Sentences with phrase «meeting climate change targets»

Depending on whom you ask, HS2 is a colossal waste of taxpayers» cash, or a brilliant way to kick - start economic growth; an unnecessary half - measure to cut emissions or our best hope of the UK meeting our climate change targets.

The coalition government's plans for energy security and meeting climate change targets are facing growing concern from environmental groups.

Flights must be made more expensive and airport expansion plans scrapped if Britain is to have any hope of meeting its climate change targets, academics have warned.

«Ministers believe that new nuclear could play a key role in keep the lights on and meeting our climate change targets - but they don't want to own up to supporting it,» committee chair Tim Yeo said.

Weaver has argued that B.C. can not build a single large LNG plant and still meet its climate change targets.

As leader of the B.C. New Democrats, I'm committed to getting B.C. back on track to meet our climate change targets,» Horgan said.

At the same time, Parliament's energy and climate change committee has warned that failure to build new nuclear will make it much harder and more expensive for us to meet our climate change targets, that government appears to be «crossing its fingers that private companies will deliver» and that a Plan B is required in case new nuclear stations are not built on time...

«Carbon capture and storage is seen as essential technology if the UK is to meet its climate change targets,» says lead author Professor Mike Bickle, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage at the University of Cambridge.

Further international co-operation will bring more benefits in the electricity sector and help Finland meet its climate change targets at the lowest possible cost.

As my co-author Peter put it, «As governments around the world set in motion the policies and activities needed to meet their climate change targets under the Paris Agreement, more and more businesses, from farmers to investment firms, will need to pay attention to the associated risks and opportunities.

Baker & McKenzie's expertise and experience on climate change law and policy saw it win the Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Team of the Year award, having put together a renewable energy implementation guide to help African economies meet their climate change targets set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Not exact matches

Survey shows majority support for an effective climate plan and minimum carbon price, even if some provinces disagree OTTAWA — New public opinion research shows that two - thirds of Canadians believe it is more important to have a plan to meet Canada's climate change targets than to have all provincial and territorial premiers agree with that...

This problem is compounded by the fact that Canada has yet to formulate a credible climate change plan to meet its less than ambitious 2020 targets (see here and here) or the 2030 targets put forward in Canada's current INDC.

How else could he argue, as he did recently in a Maclean's opinion piece, that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — and along with it, increased GHG emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would jeopardize Canada's climate change plan and make it impossible to meet our emissions reduction target under the UN Paris Agreement?

It's the first meeting of the leaders since Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, in which countries around the world committed to a series of targets on the issue of climate change.

Europe is already in the vanguard of climate change action: a European Environment Agency report published last month said within five years emissions on the continent may have been slashed by a quarter on 1990 levels, «meeting and overachieving» its 2020 target of 20 per cent.

Further work is needed to meet the UK's climate change targets, and to prepare the ground for enhanced climate action in line with the Paris Agreement.

The Climate Change Act 2008 sets legally binding emission reduction targets for 2020 (reduction of 34 % in greenhouse gas emissions) and for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent in greenhouse gas emissions); the Act also introduces five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure these targets are met.

While many schemes supported through these levies make a valuable contribution to meeting Government targets to save energy, reduce emissions, and tackle fuel poverty and climate change the latest Government estimate indicated that they currently account for 4 % of a typical gas bill and up to 10 % of a typical electricity bill.

How well is the UK doing when it comes to meeting its legally - binding climate change targets?

Airport expansion plans and an over-reliance on buying in emission credits to meet domestic carbon targets are negatively affecting efforts to convince other countries to take a tough stand on climate change, the environmental audit committee has found.

Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green party, said: «If we are serious about meeting UK and EU targets on climate emissions, we must halt airport expansion and say no to new airports - the government urgently needs to change its position on an extra runway at Heathrow and expansion at Stansted.»

More than a quarter of carbon emissions are emitted from homes and reducing individuals» carbon footprints will be crucial if the government is to meet targets - set down in the climate change bill - for reducing carbon emissions.

After detailed research, the Committee on Climate Change — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bClimate Change — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity byChange — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bclimate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bclimate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bychange targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity by 2030.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2015 the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Paris, France and entered into a historic agreement in which 195 nations, including the United States, were signatories and agreed to determine their own target contribution to mitigate climate change by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, among other terms (the «Paris Agreement»);

Mr Blair commissioned the Stern review on climate change, established the Gleneagles dialogue and ensured the UK met its Kyoto targets during his time as prime minister.

Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

Major electricity providers and some government officials in West Virginia, the state leading the charge against federal climate change regulations, want to use carbon trading to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to public records obtained by ClimateWire.

The scheme is vital: The only way nations can meet the targets in the Paris Agreement to combat climate change is to eliminate the burning of fossil fuels or to capture emissions and find a place to store them besides the atmosphere.

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.

Said Dr Tom Evans, WCS Director of Forest Conservation and Climate and joint lead author of the study: «Even if all global targets to halt deforestation were met, humanity might be left with only degraded, damaged forests, in need of costly and sometimes unfeasible restoration, open to a cascade of further threats and perhaps lacking the resilience needed to weather the stresses of climate Climate and joint lead author of the study: «Even if all global targets to halt deforestation were met, humanity might be left with only degraded, damaged forests, in need of costly and sometimes unfeasible restoration, open to a cascade of further threats and perhaps lacking the resilience needed to weather the stresses of climate climate change.

He says that no climatologists think that these targets will be met as key coalition figures do not think climate change is real.

Klink touted the work Brazil has done to meet its Copenhagen target and exceed its pledge to cut deforestation by 80 percent from historic levels by 2020, as well as to weave climate change into the highest levels of government decisionmaking.

At the same time, even if California meets its ambitious target, it may not make a huge dent in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases causing climate change.

The Climate Change Convention allows countries to meet their emissions targets jointly with others.

And in common with all other climate pledges so far, its INDC remains well short of what would be required to meet the agreed 2C target for avoiding dangerous climate change.

As we approach the targets given in Paris, the amount of precision we need on these allowable carbon budgets — to meet the temperature changes — is going to get sharper and sharper, and so we're going to need better climate models to address those carbon budget issues.

Simply by changing the number of modules, Climeworks expects their DAC technology can be freely scaled to meet the demands of any sustainable industrial application, and that it could have a carbon removal potential that is relevant for achieving climate targets agreed upon in the Paris Agreement.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) includes a constellation of issues unfolding under the general umbrella of climate meetings; these issues range from low - carbon technology transfer agreements to finance to emissions reductions tClimate Change (UNFCCC) includes a constellation of issues unfolding under the general umbrella of climate meetings; these issues range from low - carbon technology transfer agreements to finance to emissions reductions tclimate meetings; these issues range from low - carbon technology transfer agreements to finance to emissions reductions targets.

It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»

The UK's Climate Change Act 2008 set legally binding emission reduction targets for 2020 (reduction of 34 percent in greenhouse gas emissions) and for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent in greenhouse gas emissions), and introduced five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure those targets are met.

In a collection of four strategy documents which together proclaim themselves «the most systematic response to climate change of any major developed country», the UK government plots out exactly how it plans to meet its legally binding targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

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.»

The US has no plan yet for how to meet its 2020 climate target and has made no analysis of the impact of recent policy changes, according to an official submission to the UN.

««A sensible debate,» Lilley writes, «has been averted by pretending that the Climate Change Act is virtually costless, that there are not more cost - effective ways of meeting these targets and that the climate risks averted are imminent, not centuries hence.Climate Change Act is virtually costless, that there are not more cost - effective ways of meeting these targets and that the climate risks averted are imminent, not centuries hence.climate risks averted are imminent, not centuries hence.»

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.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) tell us that our power network should almost carbon free by 2030 to meet the UK's legally binding climate targets, and should be no longer relying on conventional gas bClimate Change (CCC) tell us that our power network should almost carbon free by 2030 to meet the UK's legally binding climate targets, and should be no longer relying on conventional gas bclimate targets, and should be no longer relying on conventional gas by 2050.

Hansen, noted for his outspokenness on the topic of climate change and his willingness to venture into an advocacy role that many other climate scientists try to avoid, has previously voiced his concern about the 2 - degree warming benchmark, saying in 2011 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) that, «the target that has been talked about in international negotiations for 2 degrees of warming is actually a prescription for long - term disaster.»

During the second Climate Leaders Summit in Poznan, the signatories of the Montreal Declaration reported on their progress and agreed a new «action statement» presented to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, in which they committed to setting targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency to accelerate low carbon policies prior to the climate change meeting in CopeClimate Leaders Summit in Poznan, the signatories of the Montreal Declaration reported on their progress and agreed a new «action statement» presented to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, in which they committed to setting targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency to accelerate low carbon policies prior to the climate change meeting in Copeclimate change meeting in Copenhagen.

All projections show that to meet the 2C target, US emissions should be at least 50 - 60 % below 1990 levels by 2025 considering its historical responsibility of causing climate change and its present capability of solving it.