"Mitigation targets" refers to specific goals or objectives set to reduce or minimize the negative impacts or effects of a certain issue, such as climate change or environmental damage. It involves taking action or implementing measures to prevent or alleviate the problem.
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This analytical document gives the audience a forward - looking assessment of the advantages of international cooperation in reaching stringent
global mitigation targets.
Governments need the active engagement of the private sector in order to meet and raise
ambitious mitigation targets and provide private finance flows far greater than those from public sources.
They are the ones who have failed to deliver on their legal and moral obligations in finance, who have offered
laughable mitigation targets, and who expect developing countries to fulfill parallel commitments.
You have failed to deliver in providing adequate financing,
ambitious mitigation targets and an international mechanism that addresses compensation for loss and damages.
The most contested issues, the future of the Kyoto Protocol and the ambition
of mitigation targets have not moved forward sufficiently prior to the meeting, and the political pressure has not increased sufficiently.
We are in the process of drafting domestic legislation; we are going to get parliament's approval; we will have a domestic law which will embody in it specific
mitigation targets for power, for agriculture, transport, buildings, energy intensity of industry.
Greater uncertainty also increases the likelihood of exceeding «safe» temperature limits and the probability of failing to
reach mitigation targets.
Still, Ogden noted, a number of key issues central to the 2015 agreement remain unresolved — like what legal form the deal will take, how countries will prove they are making progress
on mitigation targets and how much money wealthy nations will pony up to help poorer ones cut carbon and prepare for the impacts of climate change.
In an especially timely analysis, the 2015 edition of Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP 2015) examines innovation in the energy technology sector and seeks to increase confidence in the feasibility of achieving short - and long - term climate change
mitigation targets through effective research, development, demonstration and deployment (RDD&D).
But, Yang noted, the «quid pro quo» Ramesh asks for in his opening letter — particularly, stiffer
mitigation targets from the United States — isn't likely to be met.
And while Obama called the 18 December deal he brokered an «unprecedented breakthrough» in getting developing countries to agree for the first time to voluntary reductions in greenhouse - gas emissions, he knew that it was missing major components that supporters had sought, ranging from
mandatory mitigation targets to deforestation.
Countries are considering using CERs from emission reductions up to 2020 to achieve
post-2020 mitigation targets, under both the Paris Agreement and the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).
In many respects, Japan has provided a clear and detailed INDC based
around mitigation targets — particularly in light of the ambiguities contained in contributions received so far from other countries.
First, the
emissions mitigation targets that the nations have tabled (but will as a technical matter only submit formally by January 31, 2010) will not get us on the path to the accord's stated objective of avoiding a global temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius, unless they are miraculously strengthened over the next 5 weeks.
Total CO2 emissions of all industrialised countries that have quantitative greenhouse gas
mitigation targets under the Kyoto Protocol increased in 2010 by 3.5 % (including the USA that did not ratify the protocol).
The chart does not include those scenarios
assuming mitigation targets and policies that went above and beyond the INDCs, nor does it include the IEA, which reports energy and process - related greenhouse gas emissions.
But governments» near -
term mitigation targets for 2020 - 2030 are not enough to achieve the temperature limit, so the Agreement includes a mechanism aimed at increasing climate action over time.
It would oversee and
verify mitigation targets of developing countries, identify barriers to technology transfer, and propose countermeasures.
One side, led by developed countries, argued that they should
contain mitigation targets alone, and that domestic political circumstances meant it was impossible to provide detailed information on financing commitments well into the future.
With no finance on the table for developing countries, with
weak mitigation targets, no real ambition or political will the Paris Agreement has locked us into almost a decade of inaction.
For this, Germany needs to deliver: Merkel must make sure that German greenhouse gas emissions decrease again and that the
national mitigation targets are met.
The rapid growth of carbon footprints in wealthy countries led to concerns about carbon leakage — where climate mitigation policies in one country lead to increases in CO2 emissions elsewhere — and industrial competitiveness, because
international mitigation targets were slated to apply to developed countries and not the Global South.
How dare you self - congratulate for all your great work while committing to offensively
low mitigation targets.
We analysed five key climate and energy policies and found that India will be able to meet its 2030
GHG mitigation target through their full and effective implementation.
If Japan needs additional offset credits due to its decisions concerning nuclear power or to otherwise meet its
promised mitigation targets, it should use the money to jumpstart the phase - out of all HFCs including HFC - 23 for incremental costs.
In the COP (Conference of the Parties), the G77 + China strongly emphasized the need for a finance roadmap and
strong mitigation targets calling it «an implementation COP».
Ambitious economy -
wide mitigation targets are central to ensuring that international emissions trading supports the goals of the Agreement, as they provide strong incentives for countries to ensure the environmental integrity of units they transfer to others.
Conversely, absent adequate precautions, participation in international market mechanisms could dissuade policy - makers from pursuing ambitious and
comprehensive mitigation targets.
But in the end, all these boil down to the lack of political will to commit for binding
domestic mitigation targets, in the developed countries.
A better picture of Africa's soils is urgently needed to help
meet mitigation targets and understand which soils can sink the most carbon and how.
The authors also emphasize the importance of appropriately accounting for the vintage of CERs and the time frame
of mitigation targets.
Which means a lot of things: the US won't have concrete numbers
on mitigation targets and finance commitments before COP15 convenes; the difficult job of
«For now, many countries still have
mitigation targets, which aren't ambitious enough.»
«We expect that all major economies will honor their agreement in Copenhagen to submit
their mitigation targets or actions.»
«Combined with information on vulnerability and exposure, it serves as a scientific basis for assessment of global risk from extreme weather, the discussion of
mitigation targets, and liability considerations,» the researchers concluded.
Developed and developing countries have now agreed to listing their national actions and commitments, a finance mechanism, to set
a mitigation target of two degrees celsius and to provide information on the implementation of their actions through national communicatios, with provisions for international consultations and analysis under clearly defined guidelines.
The final outcome also reflected WRI's longstanding work on rules for clear accounting of
mitigation targets, policies, and results.