Sentence examples for legally binding emissions from inspiring English sources

The US was intransigent on legally binding emissions reductions.

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

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

Why? Negotiations pitched in the framework of achieving legally binding emissions targets were always likely to result in confrontation by pitching one country's interests against the other.

Friends of the Earth wants EU member states to introduce legally binding emissions cuts for all sectors, mandatory energy savings and renewable energy targets, and carbon taxes.

As the world looks to 2015 for the establishment of legally binding emissions targets, it is looking to the US for inspiration and leadership.

An independent Climate Change Committee is supposed to advise on and police legally binding emissions-reduction targets, but it is new and its powers untested.One fear shared by many enthusiasts of renewables, says Andrew Simms, policy director of the NEF, is that the government is simply losing interest in them.

Kyoto In 1997 delegates at a UN climate summit in Kyoto, Japan, agreed on legally binding emission cuts for industrialised nations.

Keith Allott, WWF-UK's head of climate change, said: "No other country has set legally binding emission-reduction targets going into the 2020s, and so with this decision the UK is demonstrating genuine leadership on climate change.

"We are simply not in a position to take over legally binding emission reduction targets," Ramesh said.

Unlike over-the-counter purchases, CDM offsets (known as "certified emission reductions," or CERs) count toward compliance with the Kyoto Protocol's legally binding emission reduction targets.