Sentences with phrase «sf6 emission reduction efforts»

Funding delayed (p. 126 and 150): Last year, Ottawa promise $ 2 billion over two years, starting this year, for a Low Carbon Economy Fund to support emission reductions efforts by provinces and territories.

With the help of the Delta Institute and the Climate Trust, nonprofits focused on market - driven emissions reduction efforts, offsets are paid out to farmers when they document reductions in their nitrogen fertilizer use.

«Building a greenhouse gas emissions inventory enables city leaders to manage their emissions reduction efforts, allocate resources and develop comprehensive climate action plans,» said Rio de Janeiro mayor and C40 Chair Eduardo Paes said in a statement.

That said, the news comes at a time of great uncertainty over the future of global emissions reduction efforts, while nations around the world are convening in Germany for the U.N. climate conference.

The world's top CO2 producers are going to have to participate in an emissions reduction effort to make a significant impact on global CO2.

As a frequent lurker on this site, and some others, I have been puzzled by the lack of quantitative data of the potental impact on temperature of greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts.

Keurig Green Mountain recognized that despite their emissions reduction efforts, part of the carbon footprint would remain.

It addressed, through presentations, subsequent question and answer sessions and a general discussion, the following issues: clarification of the nature and level of the targets communicated by developed country Parties; assumptions and conditions associated with the targets; commonalities and differences of approach in measuring the progress towards the targets; comparability of emission reduction efforts by developed country Parties, and options and ways to increase the level of ambition of the pledges; relevant policies and measures to support the targets, and experience with low - emission development strategies; and possible ways forward.

At the same time, «much greater emissions reductions efforts... will be required» to meet the target endorsed by the UN 195 - nation climate body, it said.

This technical document presents an overview of the quantified economy - wide emission reduction targets to be implemented by developed country Parties, as well as assumptions and conditions related to the attainment of these targets, and discusses comparison of the emission reduction efforts.

«(E) improve the accuracy and reliability of capabilities to monitor, report, and verify greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts.

ComEd's SF6 emission reduction efforts are led by a team of representatives from the Transmission and Substation Operations (T&S) and Environmental Services departments.

Also being discussed are reductions in line with the emission reduction efforts currently expressed in countries» nationally - determined climate pledges.

Until US policymakers move beyond the Cato - style climate logical fallacies, the EPA regulation of large GHG emitters via the endangerment finding is the only large - scale emissions reductions effort we have.

The AB 32 year 2020 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets (year 2020 levels reduced to year 1990 measured levels) could be achieved by primarily addressing electricity generation and industrial sector greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts through increased use of renewable energy, energy efficiency and fuel substitution efforts.

While JCM remains a small proportion of Japan's total emission reduction efforts, JCM does help Japan achieve other objectives.

For industrialized countries, parties agreed to avoid a gap in emissions reductions efforts and monitoring between the expiration of the Kyoto Protocol and whatever treaty succeeds it at the end of 2012.

«The data are also being used to inform regulatory actions and voluntary emission reduction efforts,» the EPA said.

«For Mediclinic, setting a science - based target makes business sense, we already see direct benefits from emissions reduction efforts through cost savings and energy supply security,» said

They have taxed their residents to fund emission reduction efforts, limited their own fossil fuel use, and tried to prohibit or reduce the environmental impacts of fossil fuel production within their borders.»

Paragrap 17 «Notes with concern that the estimated aggregate greenhouse gas emission levels in 2025 and 2030 resulting from the intended nationally determined contributions do not fall within least - cost 2 ̊C scenarios but rather lead to a projected level of 55 gigatonnes in 2030, and also notes that much greater emission reduction efforts will be required than those associated with the intended nationally determined contributions in order to hold the increase in the global average temperature to below 2 ̊C above pre-industrial levels by reducing emissions to 40 gigatonnes or to 1.5 ̊C above pre-industrial levels by reducing to a level to be identified in the special report referred to in paragraph 21 below;»

Not exact matches

Beyond weather worries, about 57 percent of the entrepreneurs said they'd like to see the largest carbon emitters make the biggest reductions in emissions — and bear most of the costs of such efforts.

Farmer Brothers has also revamped its sustainability programs, ramping up our recycling efforts and driving large reductions in water usage and greenhouse gas emissions.

The release touted their efforts to advance energy efficiency and renewable energy programs alongside their aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in North America to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, and 80 percent by 2050.

Still, she thinks it is clear enough that the «Accelerated Effort» scenario for China would produce a significant reduction in China's emissions.

New efforts to track and quantify greenhouse gas emission reductions could prove a model for global efforts.

«The Commission is concerned that over-reliance on international offsets — given the practical difficulty of assuring that emissions reductions claimed in other countries are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable — could undermine program goals and political support, especially if substantial U.S. funds are leaving the country to support abatement efforts abroad rather than at home,» it states.

By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

The numerous rules will address issues such as how countries will track and report their emissions and have them verified, all in a transparent way; how countries will be required to communicate their future emissions - reduction plans as well as their pledges for funding adaptation efforts; and if and how market mechanisms, such as emissions trading between countries, will be applied to national targets.

But such a charismatic carbon project is all too rare these days, both because the carbon market is dominated by less robust emission reductions from heavy industry in China and India as well as development efforts that proceed with little thought of the environmental cost or co-benefits.

«Substantial reductions in emissions are possible for both the U.S. and the rest of the world, but it will take herculean efforts and transforming the global energy system into one that does not use the sky as a waste dump,» Caldeira said.

Reductions in emissions from deforestation, in particular in the Amazon, have made a major contribution to global efforts to control global warming; since 2005 the Amazon has seen its deforestation rate drop 77 % below the historic average.

The disciplines of architecture and design have tended to concentrate their efforts on reduction of energy use and CO2 emissions.

The need to improve fuel economy, with the resulting reductions in CO2 emissions motivated us to step up our efforts in the joint development with JATCO of this next - generation CVT.

With all these actions, the U.S. should do what it can to leverage its efforts into emissions reductions by other countries, particularly China and India.

Look at any list of main points in play in recent years: forest protection and planting, transfers of money and technology from powerful to vulnerable, efforts to set, measure and verify emissions reductions — and you'll see a glaringly missing factor.

-- Implementing a partial phase - out of fossil fuel consumption subsidies accounts for 12 % of the reduction in emissions and supports efficiency efforts.

The need for greater certainty in the methane budget, as well as the need for better information upon which to facilitate methane emissions reductions, has motivated the large effort EDF has been leading, one involving dozens of academic experts.

While I am still comfortable with my argument that «human inertia» is the prime explanation for a long response time for doing anything about greenhouse gas emissions, I am very wary of efforts by California and the U.K. to stick their necks out on carbon reductions.

All -LCB- developed country Parties -RCB--LCB- all Annex I Parties and all current European Union (EU) member States, EU candidate countries and potential candidate countries that are not included in Annex I to the Convention -RCB--LCB- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries, countries that are not OECD members but whose economic development stages are equivalent to those of the OECD members, and countries that voluntarily wish to be treated as developed countries -RCB--LCB- shall -RCB--LCB- should -RCB- adopt legally binding mitigation commitments or actions including economy - wide quantified emission limitation and reduction objectives16 for the period from -LCB- 1990 -RCB--LCB- 2013 -RCB--LCB- XXXX -RCB- until -LCB- 2017 -RCB--LCB- 2020 -RCB--LCB- XXXX -RCB-, while ensuring comparability of efforts among them, taking into account differences in their national circumstances.

In this regard, the developed major economies will implement, consistent with international obligations, economy - wide mid-term goals and take corresponding actions in order to achieve absolute emission reductions and, where applicable, first stop the growth of emissions as soon as possible, reflecting comparable efforts among them.

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.

Some of the low - hanging targets for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions have been highlighted in recent months in a «By Degrees» series in The Times, which explores topics like the electrical demand of our new electronic gadgets, efforts to curb methane leaks and the move to install light - colored roofs in warmer climates.

That said, as the McKinsey report makes clear (and I assume the PCAP report does as well), substantial emissions reduction will require a concerted government and policy effort.

The flaw being that one thought one could address the climate threat by a combination emissions reductions, renewable energy use increase, and conservation efforts because we mistakenly thought the CO2 we emitted would stay in the atmosphere for a relatively short time - under 50 - 100 years, instead of the 500 and above years we now know a significant portion stays in the atmosphere.

All of these efforts help HP chip away at achieving its science - based emission reduction target.

Using a supplier sustainability platform and emissions reductions toolkit, Walmart encourages its suppliers to focus their efforts on what their data tells them are the most important areas: energy, agriculture, waste, packaging, deforestation and product use and design.

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI): Spearheaded the formation of the successful RGGI cap - and - trade program among northeast and mid-Atlantic states, led effort to reduce RGGI's carbon emission cap by 45 percent in 2014, and recently called for an additional cap reduction of at least 30 percent between 2020 and 2030.

A new report assesses the credit risks that power plants face from the global transition to an economy with lower carbon dioxide emissions and finds that some U.S. coal plants are still exposed to those risks, despite Trump administration efforts to roll back CO2 reduction rules.

«It's hard to pin down, but in two to three years I would expect Chiapas to be in good shape in having a robust REDD program that is generating emissions reductions that could be verified,» he says, citing a project called MREDD + as an example of efforts aimed at developing a robust REDD framework in Mexico.