Sentences with phrase «own emission reduction goals»

Under the agreement each country has submitted a national strategy to meet its own emission reduction goals.

Achieved and made significant progress in natural resource reduction targets including meeting its normalized greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goal and nearly meeting its energy use reduction target four years ahead of its 2020 deadline.

Peduto quickly promised to issue an executive order pledging the city would follow through on emission reduction goals.

The carbon emission reductions goal of the draft Energy Plan — an 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions below 1990 levels by 2050 — is too little too late.

And while state officials are confident they'll hit federal emissions reduction goals far ahead of schedule, it will be harder to do so without the state's nuclear power plants.

Prior to 2007 scientists weren't sure what emissions reduction goal to shoot for, but new evidence led researchers to reach consensus on 350 ppm if we wished to have a planet, in the words of NASA climatologist James Hansen, «similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.»

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.

A Brookings Institution expert wrote that setting aside some of the carbon tax revenue — $ 30 billon is the suggested starting point — to be used for clean energy research and development might help the plan achieve its emissions reduction goals.

California is now poised to develop a solution that benefits forest communities and helps the state's businesses meet emissions reductions goals cost - effectively,» said Environmental Defense Fund Tropical Forest Program Director Steve Schwartzman.

Those proposals, announced over the past year, aim to reduce climate change - driving carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel - fired power plants and set power plant CO2 emissions reductions goals for each state.

... There is a clear need to reach consensus on how to carry out LCAs on biofuels, driven by national and international legislation which include GHG emission reduction goals.

So by all means, let's make ambitious long - term emissions reduction goals.

The present political approach is to set carbon emission reduction goals for 2025 or 2050.

The vision is also flawed in other ways: it has no short - term emission reduction goal, it's unenforceable, and it fails to acknowledge that developed nations will need to make deeper and swifter emission cuts than developing nations.

Tesco has also become one of 44 international companies to have had its emissions reduction goals approved by the Science - Based Targets (SBT) initiative.

A more forgiving temperature target, like those implied by the EU's 20 % and even its 30 % aggregate emissions reduction goal, would not yield such daunting numbers.

This suggests that, regardless of how they are achieved, emissions reduction goals may provide a useful proxy for quantifying the impact of climate mitigation efforts on future fossil fuel demand.

To get to the more manageable «lower emissions» scenario, the nation and the world must far exceed the emissions reduction goals agreed to in Paris in December 2015.

Others argue that setting an agreement on a long - term target before setting short - term emission reduction goals could stand in the way of making progress.

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

Terrapass can help you with the emission reduction goals that are part of your corporate sustainability plan.

Over time, these targets can be scaled up to sector - level emissions reduction goals and, ultimately, economy - wide GHG targets.

Stakeholder engagement is an important part of meeting your emission reduction goals.

EnergyVision 2030 recommends a path to meet emissions reduction goals by using market - ready technologies to build a cleaner, more modern energy system.

Kerry announced on Saturday in Beijing that China and the United States had agreed to share information on their efforts to combat climate change ahead of 2015 UN-led efforts to set emission reduction goals for after 2020.

It gave birth to the Kyoto Protocol which set greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.

But the shareholder resolution asking the company to set greenhouse gas and emissions reductions goals was defeated: even though it got a respectable share of the vote — 26.8 % of voting shares supported the resolution — 73.2 % voted against.

The International Road transport Union (IRU), representing the commercial road users of the world, e.g. trucking companies, published a report called «the Commercial Vehicle of the Future» which listed road electrification as the most significant lever to reach the 2050 emission reduction goals and stated that 40 - 45 % of long haul road freight needed to run on renewable electricity by that year.

These flexibility needs are rapidly expanding as a result of numerous industry trends: (a) recognition by policymakers that renewable energy resources are needed to meet long - term emissions reductions goals; (b) customers» increasing desire to voluntarily procure renewable energy or generate electricity on - site; and (c) substantial technological improvements that have driven down the cost of renewable resources to the point where, even before accounting for tax incentives, they are the lowest - cost option for new generating plants in some regions of the country.

As governments consider new emissions pledges, companies are taking the initiative to align their own emission reduction goals with climate models of the 2 °C pathway.

The report, Assessing the Impact of Potential New Carbon Regulations in the United States, estimates the economic impacts associated with an EPA regulatory regime imposed under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and based on the Obama Administration's emissions reduction goals.

Working together, we can reach our greenhouse gas emission reduction goals by 2025.

At Chevron, a similar resolution sought to make the oil company's current carbon emissions reduction goals more challenging by syncing the targets with the global emissions limits needed to prevent runaway global warming.

-- The Secretary of Transportation shall establish appropriate requirements, including performance measures, to ensure that transportation plans developed under sections 134 and 135 of title 23 of the United States Code sufficiently meet the requirements of this section, including achieving progress towards national transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.

In other words, not only does Germany already have a far more aggressive emissions reduction goal than most other developed nations, but it's also part of the EU, which has implemented a serious system to cap carbon emissions.

«(1) whether the programs under Safe Climate Act and other Federal statutes are resulting in sufficient United States greenhouse gas emissions reductions to meet the emissions reduction goals described in section 702, taking into account the use of offsets; and

«(A) the quantity of additional reductions required to meet the emissions reduction goals described in section 702; and

«(A) the quantity of additional reductions required to meet the emissions reduction goals in section 702;

-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall promulgate, and update from time to time, regulations to establish national transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, standardized models and methodologies for use in developing surface transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets pursuant to sections 134 and 135 of title 23 of the United States Code and methods for collection of data on transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions.

«Key to achieving our greenhouse - gas emission reduction goals in Canada and the U.S. is cleaning our shared electricity grid and using that non-emitting electricity to power other sectors.

Regardless of the dubious science and documented injustices of offset schemes, Governor Brown, the oil and gas industry, and their allies among a few of the big green groups have continued to aggressively promote the use of offsets as a primary means to achieving California's emission reductions goals.

without any mention of the global irrelevance and meaningless of the outcome of achieving these state emission reduction goals.

In September, the U.K. government should publish its long - awaited Clean Growth Plan detailing how it plans to meet emissions reduction goals through to the early 2030s.

To meet our ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals, City departments track their GHG emissions and participate in an annual climate action program.

California's politically driven climate alarmist emissions reduction goals are meaningless and completely unnecessary and threaten to produce massive damage to the states economy and to the lives and freedoms of all of its 37 million citizens.

The White House says that submitting the US's 26 to 28 percent emissions reduction goal early will spark global cooperation in December climate negotiations in Paris.

Establish an emissions reduction goal.

«Similarly,» Wagner writes, «we can achieve US emissions reduction goals for 2020 and possibly even 2030 through deployment of existing technologies.»

This information will be used to inform the development of policies and regulations to encourage CHP and support the state's GHG emissions reduction goals.

with its highly optimistic assumptions about the future availability of renewables, nuclear, and CCS, the mid-century carbon emission reduction goal could only be achieved if the annual growth in GDP per capita between now and 2050 were to slow to a rate of 1 % per year.