Sentences with phrase «meet climate goals even»

Not exact matches

The G8 vision does not even meet the now - outdated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change goal of keeping atmospheric carbon below 450 ppm.

Yesterday evening, the 350 campaign organizers invited reporters and bloggers to join Bill McKibben on a conference call to discuss the goals of the new effort which centers on sending both Barack Obama and John McCain thousands of invitations to the UN Climate Meetings taking place this December in Poznań, Poland.

This time around, there is an opportunity to do even more: put RGGI states on track to meet their long - term climate goals while at the same time saving ratepayers money and boosting local economies.

Even at their most stringent, the pledges do not meet the accord's goal of holding warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, climate scientists and environmental groups say.

But even if the rest of the world presses ahead with emissions cuts, U.S. withdrawal would make it much harder for the signatories to meet the agreement's financial goals, including big funding targets to help developing countries pay for climate adaptation.

Duke University is counting on gas captured from pig manure to meet its climate change goal, officials said at a forum Tuesday evening.

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.

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.

And while it was never clear whether PG&E could have met even these meager climate - related goals, the latest draft decision strips out all of the utility's responsibility to replace Diablo with carbon - free sources.

Even if the latest talks won't be enough to meet that 2 °C goal, they note, building forward momentum on climate action is worthwhile in its own right.

The reality check for the «carbon bubble» proponents is that global energy demands still need to be met and that there are limits to the growth rate of fossil energy substitutes, even as climate goals come under pressure.