Sentences with phrase «voluntary targets»

It will probably enter into force by 2020, when existing voluntary targets end, though that is not part of the official deal.

At the current rate of improvement, car makers will not meet their own voluntary target.

That means voluntary targets will, in theory at least, have a big effect on global emissions in the coming years.

Under her predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil put in place effective measures to reduce the speed of Amazon clearance and set ambitious voluntary targets for deforestation.

Their analysis of the loopholes (see «The problem with voluntary targets») suggests global CO2 emissions in 2020 could soar above the widely quoted 55 billion tonnes.

Bush is expected to promote only voluntary targets for cutting emissions, instead of legally binding targets within a Kyoto - based international agreement.

Although voluntary targets could generate a more effective cultural change, quotas can provide a framework to get things started.

When you look at the Norway experience, they tried the moral suasion step, and then they tried voluntary targets, and then they decided to go heavy with mandatory quotas.

In the last two rounds of annual climate talks, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Cancún, Mexico, more than 80 countries — including major emitters not bound by the Kyoto protocol like Brazil, China, Indonesia and the US — pledged voluntary targets.

This includes clauses to: limit global warming to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and endeavour to limit it to 1.5 °C; for countries to meet their own voluntary targets on limiting emissions between 2020 and 2030; for countries to submit new, tougher, targets every five years; to aim for zero net emissions by 2050 - 2100; and for rich nations to help poorer ones adapt.

With the adoption of the land degradation neutrality target, «all countries will now formulate voluntary targets to achieve LDN according to their specific national circumstances and development priorities... The indicators will provide the basis for the monitoring and evaluation approach to assess implementation.

Their analysis of the loopholes (see «The problem with voluntary targets ``, below) suggests global carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 could soar above the widely quoted 55 billion tonnes.

Friends of the Earth Europe also calls on Mr Barroso to get tough on binding emissions standards for cars, to replace the current voluntary target that car makers are failing to meet.

We came to the decision to establish a voluntary target of 40 %.

That seemed to leave the United States almost alone among developed nations in rejecting Kyoto in favor of voluntary targets.

The newspaper reports that a website measuring their progress against a voluntary target to cut sugar by 20 % within five years is one of the options being considered.

But they caution: «While a voluntary target based approach works to encourage industry reductions, the targets need to be coupled with the forceful government or quasi-government agency to ensure that all sectors of the food industry are aware of the targets and reducing salt in their products to meet [them].»

With meaningful UN deals proving so challenging, many argued in Durban that voluntary targets would be a smarter way to curb climate change.

With meaningful UN deals proving so challenging, many argued in Durban, South Africa, that voluntary targets would be a smarter way to curb climate change.

The wildlife federation award was given to Leonard for a variety of climate - change projects, including being the first electric power company in the nation to establish and meet a voluntary target reduction for carbon pollution and establishing a $ 30 million fund to pay for carbon reduction projects, said Larry Schweiger, federation president and chief executive officer.

Eight states have voluntary targets.

While the bills wouldn't scrap the state's voluntary target, they would eliminate financial incentives for utilities that invest in or build renewable projects under the scheme.

The United States according to the World Resources Institute has recently made progress on its greenhouse gas emissions toward its voluntary target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 17 % below 2005 emissions by 2020 to the extent that it may reduce its emissions by 9.5 % by 2020.

Last November president Xi Jinping announced the country would target an emissions peak by 2030, building on its 2009 voluntary target to cut the carbon intensity of GDP 40 - 45 % by 2020.

Currently, 29 states in the nation, along with Washington, D.C., have them and eight others have voluntary targets.

The Paris Accord is a lesser commitment than the Kyoto Protocol because unlike Kyoto, the Paris Agreement is non-binding, with voluntary targets and no legal enforcements.

The voluntary targets suggested by President Bush would be like voluntary speed limits — doomed to fail.

But Business Green reports that, until recently, WRAP's work with supermarkets was being drawn into question, with figures released in 2010 suggesting that British supermarkets had only reduced supply chain waste by 1.2 % — leaving them unlikely to hit a voluntary target of 5 % by 2012.

Car makers rejected this target, and finally a voluntary target of 140g CO2 / km by 2008/2009 was agreed.