Sentence examples for carbon pledge from inspiring English sources
This time around, the party's latest carbon pledge will test Ms Gillard's own political survival.Voters are sceptical.
The PRI's recent Montreal carbon pledge is a great step in the right direction as it encourages investors to measure, disclose and reduce their portfolio carbon footprints.
While the Montreal Carbon Pledge encourages investors to commit to understanding and publicly disclosing the carbon footprint of their investment portfolios on an annual basis, the next step is taking action in the form of "decarbonising" a portfolio.
A signatory of the Montreal Carbon Pledge, Öhman has been able to engage with internal and external stakeholders on the topic of climate change to a much greater degree, leading to a mutual understanding of problems and contributing to the development of solutions.
And there is no prospect of nations now changing their carbon pledges before or during the Paris talks.
Carbon pledges made by 31 economies – members of the G7 and the European Union (EU) – mean that by 2030, they will contribute only 30% of the effort they should be, it said.
It's a timely arrival, with warnings this month that current international carbon pledges will lead to a rise of nearly 4C and the Muir Russell report censuring some climate scientists for not being more open with their data (but exonerating them of manipulating the scientific evidence).
But it says that overall the accord was a "step forward", noting progress on a consensus to limit global warming within 2C, progress on the funding by rich nations of climate change adaptation measures in poorer nations and a "last minute" compromise by developing nations on the verification of their carbon pledges.
China's carbon pledges may be made to the international community, but they're deeply rooted in domestic, economic and environmental realities.
The authoritarian president Abdullah Yameen has ditched the carbon neutral pledge and plans instead to drill for oil in the Maldives' pristine coral-fringed waters.
