Sentences with phrase «co2 emissions cap»

According to Evolution Markets (29 Sept 2008): «The CO2 emissions cap under RGGI is 188 million tons per year.

CO2 / MWh, which translate into statewide CO2 emission caps.

He imposed CO2 emission caps - the «toughest in the nation» - in an effort to curtail traditional energy production.

Not exact matches

Closed freezer cases also emit less CO2, a detail that is important to eco-conscious retailers, ones who are already regulated by emissions standards or who have to comply with emission caps.

The RGGI CO2 cap represents a regional budget for CO2 emissions from the power sector.

As a result, the NRDC, the EDF, the Clean Air Task Force and other groups support both a cap - and - trade scheme to limit CO2 emissions as well as subsidies for the first CCS coal - fired power plants to be built.

Should the government impose a price on carbon emissions, whether it is a tax or cap - and - trade system, CO2 - free sources, such as nuclear energy, will become even more competitive.

On Tuesday, the governments of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.

«It'd be about four times larger in terms of the amount of CO2 emissions from the facilities that are [currently] covered, and it'd be by far the largest cap - and - trade system in the world,» said Larry Goulder, an economist at Stanford University who has organized meetings of carbon market architects in both China and California.

The cap would be set, ideally with expert scientific consultation, to make an appropriately deep cut in total CO2 emissions.

In his campaign last fall, President Barack Obama called for a «cap and trade» plan that would auction off carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions allowances to big carbon polluters.

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

The most important thing that could happen to drive IGCC forward would be putting a price on CO2 emissions in the form of a mandatory economy - wide «cap and trade» approach, which is what a Senate resolution passed last summer recommended.»

If the world ever does reach an accord to cap CO2 emissions, the PurGen model might go global and the carbon might go back underground.

Regular auctions to sell the right to pollute, or allowances, have netted nearly $ 676 million for the states and emissions have dropped to roughly 120 million metric tons of CO2 — 34 percent below the cap for 2009, according to a report from Environment Northeast.

This scenario would change if there were a significant tax on carbon emissions, or if an equivalent economic penalty were imposed on fossil - fueled plants through a cap on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions or a requirement that CO2 be sequestered.

Moreover, to level the playing field and allow all new innovations to compete, you should support a cap on CO2 emissions to limit global warming or accomplish the same by placing a tax on carbon emissions.

Deep cuts in emissions will require signals that the CO2 price at $ 30 or above is here to stay and that the caps on emissions will be imposed and become ever stricter each year over decadal timeframes.

This report compares the incentive - based approaches to curb activities that produce CO2 emissions, such as tax on emissions, cap on the total annual level of emissions, and a modified cap - and - trade program.

The «Price» part is a price schedule for CO2 emissions, either explicitly through a tax schedule or implicitly through the cap schedule of a cap and trade system.

I do not see any way of reducing CO2 emissions without a carbon tax, or its innocent maskarade as cap and trade, which raises the prices of carbon as well.

To our non-European readers, it's perhaps worth pointing out that the European Union already runs a compulsory cap and trade scheme for CO2 emissions.

If the UNFCC meeting in Bali this December does not agree on some form of hard cap on global CO2 emissions, then the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is going to go on rising at unprecedented rates, and hence AGTs will go on rising at an equally unprecedented rate.

Deep cuts in emissions will require signals that the CO2 price at $ 30 or above is here to stay and that the caps on emissions will be imposed and become ever stricter each year over decadal timeframes.

If Congress acts right away to pass President Obama's Recovery package and then takes decisive action this year to institute a cap - and - trade system for CO2 emissions — as many of our states and many other countries have already done — the United States will regain its credibility and enter the Copenhagen treaty talks with a renewed authority to lead the world in shaping a fair and effective treaty.

The take - home messages are that global warming legislation needs to cap CO2 emissions from power plants and include strong efficiency standards for building shells and the appliances and heating and cooling equipment inside them.

In order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisis.

The government will use two ways to control CO2 emissions in the next five - year plan, by intensity and an absolute cap.

Couric: John McCain proposed legislation calling for mandatory caps on global warming gases or CO2 emissions.

As Dr. Sachs said, carbon taxes and cap and trade is not likely to result in a reduction of CO2 emissions.

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CO2 emissions in 2012 in the participating states were still only 92 million short tons, close to the 2014 target cap of 91 million short tons.

The cap was tightened primarily because actual CO2 emissions in the region since 2009 have been roughly 35 % below the cumulative cap.

The Chinese acknowledge the World Wide consensus on climate change to be the biggest challenge to be faced by humanity and they are prepared to cap CO2 emissions 15 % by 2020.

CO2 emissions from coal - fired generation were up both in the RGGI region and nationally in the first half of 2013, compared with 2012 levels, which indicates that the new RGGI cap could become more binding in the future.

The program also allows for the limited use of CO2 offsets, which are reductions in emissions from activities not subject to the RGGI cap, as a compliance option.

Last year, the nine states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) cap - and - trade program for carbon dioxide (CO2) decided to lower the program's emissions cap by 45 % starting in 2014.

This would be helpful in calculating the atmospheric concentration at which CO2 would cease to increase if emissions were naturally (or forcibly) capped at X % higher levels than today.

Even if greenhouse gas emissions were completely stopped today, most of the world's glaciers would still disappear or dwindle to remnants by the end of this century, just from the CO2 that's already in the atmosphere, while the polar ice caps will likely keep shrinking for centuries to come.

RGGI is a «Cap and Auction» program that caps electric generating unit emissions and then auctions permits to emit CO2 or allowances.

The equivalent of that is what's transpiring in New Mexico, where the state Environmental Improvement Board is considering a rule that would cap CO2 emissions at 25 percent of 1990 levels.

The regional emissions cap in 2021 will be equal to 75,147,784 tons and will decline by 2.275 million tons of CO2 per year thereafter, resulting in a total 30 % reduction in the regional cap from 2020 to 2030.

Based on the CO2 reduction numbers claimed in the Proceeds report the revised emissions cap appears to be risky and threatens the credibility of the program.

Democrats, who control Congress, aim to pass legislation in the coming months that will impose the same regulatory scheme that Lindzen opposes, a cap on CO2 emissions.

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«It'd be about four times larger in terms of the amount of CO2 emissions from the facilities that are [currently] covered, and it'd be by far the largest cap - and - trade system in the world,» said Larry Goulder, an economist at Stanford University who has organized meetings of carbon market architects in both China and California.

In any case, what you appear to be prposing is that we cap and trade co2, and that until we do, we can not know what benefits un-capped co2 emissions have.

«The government will use two ways to control CO2 emissions in the next five - year plan, by intensity and an absolute cap,» Reuters reported He as saying.

Existing laws such as renewable portfolio standards, energy efficiency resource standards, long - term requirements for additional hydropower and wind power, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions caps will require a significant reduction in natural gas - fired generation throughout New England.

The Chinese government has already set out ambitious plans to cut the country's reliance on coal — an additional cap on CO2 suggests the country's leaders are serious about tackling their emission problem,» he said.