Sentence examples for deeper emission reductions from inspiring English sources

The government's $2.5bn emissions reduction fund may allow Australia to meet its minimum 2020 target – a 5% reduction in emissions compared with 2000 levels – but without changes it would become impossibly expensive for the government to "buy" deeper emission reductions through the fund.

Now, in a submission to the government, the Australian Industry Group (AI Group) has warned that using Direct Action to achieve the deeper emission reductions after 2020 – which Australia will be required to do in any agreement at the United Nations conference in Paris in December – will impose an increasingly onerous burden on the taxpayer.

These standards will apply until a second tier of standards for deeper emission reductions is developed; these standards should be finalized by April 2007.

Even your own ministers know the $2.5bn "direct action" plan cannot possibly meet the deeper emissions reductions you will have to agree to in Paris in December.

Hence, countries are now free to commit to deeper emissions reductions without having to fear punitive consequences if they should fail to reach their targets," Hovi said.

We know that more resources will need to be mobilized after 2020 since we will be headed towards even deeper emissions reductions in subsequent years and the needs for climate resilience will grow more acute.

The deepest emission reductions can only prevent climate change from getting far worse.

Its aim was never to achieve deep emission reductions in itself.

This paper addresses the issue of environmental policy instrument choice for achieving deep emission reductions in the industrial sector.

Specifically, it provides: (a) a theoretical and empirical review of the conditions under which performance standards can provide efficient incentives for deep emission reductions and technology adoption; and (b) an analysis of the design and the outcomes of the standards-based regulation of industrial pollutants in Sweden during the period 1970 1990.

"Paris is all about putting in the pathways, policies and actions that will eventually lead to the world making the kinds of deep emission reductions able to keep under that 2 degrees Celsius temperature rise," said Nick Nuttall, head of communications and outreach at the UNFCCC.