Sentences with phrase «set emission reduction goals»

Kerry announced on Saturday in Beijing that China and the United States had agreed to share information on their efforts to combat climate change ahead of 2015 UN-led efforts to set emission reduction goals for after 2020.

Not exact matches

In World Bank fashion, he set out targets for 2020, 2030 and 2040, with an ultimate goal of an 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.

It is a responsible approach that sets attainable goals for gradual reductions in carbon emissions and it protects consumers, businesses and workers as we move toward clean energy.»

To put this into perspective, that reduction is 44 percent of the goal that President Obama set for the nation, roughly equal to the total emissions of France.

The dairy industry has set a goal of 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

There are multiple mitigation pathways to achieve the substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades necessary to limit, with a greater than 66 % chance, the warming to 2 degrees C — the goal set by governments.

A Brookings Institution expert wrote that setting aside some of the carbon tax revenue — $ 30 billon is the suggested starting point — to be used for clean energy research and development might help the plan achieve its emissions reduction goals.

Those proposals, announced over the past year, aim to reduce climate change - driving carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel - fired power plants and set power plant CO2 emissions reductions goals for each state.

The declaration states: «In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.»

In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.

The present political approach is to set carbon emission reduction goals for 2025 or 2050.

It will still allow for a company to protect their brand - something we admit is necessary, though it currently can stand in the way of progress - and will help move us a bit closer to being able to know a company's true emissions data, so that when goals for reductions are set, there is an accurate starting point.

In light of the president's goal to reduce emissions 83 percent by 2050, the expected pathway set forth in this pending legislation would entail a 30 percent reduction below 2005 levels in 2025 and a 42 percent reduction below 2005 in 2030.

Leading companies elevate their climate goals in response to science September 25, 2015: More and more companies are setting ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets that align with what the latest climate science says is necessary to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

Others argue that setting an agreement on a long - term target before setting short - term emission reduction goals could stand in the way of making progress.

These two prime competitors to ExxonMobil have set long - term GHG reduction goals and measure emissions from customer use of their products.

The target sets the goal of 40 % greenhouse gases emission reduction and 27 % renewable energy generation by 2030.

In addition, because each national emission reduction target commitment must be understood as an implicit position of the nation on safe ghg atmospheric concentration levels, setting national ghg emissions goals must be set with full knowledge of how any national target will affect the global problem.

It gave birth to the Kyoto Protocol which set greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.

But the shareholder resolution asking the company to set greenhouse gas and emissions reductions goals was defeated: even though it got a respectable share of the vote — 26.8 % of voting shares supported the resolution — 73.2 % voted against.

For example, in setting its emission goals, the European Union devised not one, but two separate targets: A 20 per cent reduction by 2020 if they continued to go it alone, and a 30 per cent reduction if countries like China and the U.S. also got serious about emissions.

Finally, two weeks ago the EPA issued its draft guidelines on existing fossil fuel power plants, setting a nationwide goal of a 30 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from those plants by 2030, compared to 2005 levels (which were higher than today's).

Palo Alto, Calif., February 15, 2017 — After setting and meeting two successive Scope 1 and Scope 2 absolute reduction goals for greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) 1, HP Inc. announces a new target to reduce the GHG emissions from its global operations by 25 percent by 2025, compared to 2015.

Although economic analyses can provide policy - makers with valuable information such as which technologies will achieve ethically determined goals at lowest cost, thereby providing criteria for making remedies cost - effective, there are serious ethical problems with cost - benefit analyses used prescriptively to set emissions reductions targets.

Less important structurally, but most important environmentally, an analysis by the World Resources Institute (which I have not validated) indicates that the caps — as currently set — would not bring about emissions reductions by 2020 that would even come close to the President's announced goal of 17 % reductions (equivalent to the Waxman - Markey targets), as submitted by the United States under the Copenhagen Accord.

GHG Protocol is working to give cities the standards and tools they need to measure their emissions, build more effective emissions reduction strategies, set measurable and more ambitious emission reduction goals, and to track their progress more accurately and comprehensively.

In light of the President's goal to reduce emissions 83 % by 2050, the expected pathway set forth in this pending legislation would entail a 30 % reduction below 2005 levels in 2025 and a 42 % reduction below 2005 in 2030.

About Science Based Targets A partnership between CDP, WRI, WWF and the UN Global Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

Similarly, CPP set emissions reduction targets for individual states, but left open the formula for how to meet those goals, whether through retiring dirty power plants, building up renewables, or trading compliance credits with other states.

While it highlights the importance of a quantitative target for transportation sector emissions, the bill sets no national reduction goal for the sector, has no substantial enforcement, and dedicates no carbon revenues to get the job done.

For example, businesses offered insights into how they are setting ambitious emissions reduction goals, achieving these goals on time or ahead of schedule, and subsequently increasing their ambition, all while boosting investment and employment.

The LEGO Group conducted an engagement programme with suppliers, Engage to Reduce (E2R) to report and minimise CO2 emissions, and during the next three years it will step - up the programme to include more than 80 % of its supply chain and set goals for CO2 reduction based on climate science.

Decisions made in relation to Article 2 will determine the level of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere (or the corresponding climate change) that is set as the goal for policy and have fundamental implications for emission reduction pathways as well as the scale of adaptation required.

Electrolux and L'Oréal among latest major companies to set emissions reduction targets in line with goals of Paris Agreement, pushing the total to 103;

The Princeton group's multi-stage formula estimates individual emissions based on lifestyle and income rather than per capita national income — a departure from the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which set no specific goals or timetables for emission reductions by developing nations until the developed world had found a model for low - carbon economic growth.

Lastly, corporations that move early to set net - negative emission reduction goals stand to generate large brand leadership benefits.

States, with this flexible guide to goal - setting, will contribute to a national reduction of carbon emissions of a projected 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030.

«Setting business - friendly and attainable goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is a step in the right direction,» Clark said.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned earlier this month that industrialised countries were falling short of the emissions reductions needed to prevent warming of 2 degree centrigrade above pre-industrial levels, the goal set by world leaders.

The Copenhagen Accord sets a goal of 2 °C and calls for parties to the Convention to submit their 2020 emission reduction pledges in order to begin the work towards achieving this goal.

Decisions made in relation to Article 2 would determine the level of climate change that is set as the goal for policy, and have fundamental implications for emission - reduction pathways as well as the scale of adaptation required.