Sentences with phrase «meet national emission»

On that basis, the report concludes that while continued oil sands production will make it very hard for Canada to meet its national emission reduction targets — which again it's worth pointing out, are in line with those of the US and far far below what science says is needed to minimize the impacts of climate change — on a global basis «elimination of oil sands GHG emissions will not eliminate or substantially lessen the immense challenge facing the world to reduce GHG emissions.»

Not exact matches

Under the agreement each country has submitted a national strategy to meet its own emission reduction goals.

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.

Managing transport demand on both the interurban and urban networks involves an increasingly important set of tools to meet the major national objectives of improving journey time reliability and reducing carbon emissions.

The «pan-Canadian framework» on climate change is not fully fleshed out but does call for a national meeting with provinces within 90 days of the Paris climate conference in December to establish new national emissions targets and «targeted funding» to provinces to meet those targets.

New projections by researchers from the Universities of Southampton and Liverpool, and the Australian National University in Canberra, could be the catalyst the world has sought to determine how best to meet its obligations to reduce carbon emissions and better manage global warming as defined by the Paris Agreement.

EVs good on emissions, cost and national security For business and military leaders who met yesterday at the Hudson Institute, the real savings from EVs come at the national level.

And then there will be the major economies leader meeting in July — that's the one I'll be going to — where we will seek agreement on a long - term global goal for emissions reductions, as well as an agreement on how national plans will be part of the post-2012 approach.

Many studies have now been published, and many more presented at national scientific meetings, on methane emissions using techniques which capture the emissions at regional scales and do not require industry permission to sample.

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.

Moreover, these issues must be far better resolved if there is to be an adequate verification scheme to confirm national performance in meeting targets for CO2 emissions.

They also claim that tree - planiting efforts from 1980 to 2005 have resulted in a sequestration of carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to 5 billion tons, and have reportedly met their national 20 percent forest coverage by 2010 target ahead of schedule.

As was decided during their Nov. 14 - 15 Meeting, Presidents Obama and Hu agreed that the U.S. EPA will assist China in developing its national greenhouse gas inventory, providing a greater level of assurance that the Chinese are accurately accounting for emissions using best - practices and sound methodologies.

In 2006, the European Union (EU), which consists of 27 members, committed to reducing its global warming emissions by at least 20 percent of 1990 levels by 2020, to consuming 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, and to reducing its primary energy use by 20 percent from projected levels through increased energy efficiency.1 The EU has also committed to spending $ 375 billion a year to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 compared to 1990 levels.2 The EU is meeting these goals through binding national commitments which vary depending on the unique situation of a given country but which average out to the overall targets.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

National action to fight climate change will also help to cut air pollution, according to the report, which said meeting the UK's carbon emissions target would lead each year to 5,700 less deaths and fewer hospital admissions for lung and heart problems.

«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 headline figure hides large national variations and several countries will not meet their national target without emissions trading, or credits purchased from certified emission reduction projects in developing countries under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

This is the first time since the CAT began tracking action in 2009 that policies at a national level have visibly reduced its end - of - century temperature estimate and also reduced the 2030 emissions gap between current policies and what is needed to meet the 1.5 °C temperature limit.

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.

To really understand what each country's climate plan means for national emissions — and to trust that they're on track to meet it — you need clear and complete information.

The meeting identified a number of key areas where the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) could provide advice to the inventory compilers on new emission factors and on areas needing fresh or revised guidance.

-- The Secretary of Transportation shall establish appropriate requirements, including performance measures, to ensure that transportation plans developed under sections 134 and 135 of title 23 of the United States Code sufficiently meet the requirements of this section, including achieving progress towards national transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.

Bullfrog Power is committed to providing customers emissions reductions that meet — and in many cases exceed — this national average.

Officials at Finance are co-chairing the «carbon pricing» working group, one of four federal - provincial - territorial groups established to fashion a national climate strategy that would put the country on the path toward meeting its international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The energy trends envisioned in the New Policies Scenario imply that national commitments to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions, while expected to have some impact, are collectively inadequate to meet the Copenhagen Accord's overall goal of holding the global temperature increase to below 2 °C.

A mix of electricity generating technologies with a large component of nuclear power is the least cost way to supply low emissions electricity to reliably meet the demand for Australia's National Electricity Market.

At last week's Africa Carbon Forum (ACF), delegates called for stronger emphasis on results - based climate finance for both mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and they reiterated their support for market - based mechanisms like the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows emissions - reducing projects to earn certified emissions reduction (CERs) that can be traded to meet overall national reduction goals.

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).

For this, Germany needs to deliver: Merkel must make sure that German greenhouse gas emissions decrease again and that the national mitigation targets are met.

The UK's Committee on Climate Change says that national growth in aviation demand must be limited to 60 % in order to meet the government's target of keeping emissions in 2050 at 2005 levels.

The second minimum ethical criteria that all post-Kyoto proposals must meet is the requirement that national emissions reduction proposals must be consistent with what «equity» and «justice» demands of nations.

In fact, in the lead - up to Copenhagen, most of the justifications for national commitments that had been announced by countries to reduce their emissions were exclusively focused on whether they met global goals to reduce GHG emissions unadjusted by equity considerations.

However, it weakened language on national pledges, saying countries «may» instead of «shall» include quantifiable information showing how they intend to meet their emissions targets.

These shortcomings have drastically lowered the ETS's overall effectiveness, and resulted in Germany failing to meet its national goal of reducing emissions by 40 percent by 2020.

A lack of national restrictions on carbon - intensive sectors may also lead to a failure by German companies to meet the emissions standards of other nations.

Although groups and individuals have respectable ethical arguments to make that they are complying with their ethical duties if they are meeting nationally imposed obligations, ethical arguments remain that they should do more if: (a) the national target does not move as quickly as possible to reduce the nation's emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions, or (b) the group or individual could do more to reduce GHG emissions without imposing great hardship on themselves because they are wasting GHG emitting energy on unnecessary activities.

Senators Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, and John McCain, an Arizona Republican, said their bill would spur innovation by giving companies maximum flexibility in meeting national greenhouse gas emissions goals.

Significant emission reductions from the transportation sector will help protect public health and ensure the Bay Area meets state and national air quality standards while reducing greenhouse gases.

Across the globe, no major national emissions reduction plan is currently on track to meet the IPCC's 2020 goals, the World Resources Institute (WRI)

«To meet the new standards,» the National Journal says: «states will have to form plans that will limit emissions of ozone - forming pollutants from two major sources: stationary sources such as power plants and factories, and transportation» — which will reduce energy intensive economic activity.

Across the globe, no major national emissions reduction plan is currently on track to meet the IPCC's 2020 goals, the World Resources Institute (WRI) reports.

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Once INCAS is applied across the entire country, the detailed data will support the government's efforts to manage emissions and design mitigation actions that meet other national needs, including for sustainable land - use planning purposes.

A senior scientist at the Mauritius Academy of Science and Technology, who is in New Delhi for a meeting of science academies, says that IPCC reports, in general, are «not radical enough» to force real action by national governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

That's what two men named David thought, too, when they first met in 2008 to talk about a climate policy with very little support: a national tax on industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

Companies active within states with ambitious methane reduction measures will be better prepared to meet national standards, and will likely benefit from lower compliance costs and increased returns on investment in emissions - reduction training and equipment.

Reliable GHG inventories are essential, both at national and international level, for: assessing the international community's collective and individual efforts to address climate change and progress toward meeting the ultimate objective of the Convention; evaluating mitigation options; assessing the effectiveness of policies and measures; making long - term emission projections; providing the foundation for emission trading schemes.

A growing number of national and sub-national governments turn to carbon markets to meet their future GHG emission goals, but while a large number of developing nations are interested in selling carbon credits in an international market there is little interest in buying.

Perpetuating this system would not only degrade national security but also drive up carbon emissions 40 percent by 2050 — nearly 600 percent above levels needed to meet U.S. treaty obligations.