Sentences with phrase «strong emissions targets»

A Low Bar Allows for Easy Success The next day, when I spoke with Dr Rajendra Pachauri of the IPCC, he thought that everyone is still playing their cards close to their chest and that we could still see some strong emission targets come out of Copenhagen.

It also confirms that Australia will need to agree and implement stronger emissions targets than are currently being discussed by the government.

Not exact matches

Although its strong economic growth means overall emissions are still increasing, China has reached its 2020 «carbon intensity» targets ahead of time by implementing serious environmental policies and technological innovation.

«Even with the strongest possible assumptions, we can not hit carbon emissions targets by energy and process efficiency within the existing system,» says Allwood.

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.

They are expected to culminate in a new international agreement to lower greenhouse gas emissions and possibly put in place a system by which nearly 200 countries can regularly enact new and stronger climate targets.

The target object of this observation is radio source Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2), which is an object with strong emission, located at near the center of our galaxy.

The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.

I will start reducing emissions immediately by establishing strong annual reduction targets with an intermediate goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

Building on strong progress during the first six years of the Administration, today President Obama announced a new target to cut net greenhouse gas emissions 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

In the end, the strong views of some countries, in particular the reluctance of the US and India to have mandatory emissions reductions targets, coupled with issues surrounding funding and technology flows to developing countries delayed the outcome.

Junko Edahiro, chief executive of Japan for Sustainability, says, «While environmental NGOs are calling for major emission reductions, industry is making a strong appeal for targets that will not lead to big reductions.

Canberra insists it is taking strong action to address the global threat of climate change, having set an ambitious target to reduce emissions to 26 to 28 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030.

They report some successes — e.g. stronger Emissions Reduction Targets.

While it could have been stronger, the decision reinforces clear moral obligation for countries to increase their emission reduction targets prior to 2020 and provides opportunities for them to do so

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

The German energy ministry BMWi tells Carbon Brief the country is a «climate pioneer» with strong performance on emissions reduction, ambitious national targets and its «Energiewende» transition towards renewables and away from nuclear.

An example of strong multilateralism is a targets - and - timetables approach, which sets aggregate quantitative emissions - reduction targets over a fixed period of time and allocates responsibility for this reduction among countries, based on principles jointly accepted.

As a part of the Push Europe campaign, our colleagues at Young Friends of the Earth Europe and other youth groups across Europe are encouraging the European Union to take a stronger stance at the climate negotiations by increasing EU greenhouse gas emission reduction targets to 30 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, a significant step towards the 40 percent reduction that would provide a real chance to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Not sure this has or ever will translate into a vote for carbon pricing or support for stronger national or international emissions targets or even clear support for renewables and an end to subsidies for fossil fuel miners and big users.

An emissions target is countercyclical since it imposes a relatively high cost when the economy is strong, and a much smaller cost when the economy is weak.

Building on this momentum, our task in Paris is to secure a long - term framework in which countries set successive rounds of targets into the future, beyond 2030, and ratchet down their carbon emissions over the course of the coming decades in the context of strong transparency and accountability provisions.

Taiyong Zhong, vice Mayor of Guiyang Municipal People's Government, People's Republic of China presented the city's ambitions to turn climate change into an opportunity for the green economy with strong targets such as increasing the recycling rate of wastewater to 95 % amd reducing GHG emissions by 45 % by 2030.

«We recognize Avery Dennison for its strong leadership in sourcing more renewable energy to help achieve the company's emission reduction target,» said Matt Banks, climate and business manager at WWF.

Such a peaking would send a powerful message that all countries can target strong, cleaner economic growth, reduce poverty and manage their carbon emissions at the same time.

I suspect because probably they know that there is a strong prevalence of agreement among experts that continued and increasing aCO2 emissions pose a potential threat, but they find that «consensus» to be politically inconvenient because they don't want to accept the political associations with accepting that threat, so instead they focus on a red herring of a more politically convenient target of whether expert climate scientists agree that «CAGW» is «settled science»

(1) Japan: accepted the strongest emission reduction targets, appropriately prides itself on having the most energy - efficient industry, and yet its use of coal has sharply increased, as have its total CO2 emissions.

to author a tough statement of principles for climate legislation that calls for strong near - term emissions targets, the auctioning of emissions permits, and major investment in clean - energy technology.

Europe must adopt three strong binding targets for cutting emissions, cutting energy use, and increasing renewable energy for all EU countries for 2030.»

Commit to strong UK leadership at the highest levels in the EU and globally, to deliver EU energy and climate targets and to ensure global greenhouse gas emissions are falling by 2015.

To achieve the same temperature stabilization target, CO2 emissions would have to be reduced even stronger thereafter, which would make the whole effort much more expensive.

Vice Pres. AL GORE: For our part, the United States remains firmly committed to a strong, binding target that will reduce our own emissions by nearly 30 percent from what they would otherwise be, a commitment as strong or stronger as any we have heard here from any country.

The country can get on this pathway by setting strong interim emission reduction targets for major carbon - emitting sectors, implementing complementary renewable energy and energy efficiency policies, and through state or regional measures.

Recent analysis by Synapse (click here) shows that if states act early and pursue strong levels of energy efficiency, they can not only meet the Clean Power Plan emission targets, but will also secure a lower - cost electric system.

In case you still think that business - as - usual carbon emissions aren't a big deal: The EIA has released a new forecast of how much emissions will increase by 2030 without strong binding emission reduction targets.

Stronger Reduction Targets Top List of Recommendations Based on this analysis, Climate Progress has a laundry list of recommendations for how the climate bill can be strengthened: Reducing emissions allowances for «at least the first several years», redoing cost estimates of the bill based on the new data, revised projections of CO2 emissions through 2020 (or 2030), and increasing emission reduction targets — 20 % below 2005 levels is recomTargets Top List of Recommendations Based on this analysis, Climate Progress has a laundry list of recommendations for how the climate bill can be strengthened: Reducing emissions allowances for «at least the first several years», redoing cost estimates of the bill based on the new data, revised projections of CO2 emissions through 2020 (or 2030), and increasing emission reduction targets — 20 % below 2005 levels is recomtargets — 20 % below 2005 levels is recommended.

But the United States delegation could not exert strong leadership, for the U.S. Senate had barely begun to consider the nation's target for its own future emissions, and if it ever did set rules they would surely be weaker than other nations were demanding.

In fact it's gives even more weight to grassroots action: More than ever pressure needs to be put on governments (wherever you happen to live) to enact strong national emissions targets, based in science not political expediency.

Ambitious economy - wide mitigation targets are central to ensuring that international emissions trading supports the goals of the Agreement, as they provide strong incentives for countries to ensure the environmental integrity of units they transfer to others.