Sentences with phrase «additional carbon credits»

Additional carbon credits flooding the European market — up to 10 % by some estimates — will lower the price of carbon credits making it cheaper for European companies to emit green house gasses.

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With savings of 7,792 kg CO2 per year in carbon savings, the homeowner could realize an additional $ 25.50 to $ 85.80 per year in carbon credit income just by living in a hempcrete home.

And the way to fix the accounting error is to count the very real emissions from using bioenergy and then provide a credit to that bioenergy which results from a source that really is «additional» carbon.

To earn credits, a project should owe its existence to the prospective earnings from carbon credits: the emissions reductions from the project should be additional to what would have happened in the absence of the CDM.

-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking into account a candidate substance's carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.

On the credit side, we note the additional standard equipment, which now includes carbon - ceramic brakes, LED headlights, full Alcantara or leather trim, navigation, and satellite radio.

The city saves money on liquid fuels, heat, and electricity, (2) gains carbon credits from biochar carbon sequestration, and (3) earns income from the sale of biochar to local farmers, who provide an additional portion of the cities food.

In the near term, federal policy could: i) level the playing field between air captured CO2 and fossil - fuel derived CO2 by providing subsidies or credits for superior carbon lifecycle emissions that account for recovering carbon from the atmosphere; ii) provide additional research funding into air capture R&D initiatives, along with other areas of carbon removal, which have historically been unable to secure grants; and iii) ensure air capture is deployed in a manner that leads to sustainable net - negative emissions pathways in the future, within the framework of near - term national emissions reductions, and securing 2 °C - avoiding emissions trajectories.

«There is the potential that selling carbon credits could fund restoration and possibly provide additional income to private landowners as well.

And we've developed some of the most robust reporting and monitoring systems that ensure carbon credits represent real, measurable and additional emissions reductions,» said Simon Henry, program director at the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA), which funded the research for this article.

-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking into account a candidate substance's carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.

The CDM must ensure new and additional projects, avoid double counting of the credits, increase the carbon price and subsequently grow the adaptation fund.

They include criteria to ensure carbon credits (also known as Verified Emission Reductions — VERs) sold meet criteria to ensure they are Real, Measurable, Unique, Independently verified, Permanent and Additional.

In addition to the tax credits, there are two important additional steps the government can take to dramatically reduce carbon emissions through land use change.

The production tax credit, if renewed, would lead to future wind development that would reduce carbon emissions equivalent to an additional 30,000 cars and provide enough energy to power another 50,000 homes, according to Dorle.

For each additional ton of carbon dioxide their trees store, forest owners earn a credit that they can sell to companies who wish to offset their emissions.

Among the most significant changes in the new rules: Credits have been reweighted to give additional points for building systems and materials that contribute more directly to greater energy efficiency or lower carbon emissions.