Sentences with phrase «term emissions reduction commitments»

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«The time is now for world leaders to sign an emissions reduction agreement that includes five - year reviews of their commitments, a long - term goal, and the global prioritization of renewable energy.

U.S. cities, counties, and states also put forward ambitious, long - term emissions reduction targets, including a commitment by the State of California to reduce emissions by 80 percent - 90 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, and a commitment from the City of Seattle to become carbon - neutral by 2050.

Canada needs a viable energy strategy that will meet long - term energy security needs and emissions reduction commitments.

Others saw Copenhagen as a success for achieving agreement on the long - term goals of the UNFCCC, new voluntary commitments from many developing countries, new levels of cooperation from China on verifying its voluntary emissions reductions commitments, and promises to mobilize significant amounts of money for adaptation in developing countries.

The official Chinese explanation is that while they acknowledge the importance of the long - term view, the focus should be on near and medium - term action rather than deliberating on long - term targets («中方认为 ， 应对气候变化既要着眼长远 ， 更要立足当前 ， 要把精力和重点放在完成近期和中期减排目标上 ， 不能让长期目标上的分歧影像谈判进程» and he repeated this in his December 18th speech: «To determine a long - term direction is necessary, even more important is to focus on the completion of the short and medium - term emission reduction targets, and on to honor commitments already made, and on action.

While there have been negotiations under way on the new agreement, there has also been an attempt to increase national commitments on greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions reductions in the short - term because mainstream science is telling nations that much greater reductions in emissions are necessary in the next few years to maintain any hope of keeping warming below 20 C, a warming limit that all nations have agreed should not be exceeded to give some hope of preventing catastrophic warming.

The firs two papers looked at ethical issues entailed by the need for increasing ambition for national ghg emissions reduction commitments in the short - term and the second examined ethical issues created by urgent needs of nations to commit to significant ghg emissions reductions in the medium - to long - term.

For this reason, the agendas of the last few Conferences of the Parties (COP) UNFCCC meetings have sought to increase the ambition of nations to increase their ghg emissions reductions commitments both in the short - and long - term.

The Clean Air Act lacks any other mechanism for economy - wide CO2 regulation, and the Administration will say it is legally and politically justified by both the inability of existing policy to meet either the specific U.S. commitment at Paris, an 80 percent emissions reduction, or the longer - term, 2 - degree goal to which the world is collectively committed.

The Government would therefore like to enshrine the commitments in the Energy White Paper 2003 to reduce CO2 emissions by 60 % on 1990 levels by 2050; and to achieve «real progress» by 2020 (which would equate to reductions of 26 - 32 %) towards the long - term goal within a new legal carbon management framework (outlined in Section 5).

The single line in the proposal Harper apparently found inadmissible was: «We call for a long - term global goal as well as binding commitments to deep, absolute emission reductions by developed countries.»

At The Climate Reality Project we believe COP21 is our best chance yet to secure a strong international agreement that includes meaningful emissions reductions commitments based on national circumstances, a system of periodic review for these commitments and a long - term goal of net zero carbon emissions.