Sentences with phrase «real emission reductions»

A new level of decisive action is required now to achieve real emissions reductions.

The availability of verified emissions data has allowed the Commission to ensure that the cap on national allocations under the second phase is set at a level that results in real emission reductions.

But it is important to keep in mind that even if legislation had passed the US Congress and negotiations at Copenhagen ended less rancorously, the old framework would have been unlikely to deliver real emissions reductions much below business - as - usual, for all of the reasons delineated above.

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.

«Estimation of real emissions reduction caused by wind generators» [PDF], O. Liik et al., International Energy Workshop, June 24 - 26, 2003, Laxenburg, Austria

On February 14, 2002, President Bush directed the Department of Energy (DOE) to enhance the «accuracy, reliability, and verifiability» of the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program (VRGGP), established pursuant to Section 1605 (b) of the 1992 Energy Policy Act, and «to give transferable credits to companies that can show real emission reductions.»

Fuzzy wording and big exemptions inserted to buy off industry support for a bill could delay real emission reductions for years or decades.

Rigorous requirements and safeguards, local stakeholder engagement, and the use of independent, third - party auditors guarantee that funders are supporting real emissions reductions and verified SDG impacts, protecting businesses against accusations of «green - washing».

We need much better centralization and organization of the many disparate elements of the federal government that can be brought to bear on these problems — that is, how to achieve real emissions reductions on the ground, with or without a federal cap - and - trade law, and critical measures to cope with and adapt to impacts such as prolonged droughts, more frequent flooding and storms, heat waves, public health threats, and so on.

Destruction of HFC - 23 paid on a CO2 equivalent tonne basis does not represent real emission reductions.

Reliable programs now provide a high level of confidence that the offsets deliver real emissions reductions over an extended period of time.

In short, the challenge is not to simply pay lip service to the TCFDs, but — much like a GCSE student sticking doggedly to their revision timetable to boost chances of future success — move from disclosing risks to embedding the response to those risks into corporate culture from top to bottom, setting real emission reduction and energy targets as a result.

These modules will enable project developers to estimate the real emission reductions of projects that reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation («REDD»).

We see many problems with the current market systems under the convention, volatile credit prices, lack of real emissions reduction, rampant lack of additionality, lack of environmental integrity and human rights violations.

Actually, the figuring out part has been done and real emissions reductions have been realized in the United States — without the heavy hand of government, without one - size - fits - all frameworks, without economy - hamstringing interventions.

There are serious doubts about many of these credits, as they might not lead to real emissions reductions, and could even risk human rights violations in the offset project host countries.