Sentences with phrase «international targets»

The world's nations also show strong commitments to habitat protection, and countries are now within striking distance of international targets for terrestrial and marine habitat protection.

A fresh look at temperature data from the last decade offers an unexpected opportunity to stay below the agreed international target of 2 °C of global warming.

The project also looks at the scenario where strong greenhouse gas reduction policies are implemented and temperature rise is kept below 2 degrees Celsius (the current international target).

Some countries think this can be achieved by setting international targets that countries must strive to meet and be accountable against.

Temperature data from the last decade offers an unexpected opportunity to stay below the agreed international target of 2 °C of global warming.

Royal Dutch Shell defended its ambition to cut carbon emissions, urging investors to oppose a shareholder resolution arguing that the oil and gas giant is not doing enough to meet international targets to tackle climate change.

For instance, the NSA continues to collect tremendous amounts of Internet data — a practice that has been slightly less controversial since it focuses on international targets.

Tottenham Hotspur are tracking a host of German international targets, according to The Daily Telegraph.

In last year's only international target event, the Federation Internationale de Tir √ † l' Arc, U.S. swept first three places in men's and women's divisions and all team awards.

«Carbon cuts resulting in the proposed international target of two degrees Celsius warming could reduce these numbers to -LSB-...] 4.7 metres in sea level rise and 280 million people,» they write.

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Mr. Murray noted that China and India had refused to sign on to binding international targets like those in the Kyoto Protocol, creating another roadblock to an accord.

In my local consultation meeting, NZ's climate change ambassador, Adrien Macey, provided a handy summary of the preferred international target: 450 ppm CO2e (total), 2C and 50 % (global) cuts by 2050.

But now that these so - called «global warming gases» have been precisely measured across the planet the quandary for international policymakers is what to do about plans to further implement international targets for CO2 reduction.

But at the latest climate talks in Bonn last fall, diplomats once again ratified a long - standing international target of limiting warming to two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

Senior partner Virginia Clegg and managing partner David Pollitt on the next international targets for the firm and why they were warned off Colombia

Translating international targets into national, and then provincial, targets is going to take a new, transparent and science - based approach.

As noted above, the Paris Agreement does not legally require Canada to re-work its national target for greenhouse gases to reflect its commitment to strive to prevent global temperature increases of 1.5 ˚C, but morally we hope that Canada was not speaking out of both sides of its mouth in calling for a more ambitious international target.

Lots of colourful photos from around the world illustrating the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight international targets for reducing global poverty by 2015.

If the world keeps temperature rise to the current international target of 2 °C, there will still be huge costs, but the constraint would knock at least $ 60 billion off the overall bill.

Expansion of Alberta's oil sands has become an international target for climate activists.

«The rollout in 130 countries in early January ensures that they will have no problem hitting their international target,» Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said.

This may result in a gradual decline in oil sands output from the 2030s onwards, making it a bit more possible for Canada to reach its international targets for 2050.

Leaving aside how much they thought Canada was giving, Canadians were then asked how much this country should give, knowing now that the international target is 0.7 % of GNI.

Breast - feeding initiation and prevalence rates of the Irish - national population remain low and lag considerably behind national and international targets.

First, we are working to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the international targets agreed by the United Nations (UN) to halve world poverty by 2015.

Faulkner admitted that Australia does not look like meeting its national or international targets.

The emissions from existing power plants represent a significant slice of the emissions «budget» that would keep the planet from warming by more than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the current international target, according to the study.

Lots of colourful photos from around the world illustrating the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight international targets for reducing globa...

What damning evidence does the activist's lover have that makes him an international target?

The general picture is that current policy would have to work as intended (not a guarantee in the United States or internationally) and climate sensitivity would have to be very low to prevent exceeding the international target of 2 °C (let alone, 1.5 °C, which will be a policy and technological challenge even in a low - sensitivity world).

In an October 2014 report, the auditor general's office stated it was concerned that Canada was not on track to meet its international target because the federal government's plan to shrink carbon pollution «has been ineffective and the action it has taken has been slow and not well co-ordinated» among provinces.

However most companies have argued that the international targets are not instructive and, in any event, can not be evaluated without specific policy proposals.

«Four years of the Trump administration may have only modest consequences, but eight years of bad policy would probably wreck the world's chances of keeping warming below the international target of 2 degrees Celsius,» Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, said by email.

The authors found that lifetime carbon emissions from currently operating power plants represent a substantial portion of what is allowed for in climate models to prevent global temperatures from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius from the preindustrial era — the current international target.

It doesn't mean we've reached the goal, since emissions are still too high to achieve a less - than -2-degree temperature rise — the international target, set to avoid the more disastrous consequences of a warming planet.

Be an agent of change: Mondi will work actively to positively influence the paper and packaging industry to join the movement and commit to keeping their production - related greenhouse gas emissions in line with the international target to stay well below 2 °C temperature increase.

Without specifically mentioning President - elect Trump's pledge to cancel any U.S. acceptance of the U.N. Paris CO2 emission - cutting agreement adopted last year, he said: «I can tell you with confidence that the United States is right now today on our way to meeting all of the international targets we have set.»

But they have not been doing so at a rate consistent with keeping cumulative carbon emissions low enough to reliably stay below the international target of less than 2 degrees Centigrade of global warming.

There will also be no international targets or timetables, with any targets and timetables being completely voluntary and at the discretion of individual nations.