Sentences with phrase «real carbon targets»

They are serious about renewable energy and real carbon targets and the green economy.

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«A John Horgan New Democrat government will put forward a climate action plan before the next election that will have real targets to cut carbon pollution, with a commitment to meet them, and will have a plan to create many new clean technology and renewable energy jobs while protecting our existing industries from unfair competition.

There is a real need to take action now in developing and adopting the new technologies to move to a more carbon - efficient or carbon - neutral future as we only have a limited window before reaching these warming targets.»

And they urge the government «to show real leadership and revise the carbon target in line with the Paris Agreement (and on the basis of equity and the precautionary principle) as a matter of urgent and immediate priority.»

It accepts that global warming is real and poses a threat to the Australian environment, but does not support mandatory targets for reducing carbon emissions.

Cities are at the frontline of the energy transition While countries and regions are setting grand targets to curb carbon emissions, the real action will be taken in the world's booming urban centres 7 September 2016

China and India are building new coal - fueled power plants every week, and neither they nor any of the real «developing countries» are required to commit to «binding targets» for lower carbon dioxide emissions.

«Without addressing land use change, the European Union's target for renewable energy in transport may fail to deliver genuine carbon savings in the real world.

There is some real interest in this approach, mainly from academics, and there is also what I would characterize as «strategic interest,» principally from those who recognize that once the focus is on carbon taxes rather than other instruments, political debates will inevitably result in less ambitious targets or, in fact, no policy at all.

With growing concerns about the greenhouse gas balance of many types of biomass and bioenergy — as well as effects on biodiversity, land use, and competition with food production — the EU needs to get policies right by capping the contribution of bioenergy to renewables targets at sustainable levels, and promoting only bioenergy that is both sustainable and delivers real carbon benefits.

We hope that the upcoming United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen will follow this example and focus as much on bottom - up technological strategies for achieving real reductions in emissions as it will on top - down targets for carbon caps.

Although the regulations would target carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power, the real risk in Wyoming was to coal mining.

A few noted skepticism of climate science, saying carbon dioxide is «part of the cycle of life,» but for many opponents of the Clean Power Plan, the argument wasn't whether climate change was real but whether the plan's target on reducing emissions from coal power would effectively slow global warming.

19 - nation pledge would reduce coal use by 3 percent; COP23 failed to see developed nations ramp up carbon targets, or offer real pathway for financing climate aid to developing nations.