Sentences with phrase «meeting emission targets in»

The CDM - the U.N.'s main carbon market set up by the Kyoto Protocol - has helped to channel almost $ 400 billion to carbon - cutting projects in the developing world by allowing investors to earn credits they can sell for use in meeting emission targets in richer nations.

The mechanisms help to stimulate green investment and help Parties meet their emission targets in a cost - effective way.

The mechanisms help to stimulate green investment and help Parties meet their emission targets in a cost - effective way.

Not exact matches

An agreement recognized the province had already met Canada's target of a 30 per cent reduction in emissions from 2005 by 2030.

How much the agreement reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and through that reduces warming, will depend on whether countries meet their targets for curbing emissions and deploying renewable energy and whether they ramp up their ambition in the years ahead.

One of the more interesting inclusions in the finalized Clean Power Plan is the «Clean Energy Incentive Program,» which incentivizes states that move more quickly on meeting their carbon emissions targets.

According to the Pembina Institute, federal oil and gas emissions regulations crafted after Alberta's system would have to set the fee for contributing to the fund at least $ 100 per tonne in order for Canada to be able to meet its 2020 target.

Ontario will release a detailed five - year action plan in 2016, which will include commitments to meet the province's 2020 emissions reduction targets, and establish the framework necessary to meet targets for 2030 and 2050.

Cement technology roadmap plots path to cutting CO2 emissions 24 % by 2050 Joint low - carbon technology roadmap by IEA and the CSI outlines investment and policy needs to meet global emissions reduction targets in cement production 6 April 2018

Opinion: The B.C. NDP's changes in the budget update still fall short of what is needed for the province to meet its emissions reduction targets

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?

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.

Smurfit Kappa recently announced in its 2016 Sustainability Development Report that it has already cut CO ₂ emissions by 23 %, well on the way to meeting its 2020 target of 25 %.

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.

Critics say the electricity sector must do more to meet Australia's economy - wide emissions reduction target because emissions cuts are easier and cheaper to achieve in electricity than in agriculture, transport or industry.

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.

The Low Emissions Technology Roadmap provides an independent, science - based analysis of the technology options in the energy sector that can help Australia meet its 2030 emissions reduction target and create new opportunities for local Emissions Technology Roadmap provides an independent, science - based analysis of the technology options in the energy sector that can help Australia meet its 2030 emissions reduction target and create new opportunities for local emissions reduction target and create new opportunities for local industry.

An independent, science - based analysis of the technology options in the energy sector that can help Australia meet its 2030 emissions reduction target

They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.

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.

The EU Emissions Trading System gives countries wriggle - room in meeting environmental targets.

Work is currently underway to review the Gothenburg Protocol which came into force in 2005, setting targets for reducing pollutants and emissions which were to be met by 2010.

In 2014, a quarter of the UK target was met by reducing emissions in Poland, Romania, and other European countrieIn 2014, a quarter of the UK target was met by reducing emissions in Poland, Romania, and other European countriein Poland, Romania, and other European countries.

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.

To meet the 2050 emission target, electricity generation in the UK needs to be 80 % from low carbon power generation by 2030.

It adds: «This target may therefore be seen as a litmus test of the government's determination to meet the reductions in carbon emissions to which the UK is currently statutorily committed».

Labour Ministers must back Welsh Liberal Democrat calls for a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 100 % in order to meet Wales» obligations on the world stage, the party has said today.

States in the alliance will remain committed to reducing emissions by 26 to 28 percent and meeting the targets of the federal Clean Power Plan, according to the statement from Cuomo's office.

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.

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.

The report forecast UK carbon emissions in 2010 will be only halfway to meeting the 20 per cent target in a «very significant shortfall», the report warned.

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.

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.

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.

As with emission - trading programs elsewhere, polluters in China's pilots have two options: First, they can meet their targets by reducing their own emissions — by investing in energy efficiency, say, or curbing production.

Launched in 2003, it relies on companies such as Cargill, DuPont, Intel, Ford and Monsanto to make legally binding but voluntary commitments to meet emissions targets either by reducing emissions from their factories or by purchasing permits from other members of the exchange who have exceeded their targets.

According to the commission's own impact assessment, the union is on track to meet the current target: Under a «business - as - usual» scenario, total greenhouse gas emissions are already expected to drop by 24 % in 2020 and 32 % in 2030 compared with 1990 levels.

So in the best - case scenario, where everyone meets their targets, emissions are still 8 Gt too high.

In Chile's case, the economic benefits of going green have also been heightened by a recent push from the presidency to meet the country's greenhouse gas emissions targets.

Although GM refuses to set a specific target date, some industry watchers are predicting a 1996 introduction for the Impact — long enough to give GM a chance to do the necessary fine - tuning, but soon enough to give the company a running start at meeting tougher vehicle emission laws slated to take effect in 1998.

Yet, he says, with the same level of economic growth but different energy policies, «it may well be feasible to meet targets of a 60 per cent reduction in emissions» over 50 years.

So meeting the new 2025 target would essentially freeze emissions at the current level, and the size of that challenge will largely depend on how the economy behaves in the next decade.

Those that reduce emissions below the cap can sell their excess permits to those sources that fail to meet the targets — the trade part of the market — resulting in an overall reduction of pollution at the lowest economic cost, in theory.

The latest battle comes as power producers in some European countries are embracing wood as a source of renewable energy that would also help them meet targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Officials in Brussels reportedly fear the European Union will not meet its current modest target of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2000.

In order to meet the EU's mandatory GHG emission - reduction targets and the renewable energy commitments discussed below, much of this new generation must qualify as low - carbon and renewable.

In addition to federal regulations that limit carbon dioxide emissions, 29 states and Washington, DC have Renewable Portfolio Standards that require power generators to meet specified renewable energy targets by certain dates.

They then used an integrated climate - economic model and calculated the optimal price that we should put on emissions now in order to minimize the costs associated with meeting such a temperature target.

Often referred to as Carbon Dioxide Removal, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Drawdown, or «Negative Emissions», these proposed approaches look to work in conjunction with reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the first place — to help meet emissions reductions targets for a more stable climate and healthieEmissions», these proposed approaches look to work in conjunction with reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the first place — to help meet emissions reductions targets for a more stable climate and healthieemissions in the first place — to help meet emissions reductions targets for a more stable climate and healthieemissions reductions targets for a more stable climate and healthier oceans.