Sentences with phrase «percent reduction below»

The state aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 3/4 a reduction of approximately 30 percent 3/4 and then an 80 percent reduction below 1990 levels by 2050.

Energy use: An immediate 70 percent reduction below the national median, with incremental targets, reaching carbon neutral by 2030

The EU has committed to a 40 percent reduction below 1990 levels by 2030 and has already gotten halfway there.

A political agreement between the government and the opposition required a 4 - percent reduction below 1990 levels by 2012.

Before Copenhagen, the US House of Representatives had passed a bill requiring a 17 percent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020 and this was a practical limitation on what the United States could commit to in international negotiations.

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.

Following a $ 2 billion increase for NIH in the 2017 omnibus, the FY 2018 request would allocate only $ 26.9 billion for the agency, representing a 21.5 percent reduction below omnibus levels.

All developed countries and some non-Annex 1 countries have submitted INDCs that have made commitments on the basis of percent reductions below a baseline year such as 1990 or 2005 by a specific date such as 2030, 2050, etc..

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But with further reductions in inflation below 2 percent, nominal rigidity begins to bite so that the marginal payoff declines and then turns negative.

Furthermore, retaining bonus and accelerated depreciation would make it nearly impossible to reduce the corporate tax rate below 30 percent on a revenue - neutral basis without going beyond corporate tax expenditure reductions.

Central to the Green Shift is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, 40 percent by 2035, and 60 to 80 percent by 2050.

The reduction brings the total waxed corrugated volume to just below 3 percent of total corrugated volume produced in 2013 compared to 5 percent of total volume in 2002.

California dairy farmers — from the nation's leading agricultural state — are facing pressure to lower methane emissions under the state's ambitious new greenhouse gas reduction laws, which include methane emission reduction targets of 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030.

The reduction in pension funding comes at a time when the actuarial funded ratio for the pension fund is expected to fall below 80 percent in this fiscal year, Msall said.

Studies show that household income for women and children is more likely to drop below the poverty level immediately following a divorce, 13 declining by as much as 50 percent and causing substantial reductions in earnings capability and long - term wealth.14 Compared with children in intact families, children of divorced parents:

The multi-year tables in New York State's just - released Enacted Budget Financial Plan for fiscal 2015 make continued use of Governor Andrew Cuomo's new fiscal conjuring device: a lump - sum, below - the - line reduction in future projected spending, based on the assumption that the governor will «propose, and negotiate with the Legislature to enact budgets that hold State Operating Funds spending growth to 2 percent.»

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.

The homes will incorporate water - use reduction, insulation, and other green building features, and will be affordable to families at or below 90 percent of area median income.

He said he'd «likely» recommend a reduction in the assumed rate of return on pension - fund investments below the current 8 percent a year.

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.

Achieving the 2025 target will require a further emission reduction of 9 - 11 % beyond our 2020 target compared to the 2005 baseline and a substantial acceleration of the 2005 - 2020 annual pace of reduction, to 2.3 - 2.8 percent per year, or an approximate doubling;» Substantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarbonization.

Reductions in New York's estate tax which applies to only the three percent largest estates by increasing the threshold, below which there is no tax, from $ 1 million to $ 5.25 million, and reducing the tax rate for estates above $ 5.25 million from 16 % to 10 %.

There is no reason to hold annual spending growth below two percent if it means that we are under - investing in education and poverty reduction.

The release touted their efforts to advance energy efficiency and renewable energy programs alongside their aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in North America to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, and 80 percent by 2050.

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.

The Army would also see a 27.1 percent reduction to applied research below omnibus levels.

It was also 12 percent below 2005 levels after accounting for reductions from carbon sinks.

Worldwide, carbon storage has the capability to provide more than 15 percent of the emissions reductions needed to limit the rise in atmospheric CO2 to 450 parts per million by 2050, an oft - cited target associated with a roughly 50 - percent chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees, but that would involve 3,200 projects sequestering some 150 gigatons of CO2, says Juho Lipponen, who heads the CCS unit of the International Energy Agency in Paris.

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.»

This would have been good for an 8.6 percent cumulative reduction below sequestration levels, more than recommended by the House Budget Committee (see Figure 1).

But the authors also argued that it's technically feasible for countries to deliver almost 60 percent of the reductions needed to keep below a 2 - degree - Celsius global temperature rise above preindustrial levels.

However, the reductions required are country specific and small — less than 10 percent below a nation's 1990 emissions.

But that's far below the rate needed to meet its 58 percent reduction goal by 2030 or its carbon - neutral goal by 2050.

Not surprisingly, O'Gorman found that under relatively high warming scenarios, low - elevation regions with winter temperatures initially just below freezing experienced about a 65 percent reduction in average winter snowfall.

Within the Department of Commerce, NIST's core research laboratories would be subject to a $ 30 million or 4.3 percent cut below FY 2017, much less severe than the 13 percent reduction called for by the Trump Administration.

Simply by shifting existing debt around to reduce the utilization percentage on individual cards you can expect to increase the score by a few points or more — particularly when bringing all cards to below 50 percent — yet it's going to take an actual reduction in your overall debt to drop that combined utilization to where your score rises significantly.

By the year 2012, we will seek a return to 2005 levels of emission, by 2020, a return to 1990 levels, and so on until we have achieved at least a reduction of sixty percent below 1990 levels by the year 2050.

By the year 2012, we will seek a return to 2005 levels of emissions, by 2020, a return to 1990 levels, and so on until we have achieved at least a reduction of sixty percent below 1990 levels by the year 2050.

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,

The White House also announced that, in the context of an overall deal in Copenhagen that includes robust mitigation contributions from China and the other emerging economies, the president is prepared to put on the table a U.S. emissions reduction target in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels in 2020 and ultimately in line with final U.S. energy and climate legislation.

«The U.S. talks about ambitious targets and we would have liked to see a reduction of at least 45 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 --- we think it is possible,» said Amjad Abdulla, the lead negotiator from the island nation Maldives.

The US will cut its emissions 26 — 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, doubling its current pace of reduction.

Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions: Established ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets to reduce emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80 percent by 2050.

And, according to the report, California is already on the way to the massive emissions reductions: «California can achieve emissions roughly 60 percent below 1990 levels with technology we largely know about today if such technology is rapidly deployed at rates that are aggressive but feasible.»

Under Section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act, the EPA standards for greenhouse gas emissions from existing sources set reduction targets at 25 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 30 percent by 2030.

Massachusetts is not on track to meet its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction goal of 25 percent below 1990 levels — a fact the plaintiffs say is «directly related to DEP's failure to issue the required regulations.»

Brazil has put up actual emissions reductions of 36 to 39 percent below 1994 levels by 2020, if it gets financial help.

If global greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2010 the annual emissions reduction rate necessary to stabilize atmospheric carbon at 450 ppm, the Stern Review suggests, would be 7 percent, with emissions dropping by about 70 percent below 2005 levels by 2050.

It's true: Reductions of U.S. CO2 emissions from electricity generation are well on their way to surpassing EPA's estimate that CPP would lower CO2 emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

Reports submitted at the end of November 2012 bring the second - year total to an overall 23 percent emission reduction below the base - year emissions.