Sentences with phrase «particular emissions reduction target»
As is customary for the NRC, the report doesn't recommend particular emissions reduction targets, «noting that choosing among different targets is a policy choice rather than strictly a scientific one because of questions of values regarding how much risk or damage to people or to nature might be considered too much.»
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By framing the issue in terms of a carbon budget based around cumulative emissions, the IPCC's most recent report showed that it doesn't necessarily matter what short - term emissions reduction targets are adopted, or which country cuts emissions by a particular amount relative to another nation's pledges.
In the end, the strong views of some countries, in particular the reluctance of the US and India to have mandatory emissions reductions targets, coupled with issues surrounding funding and technology flows to developing countries delayed the outcome.
Of particular interest to the ambition question is the gap in 2020 between emission levels consistent with the 2 °C climate target and emissions levels projected if country reduction pledges are fulfilled.
In particular, we are fighting a new U.S. - backed attempt to replace the existing binding targets for emissions reductions with a weak, ineffective system of pledges.