Sentences with phrase «achieving overall emissions»

This is in the economic logic of achieving overall emissions reductions at the lowest possible cost.

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A large proportion of patients achieved an overall response (96 percent) and a complete metabolic response as assessed by positron emission tomography imaging (96 percent).

So far, several Canadian provinces and territories have decided how they are going to achieve their share of Canada's overall carbon emissions reduction goal.

Contributing an additional weight reduction of 75 kg * and improving the overall driveline efficiency, the front - wheel - drive version enables the Range Rover Evoque coupé to achieve class - leading CO2 emissions of sub 130g / km *.

At the same time its modest capacity, boosted by an electric motor can achieve excellent fuel economy and low overall exhaust emissions, including the all important CO2 emissions.

Computer modeling of the NRDC plan, which used the same model used by the EPA, suggests that if the EPA does follow this approach, the US could see a 26 percent cut in power plant emissions — and an overall reduction in the US carbon footprint of 10 percent by 2020 — the largest share of achieving the 17 percent reduction the president has called for.

The bill would set up a cap - and - trade system to achieve the emissions targets, allowing industry and other entities to buy and sell permits within an overall emissions ceiling.

This is in stark contrast to the aviation and shipping sectors, where there is no overall global vision on how to achieve zero emissions.»

Further emissions savings can be achieved by taking into account the overall life cycle of cement, concrete and the built environment.

The Plan hopes to achieve a 5 % reduction in overall emissions from 2013/14 levels from by 2018/19, and a 20 % reduction in non-landfill emissions from 2013/14 levels from by 2018/19.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

Carbon pricing achieves emission reductions at the lowest overall cost to society (i.e., it is economically efficient).

Overall, the EU will only scrape its target of an eight percent reduction in emissions relative to 1990 levels and will rely heavily on buying carbon credits from developing countries in order to achieve it.

The least - efficient policies still achieved significant emissions reductions, with an overall impact of just four - tenths of a percent on economic growth.

Friends of the Earth believes that if the EU allows the aviation sector to grow according to its forecasts, it will find it politically impossible to achieve the overall cut in CO2 emissions needed.

It is a simple way to monitor the overall consistency between the evolving climate change signal, individual countries» pledges and the overall goal of achieving net zero CO2 emissions by the time we reach 2 °C of human - related warming.

It is an initiative of world citizens who are committed to climate justice through achieving an overall reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and a unified distribution of these emissions among all of humankind.

The report also found that a strong economy - wide emissions reduction program along with the full use of energy efficiency measures is the best way to achieve these reductions at low overall costs.

By contrast, under a «mass - based system,» states would have to meet an overall target for greenhouse - gas emissions and ensure that power plants either make those reductions at their facilities or finance efforts to achieve them in other ways, such as by reducing consumer demand or investing in carbon - free electricity generation.

When compared with a conventional gasoline - fueled vehicle that averages 22 MPG, the plug - in hybrid achieved a 68 - percent reduction in tailpipe emissions and a 54 - percent reduction in overall fuel costs.

Overall it has achieved a 10 % reduction in CO2 emissions from factory to store compared with previous models.

I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).

According to the Kyoto Protocol, which the United States did not ratify, countries were told to reduce their overall emissions, which they can achieve by controlling carbon dioxide, methane or any of the other greenhouse gases.

es that ratified the 1997 Kyoto Protocol greenhouse gas limiting treaty have reduced their emissions overall since then and have achieved their goals of cutting emissions to about 8 percent below 1990 levels.