Sentences with phrase «to achieve carbon neutrality»

This is a milestone in the long term goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

This is a milestone in the long - term goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

Düsseldorf's development strategy was to economically meet its ambitious climate goals of achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2050, which for this city in western Germany means reducing CO2 emissions to just 2 tons per capita.

Customers can now reverse the effect of unavoidable emissions and achieve carbon neutrality through Climeworks removing an equivalent amount of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and storing them underground via the CarbFix process in Iceland.

In 2011 the City of Seattle commissioned a study of potential pathways to achieve its carbon neutrality goal, and in 2015 the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance published a framework for cities on long - term deep carbon reduction planning.

Offsetting emissions only achieves carbon neutrality if the investments trigger emission reductions that would not have happened anyway.

«And I am thrilled that, through the new class being offered this spring, students will participate in a hands - on way in the effort to better understand how MIT can achieve its carbon neutrality aspiration.

Some of Fort Collins» biggest challenges in achieving carbon neutrality come down to your choices.

Whether you are an SME or a multinational corporate, our team of experts can help your business achieve carbon neutrality to the leading international standards.

«Ahead of COP21 in October 2015, our CEO already spelt out our company's commitment to achieving carbon neutrality along our extended supply chain by 2030.

This executive summary of the full report, Bending the Curve: 10 scalable solutions for carbon neutrality and climate stability, presents pragmatic paths for achieving carbon neutrality and...

Till we re-engineer our systems to not produce waste in the first place we will not achieve carbon neutrality.

By applying a mix of emissions reductions and carbon offsets, Carbonzero can help your company achieve carbon neutrality in an environmentally robust and cost effective manner.

I could believe that 10 % of GDP is an upper bound even in this case, because achieving carbon neutrality basically requires a big change to infrastructure but one that only has to be performed once (though it may take years to complete).

A company or country can also achieve carbon neutrality by means of carbon offsetting.

For Schneider Electric, contributing to the process of achieving carbon neutrality is an ambitious and productive challenge.

The building will achieve carbon neutrality on an annual basis through high - performance building design, directed biogas and onsite fuel cells that will generate more electricity than the building and its sole tenant — LPL Financial LLC — will use.

In their final declaration, to be presented at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, COP15, which opens December 7, the vulnerable nations state that they are ready «to show moral leadership on climate change through actions as well as words, by acting now to commence greening our economies as our contribution towards achieving carbon neutrality...»

Siemens wants to achieve carbon neutrality through a host of initiatives such as a dedicated energy efficiency program, using decentralized energy systems, reducing emissions from its vehicle fleet and powering part of its production facilities and buildings through green energy.

And Palo Alto has been able to achieve carbon neutrality in large part because it has a set of assets and attributes that most other cities lack.

As countries around the world strive to meet their Paris Agreement commitments — aiming to peak emissions as soon as possible and undertaking rapid reductions thereafter so as to achieve carbon neutrality by the second half of this century — one would expect that this will increasingly be the case.

The world must achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, they write, with greenhouse gas emissions peaking by 2020 — a rate that is not in line with the voluntary commitments made by countries in Paris.

«The expansion of our operational goals to 2020, achieving carbon neutrality and the purchase of 100 - percent renewable energy build on our existing environmental commitment and responsible growth strategy,» Bank of America Vice Chairwoman Anne Finucane said in a statement.

«While these are encouraging signs, aggressive policies will still be required to achieve carbon neutrality and climate stability,» the authors wrote.

The country boldly declared in May 2007, under former President Oscar Arias, that it would achieve carbon neutrality by 2021.

Trade fairs and company parties, workshop or meetings — every event can be organized to achieve carbon neutrality.

The Dawson people are certainly good environmental stewards: reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50 per cent in the past six years and committed to achieving carbon neutrality; composting 600 kilograms of cafeteria and other food waste annually; and attracting birds and insects rarely seen in downtown Montréal back to their natural habitat.

Every year we calculate our Business's own carbon footprint and offset our emissions by helping to finance high quality projects in developing countries to achieve carbon neutrality.

It is the fastest way to achieve emissions reductions and the only way to achieve carbon neutrality.

In the words of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, achieving carbon neutrality «requires transformative rather than incremental approaches,» with a roadmap for long - term and deep reductions in the building, energy, and transportation sectors.

There are other ways for companies and campaigns to achieve carbon neutrality.

The most common way to achieve carbon neutrality is by buying voluntary carbon offsets that make up for things like private air travel and driving.

Not only do well - managed projects deliver multiple Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) outcomes, which can be aligned with an organisation's wider CSR strategy, but offsetting carbon as part of a holistic approach to achieving carbon neutrality or indeed a net positive position offers an absolutely crucial part of the corporate responsibility armoury.

¶ While Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is busy deleting the role of humankind in causing climate change from the state's websites, Eau Claire, the 68,000 - strong former factory town in northwestern Wisconsin, has adopted an ambitious sustainability plan to achieve carbon neutrality and to get 100 % of its energy from renewable sources.

The most common way to achieve carbon neutrality is by buying voluntary carbon offsets that make up for things like private air travel and driving.There are other ways to reach carbon neutrality, they include planting trees, counting clean commuting and making changes in an office environment, but those are far less common.

The aide would not specify how the campaign would achieve carbon neutrality, but said the campaign would roll out specifics as they unveil the rest of their climate change plan in the coming weeks.

Signing up to these initiatives will help both companies to deliver on their wider climate ambitions, for example Schneider Electric's target to achieve carbon neutrality in its ecosystem by 2030, and EDF's «Goal 2030» pledge to «go beyond the requirements of the two degrees Celsius trajectory set by COP21».

Costa Rica's President Luis Guillermo Solis announced on Monday during the opening of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week that the country was aiming to achieve carbon neutrality by 2021.

In 2007, then - President of Ithaca College Peggy R. Williams signed the American College and University President's Climate Commitment, pledging that the college would develop a strategy and long - range plan to achieve carbon neutrality.

To achieve carbon neutrality, Reiulf Ramstad Architects is relying on integrated systems that also enable it - to adapt to the changing seasons and climate.

If they are not taking action now, whether it's looking at trying to put an internal carbon price, whether it's trying to achieve carbon neutrality, they are going to be left behind — and they are just going to have to invest more and try to catch up later.»

In September last year the company revealed its new evian bottling site in France, the largest food production site to achieve carbon neutrality and completely powered by renewable electricity.