Sentences with phrase «targets for curbing emissions»

How much the agreement reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and through that reduces warming, will depend on whether countries meet their targets for curbing emissions and deploying renewable energy and whether they ramp up their ambition in the years ahead.

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

It may also look for new ways of curbing emissions not currently covered by any targets, legal or otherwise — everything from international air travel and shipping to the soot from a billion African cooking stoves.

The legislation called for the country to curb emissions 30 percent below business - as - usual growth by 2030 and 50 percent by midcentury, but those targets were conditional upon international assistance.

The Paris targets call for curbing emissions 33 to 35 percent per unit of economic output from 2005 levels by 2030.

If countries negotiate targets and timetables for emissions curbs based on their quotient of super-polluters, using whatever means each prefers, that might get around some of the political barriers that rise when simply comparing countries, the authors say.

Global warming was touched on repeatedly in speeches at the Berry memorial, and this planet - scale challenge, too, appears to be a perfect target for the cathedral - building approach, given the time scales required to curb emissions that are still a near - direct reflection of economic activity.

For now, emissions avoided this way would not count toward the greenhouse - gas targets of countries adhering to the Kyoto Protocol, which does not require countries to measure or curb emissions from shipping.

Some of the low - hanging targets for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions have been highlighted in recent months in a «By Degrees» series in The Times, which explores topics like the electrical demand of our new electronic gadgets, efforts to curb methane leaks and the move to install light - colored roofs in warmer climates.

Texas representative Ralph Hall, the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, along with 10 of his Republican colleagues, also called for budget cuts and program terminations that directly targeted climate - science research, efforts to curb emissions, and preparations for climate - change impact at the National Science Foundation, the EPA and the Department of Energy.

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