Sentences with phrase «aggregate emissions»

It represents a simple, elegant solution to the challenge of reducing aggregate emissions from across broad sectors of our society.
This instrument establishes a limit on aggregate emissions by specified sources, requires each source to hold permits equal to its actual emissions and allows permits to be traded among sources.
That would limit the amount of GHGs per unit of output rather than putting a cap on aggregate emissions.
«The Department shall promulgate regulations establishing a desired level of declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gases.»
If the Department had established the regulations required by the GWSA and set declining annual aggregate emissions limits in the electricity and heating sectors, for example, power plant developers, like Footprint, and pipeline developers, like Kinder Morgan, would have a clear standard to meet in demonstrating that their projects will comply with the mandates of the GWSA.
The COP, by decision 1 / CP.17, noted with grave concern the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties» mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with having a likely chance of holding the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C or 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.
[2] The Danish draft, according to the G77 critique, puts forth a global goal for aggregate emissions to peak before 2020.
A more forgiving temperature target, like those implied by the EU's 20 % and even its 30 % aggregate emissions reduction goal, would not yield such daunting numbers.
It is normally used when attributing aggregate emissions from a particular source over a specified timeframe.
The program reduces the number of available allowances issued each year to ensure that aggregate emissions from the covered entities are reduced by 3 % below 2005 levels in 2012, 20 % below 2005 levels in 2020, 42 % below 2005 levels in 2030, and 83 % below 2005 levels in 2050.
The Paris Agreement committed countries to addressing the «significant gap» between their current pledges and «aggregate emission pathways consistent with holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels,» while also «pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels.»
The GWSA required the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to adopt regulations establishing «declining annual aggregate emissions limits» for greenhouse gas emissions sources.
Total global HFC emissions — most commonly from air conditioners and refrigerators — are far less significant contributors to climate change than the aggregate emission of other greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.
The number of allowances made available each year under a mass - based trading program must equal the state's aggregate emission limit, which is set by EPA, and every generator subject to the Clean Power Plan must surrender allowances equal to the quantity of CO2 it emits during the compliance period.
Although a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from ships is forecasted over time, the rate of these reductions has to be increased so that the aggregate emissions from international shipping can be controlled.
The target that resulted in the lowest emission levels was used in the calculation of the aggregate emissions (Whenever necessary, multiple initial growth rates were used.
«I have seen some evidence that the emissions reductions benefits of wind may not be quite as high as some people might have expected because you need to operate the fossil plants in a more flexible fashion,» he said, but «I've seen no credible evidence to suggest that aggregate emissions would actually increase in a higher wind scenario.»
In the absence of a corresponding lowering of the aggregate emissions target, the package will have no effect at all on emissions.
We find that aggregate emissions and emissions in each jurisdiction change in ways predicted by theory but that efficiency gains can be distributed in nuanced and nonintuitive ways.
The report reflects the aggregate emissions impact of INDCs.
The global governance system currently in place has not been capable of making the momentous «top - down» decisions that are necessary to limit aggregate emissions, let alone doing so in an acceptably fair manner.
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