Sentence examples for inadequate emissions from inspiring English sources

But the Climate Institute has said the first auctions showed the policy would fall well short of meeting even Australia's "woefully inadequate" emissions reduction target.

But the richer group of countries, led by the US, are putting no money on the table, and the US is arguing that even the inadequate emissions reductions proposed so far are not legally binding.

And his mildly ambitious though inadequate emissions reduction agreement with China, will be implemented (if at all) through enforcement of existing laws, most importantly, the Clean Air Act as interpreted by the 2007 Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v EPA.

In fact, the report claims that the funding the Coalition has pledged is so inadequate that emissions would rise by 8-108-10%2020.

A separate academic study of diesel exhaust here in Guangzhou found that Chinese trucks put out particles in unusually large quantities and sizes, as engines with often inadequate or damaged emissions equipment were forced to pull overweight loads.

The challenges are enormous -- from inadequate reporting of emissions data to oversupply of permits that drive down price.

The striking and hopeful thing about the speeches given by the leaders of the major carbon-emitting nations was the firmness with which almost all of them reiterated their unilateral commitment to making significant, if inadequate, cuts in emissions.

The average price of China's pilot emission market (43 ¥/ton) and the recent EU ETS carbon price (about 58 ¥/ton) are both inadequate to motivate emission reduction.

Even in many of the democracies which formally accept the reality of the problem, the most usual solution to the acknowledged emergency has been pathetically inadequate greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in the short-term and heroic pledges over the long term which later generations of political leaders are somehow expected to fulfil.

There is little recognition by either side that current policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions are inadequate for dealing with the threat that they pose.

As the planet's environmental movers and shakers convene to hammer out some form of agreement for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, however inadequate it is likely to be, at least they are lucky to be in one of the most walkable cities in the world.