Sentences with phrase «use of clean energy targeting»

Besides reducing greenhouse gas emission, the deal also aims at increasing EU's use of clean energy targeting an increase in renewables from the current share of 14 percent to 27 percent by 2030.

Not exact matches

It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).

If the prime minister is serious about planting himself on the common ground of politics, he should move back to the centre ground on energy and the environment, using the vote on a clean energy target to back wealth creation and enterprise, rather than risk an embarrassing defeat and more divisive coalition politics.

That support hit a roadblock a year ago when new conservative prime minister Tony Abbott ordered a review of the country's target for clean energy use by 2020, which ultimately recommended slashing it by a third, in line with falling overall energy demand.

A 2009 research paper published in the journal Energy Procedia predicts that even if China achieves its 2030 target of energy efficiency improvement and clean energy use, more than half of its power supply will still come fromEnergy Procedia predicts that even if China achieves its 2030 target of energy efficiency improvement and clean energy use, more than half of its power supply will still come fromenergy efficiency improvement and clean energy use, more than half of its power supply will still come fromenergy use, more than half of its power supply will still come from coal.

For states that choose rate - based compliance approaches (see Synapse's previous blog posts about rate - and mass - based compliance), the final Clean Power Plan explicitly allows energy efficiency measures to produce Emission Rate Credits (ERCs) despite energy efficiency not being one of the building blocks used in target setting.

Even individual policies that seem radical in the present U.S. political context do not meet targets set by the Obama administration or proposed in the American Clean Energy and Security Act without significant use of offsets.

In order to meet those targets, the global economy will have to be swiftly decarbonized and the use of fossil fuels sharply curtailed, while the use of clean, renewable energy will need to be scaled up just as rapidly.