Sentences with phrase «make emissions commitments»

India resisted any pledge to make emissions commitments under the new pact, insisting that it should be compensated for forests it has protected in the past.

Because the process it lays out — in which individual countries make emissions commitments and then reconvene every five years to measure progress and rich countries pledge $ 100 billion in aid to poorer countries — taps into a few forces that can be almost as powerful as the threat of punishment.

Not exact matches

Obama is working to meet a commitment he made in 2009 to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent between 2005 and 2020.

That's because the growth in emissions from developing countries, including China and India, will simply dwarf any U.S. action, making their commitments under the agreement far more important.

Trump vowed during the campaign to void U.S. commitments made in Paris last year to curb climate - changing carbon emissions, and to tear down regulatory barriers that he viewed as impeding development of coal, oil, and natural gas.

When Japan announced that it was following Canada and backtracking on emission cut commitments previously made, and Australia gave multiple signals that it was utterly unwilling to take the UN climate process seriously, the integrity of the talks was further jeopardized.

Here at home, Canada has failed to live up to even the relatively modest commitments on greenhouse gas emissions that it made in Copenhagen.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

Icelandic Glacial has made a commitment to assess our CO2 emissions and reduce them wherever possible on an ongoing basis.

If enterprises like Noh - Bec proved as effective at reducing emissions as they are at making money, Ellis thinks others could be motivated to emulate them, which could help Mexico meet its climate commitment.

The world must achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, they write, with greenhouse gas emissions peaking by 2020 — a rate that is not in line with the voluntary commitments made by countries in Paris.

He is referring to a commitment first made by China ahead of the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks to reduce its economy's overall carbon emissions per unit of GDP to 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

It's unclear if the utility would have made the same investment without the legislative requirement, but Burns cites other commitments: The city of Burlington has vowed to go zero - emissions, for example.

That number is driving the commitments many nations will make at the 2015 United Nations climate change conference in Paris (COP21) to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

Launched in 2003, it relies on companies such as Cargill, DuPont, Intel, Ford and Monsanto to make legally binding but voluntary commitments to meet emissions targets either by reducing emissions from their factories or by purchasing permits from other members of the exchange who have exceeded their targets.

And if countries trust each other, they can continue to make bigger emissions commitments, which is exactly how the Paris agreement is supposed to work.

The compact has made a collective commitment toward Paris to cut emissions 40 percent compared with 1990 levels by 2030.

One of my other observations on Bali is the dynamic role of non-state actors such as cities, firms and regions who are making parallel commitments to reduce their emissions.»

Business analysts welcomed «Copenhagen Accord» — a climate deal involving all the major economies for the first time in making commitments to curb emissions, cementing a global shift to a low - carbon world.

Across the portfolio, Hilton Worldwide has a made a five - year commitment, from 2009 to 2014, to reduce energy consumption by 20 percent, CO2 emissions by 20 percent, waste output by 20 percent and water consumption by 10 percent.

«Today's agreement reaffirms New York's long - standing commitment to the dealer franchise system, while making sure New York remains a leader in spurring innovative businesses and encouraging zero emissions vehicle sales,» New York governor Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.

-- Leaders of the oil and gas industry, along with national Governments and civil society organisations, made an historic commitment to identify and reduce methane emissions by 2020.

The alternative we present, what we call commitment accounting, helps by quantifying the long - run emissions related to investment decisions made today.»

The United States is insisting on «aspirational» goals, saying that's the only way to draw in fast - growing powerhouses like China and India, and without them making commitments of some kind, emissions will continue rising (and Congress will also balk at approving any new pact that doesn't include emerging economic competitors).

Your purchase will fund a portion of our commitment, made on our customers» behalf, to purchase 100 percent of the carbon dioxide - equivalent verified emissions reductions («VERs») to be produced by the Project over a specific period of time, usually its first 10 years of operations.

WCA Chief Executive, Benjamin Sporton stressed that «By keeping coal in the energy mix and supporting technologies that reduce emissions, we will be making energy affordable and striving to reduce emissions at the same time, which is in - line with the Paris Agreement commitments.

Plus, we need to make the commitments to cutting emissions now in the agreement even more ambitious if we're going to keep warming below 2 degrees.

... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»

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«countries would each make a commitment to... a carbon price,... pricing carbon emissions through a tax or a cap and trade.»

The need for countries to make more ambitious emissions - reduction commitments remains self - evident — even more so, now that the world has exceeded 400 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Though India reiterated its commitment to reduce emissions, it made its preference clear.

It would include robust transparency provisions for all countries, both so that we are all able to keep track of how we are doing in reducing emissions globally and so that all countries can have confidence in the mitigation commitments made by others.

If we're successful — and world leaders make the kind of emissions reduction commitments that can keep warming within safe limits — the upshot is that we're going to have to scale down our use of fossil fuels as a planet and scale up renewables in a big, big way.

The report makes the most of countries» commitments and a possible global agreement, while ignoring the soaring emissions from China and failing to recognise that the lower emissions growth in a number of countries is primarily due to weak economic conditions.

The World Bank Group also made additional exciting commitments, including applying a shadow carbon price in their investment decision - making, calculating and disclosing their greenhouse emissions, ramping up their Climate Change Action Plan's ambition in 2020, and scaling up their green finance.

Reaching a climate deal in Copenhagen will depend on rich nations» proactive commitment to making mandatory emission cuts at home, prominent experts from India and China reiterate in a couple of opinion pieces in Nature [subscription] today.

Unless significant efforts are made on the U.S. end (through a commitment to a more stringent emission reduction target), China will stick to the emission intensity target announced in November 2009 as its international commitment.

The Cancun meeting in fact made it more likely for the developed countries to shift from the Kyoto Protocol and its binding regime of emission reduction commitments, to a voluntary system in which each country only makes pledges on how much it will reduce its emissions.

We have also explained why nations urgently need to immediately respond to their ethical obligations in making national emissions commitments under the UNFCCC.

This technical document provides the following information: - An update of global greenhouse gas emission estimates, based on a number of different authoritative scientific sources; - An overview of national emission levels, both current (2010) and projected (2020) consistent with current pledges and other commitments; - An estimate of the level of global emissions consistent with the two degree target in 2020, 2030 and 2050; - An update of the assessment of the «emissions gap» for 2020; - A review of selected examples of the rapid progress being made in different parts of the world to implement policies already leading to substantial emission reductions and how they can be scaled up and replicated in other countries, with the view to bridging the emissions gap.

But they do explain why many nations — among them Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, China, the U.S. and the European Union — have made unilateral commitments to curbing their emissions.

In Lima, leaders from such cities as New York, Rio de Janeiro, and Guangzhou launched the Global Protocol for Community - Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories, which will help cities measure their emissions, compare progress, and make good on climate commitments.

However, a clear understanding of how national emissions reductions commitments affect global climate change impacts requires an understanding of complex relationships between atmospheric ghg concentrations, likely global temperature changes in response to ghg atmospheric concentrations, rates of ghg emissions reductions over time and all of this requires making assumptions about how much CO2 from emissions will remain in the atmosphere, how sensitive the global climate change is to atmospheric ghg concentrations, and when the international community begins to get on a serious emissions reduction pathway guided by equity considerations.

By the following year's U.N. climate conference in Cancun, Mexico, many nations with no previous formal emissions targets — including Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and China — had made their own domestic commitments.

Energy Matters Wind power could provide 20 percent of the world's electricity supply by 2030 as nations begin curbing carbon emissions in line with commitments made at last year's Paris Climate Summit.

But he had also made a commitment to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide — a promise that appeared quite unexpectedly in one of his campaign speeches.

At the moment, they say, the failure of politicians to make commitments to cut emissions means that the temperature is set to reach and pass the danger zone of 3.5 ºC.

With a comprehensive climate change policy, the city has made a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent of its 2005 levels by 2012.

The ideas seems to rest on the conclusion that if the United States acts to reduce emissions others will follow and therefore as a matter of «prudence» the US should make commitments given climate change's potential catastrophic impacts.