Sentences with phrase «to achieve emissions reductions»

A clear pathway exists for achieving the emission reductions that you and many other environmental activists say are desperately needed.

An expert offset provider can work with a client organization to design a transitional program that achieves emissions reductions at home whilst supporting global low - carbon development.

We also recognize that they help to achieve emission reductions in a cost effective manner and to stimulate long - term innovation.

The document also provides new modelling analysis to demonstrate the crucial benefits that an international carbon market established under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement could provide in reducing the costs to countries of achieving their emission reduction targets.

In the meantime, stakeholders have 45 days to offer their opinions on the best mechanisms for achieving its emissions reduction goals, according to the paper released by Ontario's Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change.

To achieve emissions reductions consistent with an 80 % chance of achieving the 2 °C target, the fossil fuel reserves of these listed companies would likely have to comply with a budget of about 125 — 275 billion tonnes of CO2 — this budget is proportional to the quarter share of reserves which they own.

This briefing identifies the opportunities, risks, and challenges associated with efforts to expand solar energy capacity in North Africa to the point where it can make a significant contribution toward achieving emissions reductions targets.

However, EPA's power plant regulations are likely the last major step toward achieving emissions reductions by 2020.

For the UK to be on track to achieve the emission reductions required by the Climate Change Act, it would have to become as carbon efficient as France by about 2015; which magnitudinous challenge would require the equivalent of the UK constructing and putting into service about 30 new nuclear power stations in the next five years, while retiring an equal amount of coal - fired generation!

After the Paris Agreement, a major challenge will be achieving emissions reductions while promoting sustainable development and allowing nations flexibility to...

We need to ramp up renewables significantly in order to be close to 50 % by 2030 and to achieve the emissions reductions needed to comply with the Paris Agreement and keep global warming under 2 degrees Celsius.

By putting a price on each ton of pollution emitted, the market sends a strong signal to innovate to achieve emission reductions through methods that cost less than the cost of emitting the pollution.

A Brookings Institution expert wrote that setting aside some of the carbon tax revenue — $ 30 billon is the suggested starting point — to be used for clean energy research and development might help the plan achieve its emissions reduction goals.

By deploying an emissions - cutting plan, the United States could save $ 6 billion to $ 14 billion every year by 2020, depending on the policy's details and how lawmakers went about achieving the emission reductions, according to a study on the health benefits of climate regulation published last year (ClimateWire, Nov. 26, 2014).

The reports finds several companies using the vehicle fleet manager and leasing company PHH Arval Inc.'s GreenFleet program achieved emission reductions averaging 14 percent while reducing operating costs by 4 percent.

In the lead - up to COP21 in Paris there is no evidence to suggest that mitigation action arising from any climate treaty will come close to achieving emissions reductions necessary to limit atmospheric concentration of CO2 to 450ppm.

Besides underlining the need for verified data, experience so far has shown that greater harmonisation within the EU ETS is imperative to ensure that the EU achieves its emissions reductions objectives at least cost and with minimal competitive distortions.

Carbon pricing achieves emission reductions at the lowest overall cost to society (i.e., it is economically efficient).

ClimateCare has helped hundreds of clients achieve emissions reductions at scale, at a competitive price, and report measurable impacts such as environmental protection, improved health, employment generation and much more.

Reaffirming the need to raise mitigation ambition levels between now and 2020, and achieving emission reductions on the order of 8 - 13 Gigatonnes of emissions in the pre-2020 period, beyond existing commitments and actions registered under the UNFCCC.

Fatih Birol, chief IEA economist, said the [2008] fall was «surprising» and would make it «much less difficult» to achieve the emissions reductions scientists say are needed to avoid dangerous global warming.

Modi and Macron pledged to achieve emissions reductions beyond their nations» commitments under the Paris Agreement, and Macron announced he will visit India later this year for a summit on solar power.

On the other hand, he has committed himself to achieving the emissions reductions promised by Labor.

And, am I correct in assuming we need a WW2 scale change in economies to actually achieve any emission reductions?

Dallas Burtraw and Nathan Richardson already have produced a number of useful insights — for instance, showing how the plan might cost - effectively achieve emissions reductions within striking distance of the US Copenhagen pledge.

EMISSION REDUCTIONS At the European level the EU is considering proposed amendments to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Directive (the subject of a new consultation exercise by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), a draft decision allocating among member states the responsibility for achieving emissions reductions outside the EU ETS sectors and a new Directive and communication relating to carbon capture and storage.

At least a dozen governors have joined the United States Climate Alliance, committing their states to achieve emissions reductions consistent with President Barack Obama's Paris pledge.

The EU - ETS is a target of severe criticism from European climate justice advocates due to permissive requirements, financial collapse of the price of credits, and consequent failure of the European market to achieve emissions reduction goals.

FCPF's Carbon Fund, which will offer payments for achieved emissions reductions, now amounts to $ 470 million.

Current policies must be augmented to achieve the emission reductions required under the Kyoto Protocol and even more action will be required to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.»

Perspectives for the Energy Transition: Investment Needs for a Low - Carbon Energy Transition — a joint study by IRENA and the IEA — launched on the occasion of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, presents the case that increased deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency in G20 countries and globally can achieve the emissions reductions needed to keep global temperature rise to no more than two - degrees Celsius, avoiding the most severe impacts of climate change.

The targets will vary by state, depending on their current energy mix, and states will have flexible ways of achieving emissions reductions, including an option to join an interstate cap - and - trade scheme.

The finding that well - designed carbon pricing policies can achieve emissions reductions with no substantive impact on economic growth is consistent with independent economic studies.

«The president has to push as hard as possible to achieve emissions reductions.

The political challenges thus far facing passage of emissions reduction legislation in Australia, and its almost certain destiny to fail to achieve emissions reduction targets of the magnitude described here, should serve as an important lesson to climate policy makers around the world.

However, to truly complement the Paris Agreement, the aviation sector will have to improve upon this foundation — by ramping up its ambition to achieve emissions reductions that are in line with the Paris Agreement's stated goals.

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

[6] In 2014, Rhode Island passed the Resilient Rhode Island Act, calling for an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions by sector and major source and the development of strategies and implementation measures to achieve emissions reduction targets of 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2025, 45 percent below 1990 levels by 2035, and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

Provincial governments are urging Ottawa to focus its effort on spending in areas that achieve emissions reductions and on regulation, rather than intruding in the carbon - pricing field.

Carbon pricing instruments are a policy option that a growing number of countries and regions are utilizing to implement new and complement existing national climate and energy policies and to achieve emission reductions.

The analysis shows that between 60 - 80 % of coal, oil and gas reserves of publicly listed companies could be classified «unburnable» if the world is to achieve emissions reductions that mean an 80 % probability of not exceeding global warming of 2 °C.

A new tool released today by ACEEE may provide the secret ingredient for achieving emissions reductions that can appeal to even the most finicky tastes.

When you inject capital from a program like the GreenON Industries program, it allows companies to achieve the emission reduction targets stipulated by the legislative requirements as well as allowing them to invest their capital into a project that might not otherwise have a reasonable return on investment (ROI).