Sentence examples for binding emissions from inspiring English sources

However, it sets no binding emissions targets.

The US was intransigent on legally binding emissions reductions.

It is all about carrots, like tax incentives, and nowhere about sticks, like binding emissions limits.

Obama has proposed a legally binding agreement applicable to all nations without binding emissions targets.

But there are other ways to meet the legally binding emissions targets.

China could break the deadlock in UN climate talks by presenting an ambitious new target with binding emissions cuts.

Beijing was accused of wrecking climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009 by opposing legally binding emissions cuts.

1997: KYOTO, Japan - The Kyoto Protocol is adopted, setting binding emissions targets for wealthy countries.

The Committee on Climate Change responded to Paterson with a reserved and systematic rebuttal, calmly pointing to the existence of 500 climate laws in 66 countries and legally-binding emissions targets in Denmark, Finland and Mexico.

The agreement acknowledges the need to keep temperature rises to 2C and brings non-binding emissions cuts pledges made under the voluntary Copenhagen Accord, hammered out in the dying hours of last year's conference, into the UN process.

Most problematic, it depends on the establishment of abstract and "legally-binding" emissions reduction targets, instead of the immediate government investments we need to develop and deploy low-carbon energy and efficiency technologies.