Sentences with phrase «additional carbon reduction»

If the bulbs were adopted worldwide, that single measure could meet 70 percent of the additional carbon reductions promised by industrialized nations in the Kyoto Protocol, according to Paul Waide, a senior policy analyst at the International Energy Agency.

«Great River Energy encourages these investments today in order to achieve additional carbon reductions in the future.»

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He was recently re-elected to the Town Board in Livingston, and worked to pass progressive policies including a ban on hydrofracking, a reduction in the town's carbon footprint and additional investments in green space.

Even when additional reduction measures are implemented against black carbon, or soot, which is released when fossil fuels are burned, they do little to slow down global warming in a 2 degrees scenario.

To earn credits, a project should owe its existence to the prospective earnings from carbon credits: the emissions reductions from the project should be additional to what would have happened in the absence of the CDM.

To achieve the 70 - percent reduction target for carbon dioxide emissions used in the study, additional steps would be needed — and before 2023.

As I said to Andy Revkin (and he published on his blog), the additional decade of temperature data from 2000 onwards (even the AR4 estimates typically ignored the post-2000 years) can only work to reduce estimates of sensitivity, and that's before we even consider the reduction in estimates of negative aerosol forcing, and additional forcing from black carbon (the latter being very new, is not included in any calculations AIUI).

This answers the question whether there will in fact be a near term reduction in carbon emissions, giving us all a chance to avoid dangerous warming that triggers significant additional carbon releases.

A breakdown of the costs revealed that whereas carbon emission reduction policies contributed 16 % of the overall rise in prices, 84 % was due to VAT (an additional # 20), the price of gas (# 290) and the expenses involved in delivering it to homes.

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.

In the near term, federal policy could: i) level the playing field between air captured CO2 and fossil - fuel derived CO2 by providing subsidies or credits for superior carbon lifecycle emissions that account for recovering carbon from the atmosphere; ii) provide additional research funding into air capture R&D initiatives, along with other areas of carbon removal, which have historically been unable to secure grants; and iii) ensure air capture is deployed in a manner that leads to sustainable net - negative emissions pathways in the future, within the framework of near - term national emissions reductions, and securing 2 °C - avoiding emissions trajectories.

In particular, BECI can play a critical role in catalyzing the additional multidisciplinary academic work around carbon removal needed to address the growing scientific consensus (from institutions, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Research Council, and the Global Carbon Project) that preventing further climate change likely requires carbon removal in addition to reductions in carbon emissions.

Developing countries are angry the U.S. and European Union and other rich industrialised countries refuse to increase their carbon emission reduction targets or agree to additional [continue reading...]

Carbon isotope data (obtainable in biological materials such as tree rings that can extend back long before the atomic bomb explosion in 1945) demonstrates that atmospheric CO2 has exhibited a reduction in the C14 / C12 ratio commensurate with a rise in total CO2 concentration to an extent indicating that the additional carbon coming from any postulated unidentified source (e.g., outside of deforestation) must have been lacking in C14.

In addition to carbon emissions reduction, our projects yield additional benefits such as improved living conditions and environmental benefits in the project region.

But eFormic provides an additional barcode for the label that can be entered into eFormic's (or the product maker's) web site to learn more about what carbon - reduction projects were used.

To make up for the missed revenue from the taxes and fire prevention fees, as well as to pay for offsets to counteract additional allowances put on the market if the carbon price hits its upper bound, money will be taken from the cap - and - trade program's revenue, effectively decreasing the amount of discretionary funds remaining for local environmental investments and other greenhouse gas reduction projects.

There are reasons to worry about whether a carbon tax or cap - and - trade system would produce the emissions reductions we need quickly enough, and it is very plausible that additional measures like fuel taxes and efficiency requirements will be needed in addition.

And we've developed some of the most robust reporting and monitoring systems that ensure carbon credits represent real, measurable and additional emissions reductions,» said Simon Henry, program director at the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA), which funded the research for this article.

(B) effective and cost - effective control technologies, operations, and strategies for additional domestic and international black carbon emissions reductions, such as diesel retrofit technologies on existing on - road, non-road, and stationary engines and programs to address residential cookstoves, and forest and agriculture - based burning;

Funding these activities with carbon tax revenues would not generate additional GHG reductions, but simply transfer wealth to the developers by increasing their profit margins.»

Four additional carbon offset methodologies are currently in ACR's approval process for publication in 2013 including California and Mid-South modules for Emission Reductions in Rice Production, a modular approach to Grazing Land and Livestock Management in beef and dairy production, a methodology for Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands to commodity crop production, and a methodology for quantifying emissions reductions from Carbon Capture and Storage in Oil and Gas RReductions in Rice Production, a modular approach to Grazing Land and Livestock Management in beef and dairy production, a methodology for Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands to commodity crop production, and a methodology for quantifying emissions reductions from Carbon Capture and Storage in Oil and Gas Rreductions from Carbon Capture and Storage in Oil and Gas Reservoirs.

The Plausible Scenario projects that energy - efficient shipping can lead to an estimated emissions reduction of 7.9 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent greenhouse gases from 2020 - 2050, at an additional cost of approximately US$ 915 billion [10] and a net operating savings of US$ 424 billion.

We find that the additional emission reductions from the 65 percent RES target in Germany will leave the carbon price $ 4 / t lower in 2030; down from $ 25 / t.

Existing laws such as renewable portfolio standards, energy efficiency resource standards, long - term requirements for additional hydropower and wind power, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions caps will require a significant reduction in natural gas - fired generation throughout New England.

If the purchase of carbon offsets is a critical factor in making the reductions happen, the reductions are said to be «additional» to the business - as - usual case.

India was the first standout, insisting that projects funded by Kyoto's «Clean Development Mechanism» should not actually be required to be strictly «additional,» which is climate speak for actually yielding carbon emission reductions that would not otherwise have occurred.

This provision will be critical as at least 65 nations indicated that they will use carbon trading to achieve their emission reduction pledges and an additional 24 will consider the use of carbon trading for this purpose in the future.

Additional: Additionality requires the carbon emission reductions to be above and beyond business as usual.

The reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide per new unit of non-hydro «renewable» capacity falls off rapidly as additional «renewable» capacity is added to an electric grid because additional fossil fuel sources must be kept in «spinning reserve» in case the wind dies or the sun goes under a cloud unless hydro is available.

In fact, investing in greater amounts of renewables and efficiency would deliver an additional 6.8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emission reductions cumulatively by 2040 than by implementing a carbon standard alone.

They include criteria to ensure carbon credits (also known as Verified Emission Reductions — VERs) sold meet criteria to ensure they are Real, Measurable, Unique, Independently verified, Permanent and Additional.

An alternative would have been additional runs of the same models with carbon - dioxide reduction assumptions built in, looking at varying rates, varying start times, and different levels of intermittency.

This analysis also demonstrates that improving the energy efficiency provisions in ACES by including a stand - alone energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) requiring 10 % cumulative savings by 2020 (instead of the ACES Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the original bill.

All carbon offset transaction proceeds resulting from the project will be reinvested by the school board into additional greenhouse emission reduction projects and climate change related education and programs.

The reductions in operating costs quickly make up any additional costs associated with construction, and the reduced carbon emissions provide priceless peace of mind.

Assume there is buy - in on the massive reforestation, and that the combination of emissions reduction due to substitution of low carbon technologies for fossil and hard additional demand reduction has to total about 20 % per year for a few years.

No one has shown that implementation of low carbon technologies and energy efficiency improvement technologies can rescue us from the climate Apocalypse; in fact, Kevin Anderson has done the computations for a 50/50 chance of staying within 2 C, and has shown that transition to low carbon technologies can't do the job without some serious additional fossil demand reduction.

This is especially critical because studies have estimated a reduction in Atlantic dust cover of 40 to 60 % under a doubled carbon dioxide climate, which, on the basis of model runs with an equivalent reduction of the mean dust forcing, could result in an additional 0.3 ° to 0.4 °C warming of the northern tropical Atlantic.»

Thus, if the low carbon technology substitution could be done on the order of a decade (I have no idea about the practicality of this level of intense effort), then additional demand reduction could be on the order of 10 - 15 % per year.

ACEEE's analysis of this legislation demonstrates that improving the energy efficiency provisions in ACESA by including a stand - alone energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) requiring 10 % cumulative savings by 2020 (instead of the ACESA Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the original bill.

Further, projects must deliver new and «additional» abatement (reduction) of carbon.