Sentences with phrase «set emissions targets»

Today, it's common for companies to set emissions targets.

The purpose of the 2 °C limit as much as anything else is to tell us roughly what the concentration target is so we can know roughly what the carbon budget is so we can set emissions targets.

-- The «outside the fenceline» argument: As part of the Clean Power Plan, the EPA set emissions targets that it deemed reasonable for each state.

This could happen after 2000, when the Climate Change Convention may set emissions targets for some developing countries.

The last - minute accord brokered by President Barack Obama represented the first time that the world's major developing countries — China, Brazil, South Africa and India — committed to setting emission targets.

Linking necessitates an international agreement on emissions levels between parties as linking changes the incentives to set an emissions target.

If records were available on national compliance with ethical obligations for climate change, they could be used both by the international community to pressure nations to improve performance on their climate change ethical obligations and also create a factual basis that could be used by citizens within the nation to ensure that the national climate change policies consider ethical obligations in setting their emissions targets.

Could it be because 2 °C allows politicians to set emission targets to be achieved in the future when they will be out of office?

The second is the need of governments to set their emissions target only after considering what distributive justice requires of them.

; d) what are the implications of «lock in» to emissions cap, in particular no rules and principles for setting emissions targets for the commitment periods subsequent to Kyoto?

Setting emission targets geared towards reducing GHG ppm (particles per million) allows us to set short, mid, and long reductions targets.

The only way to avoid this problem, which will apply to all attempts to link trading systems, is to harmonise not just the structures of the systems but the process of setting emission targets too.

In the Clean Power Plan originally proposed by EPA in June 2014, this effect was ignored when setting emissions targets for states: EPA's formula omitted this effect.

«The United States is not legally bound to any agreement setting emissions targets or any financial commitment to it without approval by Congress,» Inhofe said in a statement.

The Australian government was elected on a platform of solving the climate problem, but then, with the help of industry, it set emission targets so high as to guarantee untold disasters for the young, let alone the unborn.

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.

Worse, they set no targets for carbon emissions reductions.

A new carbon emissions reduction target has been set before talks in Paris, but taxpayers are now footing the bill - not the big polluters.

«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.

Greenpeace has targeted Volkswagen with a new website and set of spoof ads that send up the automaker's award - winning, Force - inspired Super Bowl ad, accusing the company of opposing key environmental laws in Europe relating to CO2 emissions.

Recent data shows that exhaust carbon emissions fell 3.7 % in Europe last year, and the European Union has set a target for cutting average emissions in new cars to 130 grams per kilometer by 2015.

with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

According to the Pembina Institute, federal oil and gas emissions regulations crafted after Alberta's system would have to set the fee for contributing to the fund at least $ 100 per tonne in order for Canada to be able to meet its 2020 target.

Logistics company set to offset emissions from delivery of more than 200 million packages through BP Target Neutral scheme

The Lovins believe that the targets for reduced emission of greenhouse gases set at Kyoto can be met on a voluntary basis as Clinton proposes.

It has drawn the same criticism as an issues paper the government published last month before public consultation on Australia's post-2020 emissions reduction targets, which will be set before global climate talks in Paris in December.

We set ambitious targets under Amcor's internal EnviroAction programme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce waste - to - landfill, and have active waste management plans in place in all of our sites.

Working with the Science Based Targets initiative, the company also set a goal that by 2040, emissions will be down 58 % compared with a year ago.

Swiss dairy group Emmi has set itself the target of reducing its global CO2 emissions by 25 % by 2020.

The Executive Order also aims to continue reducing emissions by improving the targets set forth by the Global Warming Solutions Act.

She opposed setting a target to reduce carbon emissions, backed plans - which were later reversed - to sell off Britain's forests, and last year, after being appointed energy minister, asked officials whether climate change really existed.

Work is currently underway to review the Gothenburg Protocol which came into force in 2005, setting targets for reducing pollutants and emissions which were to be met by 2010.

The Climate Change Act 2008 sets legally binding emission reduction targets for 2020 (reduction of 34 % in greenhouse gas emissions) and for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent in greenhouse gas emissions); the Act also introduces five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure these targets are met.

«On his watch we have an environment secretary who doesn't believe in climate change, our carbon emissions are rising rather than falling and the government has failed to set a target a clean up our power system by 2030.»

Scotland sees itself as a leader in renewable energy, and has set itself demanding targets for 2020 in relation to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Campaigners believe it will cause air pollution levels to soar, rendering impossible a 2015 emission target set by the European commission.

It says Britain must assume next year's UN Framework Convention on Climate change sets a target of cutting carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2020, not the current 20 per cent.

More than a quarter of carbon emissions are emitted from homes and reducing individuals» carbon footprints will be crucial if the government is to meet targets - set down in the climate change bill - for reducing carbon emissions.

The government will not set a target for carbon emissions for 2030 until well after the next general election, it has emerged.

Instead of a target, the energy bill includes a clause that would require the government to make a decision on whether or not to set a decarbonisation target in 2016 at the same time as binding emission targets are set for 2030 through the next carbon budget.

Based on this work, Erie County will set GHG reduction targets and develop a Climate Action & Sustainability Plan (CASP) to incorporate GHG emission reduction into the daily culture of County operations.

The policy requires states to measure and set reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions by vehicles on highways.

Alongside this, a new Climate Change Bill will be introduced in the coming year that will set out «even more ambitious» targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Ms Sturgeon said.

The United States and Russia yesterday joined Norway, Mexico, Switzerland and the European Union in becoming the first governments to set new targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and explain to the world how they plan to meet those goals.

With no chance of Congress enacting legislation to make these targets into actual U.S. law, the White House is depending on using existing authority under the Clean Air Act and other laws to set regulations in place on power plant emissions, heavy - duty vehicles and more.

The United States needs to develop strong new post-2020 targets; the European Union will decide on its 2030 targets later this year; and China needs to move from its current emissions intensity goal to setting a year in which absolute emissions will peak.

The new climate law set targets for curbing greenhouse gas emissions and ramping up clean energy production.

«But it does establish an enduring framework that enables countries to ratchet down their carbon emissions over time, and to set more ambitious targets as technology advances.»

The Kyoto Protocol, which was set to expire at the end of 2012, set binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the E.U. for reducing greenhouse gas emissions an average of five percent against 1990 levels.

Canada is set to badly miss a 2020 target for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, in part because of its failure to regulate the booming oil and gas sector, Parliament's environmental watchdog said