Sentences with phrase «national emissions reductions»

Given this, national economic interest alone is an ethically bankrupt justification for national positions on long - term vision and national emissions reduction targets.

«The ability to accurately estimate greenhouse gas sources and sinks is a prerequisite for international agreements or national emission reduction programs to be effective,» the academies said in a joint statement.

«We outline how the legal and policy mechanisms in the Paris Agreement would, in principle, allow us to achieve its goals − through a regular, science - driven and synchronised five - year review of national emission reduction commitments that aims at enabling countries to regularly improve their pledges,» says Bill Hare, founder and CEO of Climate Analytics.

Qatar: Linking Increasing the Ambitiousness Of National Emissions Reductions Commitments To Equitable Responsibilities

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.»

One of the ethical issues raised by these facts is whether nations which may have much smaller national emissions reductions commitment obligations for the nation derived from an acceptable equity framework should nevertheless be expected to limit activities of individuals causing high levels of ghg emissions.

Across the globe, no major national emissions reduction plan is currently on track to meet the IPCC's 2020 goals, the World Resources Institute (WRI)

Across the globe, no major national emissions reduction plan is currently on track to meet the IPCC's 2020 goals, the World Resources Institute (WRI) reports.

Current national emissions reduction pledges would breach the carbon budget for 2C, with one widely cited analysis estimating they will result in warming of close to 3C.

Sectoral approaches are useful tools among others for achieving national emission reduction objectives.

However, a rise of 3.5 degrees — likely to occur if national emissions reductions remain at currently pledged levels — would affect 11 % of the world population, while a rise of 5 degrees could increase this to 13 %.

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.

«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.»

Countries can move this agreement forward in Warsaw by putting forth a process for delivering transparent and ambitious national emissions reductions offers.

Chengdu — one of China's most populous cities — and nine large companies in India set clear and ambitious targets to reduce emissions intensity, supporting the achievement of China and India's national emission reduction goals.

One of the ethical issues raised by these facts is is whether nations which may have much smaller national emissions reductions commitment obligations for the nation derived from an acceptable equity framework should nevertheless be expected to limit activities of individuals causing high levels of ghg emissions

We provide illustrative results for various alternative levels of ambition, for various equity settings, and for various estimates of national emissions reductions.

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.

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.

In the second commitment period, market mechanisms could only count for 10 % of the national emission reductions — rest would have to be domestic action.