Sentences with phrase «key climate commitments»
About 40 Australian companies have signed on to key climate commitments, including Australia's largest energy retailer, Origin Energy, which signed up to all seven of the commitments.
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«This proposal is a big step forward on a key climate commitment, and the approach Ottawa has chosen is a promising one.
Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailOTTAWA — Clare Demerse, federal policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following comments in response to today's federal carbon pricing discussion paper: «This proposal is a big step forward on a key climate commitment, and the approach Ottawa has chosen is a promising one.
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Last week, Trump signed an executive order rolling back former President Barack Obama's climate change policies, including the Clean Power Plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants — a key factor in the United States» ability to meet its Paris commitments.
That is yet another reason why tackling climate change and maintaining the commitment to International Development is so key to Labour.
«Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface are key drivers of their local tourism economies, and with this commitment they are joining New York's nation - leading efforts to fight climate change, reduce our carbon footprint and foster the development of renewal resources,» Cuomo said in the release.
Adesina said the presidential address would highlight, among other key issues, Nigeria's commitment to implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions and policy actions aimed at tackling climate change through environmental sustainable efforts.
«A key premise of this commitment is that adaptation planning needs to be informed by a continuing scientific, sound assessment of the impacts of a changing climate and the effectiveness of preparations and response options,» Abbott said.
The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.
The IKI is a key element of Germany's climate financing and the funding commitments in the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The United States» Congress won't pass domestic legislation without key developing countries like China, which is now a major greenhouse gas emitter signing on to reduction commitments; and China sees themselves as a developing country that has acted progressively and responsibly to address climate change when it technically has no obligation to do so under the UNFCCC.
Today, when scientists run complex climate models on powerful computers to simulate immeasurably more complex natural systems like the earth's climate, we must not forget our commitment to truth or that «key to science.»
Cities are in the frontline for cutting carbon emissions, new IEA report finds Energy Technology Perspectives 2016 shows that decarbonising urban buildings and transport is key to attain Paris climate goals, but slow progress will test governments» commitment 1 June 2016
This guidance document focuses on the need to enhance understanding of the region's key urban stakeholders on climate change, discusses how it affects efforts to realize sustainable urban development, and explores what actions can be taken to synergize continued commitments to poverty reduction alongside urban climate resilience.
Key recommendations presented in the document include: adopting migration and conflict - sensitive adaptation policies; promoting regional environmental cooperation in addressing climate change, migration and conflict; rooting national adaptation policies in the Green Economy and promoting the creation of green jobs; strengthening preventive action; and using conflict and / or migration risk to prioritize investments and build donor commitment to long - term engagement in the Sahel.
Despite vocal commitments to help tackle climate change, six key multilateral banks (MDBs) financed over $ 7 billion in coal, oil, and gas projects in 2015, and funded a total of $ 83 billion in fossil fuels from 2008 - 2015.
The key goal is to limit warming to «well below 2 - degree C warming,» a global commitment embraced by all the world's nations in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, signed by President Barack Obama and other world leaders.
The following is from 15/9/2017, https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/climate/transition The Queensland Government has made three key climate change commitments: 1.
shows that despite commitments to help tackle climate change, six key multilateral banks financed over $ 7 billion in coal, oil, and gas projects in 2015.
The next round of negotiations in Bangkok, as well as the upcoming IPCC special report on 1.5 °C are key opportunities for countries to assess the need for action and finance, so that they can announce increased climate commitments at COP24 climate talks in Poland at the end of the year.»
We are hopeful that the Court will ultimately uphold this key pillar of the Obama Administration's commitments that it took to the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris, as it earlier upheld the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s authority to regulate global warming pollution under the federal Clean Air Act.
The concern is that due to a lack of meaningful commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2015, progress on REDD + may be held hostage to other key financial decisions, like where money for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) will come from.