Sentences with phrase «of achieving carbon neutrality»

Düsseldorf's development strategy was to economically meet its ambitious climate goals of achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2050, which for this city in western Germany means reducing CO2 emissions to just 2 tons per capita.

For Schneider Electric, contributing to the process of achieving carbon neutrality is an ambitious and productive challenge.

Not exact matches

And Palo Alto has been able to achieve carbon neutrality in large part because it has a set of assets and attributes that most other cities lack.

Together, the Berlin Show Orchestra and First Climate set out to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality.

The Dawson people are certainly good environmental stewards: reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50 per cent in the past six years and committed to achieving carbon neutrality; composting 600 kilograms of cafeteria and other food waste annually; and attracting birds and insects rarely seen in downtown Montréal back to their natural habitat.

Achieving carbon - neutrality involves reducing the amount of energy needed to deliver wellbeing by over 50 % — we call this «power - down» — while also rapidly developing Britain's abundant renewable energy sources — we call this «power - up».

Groups such as the American Institute of Architects (AIA) have endorsed an immediate 50 % reduction in fossil fuel - generated energy and a 10 % reduction target every five years until new and renovated buildings achieve carbon neutrality in 2030.

In the words of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, achieving carbon neutrality «requires transformative rather than incremental approaches,» with a roadmap for long - term and deep reductions in the building, energy, and transportation sectors.

In 2011 the City of Seattle commissioned a study of potential pathways to achieve its carbon neutrality goal, and in 2015 the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance published a framework for cities on long - term deep carbon reduction planning.

Some of Fort Collins» biggest challenges in achieving carbon neutrality come down to your choices.

¶ While Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is busy deleting the role of humankind in causing climate change from the state's websites, Eau Claire, the 68,000 - strong former factory town in northwestern Wisconsin, has adopted an ambitious sustainability plan to achieve carbon neutrality and to get 100 % of its energy from renewable sources.

Customers can now reverse the effect of unavoidable emissions and achieve carbon neutrality through Climeworks removing an equivalent amount of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and storing them underground via the CarbFix process in Iceland.

«Ahead of COP21 in October 2015, our CEO already spelt out our company's commitment to achieving carbon neutrality along our extended supply chain by 2030.

The aide would not specify how the campaign would achieve carbon neutrality, but said the campaign would roll out specifics as they unveil the rest of their climate change plan in the coming weeks.

The next chart shows the quantify of reductions that each state would need to achieve to reach an 80 % reduction by 2050 although we have already established above that the most recent science would require each state to achieve carbon neutrality by 2o50.

To stay within the 250 gigaton carbon equivalent budget, total US emissions which will be comprised of emissions from all states must achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

This executive summary of the full report, Bending the Curve: 10 scalable solutions for carbon neutrality and climate stability, presents pragmatic paths for achieving carbon neutrality and...

Signing up to these initiatives will help both companies to deliver on their wider climate ambitions, for example Schneider Electric's target to achieve carbon neutrality in its ecosystem by 2030, and EDF's «Goal 2030» pledge to «go beyond the requirements of the two degrees Celsius trajectory set by COP21».

Costa Rica's President Luis Guillermo Solis announced on Monday during the opening of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week that the country was aiming to achieve carbon neutrality by 2021.

Although newer vehicles will be more fuel efficient, CO2 emissions continue to rise because of the growth in vehicle travel and the increase in congestion and because we have not assumed carbon neutrality for new dwellings as these have yet to be achieved in mass market building.

In 2007, then - President of Ithaca College Peggy R. Williams signed the American College and University President's Climate Commitment, pledging that the college would develop a strategy and long - range plan to achieve carbon neutrality.

I could believe that 10 % of GDP is an upper bound even in this case, because achieving carbon neutrality basically requires a big change to infrastructure but one that only has to be performed once (though it may take years to complete).

A company or country can also achieve carbon neutrality by means of carbon offsetting.

Left Coast is one of 14 wineries to complete Oregon Environmental Council's Carbon Reduction Challenge, and one of 6 to undergo an independent audit to achieve a goal of complete carbon neutrality.

The fee works by making the cost to achieve carbon neutrality a line item in the operating budgets of Microsoft's business units across more than 100 countries, establishing a powerful incentive for each group to find lower - carbon alternatives and to invest in carbon - saving initiatives and innovations.

This article has been updated to reflect the mayor's recent expansion of the city's greenhouse gas reduction goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

These final steps toward carbon - neutrality are critical to achieving the ambitions of the Paris Agreement.

The OFS develops and supports projects that work towards achieving zero - waste and carbon neutrality goals.