Sentences with phrase «additional emission reductions»

Demand - side solutions avoid emissions from land clearing for agriculture and provide additional emissions reductions as well.

These have the potential to deliver additional emission reductions by 2020, but it's difficult to estimate just how much they would impact Massachusetts incremental to state programs.

States will withhold allowances from circulation to secure additional emissions reductions if prices fall below established trigger prices.

Offsets are only considered to be an option for companies wanting to contribute to finance additional emission reductions beyond their science - based target / net - zero.

That decline is even sharper than in the EU which does have economy - wide climate policy, and where CO2 emissions in the first half of 2012 are down 11 % from 2005 levels (though the EU has an international offset program that yields additional emission reductions).

«We do know many members of Congress are concerned about the economic impact of these rules, and more time will help mitigate the economic impact of making additional emission reductions,» a spokeswoman from the utility American Electric Power told the Wall Street Journal.

Burke EJ, Chadburn SE, Huntingford C, Jones CD (2018) CO2 loss by permafrost thawing implies additional emissions reductions to limit warming to 1.5 or 2 °C.

If the current submissions under the Copenhagen Accord were final for a new climate agreement then it would be difficult if not impossible to improve the ambition for additional emission reductions as we move forward.

An effective way for CORSIA, and other schemes, to incentivise emission reductions beyond those that are likely to occur anyway would be to ensure that demand is targeted at projects that are at risk of discontinuing abatement activities and to encourage the development of new projects that deliver additional emission reductions.

Selin cautions that after a certain point, most of the health benefits have already been reaped, and additional emissions reductions won't translate into greater improvements.

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.

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.

This is because under a nationwide cap - and - trade system, any additional emission reductions achieved in California will be offset by fewer reductions in other states.

With tar sands in the fuel mix, achieving the additional emission reductions will cost more money.