Sentences with phrase «necessary emissions»

Further delay will greatly increase the costs of making necessary emissions cuts and will risk locking in irreversible climate change.»

High prices, plus the added pressure of the necessary emissions standards, mean Canadian manufacturers are struggling to remain competitive against companies in China where such standards don't exist.

A U.N. Environment Program report released last week showed that, taken together, the NDCs only account for a third of the necessary emissions reductions needed to keep global average temperatures from heating 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels.

It appears likely that this group of countries will not contribute the necessary emissions to usher the deal into force.

California's goal will be harder to meet, and cap and trade alone may not provide all the necessary emission cuts.

As an aside, the Japanese automaker still plans to import a diesel - powered midsize Mazda6 to the U.S. but only, according to a spokesman, when it is confident it «can both meet the necessary emissions standards and provide the level of driver involvement and enjoyment that is expected of a Mazda.»

By now, countries have delayed action for so long that the necessary emissions cuts will have to be extremely sharp.

Tighter regulation throughout the drilling, transportation and storage process could deliver more than 10 % of the necessary emissions reductions to get the US toward its 17 % 2020 target.

The guideline is unlikely to be made mandatory soon, but compulsory publication of the necessary emissions and productivity data by nations and corporations could help civil society highlight top performers.

The longer the international community waits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the steeper the necessary emissions reductions pathway becomes.

The Commission's plans to bring aviation into the Emissions Trading Scheme hardly scratch the surface of the problem and will not come close to delivering the necessary emissions» cuts.

The voluntary measures the United States will propose will simply not achieve the necessary emissions reductions.

, shows that we can start on the path to the necessary emissions reductions using existing and emerging technologies, even with conservative assumptions about lifestyle changes and new technologies.

This is why a pledge - based approach with weak review rules, instead of the Kyoto Protocol's approach of legally binding commitments and international rules that give meaning to these commitments, is completely insufficient to ensure the necessary emission cuts.

As governments, industry and civil society struggle to achieve the necessary emission reductions to address climate change, scientists are increasingly looking at new technological pathways such as direct carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, solar geoengineering (cooling the planet by reflecting heat away from the Earth) and the use of sophisticated satellite technologies capable of...

Even with the new target in place, China could overshoot the necessary emissions reductions by around 50 per cent.