Sentences with phrase «specific emissions reductions targets»

This was the only existing legally - binding set of specific emissions reductions targets.

South Africa's plan must have had a number of industrialized countries squirming: It proposed specific emissions reduction targets for 41 industrialized countries for the periods 2013 - 2017 and 2018 - 2022.

Mike Hudema, the climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace, said he was alarmed that the process didn't begin with specific emission reduction targets in line with international guidelines.

Skimming the thread, you are talking about a specific emissions reduction target, I'm thinking a subtle shift in incentives.

To meet the required limits, each state will be given a specific emissions reduction target based on a number of factors, including its past emissions and its mix of energy sources.

Not exact matches

According to the A.P. «Bush is not going to outline a specific proposal, but he'll lay out a strategy for «realistic» emission reduction targets and «principles» he thinks Congress should follow in crafting global warming legislation.

When it comes to specific climate «actions,» the company continues to oppose hard emissions reduction targets, investments in alternative energy, and the «clean power plan» that Trump's EPA has now shelved.

Targets and timetables - A target is the reduction of a specific percentage of heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions from a baseline date (e.g., below 1990 levels) to be achieved by a set date or timetable (e.g., 2030).

In general, an intensity target should only be set if it leads to absolute reductions in line with climate science or is modelled using a sector - specific pathway (e.g., SDA) that assures emission reductions for the sector as a whole.

The U.S. joins more than 30 other countries — including Mexico, Russia, all European Union members, Switzerland, and Norway — in meeting an April 1 deadline to unveil how they would meet specific emission - reductions targets.

These goals include, among others, meeting the 50 percent RPS and meeting ARB - established utility - specific GHG emission reduction targets by 2030.

Russia repeatedly questioned the emissions reduction targets outlined by the IPCC, and Canada and Japan also pushed for less specific commitments.

If implemented, the CPP scheme will enable EPA to parcel out specific state - by - state CO2 emission reduction targets they consider achievable based upon their own estimates of the maximum amount of energy shifting that the nation's power grids can accommodate.

Now it's a different story: Merkel will no longer endeavor to contractually implement the 2 - degree target — in other words, to reach a legally binding agreement with specific reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

The rule dictated specific emission targets for states based on power - plant emissions and gave officials broad latitude to decide how to achieve reductions.

«Just 38 out of 160 countries set specific targets for natural climate solutions at the Paris climate talks, amounting to 2 gigatonnes of emissions reductions,» said Justin Adams, global lands managing director with The Nature Conservancy.

With the CPP, the EPA parcels out specific state - by - state emission reduction targets they consider achievable based upon their own internal estimates of the maximum amount of energy shifting the nation's power grids can accommodate.