Sentences with phrase «overall emissions goal»

Responding to a question from Turkey, however, Russia says enhancing its overall emissions goal for 2020 is «at the present moment... not under consideration».

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So far, several Canadian provinces and territories have decided how they are going to achieve their share of Canada's overall carbon emissions reduction goal.

In Stefan's words: «Once an overall long - term goal has been defined, it is a matter of science to determine what emissions trajectories are compatible...» By separating the decision on «long - term» goal from the «matter of science» to turn the crank and determine trajectories misunderstands how real goals function in nearly every area of complex and expensive policy coordination.

It does not expressly endorse a «cap and trade» approach as opposed to a carbon tax but does recommend creating an overall «budget» for greenhouse gas emissions over a stretch of decades that can lead to a clear, directly measurable goal.

U.S. officials at U.N. climate negotiations here said Tuesday that they would not embrace any overall binding goals for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions before President Bush leaves office, essentially putting off specific U.S. commitments until a new administration assumes power in 2009, according to several participants.

The overall goals are to stimulate the economy, replace gas - guzzlers and reduce emissions by way of a governmental / market partnership.

The article points out that according to research conducted by a variety of institutions, the temperature goals set forth in the Paris Agreement will be unattainable if overall emissions are not decreased.

For example, many countries have already established 2020 emissions reduction goals without accounting for the overall carbon budget.

In 2006, the European Union (EU), which consists of 27 members, committed to reducing its global warming emissions by at least 20 percent of 1990 levels by 2020, to consuming 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, and to reducing its primary energy use by 20 percent from projected levels through increased energy efficiency.1 The EU has also committed to spending $ 375 billion a year to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 compared to 1990 levels.2 The EU is meeting these goals through binding national commitments which vary depending on the unique situation of a given country but which average out to the overall targets.

Our target is to reach 10 ppm sulfur in fuels by 2025 globally, while at the same time also supporting the introduction of vehicles emissions standards, contributing to the overall goal of the CCAC.

The deal falls far short of ICAO's original goal of compensating the sector's overall emissions growth from 2020.

Includes provisions: (1) creating a combined energy efficiency and renewable electricity standard and requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet 20 % of their demand through renewable electricity and electricity savings by 2020; (2) setting a goal of, and requiring a strategic plan for, improving overall U.S. energy productivity by at least 2.5 % per year by 2012 and maintaining that improvement rate through 2030; and (3) establishing a cap - and - trade system for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and setting goals for reducing such emissions from covered sources by 83 % of 2005 levels by 2050.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

Its overall goal is to provide estimates of GHG emissions associated with milk production and processing for main regions and farming systems of the world.

«President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, combined with the repeal of domestic actions resulting in halting the decline in U.S. emissions, will likely make it more difficult and costly overall to meet the Paris Agreement temperature goal of holding warming well below 2 °C, and limiting it to 1.5 °C,» said Bill Hare, a climate scientist and CEO of Climate Analytics, a group that analyzes climate change scenarios.

In Brussels, the European Union's Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has announced the opening of the first tranche of # 3.4 billion worth of green energy funding, to be made available with the aim of helping the bloc as a whole make use of the technology to help realise the goal of cutting overall carbon emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 when compared to 1990 levels.

The energy trends envisioned in the New Policies Scenario imply that national commitments to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions, while expected to have some impact, are collectively inadequate to meet the Copenhagen Accord's overall goal of holding the global temperature increase to below 2 °C.

At last week's Africa Carbon Forum (ACF), delegates called for stronger emphasis on results - based climate finance for both mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and they reiterated their support for market - based mechanisms like the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows emissions - reducing projects to earn certified emissions reduction (CERs) that can be traded to meet overall national reduction goals.

How much of a problem is delayed participation by developing countries in terms of raising the overall burden of global mitigation costs, and what does this imply for appropriate near - term emissions pricing goals for the United States, if eventual targets for global stabilization are still to be met?

Analysts who have studied the pledges find that they fall short of the overall goal of the agreement, but would make a substantial dent in the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating the planet.

The overall development goal of the Programme is to reduce forest emissions and enhance carbon stocks in forests while contributing to national sustainable development.

It is a simple way to monitor the overall consistency between the evolving climate change signal, individual countries» pledges and the overall goal of achieving net zero CO2 emissions by the time we reach 2 °C of human - related warming.

These shortcomings have drastically lowered the ETS's overall effectiveness, and resulted in Germany failing to meet its national goal of reducing emissions by 40 percent by 2020.

By Otto's logic, that means countries should already have cut their overall carbon emissions by 10 percent in that time, an ambition that outstrips the Clean Power Plan's goal of six percent in 15 years.

Indeed, in 2003, the only year for which data tabulations are complete, CCX blew past the initial goal, with members managing to cut overall emissions by 9 percent.

It could also result in undermining the overall goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.»

This is part of their overall goal to reduce environmental impacts upstream, such as air emissions, water use, water pollution, land use change and waste through their Environmental Profit & Loss account (EP&L).

Overall emissions are still increasing, though — and we need big cuts to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

The city's overall goal is to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions coming from homes by 94,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2012.

Their objectives are part of an overall teamwide goal of understanding the intertwined dynamics of long - and short - lived emissions, both in the environment and in the world of policymaking, led by principal investigator Jennifer Burney of University of California San Diego.

Firstly, the goal refers to emissions per passenger kilometer in new cars — that's not the same as the whole car fleet, and it's certainly not the same as the overall transportation sector.

es that ratified the 1997 Kyoto Protocol greenhouse gas limiting treaty have reduced their emissions overall since then and have achieved their goals of cutting emissions to about 8 percent below 1990 levels.

The Kyoto Protocol binds the signatory countries to combat climate change and reduce carbon emission to serve overall goal of this international agreement.