However, EPA's power plant regulations are likely the last major step
toward achieving emissions reductions by 2020.
Not exact matches
The text and summaries circulating on the Web show that the bill contains plenty of mechanisms — some dubious — aimed at easing the path
toward achieving the 2020 target of a 17 - percent
reduction in
emissions from 2005 levels.
An assessment belied by the fact that quite a few nations met their Kyoto goals and have already
achieved significant
emissions reductions; that Paris NDCs are much more inclusive and ambitious, and there is already visible action
toward meeting them; and that beyond treaty obligations and commitments, carbon intensity is falling over much of the world including the US and China.
An assessment belied by the fact that quite a few nations met their Kyoto goals and have already
achieved significant
emissions reductions...; that Paris NDCs are much more inclusive and ambitious, and there is already visible action
toward meeting them... the global energy economy is visibly changing now.
National green leaders, who had spent the previous year insisting that progress
toward capping U.S. carbon
emissions would ensure the successful conclusion of a global
emissions -
reduction agreement in Copenhagen, pretended like they'd never suggested that the United Nation's climate change conference could ever
achieve such an outcome and praised Obama for ditching the United Nations and striking out to reach an agreement — any agreement — among major emitters.
By diversifying the thermal energy sector to increase use of low - carbon renewable heating and cooling technologies (e.g., air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, wood pellet heating, solar thermal), Rhode Island can make significant strides
toward achieving greenhouse gas
emission reduction goals while producing substantial economic benefits for the state.