Sentences with phrase «progress on emissions»

They also indicate the importance of the US helping China develop mechanisms to measure and monitor the performance of energy policies, help that China could use if it is to make serious progress on emissions.

«It's a backup option, not ideal, but it's a way to make progress on emissions reductions.»

It discusses the lack of progress on emissions cuts — and the disconnect between what governments say they'll do and what they seem capable of delivering.

Progress on emissions — however slight — shows world leaders that «this is a doable thing that the world can work on together,» says Jennifer Morgan, global director of the climate program at the World Resources Institute, a climate research organization based in Washington.

Looking at just emissions from the electric power sector, emissions in Minnesota dropped by slightly more than the U.S.. However, since 2009, the state has made little to no progress on emissions even as electricity generation by wind increased by 92 percent.

This is significant progress on another emissions / climate front, done without sacrificing energy and economic growth.

I guess those Koch - funded deniers blocking progress on emissions are super-influential in Europe.

Unfortunately, this is an example of out - of - the - mainstream activism at work, threatening to roll back important American progress on emissions that has occurred during a period of economic growth and rising domestic energy output.

Other climate and energy campaigners see far too weak a plan, with Charles Komanoff of the Carbon Tax Center making this trenchant observation about how recent progress on emissions (through the surprise shift from coal to gas and rise in energy efficiency) compares to the planned cuts:

If oil prices remain high and governments make progress on their emissions goals, there's a possibility that the world has already hit peak oil, and that the next few years will see its use plateau for a while before dropping again.

Progress on emission factors will hinge on «available resources,» the EPA spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail, declining to specify a deadline for the project.

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In addition, countries will have to track their efforts in cutting carbon emissions and report on their progress every five years.

LONDON, April 13 - The United Nations shipping agency reached an agreement on Friday to cut carbon emissions, following years of slow progress.

LONDON, April 13 - The United Nations shipping agency reached an agreement on Friday to cut carbon emissions, delegates said, following years of slow progress.

The agreement aims to hold global warming to «well below» two degrees Celsius from the levels of the Industrial Revolution, and puts in place a system for tracking efforts to cut carbon emissions and report on progress every five years.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats want the bill to include annual targets for cutting carbon emissions, an annual report to parliament on the progress being made on these targets, and the creation of independent body to assess the science.

The Sustainable Development Commission's annual assessment of the government's progress notes emissions are down four per cent on 1999/2000 levels.

«As part of the shift to 50 percent renewables and emissions reductions, New York must use all of its existing carbon free power sources, including our upstate nuclear fleet, to continue our progress on climate change,» Kauffman wrote.

But it is the energy bill in the Queen's Speech that will determine whether Britain makes anything like the progress needed on tackling carbon emissions back home.

That is exactly the opposite of what it will take to make serious progress on slowing greenhouse gas emissions.

Technological and policy progress are being made on a number of possible solutions to rein emissions in and keep climate stable.

That's because it's a lot easier to make big progress on greenhouse gas emissions if you're dealing with only a few countries versus trying to carve out an agreement that every nation in the world has to sign.

But as the 2020s progressed, meat became increasingly unaffordable as demand outstripped supply and taxes on greenhouse gas emissions...

The slow progress so far on cutting emissions is making dangerous climate change almost certain, say researchers.

Industrialized countries like the United States will report on the progress of their emission reduction commitments, while developing countries will report on their mitigation actions — a slight distinction, but an important one.

Senior Fellow Kyle Aarons said at least 10 percent could come from state progress on cutting carbon emissions from the power sector, assuming the draft rule moves ahead as proposed.

Developing nations are also making progress on curbing deforestation, which accounts for perhaps one seventh of all greenhouse gas emissions.

Anthropogenic ocean acidification is currently in progress and is measurable The legacy of historical fossil fuel emissions on ocean acidification will be felt for centuries.

Climate experts and advocates are concerned that President - Elect Trump will derail progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as he pledged during his campaign to pull the U.S. out of the Paris pact and to dismantle the Clean Power Plan, which is aimed at reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions.

Future emissions estimated based on OECD projections for economic growth and steady progress towards the upper (65 %) or lower (60 %) end of China's carbon intensity target for 2030.

We describe current activities and progress that are focused on making high quality all - sky survey images of the diffuse far - infrared emission.

This isn't news to top climate scientists around the world (see Hadley Center: «Catastrophic» 5 — 7 °C warming by 2100 on current emissions path) or even to top climate scientists in this country (see US Geological Survey stunner: Sea - level rise in 2100 will likely «substantially exceed» IPCC projections, SW faces «permanent drying») and certainly not to people who follow the scientific literature, like Climate Progress readers (see Study: Water - vapor feedback is «strong and positive,» so we face «warming of several degrees Celsius»).

Through the Paris climate agreement and discussions with other countries, the United States is working with other major economies to encourage progress on fuel economy standards, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that will improve global energy and climate security by reducing our reliance on oil.

While work on a zero - emission edition of the 2 - series Active Tourer is making good progress, packaging issues virtually rule out a successor to the Mini E. Instead, BMW intends to offer a plug - in hybrid, starting in 2017.

For example, who has worked to stop sensible progress restraining carbon emissions and oil demand, muzzled an open scientific debate on on these issues, kept secret the participants in high level meetings to develop energy policy, vetoed one measure after another that would have advanced his country ever so little in a direction towards climate restraint.

And there are fresh recommendations from the Council on Foreign Relations on the need for meaningful domestic emissions curbs in the United States and continued efforts to make progress both among the established powers and those emerging as this century's giants.

None of these moves should be taken as a signal that vigilance over corporate environmental abuses is no longer relevant, nor that corporate power can inevitably prevent backsliding on climate progress, but they are one more sign among many that the ultimate momentum is on the side of continued, prolonged and far - reaching action to cut emissions.

In other words, those who have stood in the way of any progress on restraining emissions — the Administration and the deniers like CEI — may well cost us more through their delays than solving the problems in a slow, steady and reasoned way.

Putting the brakes on CO2 emissions has to mean replacing coal as a power source, unless emissions from coal can be sequestered safely and efficiently, which seems unlikely just now, given that research has not yielded any progress.

This shift away from CO2 - centric emissions debates is also evident in a group blog post by analysts at the Center for American Progress, who propose a «multiple multilateralism» approach on climate that, among other things, seeks quick steps on sources of warming other than carbon dioxide — particularly sooty Arctic pollution and gases already considered under the existing ozone - protection treaty.

I often try to step back and take the point of view of the atmosphere in considering claims of progress on curbing emissions of carbon dioxide from human activities.

Which then leads to a very different characterization of the problem in which carbon emissions are really just a by - product of a cheap energy consumerist society, and the problem isn't to reduce emissions, it is to restructure our entire societies (and our conceptions of them) so that we no longer depend on growth in resource consumption as our definition of human progress.

We do not have to run everything on solar cells and windmills tomorrow to make fast progress in reducing energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions.

In the meantime, the United States and China, with the world's biggest economies and greenhouse - gas emissions, rejected the pact's mandatory restrictions on the gases and were often portrayed by environmental campaigners as stifling progress.

Building on strong progress during the first six years of the Administration, today President Obama announced a new target to cut net greenhouse gas emissions 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

He then described Mr. Bush's chosen way of measuring progress — by tracking the amount of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product (tons per dollar)-- and said the country was on track to reach Mr. Bush's goal, set in 2002, of an 18 percent drop in greenhouse «intensity» by 2012.

«That attempts by governments to inflict taxes and costly regulations on industry and individual citizens with the aim of reducing emissions of CO2 will pointlessly curtail the prosperity of the West and progress of developing nations without affecting climate.»

The «climate pragmatists,» such as Victor, Stern, and myself, argue that the point of Australian climate policy is not to solve the global climate problem, or to solve the problem of emissions from international trade, but rather to achieve politically feasible forward progress on domestic climate policy that can help set the foundation for future global policy (which as you and Victor have pointed out is the only way to deal with leakage, including coal exports).

Building weather - dependent renewables is delaying progress on reducing emissions and on improving economic growth rates.

I'm thrilled New York will support public projects like LED conversions to reduce costs, cut emissions, and continue our progress on climate change under Reforming the Energy Vision.»