Sentences with phrase «legislated targets»

Issue # 1: Carbon pricing To achieve legislated targets on climate change, Ontario has put a price on carbon, through the cap and trade system

Carbon pollution from these sources is forecast to hit 66 megatonnes (Mt) in 2050, compared to the province's legislated target of 12.6 Mt.

The Government of Alberta announced today that it will legislate its target to meet 30 % of the province's annual electricity needs from renewable resources.

This morning, Alberta's Minister of Environment and Parks and the Minister Responsible for the Climate Change Office, The Honourable Shannon Phillips, spoke in front of a packed plenary room at CanWEA 2016, announcing that the Alberta government is introducing the Renewable Electricity Act to legislate its target of 30 per cent renewable electricity by 2030 and announced that Alberta will be proceeding with a procurement of an initial 400 megawatts of renewable energy as a first step towards meeting the target.

In Manitoba, for instance: «In 2008, the government issued a plan with a legislated target: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to six per cent below the 1990 level by 2012,» the auditors write.

· «The RFS program is not projected to come close to achievement of the legislated target that calls for 36 billion gallons of renewable motor fuels use by 2022.

Not exact matches

VANCOUVER / COAST SALISH TERRITORY — Seven members of Premier Christy Clark's Climate Leadership Team are voicing concern that the B.C. government has still not released a new Climate Leadership Plan that is needed if B.C. is to meet its legislated climate targets.

In Australia (as in Sweden and Finland), the inflation target was adopted first by the Reserve Bank in 1993, as an operational interpretation of the price stability goal of its legislated mandate.

In part for this reason, at the inception of the inflation target there was no change to the legislated framework, which has not materially altered since its inception in 1959 (Table 1).

Today, the Energy Forum released an open letter urging Premier Christy Clark to deliver a Climate Leadership Plan that gets B.C. back on track to its legislated emissions target for 2050.

The Poverty Reduction and Economic Inclusion Act would see the government develop a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy within one year, and legislate specific targets and timelines to reduce the breadth and depth of poverty.

Speaking with media about her own legislated 2020 targets, Clark admitted that they likely...

The new Climate Leadership Team will provide the provincial government with advice and recommendations on how it might best meet its legislated greenhouse gas reduction targets.

«This analysis highlights the extent of the gap between B.C.'s legislated emission reduction targets and where this initial plan takes us.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has legislated responsibility under the Water Act 2007 (Water Act) for decisions relating to use of Commonwealth environmental water across the Murray - Darling Basin in order to maximise environmental outcomes over time, consistent with the objectives of the Basin Plan and the environmental watering objectives and targets prescribed in the Basin - wide environmental watering strategy.

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The government should be legislating now in the Energy Bill for a decarbonisation target for 2030 in order to give a framework for those seeking to invest in renewable, nuclear, and clean gas and coal technology.

«I caution that legislating for targets is not the same as legislating the means to achieve them, and it is the means to achieve them on which we will all be judged.

We will legislate for a decarbonisation target for 2030 and unlock billions of pounds in new investment in renewables, nuclear and clean gas and coal technology.

Both Reed and Gibson were freshman lawmakers last time out and presumably they've learned a thing or two about campaigning and legislating that will make them harder targets for Democrats in 2014.

It is therefore significant that today's announcement acknowledged the link between an effective carbon pricing system and the need for legislated emissions reduction targets.

The three legislated systems of choice now actually operating (in Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Florida) all deploy these «controls» or their equivalents, even though children from low - income families are their targeted and primary beneficiaries.

The government are currently legislating to set a target for all public sector employers (which includes schools but not parliament) to employ an average of 2.3 % of their headcount as apprentices.

As the government floats the prospect of help for cleaner - coal power stations and attacks Labor for committing too strongly to renewables, Shorten will say that to achieve the ALP's 50 % target much more private investment in renewable generation and technology will be needed than the amount required to get to the legislated Renewable Energy Target target much more private investment in renewable generation and technology will be needed than the amount required to get to the legislated Renewable Energy Target Target (RET).

«Over $ 10 billion worth of investment has been made in large - scale renewable energy projects, and those investments were made based on the legislated 41,000 GWh target,» Mr Thornton said.

Release of Procurement Framework and Schedule Combined With Legislated Renewable Energy Target Positions Alberta to Attract Significant Interest from (more...)

LONDON, April 26 — EU carbon prices are set to double by 2021 and could quadruple to $ 55 a tonne by 2030 if the European Commission ultimately legislates to align the bloc's current emissions targets with the Paris climate agreement, finds a new report by Carbon Tracker released today.

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Roger replied that he favors incremental approaches to climate change (i.e., don't let failure to legislate adaptation stand in the way of getting started with mitigation) and does not support waiting for a grand comprehensive program, but that his testimony is simply a call to develop a larger vision with which to organize individual initiatives on sustainability («I am calling for a little bit broader vision than tuning the atmosphere to a specific ppm target.»)

Victoria's plan to legislate its own renewable energy target of 40 % by 2025 shows how states are increasingly taking the energy policy reins away from the federal government.

Release of Procurement Framework and Schedule Combined With Legislated Renewable Energy Target Positions Alberta to Attract Significant Interest from Wind Energy Investors

Calgary, Alberta, November 3, 2016 — The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) applauds the Alberta Government's announcement today that it will legislate its renewable energy target and initiate a process in November to procure the first 400 MW of the 5,000 MW of new renewable energy it will be seeking to ensure electricity from renewable energy meets 30 per cent of electricity demand in the province by 2030.

This project has been facilitated through the Federal Government's legislated Mandatory Renewable Energy Target, enhancing the viability of developing commercial wind farms.