Sentences with phrase «annual emission caps»

It imposes annual emission caps in place of EPA's interim targets but states have the flexibility to spread emissions reductions over the 10 - year compliance period

Until 30 June 2020, member states may define transitional plans with declining annual emission caps.

The final figures for the annual emission caps in phase 3 will be determined and published by the Commission by 30 September 2010.

The committee's report recommended that the province publish an annual forecast of greenhouse gas emissions from the Athabasca bitumen sands to monitor compliance with the government's 100 - megatonne annual emissions cap.

Not exact matches

Cenovus and Suncor have been vocal supporters of the NDP government's climate change policies which include an annual 100 - megatonne cap on total emissions from the oilsands.

But as the consortium of Asian energy companies that submitted the Canadian project for regulatory approval three years ago weighs it's options in a global energy market now flooded with cheap oil and gas, and further considers the 190 conditions attached to Ottawa's approval, including a cap on annual green house gas emissions, it may be some time before this project crosses the finish line.

So companies in the developed world have an annual limit on the level of greenhouse gas emissions they can produce, and if they exceed their cap, they can purchase credits generated by the emission reduction projects or low - carbon technologies in developing countries.

This report compares the incentive - based approaches to curb activities that produce CO2 emissions, such as tax on emissions, cap on the total annual level of emissions, and a modified cap - and - trade program.

Carbon Tracker finds that the Market Stability Reserve will have the equivalent effect of reducing the EU ETS cap on annual emissions by 2.65 % a year from 2020 to 2030, from 1.8 to 1.2 gigatonnes.

The annual average emissions cap is shown in black, along with projections under existing policies (dashed blue line) and with the quantified policies of the Clean Growth Strategy (red line).

Happily, Hsu debunks the notion of «emissions certainty» that was used to sell cap - and - trade, by pointing out that for a «stock» pollutant such as CO2 that persists in the atmosphere for a century, the objective must be cumulative rather than annual reductions.

The modeling indicates that, even absent the mitigating allocation measures, total annual emission leakage to unregulated countries associated with a cap - and - trade program & rsquo; s impacts on the international competitiveness of domestic & ldquo; trade - vulnerable & rdquo; industries is likely to be only on the order of 10 MMTCO2e.

The annual emissions tallies from the JRC will become increasingly important in the coming years, as countries move toward implementing and verifying the main goal of the Paris Agreement: to cap global warming at less than two degrees Celsius.

The EPA's cap - and - trade would work pretty similar to the one that Congress set up — setting an overall ceiling for annual emissions and requiring emitters to pay for allowances.

This approach, combined with the intention of capping total annual oil sands emissions in the province at 100 megatonnes, could set the industry on a more sustainable path.

As a member of CCX, the greenhouse gas emissions trading organization often called a «cap - and - trade» system, ProLogis is required to track and reduce annual corporate greenhouse gas emissions.