Sentences with phrase «addressing ghg emissions»

While the United States does not have a comprehensive national plan for mitigating climate change or addressing GHG emissions, federal and state governments have developed a number of regulatory programs designed to limit the climate impacts of energy generation and consumption.

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To address GHG emissions, a policy that promotes renewable energy production is quite distantly connected to the goal of reducing GHG emissions — this is a key reason why most economists (myself and I assume you included) see it as a distant second best policy, only good when emission taxes are not available for political or other reasons.

All other states that implement an EPA - approved air permitting program must review their existing permitting authority and inform EPA if their programs do not address GHG emissions.

Although ICAO's 192 member states had long agreed to technology, operations and infrastructure measures to help address GHG emissions from international aviation, negotiations over a market - based measure (MBM) stalled for several years, leading to efforts by multiple countries to implement their own regulations or taxes on international aviation emissions.

Not exact matches

The transportation sector, as one of the largest and fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is becoming a major policy focus for addressing climate change.

> I think that your comments have a bit of «begging the question» about them, in suggesting that the necessity of expanding nuclear power to reduce GHG emissions from electricity generation is an established fact, upon which any «debate» about addressing AGW must be based — rather than an unproven assertion to be argued.

Reliance on global CCS into deep wells to reduce GHG emissions into the atmosphere and effectively addressing the human - induced sources and consequences of global warming and climate change is pure «Greenwash.»

It's not the cutting of GHG emissions that are the real issue: it's the cutting into the 35 % and growing overload of carbon dioxide already on the globe that has to be addressed for getting some control of global warming.

If we're going to address climate change, it's going to start with solutions experts agree on (efficiency, low - GHG sources such as nuclear, carbon capture and storage, wind, geothermal, cellulosic biofuels, and eventually solar), and processes that experts agree on (increasing the cost of GHG emissions, funding more R&D, mandates sometimes).

Issues regarding climate change and GHG emissions must be addressed as part of strategic risk management decision - making.

Technological innovations are one of the key solutions to addressing climate change and specifically in reducing carbon and GHG emissions as mandated by the UNFCCC.

Addressing the atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, Saudi Arabia cautioned against «giving policy makers the message that CO2 drives global warming» and further highlighted that not all CO2 emissions result from fossil fuel combustion.

Based on the statistics from the table below, the buildings sector has had differential success in addressing Canada's commitment to the Kyoto Agreement, which requires reductions to six per cent below 1990 GHG emission levels between 2008 - 2012.

In response to comments on the proposal concerning the potential for these crops to behave as invasive species, EPA is adopting additional registration, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements that were developed to address the potential for GHG emissions related to these concerns.

Research addressing this question relies on global climate model simulations based on a range of anticipated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions scenarios.

It also means emissions of other GHGs have to be addressed to the extent they really do add 40 % to the CO2 forcing, but the uncertainty is CO2 forcing + 35 % + / - 65 % from aerosols + GHGs in AR5.

Slowing the growth rate of GHG emissions and then reversing it is the key to addressing climate change and keeping global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

To address these questions, the IEA and IRENA separately examined the investment needs for energy sector pathways that would put the world on track towards a significant reduction in energy - related GHG emissions.

If Premier Prentice is committed to achieving cost - effective, long - term GHG emission reductions in the electricity sector as part of addressing climate change, wind energy will need to play a primary and growing role in Alberta's electricity system.

A climate change action plan lays out a strategy, including specific policy recommendations, that a local government will use to address climate change and reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The group address climate change mitigation at the community scale by providing recommendations for effective strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

The meeting aimed to help participants explore options on how to further strengthen co-operation regarding mitigation ambition, including through the targeted utilization of existing UNFCCC institutions and mechanisms and forging new partnerships, to strengthen ongoing efforts to address the increase in non-CO2 GHG emissions.

Reliable GHG inventories are essential, both at national and international level, for: assessing the international community's collective and individual efforts to address climate change and progress toward meeting the ultimate objective of the Convention; evaluating mitigation options; assessing the effectiveness of policies and measures; making long - term emission projections; providing the foundation for emission trading schemes.

The analysis is in terms of Europe's» two fold obligation,» and shows how it can act, on the one hand, by undertaking domestic actions to rapidly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), and, on the other, by fulfilling its international obligations to help other countries address the twin crises of climate change and development.

This addresses the very real needs of the poor for more energy without increasing GHG emissions, promotes social and economic justice, and — guess what?

In each situation, these two scientists spoke out against efforts to address climate change by reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Addressing another alternative — regulating only tailpipe GHG emissions in California — Defendants speculate that it «may result in greater emissions overall,» though CARB stated that GHG emissions could be reduced by «increasing vehicle efficiency» or «reducing the number of vehicle miles traveled.»

Other chapters in this volume address pre-consumer GHG emissions from waste within the industrial (Chapter 7) and energy (Chapter 4) sectors which are managed within those respective sectors.

A variety of technology - specific challenges (in addition to cost) may need to be addressed to enable RE to significantly upscale its contribution to reducing GHG emissions.