Sentences with phrase «smaller national emissions reductions»

One of the ethical issues raised by these facts is is whether nations which may have much smaller national emissions reductions commitment obligations for the nation derived from an acceptable equity framework should nevertheless be expected to limit activities of individuals causing high levels of ghg emissions

One of the ethical issues raised by these facts is whether nations which may have much smaller national emissions reductions commitment obligations for the nation derived from an acceptable equity framework should nevertheless be expected to limit activities of individuals causing high levels of ghg emissions.

Not exact matches

One such common approach to national ghg emissions reductions commitments that fails to satisfy any ethical scrutiny is the claim that all nations must reduce emissions by the same amount without regard to whether a nation is a large or small contributor to the climate change problem, an approach often referred to as «grandfathering» or equal reductions from existing emissions levels.

First, the national pledges of action that countries — northern and southern, large and small — have committed to deliver to the UN Secretariat, the pledges in which they lay out their emission - reduction action plans, have to get a whole lot easier to read and compare and interpret.