Generators naturally take a different view, pointing to renewable credits and questioning whether the country can
meet emissions goals if it pushes out nukes.
«Our approach promises environmental progress in reducing harmful global warming, economic progress by creating new high - tech jobs to
meet emissions goals, and international progress by showing our allies that we're serious about this global problem.»
Northeast states can convert 10 % of oil, gas, and propane heating systems in homes and businesses to heat pumps by 2030 to put the region on track to
meet its emissions goals.
But while that goal helps automakers
meet emissions goals, it doesn't sound all that fun for enthusiasts.
«To
meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.»
Instead Xi, a former chemist, staunchly reaffirmed his country's commitment to investing in renewable energy and
meeting its emissions goals.
Not exact matches
Under the agreement each country has submitted a national strategy to
meet its own
emission reduction
goals.
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The U.S. signed the protocol only with the understanding that target
goals could be
met in other ways than by actually reducing
emissions to the designated level.
The National Energy Guarantee purports to deliver the twin
goals of
meeting the
emissions reduction target Australia signed up to in Paris in 2005 and making energy affordable and reliable again.
Achieved and made significant progress in natural resource reduction targets including
meeting its normalized greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions reduction
goal and nearly
meeting its energy use reduction target four years ahead of its 2020 deadline.
«Further, the plant helps avoid millions of metric tons of harmful carbon dioxide
emissions each year and serves as a clean energy bridge to
meeting the state's 50 % renewable energy
goal by 2030.»
The pact will work to reduce
emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent from 2005 levels,
meeting or surpassing
goals of the federal Clean Power Plan.
The project will help
meet the country's overarching FIP
goals by addressing the underlying drivers of deforestation and catalyzing transformational change through up - front investment to support the country's strategy on Reducing
Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD +).
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC
met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas
emissions were required, with a
goal of reducing global greenhouse gas
emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;
The
goal of the initiative is to help
meet Cuomo's
goal of decreasing greenhouse gas
emissions by 40 percent by 2030.
The «Clean Energy Fund» will finance research, innovation and market development to help the state
meet Cuomo's
goal of generating 50 percent of New York's power from renewable sources, and a 40 percent cut in greenhouse gas
emissions, by 2030.
Phasing out coal is one of the first steps the Cuomo administration must make if it hopes to
meet its
goal of drastically reducing air
emissions by about 40 percent in the next decade, said Lisa Dix, senior New York representative for Sierra Club.
And tough new rules from the federal Environmental Protection Agency on power plant
emissions will make closing Indian Point that much harder, if the state is to do so and still
meet its other environmental
goals.
Although Erie County government
met the Paris
goals, it only accounts for 0.5 percent of greenhouse gas
emissions from all sources countywide.
Without a plan, the region is unlikely to
meet its midcentury
goal, when
emissions in each state are supposed to fall by at least 75 percent of 1990 levels.
(The state is widely expected to
meet its 2020
goal, a return to 1990
emissions levels.)
The world can make lower sea - level rise outcomes much more likely by
meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement
goal of bringing net greenhouse gas
emissions to zero in the second half of this century, the study shows.
The United States and Russia yesterday joined Norway, Mexico, Switzerland and the European Union in becoming the first governments to set new targets for cutting greenhouse gas
emissions and explain to the world how they plan to
meet those
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.
New York City's greenhouse gas
emissions have dropped by 19 percent since 2005, outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday, putting the city nearly two - thirds of the way to
meeting the
goal that Bloomberg set five years ago.
In fact, the mitigation pledges collected under the ongoing Cancun Agreements, conceived during the 2010 climate talks, would lead to global average temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius, according to multiple analyses — and may not lead to a peaking of greenhouse gas
emissions this decade required to
meet that
goal.
But 1 billion gallons of cellulosic by 2020 is an achievable
goal, he said, and if the United States is to
meet its promises to cut greenhouse gas
emissions, it must maintain a commitment to biofuels.
«The main
goal of our project was to find out how effective regulations of gasoline vehicle
emissions have been at reducing the formation of smog,» says Greg Drozd, Ph.D. «It was also a very forward - thinking study in anticipation of how cars that
meet future
emissions standards will lead to reductions in air pollution.»
If those two
goals are
met, the United Nations calculates, global
emissions will increase by only 1.3 percent.
In 1989, for example, the Office of Technology Assessment — a now - defunct, nonpartisan science adviser to Congress — reported many U.S. metropolitan areas had not
met their
goals for controlling smog - forming ozone in part because of inaccurate
emission inventories.
Although California, the European Union (E.U.) and others have pledged to
meet that
goal, global
emissions continue to climb rapidly — as do concentrations of GHGs in the atmosphere.
China, meanwhile, will deploy as much as 1,000 new gigawatts of nuclear, wind, solar and other zero -
emissions generation to
meet its
goal.
The Obama administration is quietly working on new greenhouse gas
emissions targets to deliver to the United Nations, even as it struggles to craft regulations that will enable the United States to
meet its current carbon - cutting
goals.
The Trump administration will also have the choice to simply ignore U.S.
emission targets under the Paris agreement — the accord does not include any formal punishment for countries that do not
meet their
goals.
For example, electric companies that let households set a monthly electricity
goal in dollars, kilowatt - hours or carbon dioxide
emissions and then allow them to see how well they're
meeting their
goals over time are best at getting consumers to lower their electricity use.
We are not making the investments needed to
meet a long - term
goal of 80 % reductions in CO2
emissions by mid century.
EPA administrater Carol Browner said: «The success of these first auctions proves that utilities and the public are taking
emission trading seriously and that a market - based approach to environmental policy can succeed in
meeting the dual
goals of environmental protection and economic growth.
California's
goal will be harder to
meet, and cap and trade alone may not provide all the necessary
emission cuts.
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.
The U.S. is considering a bill to reduce
emissions by an ambitious 20 percent by 2020, but its provisions are so generous that apparently the country could
meet its
goal just by buying offsets.
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.
In a recent comment article in Nature, leading climate scientists identified achieving zero
emissions from land - use changes and deforestation as one of six milestones that must be
met within the next three years if we are to
meet the
goals set out in the Paris Agreement.
«Recent developments, including the US's announced withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, and a report finding that few countries will honor their
emissions pledges, suggest we are not currently on track to
meet this
goal,» says Weber.
To have any hope of
meeting globally - agreed climate
goals, global financial flows must rapidly align with low -
emission, climate - resilient development, and government - backed public finance institutions like the World Bank must signal this transition.
But our study also shows that the world can make the 2 - foot road much more likely by
meeting the Paris Agreement
goal of bringing net greenhouse gas
emissions to zero in the second half of this century.
The debate over how to
meet the Paris
goals «should be broader», the lead author tells Carbon Brief, because there are risks to relying on negative
emissions from BECCS.
California is now poised to develop a solution that benefits forest communities and helps the state's businesses
meet emissions reductions
goals cost - effectively,» said Environmental Defense Fund Tropical Forest Program Director Steve Schwartzman.
Canadian officials say their small decrease in carbon
emissions is short of what's needed to
meet the country's Paris climate agreement
goals.
According to their math, if all Americans made this substitution, the United States would hypothetically almost
meet its 2020 greenhouse gas -
emission goals.