Sentences with phrase «plan achieve its emissions reduction»

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.

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RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

Today, I am pleased to announce another important building block in our Climate Change plan — designed to help us achieve our targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to generate real emission reduction opportunities across the economy.

«Even without the clean power plan, US can achieve Paris Agreement emissions reductions: Researchers point out that there are many paths to compliance.»

The center's director, Charles Komanoff, noted the plan does not specify the rate of increase, and that the $ 5 - per - ton annual increase is actually «a little slow,» in terms of achieving rapid emissions reductions.

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.

Reductions in America's GHG emissions which might achieve a measurable slowdown in the rate of rise of the Keeling Curve are not currently a part of the President's climate action plan.

It will soon become obvious that the scare campaign run by Mr Abbott and the Opposition has no basis in reality and that our plan will achieve cost - effective reductions in carbon emissions, while making most Australian households better off.

Computer modeling of the NRDC plan, which used the same model used by the EPA, suggests that if the EPA does follow this approach, the US could see a 26 percent cut in power plant emissions — and an overall reduction in the US carbon footprint of 10 percent by 2020 — the largest share of achieving the 17 percent reduction the president has called for.

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.

Two years after the plan was released, the Office of Sustainability and the Department of Facilities now confirm that MIT is on the path to achieve the plan's call for at least a 32 percent reduction in campus emissions of greenhouse gases by the year 2030.

«The evidence of history is that the sizes of the targets are less damaging than the plans required to achieve them... These emission reduction plans will lay down blueprints for achieving sector targets and such plans create winners and losers.

The Challenge Vilvoorde asked Futureproofed to calculate its emissions and to develop a realistic roadmap to achieve the 20 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared to 2011, while meeting the requirements of the Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) of the Covenant of Mayors.

It is this spirit that has seen countries like Germany achieve a 59 % renewable energy peak last month, President Obama start to turn the tide on previous US inaction by launching a new Climate Action Plan that includes action to begin the phase down of coal power, and China's statement last week that it intends to usher in stronger emissions reductions in its next Five Year Plan, due in 2015.

It has become obvious that all the green energy plans mandated to reduce EU emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) will not achieve substantial reductions.

The Plan hopes to achieve a 5 % reduction in overall emissions from 2013/14 levels from by 2018/19, and a 20 % reduction in non-landfill emissions from 2013/14 levels from by 2018/19.

Requires the President, if the NAS report finds that emission reduction targets are not on schedule or that global actions will not maintain safe global average surface temperature and atmospheric GHG concentration thresholds, to submit a plan by July 1, 2015, to Congress identifying domestic and international actions that will achieve necessary additional GHG reductions.

-- 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 the event that the Administrator or the National Academy of Sciences has concluded, in the most recent report submitted under section 705 or 706 respectively, that the United States will not achieve the necessary domestic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, or that global actions will not maintain safe global average surface temperature and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration thresholds, the President shall, not later than July 1, 2015, and every 4 years thereafter, submit to Congress a plan identifying domestic and international actions that will achieve necessary additional greenhouse gas reductions, including any recommendations for legislative action.

On or before 1 January 2009, ARB shall prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost - effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

The IEA would like to see more than 3,000 CCS - equipped plants come online by mid-century to achieve 20 percent of planned reductions in CO2 emissions.

The new Lugar proposal would achieve roughly half the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions sought under the Kerry - Lieberman plan and a bill passed by the House a year ago.

Plans include independent evaluations of financed activities including verification of emission reductions, seek to achieve significant CO2 reductions over the shortest time frame, require proof of additionality taking into consideration existing laws like I - 937, and shall provide sufficient funding to mitigate increases in electric and natural gas costs from the carbon tax for qualifying low - income households.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced an ambitious acceleration of energy efficiency in New York, including a comprehensive plan to achieve a new target for significant greenhouse gas emission reductions, decrease consumer energy costs and create job opportunities.

«Withdrawal of the Clean Power Plan, adoption of an alternative domestic strategy or failure to achieve the US emissions reduction target would not violate the agreement,» wrote Susan Biniaz, a former State Department adviser, and Daniel Bodansky, a law professor at Arizona State University, in a recent analysis of legal issues related to the Paris Agreement.

Achieving emissions reductions for environmental justice communities through climate change mitigation policy by Nicky Sheats, PhD This paper focuses on emissions reductions for EJ communities under the Clean Power Plan in particular as well as climate change mitigation policy in general and argues that these reductions should be both mandatory and planned.

France was praised for being one of the first nations with a long - term emission reduction target (75 % by 2050), but criticized for lacking an implementation plan to achieve this.

Dallas Burtraw and Nathan Richardson already have produced a number of useful insights — for instance, showing how the plan might cost - effectively achieve emissions reductions within striking distance of the US Copenhagen pledge.

to achieve the dramatic reduction in global fossil fuel consumption and GHG emissions of the built environment by changing the way cities, communities, infrastructure, and buildings, are operated, planned, designed, and constructed and;