Sentences with phrase «meeting emissions targets under»

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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?

Maintaining the notion that only ever - expanded exports can rescue the Canadian economy ignores fundamental price realities as well as eliminates any chance that Canada will meet its emission - reduction targets under COP21.»

The agency laid out various scenarios under which states might meet targets for cutting their emissions.

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.

The United States will cut emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, a target the White House declared can be met «under existing law» — that is, without the need for Congress to pass legislation.

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.

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 targets.

(05/18/2012) The palm oil industry has hired lobbying powerhouse Holland & Knight to help overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's finding that palm oil - based biodiesel fails to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets under the country's Renewable Fuels Standard, reports The Hill.

However, not even 12 months after the much - hyped meeting in the Danish capital, such an ambition has already been placed under intense scrutiny with a range of studies serving to suggest that the emission targets in place within individual nations makes an increase of 4C far more likely in the long - term.

These CERs can be traded and sold, and used by industrialized countries to a meet a part of their emission reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol.

States and cities would need to meet a pledge to reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions to 28 % below 2005 levels by 2025, America's self - declared target under the Paris Accord deal.

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).

-- Not later than 1 year after the promulgation of the final regulations required under section 841 of the Clean Air Act, each metropolitan planning organization shall develop surface transportation - related greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, as well as strategies to meet such targets, as part of the transportation planning process under this section.

-- Not later than 1 year after the promulgation of the final regulations required under section 841 of the Clean Air Act, each State shall develop surface transportation - related greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, as well as strategies to meet such targets, as part of the transportation planning process under this section.

But building any of these pipelines ignores the fact that upstream oil and gas emissions under Alberta's plan, given NEB projections, will account for more than three quarters (76 %) of Canada's emissions by 2040 and 100 % by 2050 — if emissions reduction targets are to be met.

The country is expected to easily meet both its commitment under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 8 % from 1990 levels by 2008 - 2012 and a more stringent internal target of 20 % below 1990 levels by 2005.

Cut greenhouse gas emissions: Rich countries need to meet and exceed their targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions set under the Kyoto Protocol.

Australia is expected to come under growing pressure in the coming year to raise its emissions reduction target from its current level of 5 per cent, as negotiations accelerate to try to achieve a global treaty on climate change that binds all nations by 2015, and meets the science.

This sudden change caused electricity prices to rise and raised concerns about Japan's ability to meet its emissions reduction target under the Kyoto Protocol first commitment period (Jan. 1, 2008 — Dec. 31, 2012).

In the area of climate change, the report highlights the findings of its Emissions Gap Report 2013 — which details the gap between current global emissions and the reduction needed to remain on track to meet the 2 degree Celsius global warming target — and its Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming sEmissions Gap Report 2013 — which details the gap between current global emissions and the reduction needed to remain on track to meet the 2 degree Celsius global warming target — and its Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming semissions and the reduction needed to remain on track to meet the 2 degree Celsius global warming target — and its Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming scenarios.

CO2 emissions: adopt new measures to reduce emissions also after 2012 Switzerland seems to be on track to meeting its target for reducing greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol.

By contrast, under a «mass - based system,» states would have to meet an overall target for greenhouse - gas emissions and ensure that power plants either make those reductions at their facilities or finance efforts to achieve them in other ways, such as by reducing consumer demand or investing in carbon - free electricity generation.

The US appears on track to meet it's 2020 emission reduction pledge under the 2009 Copenhagen Accord but will need to significantly accelerate the current pace of emission reductions to meet it's Paris Agreement targets.

The Clean Power Plan establishes state - by - state targets for carbon emissions reductions, and it offers a flexible framework under which states may meet those targets.

If current rates of deforestation continue in Brazil and Indonesia, that would cancel out 80 percent of the cuts in emissions made by countries that meet their targets under the Kyoto climate treaty, according to Robert Glasser, the secretary general of CARE International, an aid organization.

Under a low natural gas price scenario, 17 states need lift no finger to meet CPP emission targets set for 2030 and intrastate carbon emission trading prices are low.

Under this context, the use of carbon credits to meet a company's science - based emission reduction target represents, at best, an impact neutral instrument from a global carbon budget perspective.

G8 leaders meeting in Heiligendamm, Germany made some progress under the leadership of German Chancellor Angela Merkel but failed to commit to serious targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

If it turns out that fossil fuel emissions have peaked, this would spell good news for international climate targets as it suggests countries are on track to meet their national commitments under the Paris Agreement (dashed line in the graph below).