passenger vehicles sold in California must be zero emissions to meet the state's long - term climate goals.
Ongoing innovation on the O&M side of the business helps position the wind industry to play its part in meeting ambitious climate and sustainability goals as effectively as possible.
Capitalizing on the world - class wind resources in the region can help both provinces meet aggressive climate change goals in a cost - effective way.
The Energizing Finance research, done in partnership with the World Bank Group, Climate Policy Initiative, the African Development Bank, Practical Action Consulting and E3 Analytics, delivers a strong wake - up call to the levels of finance flowing to close energy access gaps, but also creates a roadmap of opportunities which, if finance is more strategically directed, will allow us to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7, and provide affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.
Once it has decided on the appropriate range for a Paris - compliant UK climate goal, one final key question for the CCC will be how to meet this target, in practical terms.
Investment in renewable energy projects is growing around the world as countries rush to meet clean energy goals under the Paris Agreement on climate change.
It was subsequently shared in a Telegraph editorial that claimed that the cost of meeting UK's climate goals was «not possibly sustainable.»
In a communique released at the end of a two - day meeting in Bologna, hosted by Italy, G7 environment ministers — including the US — called increased sustainable financing «fundamental» to the achievement of sustainability and climate goalIn a communique released at the end of a two - day meeting in Bologna, hosted by Italy, G7 environment ministers — including the US — called increased sustainable financing «fundamental» to the achievement of sustainability and climate goalin Bologna, hosted by Italy, G7 environment ministers — including the US — called increased sustainable financing «fundamental» to the achievement of sustainability and climate goals.
«SoCalGas is proud to support Global Green in this effort to help California meet its air pollution and climate goals by taking methane from organic waste and using it to make renewable natural gas,» said Trisha Muse, community relations director at SoCalGas.
This finding, announced in September by the EU Joint Research Center and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, doesn't mean that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has yet decreased, but it could mean that we may be able to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement in slowing global warming.
According to a draft agenda for the meeting, the goals of this campaign included: (i) «[t] o establish in [the] public's mind that Exxon is a corrupt institution that has pushed humanity (and all creation) toward climate chaos and grave harm»: (ii) «[t] o delegitimize [ExxonMobil] as a political actor»...
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