Sentences with phrase «pledges for curbing emissions»

Over the past year, for instance, China and Brazil have put out their own pledges for curbing emissions.

Not exact matches

For example, President Obama pledged to curb U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 26 % to 28 % by 2025.

For now, though, the question at hand is whether the emissions - curbing pledges that the United States, China, India, Brazil and dozens of other countries made at the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit are robust enough.

Many Warsaw delegates say the 2015 accord looks likely to be a patchwork of national pledges for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, anchored in domestic legislation, after Copenhagen failed to agree a sweeping treaty built on international law.

For the first time, every country in the world has pledged to curb emissions, strengthen resilience and join in common cause to take common climate action.

The lack of a shared long - term goal for cutting emissions represents a mixed result for President Bush, who had pledged last year to bring together most of the world's biggest economic powers — later called «major economies» by the White House — and produce a shared long - term goal for curbing greenhouse - gas emissions by the end of 2008.

This month China suspended price adjustments for fuel as a way to curb automobile exhaust and it has pledged to peak carbon emissions around 2030, by which time it aims to derive 20 percent of the energy it uses from clean sources.

A dispute over whether China would ever be prepared to accept effective monitoring of its pledges to cut emissions overshadowed a United Nations climate conference last December in Copenhagen at which nations failed to agree on a timetable for a global treaty to curb emissions.

By the mid-2000s, General Electric, Walmart and other companies were pledging to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, according to Spencer Weart, author of «The Discovery of Global Warming» and former director of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics.