Sentences with phrase «greenhouse gas intensity»

As part of its climate and energy package announcement on Wednesday 22 January, the European Commission included a line of text saying that it does not think it appropriate to «establish new targets for -LSB-...] greenhouse gas intensity of fuels used in the transport sector» after 2020.

In 2002, I announced our first step: to reduce America's greenhouse gas intensity by 18 percent through 2012.

«We would agree that Alberta's historic focus on maximizing oilsands production... rather than optimizing production on the highest quality ore may be having unnecessary environmental impacts on things like greenhouse gas intensity and tailings production and lowering returns to Albertans as the owners of the resource,» said Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think - tank.

Discusses the use of an alternative form of emission targets — greenhouse gas intensity targets.

I mean, the president has called for an 18 percent reduction in greenhouse gas intensity; we spend over $ 4 billion a year now in climate change technology and research development; we have bilateral, multilateral agreements with most of the rest of the developed world on things like coalbed methane and hydrogen fuel cells.

Ferguson added Cenovus is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas intensity by 50 per cent by 2026 but will do so while living up to its agreements with the province on resource recovery and royalty payments.

Optima is targeting a vehicle - fuels system approach to far exceed the improvements in vehicle energy consumption and the greenhouse gas intensity of the energy source.

The Rhodium Group consulting firm has released a «report card» on China's energy trends and policies that describes the country's intensifying efforts to increase the proportion of renewable sources like wind and hydroelectric dams and boost the efficiency of coal use (essentially the metric called «greenhouse gas intensity» by President George W. Bush).

EPA assesses the economic implications of policies to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of the U.S. economy.

In just two years, Owens Corning has reduced its greenhouse gas intensity footprint by 12 percent, more than halfway to its 20 percent reduction goal by 2020.

The European Commission also announced today its intention not to set new targets for the reduction of the greenhouse gas intensity of transport fuels.

U.S. Government Position: The Energy Act of 2005 states: «The President shall establish a Committee on Climate Change Technology [which] shall submit to the Secretary and the President a national strategy to promote the deployment and commercialization of greenhouse gas intensity - reducing technologies and practices.»

But besides the shifting mix amongst these different gases, and the influence of the recession on them, the one promising note was the reduction in «greenhouse gas intensity».

Are exploiting them seriously damaging to the environment, in particular in terms of greenhouse gas intensity?

Greenhouse gas intensity is a ratio between greenhouse gas emissions and another metric, e.g., gross domestic product (GDP) or energy use.