Sentences with phrase «nation meet targeted»

They will help the nation meet targeted emissions reduction at the lowest possible cost.

But He said that would depend on China achieving a real reduction in coal consumption from sometime around 2020 or 2025, and on the nation meeting its target of having 150 - 200 gigawatts of nuclear power capacity by 2030.

Not exact matches

(September 20, 2016) At the 12th and final Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, 30 partners joined No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative of the Clinton Foundation, Vital Voices Global Partnership, and WEConnect International to announce a new series of commitments that address significant gender gaps and advance the gender equality targets of the United Nations» Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

At the end of the United Nations Development Decade, almost all of the Third World countries had met their growth targets in terms of increased Gross National Product, but despite more than 35 years of «development,» absolute poverty was on the increase.

You have a group of hypocritical, arrogant, self righteous, glad handing, back slapping zealots meet once a year as a nation and then at each state conventions and they come up with these commands for the target of their choice.

The atmosphere was electric for the first competitive meeting between these two celtic nations for 27 years, with the home fans clearly targeting Ireland winger and former Celtic star Aiden McGeady every single time he got the ball.

But, he said this was true of all EU member states, while the UK is one of the few European nations on course to meet its Kyoto targets.

The New Juaben South MP noted in a debate on the floor parliament during deliberations on President Nana Akufo - Addo's State of Nation Address that all targets set under the IMF programme were not met by the John Mahama administration.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2015 the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Paris, France and entered into a historic agreement in which 195 nations, including the United States, were signatories and agreed to determine their own target contribution to mitigate climate change by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, among other terms (the «Paris Agreement»);

In a policy described as «hard - headed - but not hard - hearted», the Tories reiterated their commitment to spending 0.7 per cent of national income on international development, meeting the target set by the United Nations.

The FBI warned Clinton and Trump campaign staffers to be careful meeting new people in the nation's capital and elsewhere, because they could be a prime target for foreign spies.

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.

Renewable resources, such as these wind and solar arrays near Palm Springs, Calif., can help nations meet emissions targets.

The work found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

The new study, led by Professor Scott, found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

«All the evidence indicates that governments have failed to deliver on their commitments, and we have failed to meet the 2010 target,» says Matthew Walpole, a co-author of the report from the United Nations Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The Obama administration is quietly working on new greenhouse gas emissions targets to deliver to the United Nations, even as it struggles to craft regulations that will enable the United States to meet its current carbon - cutting goals.

Many E.U. nations, especially those in the south, which tend to have the weakest regulatory institutions and political will to fulfill the Kyoto terms, are not on track to meet their targets.

To comply, the 182 nations that signed the protocol must meet targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases — climate - warming gases that include the common industrial by - products carbon dioxide and methane.

A group of scientists have developed a three - point plan to ensure the world's protected areas meet new biodiversity targets set by the 193 signatory nations of the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD).

Organized by an Asheville, N.C. - based environmental group called the Dogwood Alliance, the protest is the latest move by activists to draw attention to the wood pellet industry's growth in the South, where they allege forests are being chopped down unsustainably so European nations can meet renewable energy targets.

A 30 August editorial in The Lancet added: «A major opportunity to advance global health is in danger of being lost» if substantive targets are not set and nations don't agree to be held accountable for meeting them.

The report, which UNAIDS issued on the eve of World AIDS Day (1 December) describes this news as «encouraging,» but also squarely acknowledges the daunting challenge of hitting several of the 2015 targets set at the United Nations meeting.

Doing away with the CDM and other offsets could be hard, though, because they are the easiest way for industrial nations to meet their emissions targets.

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.

This includes clauses to: limit global warming to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and endeavour to limit it to 1.5 °C; for countries to meet their own voluntary targets on limiting emissions between 2020 and 2030; for countries to submit new, tougher, targets every five years; to aim for zero net emissions by 2050 - 2100; and for rich nations to help poorer ones adapt.

A new study by researchers at Partners HealthCare, one of the nation's largest Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), shows that physician turnover and low numbers of enrolled patients play a key role in an ACO's ability to meet its financial targets.

By the end of the 13th meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Ordos, China, 113 countries had agreed to specify concrete targets with clear indicators, to rehabilitate more land and reverse degradation, which currently affects over a third of the world's land resources.

The statement points out that, even if countries meet their existing greenhouse gas reduction targets under the agreement, a recent report from the United Nations projects «a global temperature rise of 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.»

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.

In spring 2011, the president visited a suburban school (with notable achievement gaps) to argue that without substantial changes more than 80 percent of the nation's schools would not meet NCLB performance targets this year.

In 2016, 88 percent of the nation's school districts met the FCC's minimum internet - connectivity target of 100 kbps per student.

In fact, the host nation is up on almost all emissions it was supposed to cut back on and had to buy credits from other countries so that it met it's target level.

That means wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources are well positioned to help states meet their emission reduction targets and accelerate our nation's transition to a clean, low - carbon economy.

He says that governments will set the targets that nations will try to reach, but it will be scientists, private sector investors and workers who will largely determine whether those goals are met.

Some developed nations made strenuous efforts to meet their Kyoto targets.

If the nation achieves its ambitious targets of 2,300 megawatts by 2020 and 5,000 megawatts by 2030, Kenya could within a matter of years meet all its electricity needs with geothermal energy and begin exporting the surplus.

They were put there because they are the only thing that would give Australia a chance of meeting the deeper emissions reduction targets it will almost certainly have to agree to at a United Nations meeting in Paris this December.

Cracking the Code: A Much - Awaited Approach for Dramatically Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions In a major announcement today, Edward Mazria and Architecture 2030 have released an unprecedented and much - anticipated guide for every city, county and state in the nation to swiftly meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets of the 2030 Challenge.

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.

According to UN Environment, existing commitments by nations fall well short of what is needed to meet warming targets and emissions will not fall quickly until the world undertakes much more ambitious mitigation actions.

The wildlife federation award was given to Leonard for a variety of climate - change projects, including being the first electric power company in the nation to establish and meet a voluntary target reduction for carbon pollution and establishing a $ 30 million fund to pay for carbon reduction projects, said Larry Schweiger, federation president and chief executive officer.

Instead of raising emission targets to meet the official UN 2 degree climate target (that IPCC AR4 connects to the 450ppm stabilization level — industrialized nations need to reduce their emissions by 25 - 40 % between 1990 en 2020) some Annex1 countries actually lowered their (intended) reduction targets for the crucial year of 2020.

At the same time, «much greater emissions reductions efforts... will be required» to meet the target endorsed by the UN 195 - nation climate body, it said.

«The world simply can not meet its climate targets unless high meat - consuming nations like the U.S. substantially cut emissions associated with meat - and dairy - intensive diets,» said

That agreement will require carbon emission reductions for all nations by 2015 to meet the two - degree target.

The Climate Change Authority, the independent statutory body to advise on emissions targets and policies, factored three aspects into its recommendation today: Australia's relative capacity to afford action to reduce emissions, the nation's responsibility to do so, and the effort required to meet the target.

«One expert group ran a worst - case computer simulation of what would happen if the U.S. does not curb emissions, but other nations do meet their targets.

In a major announcement today, Edward Mazria and Architecture 2030 have released an unprecedented and much - anticipated guide for every city, county and state in the nation to swiftly meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets of the 2030 Challenge.

The US March announcement on its reduction targets for 2025 was met with mostly, but not uniformly, positive responses from nations around the world because the new commitments were a significant increase over the US commitment made in 2009 to reduce US ghg emissions by 17 % below 2005 emissions levels by 2020.