Sentences with phrase «mitigation goals»

This paper analyzes the climate change mitigation goals that have been set and the key policies that have been and are being implemented.

They aim to reduce the cost of achieving mitigation goals by providing flexibility in how and where emissions are reduced.

In these circumstances, every opportunity for policy integration can be of value in order to reach climate change mitigation goals.

The long term mitigation goal of the UNFCCC process, a zero emissions paradigm needed to stabilize the climate at any temperature level, will not be successful without differentiation, equity, implementation of fair shares, and clear principles of a just transition.

Against this view is the consensus among energy experts and scientists that innovation, both incremental and radical, is necessary for a whole suite of technologies in order to achieve global carbon mitigation goals.

In addition to New York's big new adaptation plan, the city has the ambitious mitigation goal of reducing emissions 30 % by 2030.

It would also go a long way to building trust to have a process under the UNFCCC to assess overall developed and developing country contributions to our global mitigation goals.

The International Renewable Energy Agency's sixth annual meeting this weekend in Abu Dhabi laid out an ambitious path for doubling renewables as a way to meet mitigation goals — and to create millions of new jobs.

However, some major remaining signatories have expressed a commitment to increasing mitigation goals, and within the US many states, cities and some of the country's largest companies are committed to mitigation irrespective of the US participation in the agreement.

This is why, for example, the Paris Accord explicitly states climate change mitigation goals in terms of global average temperature.

Writing in Nature Climate Change, they say that the «pledge and review» approach that will form the basis of commitments made at the UN climate change negotiations in December, presents an opportunity to link mitigation goals explicitly to the evolving climate response.

New WRI research, Pathways for Meeting India's Climate Goals, shows that the country can achieve this GHG mitigation goal through the existing policies we analysed, while maintaining annual GDP growth rate of 6 to 7 percent.

Mitigation goals from our nations are sending us down the fiery path to hell.

The National Wetland Plant List (and the information implied by its wetland plant species status ratings) is used extensively in wetland delineation, wetland restoration and research, and the development of compensatory mitigation goals, as well as in providing general botanical information about wetland plants.

The team plans to use their new National Science Foundation grant to study how accounting for the climate, health, and agricultural impacts of both the long - lived carbon dioxide and the shorter - lived local pollutants, like soot, produced by different sectors can help countries to optimize how they meet climate mitigation goals like those under the Paris Climate Accord.

The Partnership sets new mitigation goals: to reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas sector by 40 — 45 percent by 2025, strengthen energy efficiency and vehicle emissions standards, and achieve 50 percent clean power generation in North America by 2025.

At a recent meeting of Indian provincial environment and forestry ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that nuclear energy will play a critical role in helping the country to meet both its energy security and climate change mitigation goals.

Leading cities and states will showcase their action on ZNE to attain carbon mitigation goals.

«Irrespective of the long - term mitigation goal, we have to start to bring the mitigation train onto the track.»

Fracturing monopolies, surging demand, falling oil prices and ambitious climate change mitigation goals are intersecting in Mexico, creating unprecedented challenges and opportunities for curbing greenhouse gases.

«The financial support of coal projects fundamentally undermines the CDM's climate mitigation goals.»

Beside the climate change mitigation goal, the initiative contributes to many other challenges as biodiversity conservation, food security, governance and fight against land degradation.

Blue carbon now offers the possibility to mobilize additional funds and revenue by combining best - practices in coastal management with climate change mitigation goals and needs.

Both organisations have inaugurated broad strategic plans to include developing economies in common climate change mitigation goals.

The ENERGY STAR Certified Homes Program equips policy makers with a proven marketing platform and technical specifications to help reduce long - term energy use and peak demand in a community and contribute towards climate change mitigation goals.

The list was informed by two international GHG accounting and reporting standards developed by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol: the Mitigation Goal Standard and Policy and Action Standard.

The aviation industry is the first industry to implement its own industry - wide climate mitigation goals.

The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol's Mitigation Goal Standard, launched today, provides the first - ever standardized approach for designing, assessing, and reporting progress on a variety of national and subnational mitigation goals.

If NDCs are to become the long - term instrument for international cooperation, negotiation, and ratcheting up of ambitions to address climate change, then they need to become more transparent and comparable, both with respect to mitigation goals, and to issues such as adaptation, finance, and the way in which NDCs are aligned with national policies.

Developing countries, especially in Africa, feared that changing farm practices to achieve climate mitigation goals would diminish crop yields and threaten livelihoods.