Sentences with phrase «ghg emission source»

Nuclear energy is a mature low - GHG emission source of baseload power, but its share of global electricity generation has been declining (since 1993).

As a first step, Erie County is completing a GHG inventory and analyzing GHG emission sources and levels.

Mitigation scenarios (also known as climate intervention or climate policy scenarios) are defined in the TAR (Morita et al., 2001), as scenarios that «(1) include explicit policies and / or measures, the primary goal of which is to reduce GHG emissions (e.g., carbon taxes) and / or (2) mention no climate policies and / or measures, but assume temporal changes in GHG emission sources or drivers required to achieve particular climate targets (e.g., GHG emission levels, GHG concentration levels, radiative forcing levels, temperature increase or sea level rise limits).»

Not exact matches

This report, by Jacobs Consultancy, assesses the degree to which oilsands GHG emissions compare to other sources of crude entering the European Union.

They enable major power generators to profitably generate electricity in a manner that reduces the overall cost of compliance with mandatory greenhouse gas («GHG») emissions limits and renewable energy targets while also allowing countries to diversify their sources of electricity supply.

GHG emissions created by fuel sources are expected to be factored into California emissions standards post 2025.

The source of a majority of DOT's Scope 3 GHG emissions is employee commuting.

Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are emissions from sources not owned or directly controlled by the Department, but related to DOT activities, such as employee business travel and commuting.

GHG emissions inventories are used by policy makers to understand sources of emissions, to develop strategies to reduce GHGs, and to track progress.

While transportation is crucial to our economy and our personal lives, as a sector it is also a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Estimates of GHG emissions do not include additional «lifecycle» emissions related to transportation, such as the extraction and refining of fuel and the manufacture of vehicles, which are also a significant source of domestic and international GHG emissions.

An emissions inventory identifies and quantifies the sources and sinks (e.g., forests) of greenhouse gases (GHG).

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.

In 2014, transportation sources contributed nearly 27 percent of U.S. GHG emissions.

Remembering this EIA report only covers * energy use * and not total GHG emissions from all sources combined.

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.»

If you look at my original comments regarding stopping the increase in GHG emissions within five years, to be followed by steep reductions to near zero emissions within ten years, you will see that I have in fact cited, and quoted, sources — beginning with the IEA's recent report.

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).

In my case, I cut my household GHG emissions by about two - thirds, from a relatively frugal base, with four changes: replaced an older car with a Prius, stopped buying grain - fed meat, bought wind power from my local electric utility, moved to a house with a ground - source heatpump.

The «emissions reductions» approach, including cap - and - trade systems and other economic incentive mechanisms as well as direct regulatory controls, will require power plants, cars, and many other GHG sources to become more «efficient» by cutting their discharges.

I have briefly stated in comment 65 on the Hansen Carbon Tax write - up June 5 that we have a source of GHG emissions that can be controlled with many additional benefits, but that no one recognizes.

Efforts to solve global warming by GHG emissions reductions strategies, rather than GHG replacement strategies, can not realistically succeed over the short - term or the long - term or any term, ever - unless the mandated reductions are so drastic that in effect they would require carbon - free alternatives for nearly all GHG sources.

Steelmaking is energy intensive and one of the world's leading industrial sources of greenhouse gases, generating nearly two tonnes of CO2 emissions per tonne of steel produced and accounting for about five per cent of total GHG emissions.

Key Issues for Discussion and Comment in the ANPR: Descriptions of key provisions and programs in the CAA, and advantages and disadvantages of regulating GHGs under those provisions; How a decision to regulate GHG emissions under one section of the CAA could or would lead to regulation of GHG emissions under other sections of the Act, including sections establishing permitting requirements for major stationary sources of air pollutants; Issues relevant for Congress to consider for possible future climate legislation and the potential for overlap between future legislation and regulation under the existing CAA; and, scientific information relevant to, and the issues raised by, an endangerment analysis.

The study also found that both BTL - RC - CCS (biomass - to - liquids, with recycling of unconverted syngas to maximize FTL output and CCS) and cellulosic ethanol with CCS (EtOH - CCS) have negative GHGI emission values that can be exploited to offset GHG missions from difficult to decarbonize energy sources such as transportation fuels derived from crude oil.

Global Warming is an effect much closer to the source: our GHG emissions.

In a joint announcement, President Obama said the U.S. would cut its GHG emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 — about double the pace the U.S. had been targeting in the 2005 - 2020 period — while President Xi Jinping said China would aim to cap its emissions increases by 2030, by which time it expected to get 20 percent of its total energy consumption from zero - emissions sources.

In many states, such standards were not explicitly meant to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, although given the energy sources they promote (solar and wind, for example), emissions reductions are an expected result.

Coal and natural gas - fired power plants are the single largest source of GHG emissions in the US economy.

Data on GHG emissions (by countries) were exported from the World Resource Institute's (WRI) Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) 17, a database of national and international GHG emissions derived from multiple sources.

The combined non-CO2 GHG reduction potential for these sources is estimated at nearly 300 million metric tonnes (330 million U.S. tons) of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030 — more than the Netherlands» total annual GHG emissions.

California's LCFS also would have little or no impact on GHG emissions nationwide and would harm our nation's energy security by discouraging the use of Canadian crude oil — our nation's largest source of crude — and ethanol produced in the American Midwest.

NATURALLY OCCURRING METHANE CAPTURE — Methane emissions may occur from land areas where coal or other high concentrations of un-extracted fossil fuels are present underground, resulting in a naturally occurring source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Electricity production is the single largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States, accounting for 34 % of national emissions.

In a new, comprehensive study, a team from Argonne National Laboratory, Stanford University and UC Davis ITS has estimated the well - to - wheels (WTW) GHG emissions of US production of gasoline and diesel sourced from Canadian oil sands.

The document, in addition to the key initial accounting parameters, has also contained annual information on: (a) total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the sources listed in Annex A to the Kyoto Protocol; (b) GHG emissions and removals from land use, land - use change and forestry activities under Article 3, paragraph 3, of the Kyoto Protocol, and elected activities under Article 3, paragraph 4, of the Kyoto Protocol; and (c) transactions and holdings of Kyoto Protocol units.

Provides that a GHG can not be subject to new source review provisions of Prevention of Significant Deterioration program solely on the basis of emissions of any GHG.

Subtitle F: Transmission Planning -(Sec. 151) Amends the Federal Power Act to establish a federal policy for transmission planning that calls for regional electric grid planning that facilitates the deployment of renewable and other zero - carbon and low - carbon energy sources for generating electricity to reduce GHG emissions while ensuring reliability, reducing congestion, ensuring cyber-security, minimizing environmental harm, and providing for cost - effective electricity services throughout the United States.

Includes provisions: (1) creating a combined energy efficiency and renewable electricity standard and requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet 20 % of their demand through renewable electricity and electricity savings by 2020; (2) setting a goal of, and requiring a strategic plan for, improving overall U.S. energy productivity by at least 2.5 % per year by 2012 and maintaining that improvement rate through 2030; and (3) establishing a cap - and - trade system for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and setting goals for reducing such emissions from covered sources by 83 % of 2005 levels by 2050.

Actions to significantly reduce GHG emissions in developing countries would involve dramatically cutting back the use of coal, the source of 71 percent of India's electricity and 81 percent of China's.

Title V: Agricultural and Forestry Related Offsets - Subtitle A: Offset Credit Program From Domestic Agricultural and Forestry Sources -(Sec. 502) Requires the Secretary to establish a program governing the generation of offset credits from domestic agricultural and forestry sources to ensure that: (1) offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increased sequestration; and (2) offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that result in a permanent net reduction in atmospheriSources -(Sec. 502) Requires the Secretary to establish a program governing the generation of offset credits from domestic agricultural and forestry sources to ensure that: (1) offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increased sequestration; and (2) offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that result in a permanent net reduction in atmospherisources to ensure that: (1) offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increased sequestration; and (2) offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that result in a permanent net reduction in atmospheric GHGs.

Scope 1: Direct GHG emissions occur from sources that are owned or controlled by the company, for example, emissions from combustion in owned or controlled boilers, furnaces, vehicles, etc.; emissions from chemical production in owned or controlled process equipment.

Subtitle C: Additional Greenhouse Gas Standards -(Sec. 331) Amends the CAA to require the EPA Administrator to promulgate New Source Performance Standards (NSPSs) under such Act for specified categories of stationary sources that: (1) have uncapped GHG emissions greater than 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent and are responsible for emitting at least 20 % of the uncapped GHG gas emission annually; or (2) are responsible for at least 10 % of the uncapped methane emissions.

(Sec. 223) Codifies provisions concerning EPA's existing SmartWay Transport Program to quantify, demonstrate, and promote the benefits of technologies, products, fuels, and operational strategies that reduce petroleum consumption, air pollution, and GHG emissions from the mobile source sector.

Offsets can be created when projects are undertaken to permanently reduce GHG emissions such as building retrofits, reduced consumption of fossil fuels, or the displacement of non-renewables into energy sources such as wind and solar.

Unless the President and the EPA Administrator step up to their responsibilities as defined in the Clean Air Act and begin to regulate all sources of America's carbon emissions, not just those of the electric utility industry, then America's own GHG emissions will never be reduced to the extent that climate activists are demanding.

Industry input is especially important in the current environment, because the proposed shift to incremental capacity auctions (ICA) are likely to boost GHG emissions from Ontario's grid, so mechanisms to include low - emission sources are needed to balance the reliance on the ICA for supply adequacy.

What is the cost to non participants if there is less than full participation in the pricing mechanism (i.e. less than all man - made GHG gasses are included, less than all emissions sources are included, and less than all countries are included) Hint: Nordhaus says that if just 50 % of emissions sources, globally, are included the cost penalty on the participants is 250 %.

Announced during the 22nd session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP22), this project will diversify the country's power generation mix with a clean source of renewable power and help the country reduce GHG emissions.

introduced the «Managed Carbon Price Act of 2012» (MCP), a bill imposing a tax on carbon dioxide - equivalent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from producers of coal, oil, and natural gas, refineries, and other covered sources.