Sentences with phrase «national emissions reduction targets»

By transitioning to renewable energy options, companies will be able to help their respective governments achieve national emissions reduction targets in line with the Paris Agreement, and thus help stem global temperature increases.»

But we don't yet have a national emissions reduction target that any credible expert believes is capable of delivering on our Paris commitments for the machinery to deliver.

In addition, because each national emission reduction target commitment must be understood as an implicit position of the nation on safe ghg atmospheric concentration levels, setting national ghg emissions goals must be set with full knowledge of how any national target will affect the global problem.

Given that any national ghg emissions target is implicitly a position on achieving an atmospheric ghg concentration that will avoid dangerous climate change, to what extent has the nation identified the ghg atmospheric concentration stabilization level that the national emissions reduction target seeks to achieve in cooperation with other nations.

And so any national ghg emissions target is inherently a position on important ethical and justice issues and thus setting a national emissions reduction target based upon national interest alone fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny.

The proposed Effort Sharing Regulation sets binding national emission reduction targets for the 2021 - 2030 period, but governments are insistent on loopholes that would actually result in hundreds of millions of tonnes in additional CO2 emissions.

While ECO has not yet given up on countries strengthening their national emission reduction targets, there is another simple step that will have a substantial impact.

«We estimate that by actively increasing farm yields, the UK can reduce the amount of land that is a source of greenhouse gases, increase the «sink», and sequester enough carbon to hit national emission reduction targets for the agriculture industry by 2050.»

On that basis, the report concludes that while continued oil sands production will make it very hard for Canada to meet its national emission reduction targets — which again it's worth pointing out, are in line with those of the US and far far below what science says is needed to minimize the impacts of climate change — on a global basis «elimination of oil sands GHG emissions will not eliminate or substantially lessen the immense challenge facing the world to reduce GHG emissions.»

Not exact matches

State Labor governments are expected to fall in line behind the Turnbull government's National Energy Guarantee, but are keen to ensure a future Shorten Labor government can increase carbon emission reduction targets.

The National Energy Guarantee purports to deliver the twin goals of meeting the emissions reduction target Australia signed up to in Paris in 2005 and making energy affordable and reliable again.

The numerous rules will address issues such as how countries will track and report their emissions and have them verified, all in a transparent way; how countries will be required to communicate their future emissions - reduction plans as well as their pledges for funding adaptation efforts; and if and how market mechanisms, such as emissions trading between countries, will be applied to national targets.

Japan's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a 26 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from 2013 levels.1 To achieve this, the Japanese government has set carbon targets for all sectors backed up by a national carbon tax and Tokyo emissions trading scheme.

With the developing world now generating half the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, one of the thorniest challenges facing climate change negotiators in Copenhagen will be apportioning national reduction targets in coming decades.

Another perspective on burden sharing, one that is central to the ongoing negotiations, expresses post-2012 obligations in terms of emission reduction obligations and Kyoto - style national targets.

We need a national approach that targets low cost emissions reductions, not emissions in high emissions locations.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

ClimateCare will therefore not fund projects in countries that have binding targets under the Kyoto Protocol (i.e. developed countries that have ratified the Protocol) during the period when they have legally binding targets unless it can be assured that the emission reductions can be «retired» from the national account.

This technical document provides the following information: - An update of global greenhouse gas emission estimates, based on a number of different authoritative scientific sources; - An overview of national emission levels, both current (2010) and projected (2020) consistent with current pledges and other commitments; - An estimate of the level of global emissions consistent with the two degree target in 2020, 2030 and 2050; - An update of the assessment of the «emissions gap» for 2020; - A review of selected examples of the rapid progress being made in different parts of the world to implement policies already leading to substantial emission reductions and how they can be scaled up and replicated in other countries, with the view to bridging the emissions gap.

Policy at the national level must encourage the deployment of clean energy technologies, and include greenhouse gas emission reduction targets (such as those under the Paris Agreement), carbon pricing mechanisms, and investment in energy research, development and demonstration.

A new website should be of great value to policy - makers to view and understand the relationship between their national emissions reduction strategies and the global climate change problem, issues that must be considered in setting national ghg targets as a matter of ethics.

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).

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and five Cabinet ministers failed to reach a consensus Friday on a national midterm emissions reduction target... Read more here.

China's 12th Five Year Plan (2011 - 2015) sets a national target for the reduction of carbon emissions, through the reduction of carbon intensity per unit of GDP by 40 - 45 % by 2020.

G20 countries must show climate leadership by signalling their intent to enhance ambition as they prepare to assess progress on their national climate plans under the 2018 Talanoa Dialogue and revise their emission reduction targets by 2020.

-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall promulgate, and update from time to time, regulations to establish national transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, standardized models and methodologies for use in developing surface transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets pursuant to sections 134 and 135 of title 23 of the United States Code and methods for collection of data on transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions.

«The first major review in 2018 of national mitigation commitments, which is meant to lead to governments increasing their 2025 - 2030 emission reduction targets by 2020, could be a crucial first test of the Paris Agreement's effectiveness.»

Shadow environment minister Mark Butler has responded, calling the modelling «ridiculously outdated» and noting that the ALP did not adopt emissions reductions targets at its national conference (although significant targets for renewable energy were a signature part of the conference agenda).

The German energy ministry BMWi tells Carbon Brief the country is a «climate pioneer» with strong performance on emissions reduction, ambitious national targets and its «Energiewende» transition towards renewables and away from nuclear.

«The bill does take important steps towards lowering transportation - sector emissions by requiring national goals for transportation reductions, as well as state and metro area targets.

Visualizing How To Evaluate GHG Emissions Reductions Targets by National, State, ane Regional Governments, Part II

Nations need only set ghg emissions reduction targets to levels consistent with their national interest.

Ask your neighbour: does the national 5 % reduction target mean that Australia's domestic emissions will be reduced by 5 %, or does it mean that they will increase by 11 %?

Nations continue to set ghg emissions reductions targets at levels based upon their self - interest despite the fact that any national target must be understood to be implicitly a position on two issues that can not be thought about clearly without considering ethical obligations.

That is, every national ghg emissions reduction target is implicitly a position on: (a) a safe ghg atmospheric stabilization target; and (b) the nation's fair share of total global ghg emissions that will achieve safe ghg atmospheric concentrations.

Although the website is very helpful to both help visualize and understand facts relevant to determinations of what equitable principles should guide national climate policy formation, particularly in regard to ghg emissions reduction targets, lamentably the site could be interpreted to leave the mistaken impression that equity could mean anything.

Although this shift from production ghg to consumption related ghg as a way of establishing national responsibility to achieve ghg emissions reduction targets is not likely to happen in the short - term, those who desire to assign liability on the basis of consumption could also use the C&C framework more easier than other proposed equity frameworks.

Seen that it will create a lot of demand for carbon credits in the future, a key issue is to ensure that emissions reductions are not counted towards both national commitments under the Paris Agreement and the targets set under the future aviation offsetting scheme.

(O'Neill 1989, 224) In the case of national and sub-national emissions targets, this would entail voluntary emissions reductions beyond legal restrictions on occasions when legal frameworks prescribe goals inadequate for distributive and retributive justice criteria.

Any national ghg emissions reduction is implicitly a position on a safe atmospheric ghg concentration and that nation's fair share of total global emissions that will reach that target.

If equity is not taken into account in setting national ghg targets, poor countries will have their much lower per capita emissions levels frozen into place if national governments set targets based upon equal percentage reduction amounts.

Each researcher answered the same 10 questions which sought to determine how equity, ethics, and justice considerations affected national policy formation on greenhouse gas emissions reductions targets and commitments and on funding adaptation, l, osses and damages in vulnerable developing countries.

In the case of EU member states, the collective decision making process of the EU does not seem to have led to any greater ethical analysis at the national level for individual EU nations including the Netherlands and Italy when these nations set their emissions reduction targets.

Although reasonable people may disagree on what equity and justice may require of national ghg emission reduction commitments, there are only a few considerations that are arguably morally relevant to national climate targets.

The agreement would therefore include common international accounting and reporting standards for countries taking on targets in four key areas: 1) comprehensive reporting and review of national GHG emissions; 2) common standards for quantifying, reporting, and reviewing emission reductions, including from changes in land use, land - use change, and forestry; 3) common standards for national GHG registries and 4) common methodologies for estimating emission reductions from developing country projects or programs funded by developed countries (known as offsets).

While it highlights the importance of a quantitative target for transportation sector emissions, the bill sets no national reduction goal for the sector, has no substantial enforcement, and dedicates no carbon revenues to get the job done.

This is precisely the argument now playing out in the EU as the European Commission grapples with setting a new target for emissions reduction that for the first time will not include binding national targets for the adoption of renewable energy.

Today, the European Commission proposed national greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for EU...

We already know that current national climate commitments cover only one - third of the emissions reductions needed to achieve that target — and the IPCC report should assess the feasibility of technologies and policy options to get us there.

Although most nations have now made some commitments that have included ghg emissions reductions targets starting in the Copenhagen COP in 2009, almost all nations appear to be basing their national targets not on what equity would require of them but at levels determined by their economic and national interests.