State of Illinois Senate Bill SJR0027 (pdf) June 2007 This bill resolves that all new state buildings and major renovations in Illinois shall meet The 2030 Challenge targets and specified limits
on the emission of greenhouse gases by 2030.
Not exact matches
Since 2015, the World Bank, via Anita Marangoly George, former senior director
of Global Practice
on Energy and Extractive Industries, has pushed to eliminate «a huge amount
of greenhouse gas, equivalent to the
emissions of 77 million cars,»
by 2030.
Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based
on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed
by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report
of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts
of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report
of recommendations
on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption
of «quantitative goals... for reducing total
greenhouse gas emissions.»
«There's a question
of whether going along with the approval
of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging
by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University
of British Columbia's school
of forestry and founder
of UBCC350, a group pressing for action
on greenhouse gas emissions.
A lovely counterpoint to last week in Canadian politics
on greenhouse gas emission reductions, Kyoto and Minister Baird: Norway Plans to Go «Carbon Neutral» April 20, 2007 â $» Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
on Thursday proposed to make Norway the first «carbon neutral» state
by 2050 and reduce
emissions of greenhouse gases by 30 percent -LSB-...]
RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction
of greenhouse gas and other air
emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders
by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information)
on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.
The NEB plans to judge a project
on the
greenhouse gas emissions of the people who produce the oil, as well as those who eventually consume it
By Ken Green,... Read more»
The report, hinged
on the implications
of climate change, came at a time when energy experts were insisting that unless countries drastically cut
greenhouse gas emissions by moving away from fossil fuels, climate change would remain inevitable.
A report
on the Northern Ireland dairy industry relating to
greenhouse gas emissions has been released
by the Department
of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).
Impossible Foods is an example
of a firm that has gained consumer support and investments from the likes
of Bill Gates
by marketing its products
on the premise
of sustainability, claiming that one
of its burgers creates 87 % less
greenhouse gas emissions compared to a beef burger.
Manure monofermentation contributes to the reduction
of the
emission of greenhouse gases in two ways, being
by reducing the methane volume
on the one hand and
by generating green energy
on the other,» ter Avest said.
A climate - change report being released
on Wednesday
by the mainline Democratic conference in the Senate calls for a 100 percent reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels
by the middle part
of this century.
On the eve
of the People's Climate March, the de Blasio administration released a detailed plan to reduce New York City's
greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent (from 2005 levels)
by 2050.
Environmental groups were at the Capitol Tuesday calling
on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to put renewable energy ahead
of fossil fuels in his effort to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent
by 2050.
«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation
of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat
of climate change, in the context
of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including
by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts
of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts
of climate change and foster climate resilience and low
greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low
greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.
Released yesterday
by the White House Council
on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the finalized guidance recommends that agencies both calculate direct and indirect
greenhouse gas emissions of a project and assess how climate change might affect a project (Greenwire, Aug. 2).
Now it's likely that President Obama's final years in office will be spent in part defending his plan to cut
greenhouse gas emissions at power plants
by one - third while addressing Republican priorities
on conventional energy, like construction
of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, in a legislature united under the GOP banner.
Noting that the United States is already
on a path to cutting
emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels
by 2020, the plan argues that additional action «represents a substantial acceleration
of the current pace
of greenhouse gas reductions.»
So companies in the developed world have an annual limit
on the level
of greenhouse gas emissions they can produce, and if they exceed their cap, they can purchase credits generated
by the
emission reduction projects or low - carbon technologies in developing countries.
The electric vehicles» benefits
of reduced
greenhouse gas emissions are countered
by the expense and pollution from producing the vehicles, leading to debate
on whether they are the best replacement for conventional vehicles.
A push for oil sands oversight and new climate targets Harper has been a target
of environmentalists for most
of his tenure — they say he turned Canada into an international pariah
by not regulating
greenhouse gases from oil and
gas, cutting clean energy and climate science programs, withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, «muzzling» scientists, pressing aggressively
on Keystone XL and fossil fuels, and allowing the country's
emissions trajectory to spiral away from targets under the Copenhagen Accord.
The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use
of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought
on by fossil fuels and
greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility
of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.
About 80 percent
of the 23 climate models used
by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change predict some degree
of drought in the Amazon if
greenhouse gas emissions keep climbing, he said.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department
of Transportation (DoT) released rules that set limits
on the amount
of greenhouse gas emissions allowed and accelerate an increase in overall fuel efficiency to 14.5 kilometers per liter (34.1 miles per gallon)
by 2016.
As some
of the incentives for fracking come from the lower carbon
emissions produced
by gas - fired power stations, a key question is whether the extraction
of shale
gas has an additional impact
on greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions.
Lawyer Philip Cooney, a CEQ chief
of staff and a 15 - year veteran
of the American Petroleum Institute, spent the first term
of the administration editing science reports from various agencies
on climate change to downplay the role
of greenhouse gas emissions — emphasizing elements
of uncertainty from a 2001 National Research Council report
on climate change, according to an investigation
by the U.S. House
of Representatives Committee
on Oversight and Government Reform.
The report notes that three business sectors — energy firms, utilities and materials companies — account for 87 percent
of scope 1 and 2
emissions,
greenhouse gases that are directly emitted
by a firm's activities, even though they account for less than 25 percent
of all companies
on the index.
New York City's
greenhouse gas emissions have dropped
by 19 percent since 2005, outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg said
on Monday, putting the city nearly two - thirds
of the way to meeting the goal that Bloomberg set five years ago.
Cutting the European Union's
greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels
by 2030 would reduce economic growth
by a fraction
of a percent, Britain's minister for energy and climate change said
on Thursday.
And it is also clear — even to the negotiators who also agreed to be «informed»
by the science expected from the International Government Panel
on Climate Change's next assessment report in 2013 — that neither the «Durban Platform for Enhanced Action» nor the extended Kyoto Protocol are equal to the task
of restraining ever - rising
greenhouse gas emissions.
Although there was disagreement
on exactly what should be done, there appeared to be a consensus that action should be taken to avert a 2 - degree Celsius (3.6 - degree Fahrenheit) rise in average global temperatures and to cut
emissions of greenhouse gases in half
by 2050.
Holt said that climate change was selected as the inaugural training topic, under the Leshner Leadership Institute, because «the problem is both pressing and timely» - coinciding this year with the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary
of the first climate - change statement
by the President's Council
of Advisors
on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut
greenhouse gas emissions.
On Tuesday, the governments
of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut
greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels
by 2020 using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other
greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.
«Based
on the results
of our study, we recommend that states adopt a policy
of mandatory
greenhouse gas emissions registry and reporting
by power plants,» says Eri Saikawa, an assistant professor in Emory's Department
of Environmental Sciences.
Britain, said Hogg, would participate in the forth - coming negotiations
on new commitments and it has agreed that all developed countries should be asked to commit themselves to achieving a target for total
greenhouse gas emissions of between 5 and 10 per cent below 1990 levels
by the year 2010.
The European Union's new commissioner says the EU should stay the course
on its current pledge
of a 20 % reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
On that score, she called for developed nations to set a goal
of cutting
greenhouse gas emissions 15 % to 30 % «below business as usual»
emissions by 2030.
The biggest news coming out
of the one - day U.N. General Assembly summit
on climate change was President Hu Jintao's announcement that China will seek to cut its
greenhouse gas emissions by a «notable margin» relative to the 2005 level
by 2020.
The scientists looked at the so - called biogenic fluxes or flow
of the three
greenhouse gases on land that were caused
by human activities over the last three decades and subtracted out
emissions that existed «naturally» during pre-industrial times.
If only modest action is taken to reign in
greenhouse gas emissions, the model predicts that pikas will disappear from about 75 percent
of sites
by 2070 (51 to 88 percent, depending
on the global climate model used).
The European Union needs to cut
greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels
by 2030 to avoid the worst effects
of climate change, according to a British government paper, likely to fuel debate
on whether deeper cuts are affordable.
There is a great post at the Council
on Foreign Relations blog where
by Michael Levi boils down global climate change in to two overarching unknowns: (1) extent
of damage
by an accumulation
of greenhouse gases, and (2) an uncertainty around which policies, or set
of policies, will succeed in reducing
emissions.
As average U.S. temperatures warm between 3 °F and more than 9 °F
by the end
of the century, depending
on how
greenhouse gas emissions are curtailed or not in the coming years, the waves
of extreme heat the country is likely to experience could bend and buckle rails into what experts call «sun kinks.»
However, as the atmospheric CO2 rises — due to the almost exponential increase in
emissions from industrial sources — the influence
of solar variability
on the Earth's climate will most likely decrease, and its relative contribution will be far surpassed
by «
greenhouse»
gases.
China, the world's biggest emitter
of greenhouse gases, is betting
on carbon trading as a key measure to cut its
emissions for each unit
of economic output 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels
by 2020.
The Senate version
of legislation that would cut
greenhouse gas emissions 17 % below 2005 levels
by 2020 will be released
on Monday, said its sponsors, senators John Kerry, (D - MA), Lindsey Graham, (R - SC), and Joe Lieberman, (ID - CT).
Written
by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, the report concludes that the world is
on a path to a 4 °C warmer world
by end
of this century and that current pledges to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions will not reduce warming
by very much.
In response to a tax
on greenhouse -
gas emissions imposed
by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons
of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural
gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent
of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped
by impervious rock.
The revised coal numbers have been incorporated into the recent intended nationally determined contributions synthesis report prepared
by the secretariat
of the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change that will underpin the
greenhouse gas emissions summit starting at the end
of this month.
And to negate some
of the advantage this approach automatically gives to electric cars (whose
greenhouse emissions include those generated
by electric utilities), the award also incorporates other measures in its criteria, including a cap
on greenhouse gas emissions of no more than 200 grams per mile.