Sentences with phrase «present emissions policies»

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The final Erie County plan will summarize results of greenhouse gas emission inventories, set short - term and long - term energy goals, define new operations policies and changes to existing policies, identify implementation strategies and projects, present a detailed timeline for implementation and identify funding opportunities.

Finally, the presence of vigorous climate variability presents significant challenges to near - term climate prediction (25, 26), leaving open the possibility of steady or even declining global mean surface temperatures over the next several decades that could present a significant empirical obstacle to the implementation of policies directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions (27).

This emissions increment is a concern in the present, as current policies in the US and EU aim to reduce the carbon intensity of fuels.

This policy document presents the Carbon Partnership Facility's new strategies to develop emission reductions and support their purchase over long periods after 2012.

Present climate policies around the world, including Australia's, focus on constraining emissions only within their borders.

The document is divided into five chapters, namely: 1) Uncovering mitigation potential showcasing initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases emissions; 2) Gearing up for the storm relating to adaptation and disaster risk reduction projects; 3) Nurturing youth leaders presenting activities in education, training and capacity - building; 4) Spreading the message highlighting awareness raising campaigns and materials; and 5) Shaping up the future climate change regime presenting examples of youth participation in climate change policy - making.

This technical document presents the latest estimates of the emissions gap in 2020 and provides plentiful information, including about current (2010) and projected (2020) levels of global greenhouse gas emissions, both in the absence of additional policies and consistent with national pledge implementation; the implications of starting decided emission reductions now or in the coming decades; agricultural development policies that can help increase yields, reduce fertilizer usage and bring about other benefits, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; and, international cooperative initiatives that, while potentially overlapping with pledges, can complement them and help bridge the emissions gap.

A graph developed by Breslow and presented by Committee Co-chair Senator Mike Barrett, sponsor of S. 1821, showed that existing policies will leave Massachusetts far from achieving the internationally - recognized standard of an 80 percent emissions reduction.

But while the exact value of climate sensitivity presents a fascinating and important scientific question, it has little relevance for climate policy while greenhouse emissions stay as high as they are.

«Finally, the presence of vigorous climate variability presents significant challenges to near - term climate prediction (25, 26), leaving open the possibility of steady or even declining global mean surface temperatures over the next several decades that could present a significant empirical obstacle to the implemen - tation of policies directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions (27).

This article presents an overview of the design and performance of seven major emissions trading programs that have been implemented over the past 30 years and identifies a number of important lessons for future applications of this important environmental policy instrument.

This presents tremendous opportunities to reduce emissions through targeted changes in agricultural policy and practice, and present great opportunities for China and India to lower their emissions while still growing their economy.

The actual performance looks good plotted against the red line, but that line represents the emissions resulting from the actions of a hypothetical federal government with even more reckless policies than our present one.

The final Erie County plan will summarize results of greenhouse gas emission inventories, set short - term and long - term energy goals, define new operations policies and changes to existing policies, identify implementation strategies and projects, present a detailed timeline for implementation and identify funding opportunities.

The third volume of the report presents an analysis of costs, policies and technologies that could be used to limit and / or prevent emissions of greenhouse gases, along with a range of activities to remove these gases from the atmosphere.

If this were so, then there would be no science - based policy debate about the size of the gap between where emissions are headed at present and where they need to be in 2020 and 2030 at global, regional, and national levels.

The position presented by the Great Barrier Reef Climate Change Alliance was that a 25 per cent reduction in emissions was needed by 2020, and that a market - based emissions reduction policy should be the central approach.

McKibbin, W.J., M.T. Ross, R. Shackleton and P.J. Wilcoxen (1999), Emissions Trading, Capital Flows and the Kyoto Protocol, Presented at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III Expert Meeting on the Economic Impacts of Annex 1 Mitigation Policies on non-Annex 1 Countries, 27 - 28 May, The Hague.

Strategies to curtail noxious emissions before and during the Games presented an opportunity to study emissions reduction physics and provide policy makers a basis of information to make future public health decisions.

There, Canadian Patrick Moore, one of the founding fathers of Greenpeace, presented his view on climate change, CO2 emissions and energy policy, which — if true — would undermine the foundations of official energy and climate policies.

What I mean by this question is that climate change poses a real challenge to social change movements because it is gradual, delayed in its effects, and uneven in its impacts.The message that is coming from climate scientists at present, along with climate - hawkish public figures, is that we still have time to change — that international conferences, evolving public policies, steady but small annual emissions reductions, could still prove sufficient to keep us within the «safe zone».

Griscom, whose work was presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), found that altered land - sector policies could reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a staggering degree.

One thing I would add — it ought to be obvious (and I certainly hope it is) that a process of «winding back and decelerating the present form of capitalism», including «more social democracy, more regulation», will only be effective at mitigating the effect of global warming (partially or wholly), if it includes a large suite of policies specifically aimed at addressing global warming, that is, replacing emissions - producing activities or processes (particularly energy sources) with non emissions - producing ones.