Sentences with phrase «percent emissions reduction goal»

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.

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In World Bank fashion, he set out targets for 2020, 2030 and 2040, with an ultimate goal of an 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

The mandate would be another step toward the governor's goal of a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions from plants supplying the state's electricity.

The executive order signed by Cuomo on Thursday affirms New York state's climate and clean energy goals, including a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2030 and an 80 percent reduction in emissions by 2050.

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.

The draft Energy Plan affirms Governor Paterson's 2009 Executive Order 24 committing New York to the consensus goal of the International Panel on Climate Change at that time of an 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 below 1990 levels.

Island nations threatened by sea level rise, such as the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific, have for years urged the IMO to push for a 100 percent emissions reduction by 2050 as the only strategy consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels.

Researchers at Oxford University recently proposed demolishing 80,000 inefficient homes a year — many of them century - old structures in town and city centers — to achieve the British goal of a 60 percent reduction in greenhouse - gas emissions by 2050.

To put this into perspective, that reduction is 44 percent of the goal that President Obama set for the nation, roughly equal to the total emissions of France.

The dairy industry has set a goal of 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

The administration has embraced a goal of 17 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, but it hasn't told us how that would be achieved.

According to an analysis done by the council that accompanied the new plan, the carbon tax - and - dividend system would «allow the United States to meet the upper end of its 2025 Paris commitment,» meaning it would achieve the goal of a 28 percent emissions reduction that the U.S. promised under the major international Paris climate agreement.

The goal of a 50 - percent cut by 2050 leaves out the baseline, meaning it's presumably a reduction from today's emission levels.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

In light of the president's goal to reduce emissions 83 percent by 2050, the expected pathway set forth in this pending legislation would entail a 30 percent reduction below 2005 levels in 2025 and a 42 percent reduction below 2005 in 2030.

But the president's move to expand such controls to existing plants can, all by itself, get Obama a long way toward his goal of a 17 percent reduction in US greenhouse gas emissions — from 2005 levels — by 2020.

No single technology can achieve a 60 to 80 percent reduction in heat - trapping emissions but many options exist today that, taken together, can achieve this goal.

The European Union believes that an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, the goal of its Roadmap 2050 plan, is the winning strategy for long - term prosperity.

Maryland's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act of 2009 requires the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020 and directs the Maryland Department of the Environment to develop a plan to accomplish that goal.

Even at the upper end of this target range, the goal implies a 3 percent reduction of carbon emissions per year from 2006 to 2020.

The plan's immediate goal is to achieve 35 percent carbon emissions reductions citywide by 2025, establishing a pathway for New York City to reach 80 percent reductions by 2050.

Finally, two weeks ago the EPA issued its draft guidelines on existing fossil fuel power plants, setting a nationwide goal of a 30 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from those plants by 2030, compared to 2005 levels (which were higher than today's).

There are caveats to that, however: Though a 2050 greenhouse gas reduction goal has been adopted in California, the Obama administration's current goal for the U.S. is to cut emissions by up to 28 percent below 2005 levels within 10 years.

Palo Alto, Calif., February 15, 2017 — After setting and meeting two successive Scope 1 and Scope 2 absolute reduction goals for greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) 1, HP Inc. announces a new target to reduce the GHG emissions from its global operations by 25 percent by 2025, compared to 2015.

These projects are expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4.3 million metric tons - equivalent to taking 49,000 cars off the road for the next 19 years - and help the state achieve its goal of a 40 percent emissions reduction by 2030.

Cuts to meet his 28 percent reduction goal will come largely through the president's power to regulate emissions from power plants, cars and trucks, and sources like methane leaks.

New WRI research shows India can achieve its emissions - reduction goal through existing policies while maintaining an annual GDP growth rate of 6 - 7 percent.

These goals include, among others, meeting the 50 percent RPS and meeting ARB - established utility - specific GHG emission reduction targets by 2030.

For the 50 percent reduction goal, for example, up to two - fifths of the reductions could come from projects to reduce emissions beyond Swiss borders.

The Clean Air Act lacks any other mechanism for economy - wide CO2 regulation, and the Administration will say it is legally and politically justified by both the inability of existing policy to meet either the specific U.S. commitment at Paris, an 80 percent emissions reduction, or the longer - term, 2 - degree goal to which the world is collectively committed.

These goals include the conversion of at least 35 percent of Wells Fargo's buildings to LEED certification; a 35 percent reduction in absolute greenhouse gas emissions; managing a $ 100 million environmental philanthropy program; and making $ 30 billion in investments to environmentally beneficial businesses.

The Commission had already been considering a 40 percent emissions reduction target and a 30 percent renewables goal, according to news reports late last year.

Postponing action from 2010 to 2020 would require doubling the emission reduction rate to meet the mid-century goal of an 80 percent reduction, a challenge that could prove technologically and economically infeasible.

Meeting the new energy efficiency target will deliver nearly one third of the greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed to meet New York's climate goal of 40 percent reduction by 2030.

After 80 percent of the Kyoto's Joint Implementation projects failed to curb emissions to any grand effect, COP21 adjourned back in December amid serious doubts that the approach of «enthusiastic literary revisions now and technical reparations sometime before 2020» would prevent further shortfall in emissions - reduction goals.

Obama promised that the 17 percent emissions reduction by 2020 would be achieved, but has yet to announce any new goals for the U.S..

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, officially described as the «first market - based regulatory program in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions» with the goal of a 10 - percent reduction from the power sector by 2018,

If, however, federal agencies fail to capitalize on available reduction opportunities and states fall short on their announced plans to reduce emissions, middleof - the - road or lackluster reductions will result, falling far short of the 17 percent reduction by 2020 goal.

While a shift in electric generation to natural gas from coal has played a significant role in recent reductions in U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, more will need to be done for the U.S. to meet its goal of reducing GHG emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

It included a strong editorial, Going Green, stating that in order to reach the «necessarily ambitious goal: 80 percent emission reduction in carbon emissions from their 1990 levels by 2050: