Sentences with phrase «meet climate change commitments»

The detailed findings of the Canadian Wind Integration Study are great news for electricity system planners and policy makers at a time when each province is striving to keep electricity affordable into the future while planning to meet climate change commitments.

As more and more states eye options to meet climate change commitments, increase resilience, and drive economic growth, it is likely that green banks will play an increasing role around the country.

Politicians who advocate for more bitumen pipelines and LNG exports are making a «have your cake and eat it too argument» because there is no way Canada can meet its climate change commitments under such a scenario says David Hughes, one of the nation's top energy experts.

Britain's last coal power station will be forced to close in 2025, as part of a government plan to phase out the fossil fuel to meet its climate change commitments.

The research will shed light on how, exactly, this province can grow, prosper, and create jobs while meeting its climate change commitments.

We know that that laying more tarmac at either Heathrow or Gatwick will bust any hope we have of meeting our climate change commitments, and inflict noise and air pollution on already blighted local communities.

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An NDP government would establish a comprehensive upstream cap - and trade system to meet our international commitments to fight climate change and rigorously enforce environmental laws here in Canada.

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.

The leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada are expected to walk away from their meetings this week with new continental commitments to tackle climate change and boost clean energy generation.

We can meet our Paris climate commitments, grow our exports of clean technologies, energy, resources and other products, and position Canada to prosper in a changing world.

«AfDB has chosen to support this project because its goals are consistent with our institution's reaffirmed commitment to help African countries like Ghana meet their climate change and sustainable development goals,» said Richard Fusi, Task Team Leader.

· Meeting international climate change commitments of reducing carbon emissions by 80 % (from the 1990 baseline).

But Adriano Santhiago, director of the Ministry of Environment's climate change department, said at a press meeting today that the new commitments are additional to previous ones.

«The U.S. submission reflects President Obama's continued commitment to meeting the climate change and clean energy challenge through robust domestic and international action that will strengthen our economy, enhance our national security, and protect our environment,» said U.S. climate negotiator Todd Stern in a prepared statement announcing the commitment.

Although the Met Office Hadley Center model projects extreme drying and warming in the Amazon due to ongoing climate change, and there may even be a commitment to long - term decline of part of the Amazon forest even at just 2 degrees global warming above pre-industrial, other climate models show less of a drying or even none at all.

Although this meeting is not as significant as the Paris talks were in 2015, the world's governments will be coming together to affirm their commitments to tackling climate change and discuss implementing the Paris Agreement.

Voluntary offset buyers purchased the majority (89 %) of forest carbon offsets, led by energy and food and beverage companies seeking to meet corporate social responsibility commitments or to demonstrate industry leadership on climate change.

2007/04/27: BBC: Canada sets reduced climate goal The Canadian government has published its strategy on climate change, which acknowledges that the country will not meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment.

Even more, these citizen volunteers were lobbying for this carbon tax to be ratcheted up to be more more effective to meet the Canadian commitment to the December 2015 Paris Accords and reduce the global threat of climate change.

The role of the United States as a climate leader is also at stake, with an uncertain future for the Clean Power Plan, U.S. commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the country's ability to meet its national target to reduce emissions 26 - 28 percent by 2025.

By allowing countries to use international carbon markets to meet their commitments, the Agreement has recognized the cost - effectiveness potential of market - based solutions to climate change.

In this regard, ROAM will also enable countries to define and implement national or subnational contributions to the Bonn Challenge and concurrently allow nations to meet existing international commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Framework to Combat Climate Change.

«I am very encouraged by the stated commitment of Senator Obama to the issue of climate change, and I really hope that he or his representatives can come to the climate change conference in Poznan [the December IPCC climate meeting in Poland] and speak to his vision of the way forward.»

«By offsetting carbon emissions from meetings and events taking place at Radisson Blu Hotels and Resorts, Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group demonstrates its commitment to a low carbon economy and makes a valuable contribution to climate change mitigation,» says Sascha Lafeld, CEO of First Climate Mclimate change mitigation,» says Sascha Lafeld, CEO of First Climate MClimate Markets.

«This makes it even harder to meet our emission commitments in the Paris (climate change) Agreements,» Dr Miles said.

The rise in atmospheric CO2 levels is, of course, not only attributable to the US ghg emissions, yet the United States has played a major blocking role in preventing international action on climate change up until the recent more constructive role of the Obama administration which recently made commitments before the December Paris meeting to reduce US CO2 emissions by 26 % to 28 % by 2025 below 2005 levels.

On the eve of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Oil Change International and E3G have launched briefings showing that while some multilateral development banks are making good progress on climate action, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement reached in December 2015.

The CTI report says there will be no need for new coal mines, oil demand will peak around 2020, and growth in gas will disappoint industry expectations if world leaders agree and then implement the policies needed to meet the UN commitment to keep climate change below 2 ˚C − the threshold agreed by most governments.

This energy package, also referred to as the 20-20-20 package, was thought to help the EU meet its commitments for 2020 under the UN climate change negotiations by demanding a 20 % reduction in EU greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels; raising the share of EU energy consumption produced from renewable resources to 20 %; and finally, by improving the EU's energy efficiency also by 20 %

View the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 — 2016 (published 2018), developed by the U.S. Government to meet annual U.S. commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

«But as long as the scientists continue to spread the message that we will be ok if we all make a few small changes, then climate change will never be on top of the policy agenda and we will fail to meet our international commitments to avoid a 2 °C rise.»

«I know at Durban [a previous negotiations meeting], Canada spoke very strongly about the importance of climate change and thereafter refused to endorse the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

The main obstacles to meeting the challenge of a changing climate are the policymakers» lack of imagination and commitment to the very idea of progress.

A recent article from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy uses a NERA Economic Consulting study as evidence that meeting U.S. climate change commitments will cause economic hardship, particularly in the manufacturing sector.

«Tomorrow I'm going to meet [UK climate change] minister [Nick] Hurd and we have a very good and close relationship, so I would say that, yes, no doubt the negotiations will be complex and difficult, but the fact that the UK has this legislation that clearly puts the process that it will follow in order to fulfil commitments under Paris is really very good news.»

The United Nations Climate Summit gathers an impressive number of world leaders who will update their political and financial commitments to meeting the climate change chaClimate Summit gathers an impressive number of world leaders who will update their political and financial commitments to meeting the climate change chaclimate change challenge.

As part of its commitment to climate change mitigation, the EBRD has also decided to offset greenhouse gas emissions stemming from its Annual Meeting and Business Forum, and First Climate was selected to support the EBRD to make this year's meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, a carbon neutralclimate change mitigation, the EBRD has also decided to offset greenhouse gas emissions stemming from its Annual Meeting and Business Forum, and First Climate was selected to support the EBRD to make this year's meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, a carbon neutralMeeting and Business Forum, and First Climate was selected to support the EBRD to make this year's meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, a carbon neutralClimate was selected to support the EBRD to make this year's meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, a carbon neutralmeeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, a carbon neutral event.

This report brings together the material from the UK climate meeting in Exeter in 2005 and is headed by Tony Blair who personally believes that climate change is unsustainable and hence the major U turn on nuclear power as well as increased renewable energy commitments.

This event and announcement come as countries, regions, cities, communities, businesses and civil society all ramp up their commitments and actions to tackle climate change before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Paris in Declimate change before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Paris in Decchange before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Paris in DeClimate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Paris in DecChange (UNFCCC) meeting in Paris in December.

Analysts have noted that the EU is not on track to meet its 2030 climate change commitment given its current policies, and its commitments fall short of the necessary decarbonization pathway for it to meet its 2050 targets.

In a press release, the ethics council said Denmark was under direct threat from climate change, and it was not enough to rely on the «ethical consumer» to ensure the country meets its UN commitments.