Sentences with phrase «in meeting climate targets»

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In its report released in November 2015, the multi-sectoral team clearly stated that its 32 recommendations are a package: picking and choosing among them will not set B.C. on a course to meet its climate targetIn its report released in November 2015, the multi-sectoral team clearly stated that its 32 recommendations are a package: picking and choosing among them will not set B.C. on a course to meet its climate targetin November 2015, the multi-sectoral team clearly stated that its 32 recommendations are a package: picking and choosing among them will not set B.C. on a course to meet its climate targets.

The «logical corollary,» Smith adds, «is that the Paris climate agreement is not really in the national interest,» since the project would undermine the country's ability to meet a 2030 carbon reduction target that is already moving farther out of reach.

This problem is compounded by the fact that Canada has yet to formulate a credible climate change plan to meet its less than ambitious 2020 targets (see here and here) or the 2030 targets put forward in Canada's current INDC.

In the Climate Leadership Plan released in August, the government renewed its commitment to meeting the 2050 targeIn the Climate Leadership Plan released in August, the government renewed its commitment to meeting the 2050 targein August, the government renewed its commitment to meeting the 2050 target.

How else could he argue, as he did recently in a Maclean's opinion piece, that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — and along with it, increased GHG emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would jeopardize Canada's climate change plan and make it impossible to meet our emissions reduction target under the UN Paris Agreement?

It's the first meeting of the leaders since Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, in which countries around the world committed to a series of targets on the issue of climate change.

Europe is already in the vanguard of climate change action: a European Environment Agency report published last month said within five years emissions on the continent may have been slashed by a quarter on 1990 levels, «meeting and overachieving» its 2020 target of 20 per cent.

Further work is needed to meet the UK's climate change targets, and to prepare the ground for enhanced climate action in line with the Paris Agreement.

The Climate Change Act 2008 sets legally binding emission reduction targets for 2020 (reduction of 34 % in greenhouse gas emissions) and for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent in greenhouse gas emissions); the Act also introduces five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure these targets are met.

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.

The government must also ensure that every council plays its part in meeting UK climate targets by introducing local carbon budgets in the decentralisation and localism bill.

«Ministers believe that new nuclear could play a key role in keep the lights on and meeting our climate change targets - but they don't want to own up to supporting it,» committee chair Tim Yeo said.

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At the same time, Parliament's energy and climate change committee has warned that failure to build new nuclear will make it much harder and more expensive for us to meet our climate change targets, that government appears to be «crossing its fingers that private companies will deliver» and that a Plan B is required in case new nuclear stations are not built on time...

Airport expansion plans and an over-reliance on buying in emission credits to meet domestic carbon targets are negatively affecting efforts to convince other countries to take a tough stand on climate change, the environmental audit committee has found.

More than a quarter of carbon emissions are emitted from homes and reducing individuals» carbon footprints will be crucial if the government is to meet targets - set down in the climate change bill - for reducing carbon emissions.

Children's minister, Beverley Hughes, said that in the current economic climate «meeting the 2010 target is very difficult.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2015 the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Paris, France and entered into a historic agreement in which 195 nations, including the United States, were signatories and agreed to determine their own target contribution to mitigate climate change by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, among other terms (the «Paris Agreement»);

Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

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.

Richard Betts, head of climate impacts at the Hadley Centre of the U.K.'s Met office presented to reporters in Copenhagen today a new analysis of modeling data showing how conserving tropical forests is going to be crucial if the world is to make a target of 2 ˚C, even under the most conservative projections of how much carbon the forests contain.

The scheme is vital: The only way nations can meet the targets in the Paris Agreement to combat climate change is to eliminate the burning of fossil fuels or to capture emissions and find a place to store them besides the atmosphere.

The «pan-Canadian framework» on climate change is not fully fleshed out but does call for a national meeting with provinces within 90 days of the Paris climate conference in December to establish new national emissions targets and «targeted funding» to provinces to meet those targets.

Said Dr Tom Evans, WCS Director of Forest Conservation and Climate and joint lead author of the study: «Even if all global targets to halt deforestation were met, humanity might be left with only degraded, damaged forests, in need of costly and sometimes unfeasible restoration, open to a cascade of further threats and perhaps lacking the resilience needed to weather the stresses of climate Climate and joint lead author of the study: «Even if all global targets to halt deforestation were met, humanity might be left with only degraded, damaged forests, in need of costly and sometimes unfeasible restoration, open to a cascade of further threats and perhaps lacking the resilience needed to weather the stresses of climate climate change.

Yet the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris says that without CCS it could cost 40 % more to decarbonize electricity enough to meet international climate targets by 2050.

Nine democrats have given President Barack Obama a list of demands they want met in Copenhagen at the climate talks: Key among them is a call for verifiable targets from all major economies.

The study therefore concludes that reductions in beef consumption are necessary for meeting the climate targets.

The findings are reported in the article How can the EU climate targets be met?

At the same time, even if California meets its ambitious target, it may not make a huge dent in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases causing climate change.

They then used an integrated climate - economic model and calculated the optimal price that we should put on emissions now in order to minimize the costs associated with meeting such a temperature target.

And in common with all other climate pledges so far, its INDC remains well short of what would be required to meet the agreed 2C target for avoiding dangerous climate change.

One open question is the role carbon markets will play in meeting global climate targets.

As we approach the targets given in Paris, the amount of precision we need on these allowable carbon budgets — to meet the temperature changes — is going to get sharper and sharper, and so we're going to need better climate models to address those carbon budget issues.

Simply by changing the number of modules, Climeworks expects their DAC technology can be freely scaled to meet the demands of any sustainable industrial application, and that it could have a carbon removal potential that is relevant for achieving climate targets agreed upon in the Paris Agreement.

Often referred to as Carbon Dioxide Removal, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Drawdown, or «Negative Emissions», these proposed approaches look to work in conjunction with reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the first place — to help meet emissions reductions targets for a more stable climate and healthier oceans.

Effective remedies to improve instruction, learning and school climate (including, e.g., decreases in bullying and harassment, use of exclusionary discipline practices, use of police in schools, and student referrals to law enforcement) for students enrolled are implemented in any school where the school as a whole, or any subgroup of students, has not met the annual achievement and graduation targets or where achievement gaps persist.

They then used an integrated climate - economic model and calculated the optimal price that we should put on emissions now in order to minimize the costs associated with meeting such a temperature target.

In a distributed statement, Fatih Birol, chief economist at the energy agency and the director of the annual World Energy Outlook, said that trends in emissions meant the world was running out of time if leaders were serious about meeting targets pledged in recent sessions of climate treaty negotiationIn a distributed statement, Fatih Birol, chief economist at the energy agency and the director of the annual World Energy Outlook, said that trends in emissions meant the world was running out of time if leaders were serious about meeting targets pledged in recent sessions of climate treaty negotiationin emissions meant the world was running out of time if leaders were serious about meeting targets pledged in recent sessions of climate treaty negotiationin recent sessions of climate treaty negotiations.

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.»

According to Climate Progress, the report, Climate Policy and Industrial Competitiveness (pdf), completed by the economists, climate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto PrClimate Progress, the report, Climate Policy and Industrial Competitiveness (pdf), completed by the economists, climate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto PrClimate Policy and Industrial Competitiveness (pdf), completed by the economists, climate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto Prclimate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto Protocol.

Dec. 7, 1:11 a.m. Updated below With the latest round of contentious international climate treaty negotiations getting under way in Durban, South Africa, it's worth revisiting what would be required to meet ambitious targets set for greenhouse gases in California, a state that already has pledged meaningful action.

The United States did not specify any target for itself at this meeting, which saw the debut of the Obama administration in climate negotiations (to applause).

Ahead of a major international climate summit in Paris, the study makes an interesting contribution to the debate about the role of negative emissions in meeting the 2C target.

The UK's Climate Change Act 2008 set legally binding emission reduction targets for 2020 (reduction of 34 percent in greenhouse gas emissions) and for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent in greenhouse gas emissions), and introduced five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure those targets are met.

In a collection of four strategy documents which together proclaim themselves «the most systematic response to climate change of any major developed country», the UK government plots out exactly how it plans to meet its legally binding targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

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.»

If it does turn out that Russia uses its forests to meet its targets more in 2030 than it does in 2020, then its INDC for the Paris climate deal represents an overall weakening of ambition.

This could be an effective alternative to selling off Hydro One, which will only make it harder for Ontario to meet its climate targets and therefore takes the province in the wrong direction.

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.

Garcetti said that the «Climate Mayors» group in which he participates is committed to meeting the Paris emission targets, and that it mushroomed within 24 hours of Trump's announcement from 100 cities to 328 cities.