Sentences with phrase «of meeting our climate targets»

«If we were to replace some of the dairy products with vegetable products, such as oat milk, we would have a better chance of meeting our climate targets.»

With that, we might have a chance of meeting our climate targets.

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From a climate point of view, the key expectation of Friday's meeting was that it would deliver enough emission reductions to hit Canada's 2030 target.

A big part of President Obama's climate legacy will be the U.S. Clean Power Plan, which will cut pollution from U.S. coal plants — and, importantly, allows imports of new Canadian clean power to help states meet their targets.

Survey shows majority support for an effective climate plan and minimum carbon price, even if some provinces disagree OTTAWA — New public opinion research shows that two - thirds of Canadians believe it is more important to have a plan to meet Canada's climate change targets than to have all provincial and territorial premiers agree with that...

VANCOUVER / COAST SALISH TERRITORY — Seven members of Premier Christy Clark's Climate Leadership Team are voicing concern that the B.C. government has still not released a new Climate Leadership Plan that is needed if B.C. is to meet its legislated climate tClimate Leadership Team are voicing concern that the B.C. government has still not released a new Climate Leadership Plan that is needed if B.C. is to meet its legislated climate tClimate Leadership Plan that is needed if B.C. is to meet its legislated climate tclimate targets.

The «logical corollary,» Smith adds, «is that the Paris climate agreement is not really in the national interest,» since the project would undermine the country's ability to meet a 2030 carbon reduction target that is already moving farther out of reach.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

Coordinated Canada - wide carbon pricing, rising predictably over time, can do much of the heavy lifting towards meeting our climate targets.

As leader of the B.C. New Democrats, I'm committed to getting B.C. back on track to meet our climate change targets,» Horgan said.

It's the first meeting of the leaders since Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, in which countries around the world committed to a series of targets on the issue of climate change.

Europe is already in the vanguard of climate change action: a European Environment Agency report published last month said within five years emissions on the continent may have been slashed by a quarter on 1990 levels, «meeting and overachieving» its 2020 target of 20 per cent.

We will intensify efforts to meet each of our cities» current climate goals, push for new action to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius target, and work together to create a 21st century clean energy economy,» they wrote.

The Climate Change Act 2008 sets legally binding emission reduction targets for 2020 (reduction of 34 % in greenhouse gas emissions) and for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent in greenhouse gas emissions); the Act also introduces five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure these targets are met.

Let us move beyond this budget cycle and make the SDGs flow through the DNA of Ghanaians in our efforts to meet the 2030 targets for the Sustainable Development Goals and the embedded Paris Agreement for climate action.

While many schemes supported through these levies make a valuable contribution to meeting Government targets to save energy, reduce emissions, and tackle fuel poverty and climate change the latest Government estimate indicated that they currently account for 4 % of a typical gas bill and up to 10 % of a typical electricity bill.

The U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition of 14 states and Puerto Rico, announced Wednesday its members are on track to meet their targets under the Paris Climate Accord.

Flights must be made more expensive and airport expansion plans scrapped if Britain is to have any hope of meeting its climate change targets, academics have warned.

Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green party, said: «If we are serious about meeting UK and EU targets on climate emissions, we must halt airport expansion and say no to new airports - the government urgently needs to change its position on an extra runway at Heathrow and expansion at Stansted.»

More than a quarter of carbon emissions are emitted from homes and reducing individuals» carbon footprints will be crucial if the government is to meet targets - set down in the climate change bill - for reducing carbon emissions.

After detailed research, the Committee on Climate Change — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bClimate Change — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bclimate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bclimate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity by 2030.

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»);

Depending on whom you ask, HS2 is a colossal waste of taxpayers» cash, or a brilliant way to kick - start economic growth; an unnecessary half - measure to cut emissions or our best hope of the UK meeting our climate change targets.

Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

How will countries address the fact that the collective targets are clearly not adding up to enough to meet the climate stabilization goal of keeping temperatures below a 2 - degree - Celsius rise?

Richard Betts, head of climate impacts at the Hadley Centre of the U.K.'s Met office presented to reporters in Copenhagen today a new analysis of modeling data showing how conserving tropical forests is going to be crucial if the world is to make a target of 2 ˚C, even under the most conservative projections of how much carbon the forests contain.

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.

«Carbon capture and storage is seen as essential technology if the UK is to meet its climate change targets,» says lead author Professor Mike Bickle, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage at the University of Cambridge.

The «pan-Canadian framework» on climate change is not fully fleshed out but does call for a national meeting with provinces within 90 days of the Paris climate conference in December to establish new national emissions targets and «targeted funding» to provinces to meet those targets.

Said Dr Tom Evans, WCS Director of Forest Conservation and Climate and joint lead author of the study: «Even if all global targets to halt deforestation were met, humanity might be left with only degraded, damaged forests, in need of costly and sometimes unfeasible restoration, open to a cascade of further threats and perhaps lacking the resilience needed to weather the stresses of climate Climate and joint lead author of the study: «Even if all global targets to halt deforestation were met, humanity might be left with only degraded, damaged forests, in need of costly and sometimes unfeasible restoration, open to a cascade of further threats and perhaps lacking the resilience needed to weather the stresses of climate climate change.

Nine democrats have given President Barack Obama a list of demands they want met in Copenhagen at the climate talks: Key among them is a call for verifiable targets from all major economies.

Klink touted the work Brazil has done to meet its Copenhagen target and exceed its pledge to cut deforestation by 80 percent from historic levels by 2020, as well as to weave climate change into the highest levels of government decisionmaking.

Even if the Paris Climate Agreement 2 °C target is met, these places could lose 25 % of their species according to a landmark new study by the University of East Anglia (UK), the James Cook University (Australia), and WWF.

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.

For the first time, their study combines the strengths of simulations based on integrated energy - economy - climate models that estimate cost - optimal long - term strategies to meet climate targets with life cycle assessment approaches.

At the same time, even if California meets its ambitious target, it may not make a huge dent in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases causing climate change.

And in common with all other climate pledges so far, its INDC remains well short of what would be required to meet the agreed 2C target for avoiding dangerous climate change.

As we approach the targets given in Paris, the amount of precision we need on these allowable carbon budgets — to meet the temperature changes — is going to get sharper and sharper, and so we're going to need better climate models to address those carbon budget issues.

The Paris agreement will take a new approach — one that bears little resemblance to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which attempted to force developed countries to meet homogenous climate targets.

Simply by changing the number of modules, Climeworks expects their DAC technology can be freely scaled to meet the demands of any sustainable industrial application, and that it could have a carbon removal potential that is relevant for achieving climate targets agreed upon in the Paris Agreement.

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 tClimate 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 tclimate meetings; these issues range from low - carbon technology transfer agreements to finance to emissions reductions targets.

Effective remedies to improve instruction, learning and school climate (including, e.g., decreases in bullying and harassment, use of exclusionary discipline practices, use of police in schools, and student referrals to law enforcement) for students enrolled are implemented in any school where the school as a whole, or any subgroup of students, has not met the annual achievement and graduation targets or where achievement gaps persist.

They've created a positive, district - wide climate of formative assessment that enables educators to target their curriculum design and instruction to more successfully meet their students needs.

In a distributed statement, Fatih Birol, chief economist at the energy agency and the director of the annual World Energy Outlook, said that trends in emissions meant the world was running out of time if leaders were serious about meeting targets pledged in recent sessions of climate treaty negotiations.

It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»

According to Climate Progress, the report, Climate Policy and Industrial Competitiveness (pdf), completed by the economists, climate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto PrClimate Progress, the report, Climate Policy and Industrial Competitiveness (pdf), completed by the economists, climate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto PrClimate Policy and Industrial Competitiveness (pdf), completed by the economists, climate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto Prclimate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto Protocol.

After five months of reporting, John Upton and others at Climate Central have put together a compelling and infuriating package on the growing flow of wood pellets from the Southeast, many from hardwood forests, to European power plants, where the result is touted as carbon - neutral energy and helps country's meet emissions targets — at least on paper.

Dec. 7, 1:11 a.m. Updated below With the latest round of contentious international climate treaty negotiations getting under way in Durban, South Africa, it's worth revisiting what would be required to meet ambitious targets set for greenhouse gases in California, a state that already has pledged meaningful action.

The United States did not specify any target for itself at this meeting, which saw the debut of the Obama administration in climate negotiations (to applause).

Ahead of a major international climate summit in Paris, the study makes an interesting contribution to the debate about the role of negative emissions in meeting the 2C target.