Sentences with phrase «emissions leakage occurs»

Emissions leakage occurs when sources outside of a carbon pricing system increase economic activity and associated emissions as a result of that system.

Not exact matches

First, it assumes no leakage from potential storage reservoirs, which, if it occurred, would increase the amount of negative emissions needed to stay within budget for 2C.

Leakage also refers to GHG - related effects of GHG - emission reduction or CO2 - sequestration project activities that occur outside the project boundaries and that are measurable and attributable to the activity.

Carbon leakage may occur through changes in trading patterns, and that is sometimes measured as the balance of emissions embodied in trade (BEET).

However, a negative leakage (i.e., leakage having the effect of reducing emissions) could also occur due to a lowering in demand and price for oil and gas.

Fugitive methane emissions occur at every stage of the natural gas life cycle; however, the total amount of leakage is unclear.

The projects only create offsets if three things occur simultaneously: firstly the project has to be one that would not have gone ahead without the offset funding («additionality»), secondly the project must not create increased emissions anywhere else in the world («leakage»), and thirdly the emissions reductions must not be counted more than once («double counting»).