Sentences with phrase «meets its pledged cuts»

The United States has acceded to the Paris Agreement, but the country's current climate policies may not be enough to ensure the the emissions giant meets its pledged cuts by 2025.

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That can help him secure a legacy as a reformer, if he handles China's influence adroitly and meets old pledges to cut the role of the state.

There's been scandal - the suspension of MP Michelle Thomson over allegations about property deals, the award of a # 150,000 government grant to the organisers of the profitable T in the Park music festival after a meeting brokered by a former SNP adviser - and there's been political ineptitude, most notably when the nationalists were put on the back foot by a Labour pledge to use Holyrood's powers to overturn tax credit cuts.

Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos confirmed that he did indeed meet with Gov. David Paterson this afternoon after that rather tense leaders meeting and pledged his conference would provide votes for the next round of budget extenders, provided the governor incorporates some proposed GOP spending cuts.

RM: This is simply meeting a pledge made under David Cameron but there is a lot of analysis suggesting it will not be enough, especially given the pressure that social care cuts are putting on the NHS.

The chancellor has been under pressure to soften cuts pencilled in by Osborne after last year's general election, as he sought to meet the Conservatives» manifesto pledge to slice # 12bn from the cost of the welfare state.

Following pressure from Cabinet ministers led by Alistair Darling and Lord Mandelson, Mr Brown also seems to have accepted that Labour would have to cut public spending from next year in order to meet its pledge to halve the deficit in four years.

That would have made it nearly impossible for the country to meet its Paris agreement pledge to cut carbon dioxide emissions 37 % by 2030, she adds.

«Significant» reductions needed The U.N. Environment Programme's «Emissions Gap 2012» report cautions that even if nations meet their strictest pledges, the world will not be able to cut its output of greenhouse gases in time to prevent runaway global warming (ClimateWire, Nov. 21).

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.

It is on track to meet Obama's 2009 pledge to cut US emissions by 17 per cent, from 2005 levels, by 2020.

But for the past several years, scientists have warned that verifying whether countries meet their pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions could be even harder.

According to a recent analysis from Resources for the Future in Washington DC, cuts of up to 5 per cent from existing plants could keep the US roughly on target to meet Obama's 2009 pledge to reduce US greenhouse gas releases by 17 per cent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels.

The problem is so big that even if developed countries were to increase their CP2 pledges, they could meet their more stringent targets by simply buying more surplus and without actually cutting their emissions.

I'm working to wrap my head around the emerging UNFCCC pledges to cut carbon emissions, in preparation for the Paris meeting next December.

In its action plan for the Paris COP21 meet, India pledges to reduce its carbon intensity — a measure of a country's emissions relative to its economic output — by 35 percent by 2030, rather than an absolute cut in emissions.

Without specifically mentioning President - elect Trump's pledge to cancel any U.S. acceptance of the U.N. Paris CO2 emission - cutting agreement adopted last year, he said: «I can tell you with confidence that the United States is right now today on our way to meeting all of the international targets we have set.»

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The coal revival, they say, has alarming implications for air pollution and Japan's ability to meet its pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which account for 4 % of the world's total.

It is meant to describe how the United States will lead by example and meet its pledge for cutting emissions...

NEWS: National climate pledges cut emissions 3 % a year for each unit of GDP, analysts say, but 6.3 % needed to meet 2C goal

Now, to truly «put out money where our mouth is,» the U.S. needs to meet the emissions cuts pledged — 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

China's emissions are set to grow from 10 Gt CO2e today to 11 - 14 Gt in 2020, India's from 2 Gt to 3 - 5 Gt, Iran and Saudi Arabia have not made pledges, South Africa is unlikely to meet its pledge to approximately stabilize its emissions, Mexico and Brazil have pledged absolute emissions cuts conditional on finance, and Indonesia's emissions (mostly from forestry) are highly uncertain.