Knowing what kind of emissions are saved is a big deal considering the attention corporate
carbon emissions reporting has been getting.
Not exact matches
In 2005 the company agreed to pay a $ 1.1 million fine after the EPA alleged that VW had received numerous
reports in 1999 and 2000 about a defective exhaust part, which was causing excess
carbon monoxide and other dangerous
emissions, but failed to
report the defect to regulators, as required, until the EPA came across it in a random test.
In addition, countries will have to track their efforts in cutting
carbon emissions and
report on their progress every five years.
The latest
report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of
carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.
The agreement aims to hold global warming to «well below» two degrees Celsius from the levels of the Industrial Revolution, and puts in place a system for tracking efforts to cut
carbon emissions and
report on progress every five years.
With the exception of implicit prices on
carbon on some
emissions in Sweden, Japan, and Germany (see this recent OECD
report for details), no
carbon pricing policy in place today comes close to that type of stringency.
Put another way, despite all the good things about B.C.'s
carbon tax (and it got some laudatory words in the OECD
report), it's barely stringent enough to fit into the IEA's 450ppm path and it's not likely to be stringent enough to see BC's
emissions decrease between now and 2020 (see Table 17).
Emissions of
carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, rose by an average of 0.73 percent for every 1 percent growth in gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, Richard York of the University of Oregon wrote in his
report.
But on Wednesday, one day after the phone call,
reports began to emerge from the White House that Trump had decided to withdraw from the 2015 agreement, in which nearly all countries pledged to reduce
carbon emissions.
The Auditor General also
reported that Alberta was unlikely to meet its 2020 targets to reduce
carbon emissions.
The Alberta government received the final
report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on
carbon, introduce a limit on overall
emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.
Dave Sawyer, one of the authors of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy
report, and blogger at EnviroEconomics.ca, makes some pertinent insider comments on the efficacy of a
carbon tax in reducing
emissions from personal transportation, a major source of
emissions: While the
carbon tax will â $ œdriveâ $ some reductions in vehicle kilometers traveled, -LSB-...]
Duke Energy published a climate
report on March 22 outlining its plans to change its fuel mix to sharply reduce
carbon emissions.
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ARI's most recent
emissions analysis of the ECOMAX
reports 700 pounds less of
carbon dioxide
emissions each month compared to the old truck.
The UK could cut the
carbon emissions from passenger cars in half if the population went meat - free or vegan, according to a new
report from Lancaster University.
We
report on
carbon emissions per 100,000 orders, and we focus on reducing our
carbon intensity through operational efficiency.
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats want the bill to include annual targets for cutting
carbon emissions, an annual
report to parliament on the progress being made on these targets, and the creation of independent body to assess the science.
WBFO's Chris Caya
reports on the state's plan to cover the cost of reducing
carbon emissions and help the nuclear industry.
In most cases, the surcharges were initially met with hostility, but the positive effects have been hard to deny: Immediately following the initiation of zone charging, London saw congestion reduced by a quarter, average speeds increase by 30 percent, and
carbon dioxide
emissions decrease by 20 percent, per the Fix NYC
report.
Government departments across Whitehall are failing to meet their
carbon emission reduction targets, a
report finds.
It is worth noting that while the DEC
reports an overall decrease in
emissions and health consequences, there are still pockets of New York where residents are suffering the effects of
carbon emissions and other toxins.
The UK has massively overstated its reduction in
carbon emission, say two new
reports which casts a harsh light on Britain's environmental policy.
The
report concludes that personal
carbon trading is not the best option for reducing
carbon emissions - something environmental campaign groups have been saying for years.
The
report accepts minister's efforts to include aviation in the EU
emissions trading scheme, where firms would be given a certain allocation of
carbon credits to buy and sell on the open market, but warns this is still «years away».
The government could come under pressure to give out extra credits if people found it too hard to reduce their
emissions, the
report said, and it would also be an expensive option compared to other ways of cutting
emissions, like
carbon taxation.
The
report called on councils to take on responsibility for cutting household
carbon emissions, pointing to lagging, insulating, re-glazing and modernising as opportunities to improve energy efficiency.
The
report forecast UK
carbon emissions in 2010 will be only halfway to meeting the 20 per cent target in a «very significant shortfall», the
report warned.
The environmental audit committee's
report on the EU
Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) points to underperformance in the scheme so far, concluding the «record in reducing carbon emissions is far less impressiv
Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) points to underperformance in the scheme so far, concluding the «record in reducing
carbon emissions is far less impressiv
emissions is far less impressive».
Additionally, Ryanair is Europe's greenest airline after buying a new fleet which reduce
carbon emissions per passenger seat by 50 per cent, a recent
report finds.
The
report highlights says deployment of renewables will have an important role to play in cutting
carbon emissions.
Brittain et al. (2014)
report evidence for an orbiting source of
carbon monoxide
emission whose size is consistent with theoretical predictions for a circumplanetary disk.
As we recently
reported in Nature Climate Change, significantly expanding sugarcane or lipidcane production in Brazil could reduce current global
carbon dioxide
emissions by up to 5.6 percent.
In a 1968
report prepared for API in New York City, SRI scientists Elmer Robinson and R.C. Robbins acknowledged some uncertainty concerning the relation between
carbon emissions and rising temperatures, yet said
carbon dioxide was the most likely cause of the «greenhouse effect.»
A new
report from M.I.T. predict that the U.S. will expand its use of natural gas to produce electricity and as vehicle fuel — but will eventually need to capture its
carbon dioxide
emissions
A recent
report found that high - speed rail in the Midwest would reduce air travel by 1.3 million trips and car travel by 5.1 million trips per year by 2020, saving 188,000 tons of
carbon dioxide
emissions (equivalent to taking 34,000 cars off the road while still getting everyone to and from work).
«Stabilizing or reducing atmospheric
carbon dioxide concentrations, therefore, requires very deep reductions in future
emissions to compensate for past
emissions that are still circulating in the Earth system,» the draft
report says.
The new investment in
carbon offsets and RECs should match the league's total greenhouse gas
emissions, estimated at 550,000 metric tons, according to a league - commissioned
report from the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Green Sports Alliance, a nonprofit that works with sports leagues on environmental sustainability.
According to a
report published last year by the Climate Institute, a Sydney - based nongovernment think tank, China will become the second largest
carbon market in the world in terms of regulated
emissions, covering 700 million tons of
emissions by 2014.
In fact, it would take 3,600 projects of Sleipner's scale — which is the largest such project underway — to reduce current
carbon dioxide
emissions from coal by less than half, the
report says.
Projected
carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions from cars could remain level at three gigatons through 2050 despite many more personal vehicles on the road with only minor and affordable changes to existing engines, chassis and systems, according to a new
report.
The World Bank
reports that Mexico's per capita
emissions are 3.9 metric tons of
carbon dioxide, just a hair below the global average of 4 metric tons.
The Electric Power Research Institute's
report on decarbonizing electricity generation said an «aggressive» push on new technologies could lower 2005 - level
carbon dioxide
emissions from power plants by 41 percent in 2030.
Eliminating this financial risk premium makes nuclear power levelized electricity cost competitive with that of coal, and it becomes lower than that of coal when a modest price on
carbon dioxide
emissions is imposed,» the
report says.
ScienceInsider
reported this week that the U.S. Senate rejected a resolution last week that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating
carbon dioxide
emissions based on its finding that they endanger human health, among other stories.
Australia needs more renewable energy to cut
carbon emissions, two scientists argue in criticizing an advisory body
report.
Two Australian academics serving on a government climate panel have publicly criticized their own committee's latest
report as «untrue and dangerous,» stoking a long - running debate over the country's
carbon emissions reduction strategies.
Lacking improvements in fuel efficiency combined with a comprehensive mitigation policy, the
report finds that transport
emissions could double by 2050 from 6.7 gigatons of emitted
carbon dioxide in 2010, which represents 22 percent of the world's total.
Global
carbon dioxide
emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion metric tons (39.683 billion tons) this year, a
report by 49 researchers from 10 countries said, showing the failure of governments to rein in the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.
In a separate
report released in September, EIA analysts predicted
carbon emissions for 2016 will fall to their lowest level since 1992 — three years before the United Nations held the first of its 21 global summits on climate change, called the Conference of the Parties.