Sentences with phrase «addressing emissions issues»

But Goddard testified to the council that the upgrades were «all about» addressing emissions issues.

The automaker is expected to address the emissions issue affecting some 85,000 3.0 - liter VW, Audi and Porsche models separately.

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Without addressing those emissions overtly, the State Department suggests the issue may be moot because Canada will tap into its lucrative oil sands «with or without the proposed project.»

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber's Global Energy Institute, issued the following statement today regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's issuance of an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking addressing carbon emissions from power plants:

Suncor is also looking to address the environmental issues by collaborating with General Electric (NYSE: GE) to develop technologies to will lower water usage in oil sands production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

«The issues that must be addressed include: grid reliability, electricity costs, toxic emissions and related air pollution, attracting major investors for new energy sources and helping the impacted communities,» said Jerry Kremer, the chairman of New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance.

Cuomo's administration is moving to cut methane emissions, but farms already insist they are addressing the issue.

«United States innovation and business leadership have been key drivers to lowering our carbon emissions over the last 20 years, and we should continue to have an influential seat at the table as the rest of the world addresses these issues,» said Stefanik, of Willsboro, a member of the Bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus.

According to Governor Paterson's Climate Action Council, which issued an Interim Report earlier this month identifying strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, the State over time will need to significantly increase deployment of solar technologies to address climate change.

, one of the panel's more liberal members, said there should be «flexibility» to address regional issues but warned against watering down either the bill's emissions or renewable energy targets.

Ultimately, for this issue to be addressed in a meaningful way, a global effort will have to be coordinated that seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emission in both the developed and developing world.

«While it can not be denied that the Beijing Municipal Government has made, and continues to make, strenuous efforts to improve air quality through addressing emissions from the transport, energy and industrial sectors, air pollution is still the single largest environmental and public health issue affecting the city,» they say.

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.

Wofsy, however, said that although the research contributed to the body of knowledge on methane emissions, it was not meant to address the issue raised by Howarth.

The U.K. government is keen to address societal issues such as obesity and carbon emissions by finding ways to change behavior without using regulation.

To be effective, CORSIA has to address several challenging issues, such as ensuring the quality of offset credits and avoiding that emission reductions are accounted twice, i.e. in the generating country and under CORSIA.

Following the direction set by President Obama on May 21, 2010, NHTSA and EPA have issued joint Final Rules for Corporate Average Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas emissions regulations for model years 2017 and beyond, that will help address our country's dependence on imported oil, save consumers money at the pump, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change.

«First, any communication (e.g., TV ad) to the public that communicates that coal is «clean» in any way that can leave the impression that this sort of «clean coal» addresses the issue of greenhouse gas emissions, is misleading, period.

And countries would get away with past emissions with no consequences (specific to them, as opposed to global warming and OA), unless that issue is addressed.

The point is that although selection rules will determine whether a molecular vibration can absorb IR radiation, and is obviously necessary for a complete discussion of the issue, the issue can be simply addressed by consideration of the frequencies of absorption by the gas and emission by the planet.

It's not the cutting of GHG emissions that are the real issue: it's the cutting into the 35 % and growing overload of carbon dioxide already on the globe that has to be addressed for getting some control of global warming.

Once we adopt the perspective that it is unacceptable to use the atmosphere as a sewer, we will address issues related to all sorts of emissions: sulfur, black carbon, methane, carbon dioxide, etc..

The first issue addressed in this post is that plausible carbon uptake could hardly keep pace with ongoing anthropogenic emissions.

And we have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions because I believe there's enough evidence that we are going to damage this planet beyond repair unless we begin to address that issue.

We have to reduce the dependence on foreign oil, and we have to eliminate — we have to address the issue of greenhouse gas emissions.

By enabling wide - scale production and utilization of clean hydrogen, H2@Scale addresses key issues, such as grid resiliency, energy security, and emissions reductions.

In addition to the text of the proposed rule, EPA issued a Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Clean Power Plan, 4 along with numerous technical supporting documents and fact sheets.5 In October 2014, EPA issued a notice of data availability, which provided discussion and solicited additional comment on several topic areas, including the 2020 - 29 compliance trajectories.6 Also in October 2014, EPA issued a supplemental proposal to address carbon pollution from affected power plants in Indian Country and U.S. territories.7 In November 2014, EPA issued an additional technical support document providing examples of how a state could translate its rate - based goal into an equivalent mass - based goal, expressed in metric tons of CO2.8 In November 2014, EPA also issued a memo addressing biogenic CO2 emissions from stationary sources that explicitly relates this topic to the implementation of the Clean Power Plan.9

Some of the issues and problems with respect to reporting of emissions / removals in the land - use change and forestry category that were noted in the first national communications and in - depth reviews have been addressed or are under review, however, others still exist.

In the course of this review, the idea of an emissions containment reserve (ECR) mechanism has been proposed to address a common issue confronting cap - and - trade programs worldwide: the prices for emissions allowances tend to be significantly lower than program designers anticipate in advance, making mid-course corrections necessary for it to perform as intended.

All that said, it will become less and less possible to adapt to what is a persistent and growing crisis if the issue of the world's carbon emissions is not addressed.

Issues regarding climate change and GHG emissions must be addressed as part of strategic risk management decision - making.

While carbon pricing can theoretically address the externalities associated with climatic harm from emissions, it can not automatically deal with the externalities holding back grid development, which include the monopoly status of many of the firms involved, issues concerning economies of scale, the fact that the absence of transmission capacity restricts the emergence of renewable generation capacity (and vice versa).

A pure play in the «Cleantech» sector, CO2 Solutions is attracting knowledgeable and responsible shareholders who believe that the necessity for innovative, cost - effective solutions for the reduction of CO2 emissions is becoming increasingly necessary if we are to responsibly address accelerating climate change issues.

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.

We need new policies, regulatory frameworks, and institutions focused on four areas: creating market - based incentives to innovate and raise carbon productivity; addressing market failures that prevent abatement opportunities from being captured profitably; resolving issues of allocation and fairness, in particular between the developed and developing worlds and between industry sectors; and accelerating progress to avoid missing critical emissions targets.

The platform also contains the following vague and ambiguous promise: «A Conservative government will... address the issue of greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), with a made - in - Canada plan, emphasising new technologies, developed in concert with the provinces and in coordination with other major industrial countries.»

The «pollution paradigm» of climate change limits the opportunities for addressing or solving the issue, in part because fossil fuel emissions make up such a small fraction of the annual flux of CO2 into the atmosphere (less than 3 %).

On the horizon, though there have been successful concerted delaying actions by the fossil fuel industry to address it to date, is the issue of mandating limited Mercury (Hg) emissions largely released from coal - fired power plants.

The Capitol dome looms behind smokestacks of a coal - fired power plant in Washington, D.C. Obama announced plans Tuesday to issue new emissions regulations for U.S. power plants as part of a wider strategy to address climate change.

The reporting survey indicated that the issue of unburnable carbon is not being addressed, and the current strategies laid out in annual reports talk of growth that is incompatible with emissions limits.

«The editorial in last weekend's Australian, «Carbon trading is not the only answer» (21/22 February), addressed the controversial issue of the government's planned emissions trading legislation, commenting that «We need to hear other ideas on greenhouse gas reduction».

In an effort to address the issue, one lawmaker, Marcela Guerrero, of the governing Citizen Action Party, last month presented a bill to lift import duties on electric vehicles for five years and to encourage ownership of CO2 emission - free cars.

No doubt the IPCC will assiduously avoid addressing such issues in AR5, and will distract the global media with measures of dramatically increasing CO2 emissions and climate model predictions of it's impact, (delayed by up to 15 years apparently!).

By joining the Commitment, firms connect with a leading group of professionals that are addressing today's most pressing issues — climate change, sustainability, and energy and greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the built environment.

The issue you address is one of the timing of emissions reductions below BAU.

Those in favor of sweeping new regulations on our economy to address the issue of global warming are demanding that Congress quickly pass a «cap - and - trade» bill on greenhouse gas emissions or face a battery of new mandates to be developed and imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

It looks to me like it addresses the issue of CO2 emissions prior to petroleum.

In a statement issued Wednesday, 14 corporations that include oil leader Royal Dutch Shell, coal miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, cement maker LafargeHolcim, and technology giants HP and Intel pushed for the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris, France, this December, where almost 200 nations will agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change.

Many (but not all) energy policies that would address these issues would also reduce carbon emissions.

Seven out of 10 bullet points address this issue directly, or indirectly by referring to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from forests.