Sentences with phrase «resolve emissions issues»

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The brand's first zero - emission vehicle marks a bold approach, and the learning curve ahead is steep, with issues such as scalability, battery life, charge time, performance characteristics, cooling, and packaging to be resolved.

Regrettably, the excellent TDI diesel engine won't be offered until its emissions issues are resolved.

Noting that the issue is still not resolved, The Detroit News reports that the RPM Act «would put in law the decades - old intent of Congress to exclude off - road vehicles from federal emissions regulations.»

Volkswagen has ordered dealers across North America to stop selling them until they resolve their high exhaust emission issues with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada.

The issues range from resolving how much the rich North is willing to pay the poor South to boost its resilience to climate hazards to figuring out a trustworthy process for all countries to measure and get credit for domestic actions that trim emissions.

Moreover, these issues must be far better resolved if there is to be an adequate verification scheme to confirm national performance in meeting targets for CO2 emissions.

Resolving these issues is essential in order to establish a strong foundation for worldwide efforts to cut emissions.

Izrael said the council's statement had been issued after British scientists had said in a statement shortly prior to next week's G8 summit in Scotland that the world's eight leading industrialized nations should take responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions and help developing countries resolve related problems.

In the short - term, a key issue that needs resolving is the mismatch between global methane budgets from top - down (derived from atmospheric measurements) and bottom - up (derived from measurements of methane emissions at the land surface from different methane producing environments) approaches.

We need new policies, regulatory frameworks, and institutions focused on four areas: creating market - based incentives to innovate and raise carbon productivity; addressing market failures that prevent abatement opportunities from being captured profitably; resolving issues of allocation and fairness, in particular between the developed and developing worlds and between industry sectors; and accelerating progress to avoid missing critical emissions targets.

The agreement also set the stage for further work to resolve issues around financing to help developing and vulnerable countries become more resilient to climate change impacts and reduce their own emissions.

(Bodansky, 2001) Ultimately the issue was resolved by specifying different emission targets for each party, ranging from an 8 percent reduction from 1990 levels for the European Union, to a 10 percent increase for Iceland.

The idea is to provide a practical path to emissions reductions by resolving the issue of international inequality which has been a recurring stumbling block in climate negotiations.