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Yet in a white paper released Monday, the European Commission said that to meet climate goals by midcentury, gasoline - and diesel - run cars must disappear from cities.

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Economic value of energy efficiency can drive reductions in global CO2 emissions End - use energy efficiency can deliver a third of the CO ₂ savings necessary by 2050 to meet climate goals 17 April 2018

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

Today's report, written by consulting firm Impetus for Greenpeace, warns the government needs to invest heavily in energy efficiency if it is to meet its climate change goals.

To avoid multiple climate tipping points, policy makers need to act now to stop global CO2 emissions by 2050 and meet the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, a new study has said.

It calls for greater coordination to adapt to climate change from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and urges Europe to lead by example, striving to meet the European Union's own ambitious climate and energy goals for 2020.

A statement by the U.N. - convened group suggests that tinkering with the atmosphere could be necessary to meet climate goals

According to an analysis done by the council that accompanied the new plan, the carbon tax - and - dividend system would «allow the United States to meet the upper end of its 2025 Paris commitment,» meaning it would achieve the goal of a 28 percent emissions reduction that the U.S. promised under the major international Paris climate agreement.

«By setting this goal, we acknowledge there is a problem,» President Bush told representatives of 17 nations attending the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change held in Washington, D.C., this week.

The authors say fossil - fuel emissions should peak by 2020 at the latest and fall to around zero by 2050 to meet the UN's Paris Agreement's climate goal of limiting the global temperature rise to «well below 2 °C» from preindustrial times.

A 2017 study in the American Meteorology Society's Journal of Climate found that if countries meet the overall goal of keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius via the «maximum technically feasible» cuts in fossil fuel use, the Arctic could see.84 degrees Celsius in warming by the middle of the century as sulfate decreases.

We work to ensure that green infrastructure becomes the preferred mechanism by which water managers meet a range of water management goals for people and wildlife under changing climate conditions.

Its goal is to provide a safe and supportive school climate by creating consistency across a school and meeting the unique needs of students at varying levels of behavioral and social / emotional development.

The goal of improving a school's climate should be universally accepted by every member of that school's community, but it is often met with resistance.

Late this week, the countries responsible for more than 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions will meet in Paris in the third round of climate and energy discussions organized by the Bush administration, aimed ostensibly at finding a common long - term goal for emissions limits.

The findings by a team of scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center and Boston University add new urgency to the critical need for aggressive global and national - scale efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

The meeting, organized by 10 universities and paid for by a variety of corporations, was, as one organizer explained, «a deliberate attempt to influence policy,» with a prime goal being to make the case that climate findings had grown more dire since the 2007 reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate findings had grown more dire since the 2007 reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

Save the average American family nearly $ 85 on their annual energy bill in 2030, reducing enough energy to power 30 million homes, and save consumers a total of $ 155 billion from 2020 - 2030; Give a head start to wind and solar deployment and prioritize the deployment of energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.»

Keeping the world on track to meet climate goals to support global prosperity — through the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals — requires more than just action by national governmgoals to support global prosperity — through the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals — requires more than just action by national governmGoals — requires more than just action by national governments.

In the first round the negotiations led to a projected temperature by the year 2100 of about 3.1 °C, after the second round, negotiations improved the climate outlook with a 2.9 °C temperature increase, thus not meeting the expected Paris agreement goals.

The Energizing Finance research, done in partnership with the World Bank Group, Climate Policy Initiative, the African Development Bank, Practical Action Consulting and E3 Analytics, delivers a strong wake - up call to the levels of finance flowing to close energy access gaps, but also creates a roadmap of opportunities which, if finance is more strategically directed, will allow us to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7, and provide affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.

In a communique released at the end of a two - day meeting in Bologna, hosted by Italy, G7 environment ministers — including the US — called increased sustainable financing «fundamental» to the achievement of sustainability and climate goals.

«SoCalGas is proud to support Global Green in this effort to help California meet its air pollution and climate goals by taking methane from organic waste and using it to make renewable natural gas,» said Trisha Muse, community relations director at SoCalGas.

This finding, announced in September by the EU Joint Research Center and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, doesn't mean that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has yet decreased, but it could mean that we may be able to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement in slowing global warming.

The Climate Action Plan is recommended action to be taken to meet the city's goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.

The ARM Climate Research Facility is guided by several constituent groups that help steer the overall direction of ARM by providing input on how to best meet the Facility's — and the atmospheric research community's — science goals.

«These emissions,» says National Geographic, «must remain within a «carbon budget» of about 1,100 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050 to meet the internationally accepted goal of limiting the rise in temperatures to 2 °C (3.6 °F) above preindustrial levels, according to the United Nations - led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Climate Action Plan includes specific short - and long - term actions Seattle needs to meet its ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

Specific goals like these don't appear in the draft text of a global climate deal set to be agreed by governments meeting in Paris at the end of the year.

It is supported by an alliance of the California Public Utilities Commission, the California Energy Commission, utilities, regional energy networks, local governments, businesses, and nonprofits to help communities meet state and local energy and climate action goals.

On Wednesday, a coalition of European energy companies announced that there would be no new coal plants built throughout the European Union after 2020, in an effort to meet goals set forth by the Paris climate agreement.

(Sec. 452) National Climate Service Act of 2009 - Requires the President to: (1) initiate a process through the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources of the National Science and Technology Council, led by the Director of OSTP, to evaluate alternative structures to support a collaborative, interagency research and operational program to meet the needs of decision makers for information related to climate variability and change; (2) provide a plan to establish such a program; and (3) within three years after enactment of this Act, establish a National Climate Service to accomplish the prograClimate Service Act of 2009 - Requires the President to: (1) initiate a process through the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources of the National Science and Technology Council, led by the Director of OSTP, to evaluate alternative structures to support a collaborative, interagency research and operational program to meet the needs of decision makers for information related to climate variability and change; (2) provide a plan to establish such a program; and (3) within three years after enactment of this Act, establish a National Climate Service to accomplish the prograclimate variability and change; (2) provide a plan to establish such a program; and (3) within three years after enactment of this Act, establish a National Climate Service to accomplish the prograClimate Service to accomplish the program goal.

State Leadership: A Conversation with Governor Kate Brown followed by a U.S. State and Provincial Panel Tuesday, November 14th 14:30 - 16:00 Paris Dome The climate leadership role of U.S. states has been magnified as they step in to continue reducing emissions to meet state and Paris Agreement goals.

By getting to know her staff, my goal is to eventually have a face to face meeting with her to persuade to take action on climate change by supporting CCL's carbon fee and dividenBy getting to know her staff, my goal is to eventually have a face to face meeting with her to persuade to take action on climate change by supporting CCL's carbon fee and dividenby supporting CCL's carbon fee and dividend.

Assuming that 500 gigawatts of solar power may be needed to meet a future climate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, Hernandez's team found that a region of California roughly equal to the land area of South Carolina may be needed to accommodate all the new solar power plant development.

Sustainable Event Solutions was formed by a network of partners (POOLgroup, First Climate AG and Stefan Lohmann) to help event organizers meet their sustainability goals with an integrated solution.

Global emissions can be pushed down to «net zero» by 2060 to meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).

A new report published by the Climate Institute says Australia could avoid lengthy heatwaves and help save the Great Barrier Reef by meeting the Paris Agreement's 1.5 C global warming goal.

SB 350 will greatly enhance the state's ability to meet its long - term climate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

The industry is hoping much of its growth will come from filling the gap as governments force old coal power plants to close to meet climate change goals, as the UK has committed to doing by 2025.

The 2015 Paris climate agreement specifies a clear goal to limit global warming by 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (UNFCCC 2015), and the recent publication of a roadmap for rapid decarbonization offers guidance on actions required at the national level to effectively limit carbon emissions in order to meet the goal (Rockström et al. 2017).

(10/27/14) California must nearly eliminate emissions from electricity to meet ambitious climate goals for 2050, but each of the primary available technologies for generating emission - free technology has problems and any choice will require concerted planning and early strategic investments, according to a new technical paper by the California Council on Science and Technology.

But the focus on adaptation and preparedness acknowledges that even if Obama meets his promised goal of a 17 percent reduction by 2020, the effects of climate change will be difficult to prevent.

In China, it is estimated that fewer deaths from improved air quality could lead to savings of nearly $ 340 billion dollars by 2030 - four times the cost of meeting China's climate goals.

The analysis finds that expanding fossil fuel reserves does even more damage than putting the global climate in danger; exploration financing by the World Bank risks locking developing countries into loan commitments for resources that will likely become stranded assets if policies are implemented to meet agreed climate goals.

«By capping emissions and tapping market forces to meet those goals, this bill will heat up American innovation and cool down our changing climate,» Lieberman said.

If Europe is to meet the climate goals set out in the Paris Agreement, all coal - fired power plants in Europe must be phased out by 2030.

Setting targets informed by the current climate science will help companies understand the level of transformation required in their business and production models to meet the 2 degree goal.

Düsseldorf's development strategy was to economically meet its ambitious climate goals of achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2050, which for this city in western Germany means reducing CO2 emissions to just 2 tons per capita.