Sentences with phrase «base year emissions»

Greenhouse gas removals from such projects may only be used to help meet emission targets up to 1 % of a Party's base year emissions for each year of the commitment period.

Help cities establish a base year emissions inventory, set reduction targets, and track their performance

Not exact matches

Norway - based Statoil ASA, which plans to start up its Kai Kos Dehseh project later this year, recently set itself the goal of cutting its emissions there by 40 % within 15 years.

Facing a tide of municipal anti-drive-thru ordinances, TDL commissioned a study last year from RWDI consultants, based in Guelph, Ont., comparing total emissions given off by customers» cars that use drive - thrus and those that use parking lots.

A year later, he founded Tesla Motors, a Palo Alto, California - based company that produced the world's first all - electric, zero - emission sports car in 2010, the same year the company sold shares in a public offering.

This graphic depicts the carbon intensity of shipping wine from various global wine regions to key U.S. cities and bases its data on a seriously flawed, two - year - old working paper that is filled with untested assumptions, has not been peer reviewed, and does not accurately reflect the complexities of greenhouse gas emissions in the wine sector.

Working with the Science Based Targets initiative, the company also set a goal that by 2040, emissions will be down 58 % compared with a year ago.

Molson Coors has reduced its carbon emissions by 6.5 % and saved more than # 750,000 from the first year of operation of its new energy centre based at its Burton Brewery site in the UK.

The Ranch offers secluded cabins with EPA approved low - emission fireplaces and kitchen facilities, two guest lodges, including the newly opened High Lonesome Lodge, two restaurants featuring organic / sustainably focused cuisine, 35 miles of trails for hiking and mountain biking (summer) and 130 + km Nordic trail system for cross country skiing and snowshoeing (winter), a year round professional horsemanship program and stables including Summer Wrangler Camps, trail riding, skill training and feed rides as well as hiking, mountain biking, fly - fishing, zip - lining, stand up paddle boarding, adventure / skill training courses, and a nature - based, 18,000 sq. ft. restorative spa featuring massage, facials, body wraps, soaks and more.

He said the UK would achieve a 50 % reduction in carbon emissions based on 1990 levels by the end of that five - year period.

Despite the rise in carbon dioxide emissions, the main «basket» of greenhouse gases are down overall, with the «big six» 15 per cent below the base year.

Specifically, Yevgeny Raitses, working at PPPL; Marlene Patino, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles; and Angela Capece, a professor at the College of New Jersey, have in the past year published experimental findings on how secondary electron emission is affected by different wall materials and structures, based on research they did at PPPL.

«A lot of emerging economies are based on coal, and in just a few years, emissions are going to go up really rapidly.»

According to a report published last year by the Climate Institute, a Sydney - based nongovernment think tank, China will become the second largest carbon market in the world in terms of regulated emissions, covering 700 million tons of emissions by 2014.

Based on a unique model that links China's energy system and economy, the study finds that China's coal use, a major source of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, should peak some time around the year 2020, while the country's overall CO2 emissions would peak around 2030, or perhaps sooner.

Prof Guan said: «In recent years, many researchers have proposed that consumption - based accounting be applied to re-allocate the responsibilities of mitigating climate change because of the large net emission flows from developing countries to developed countries.

«Corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings [in greenhouse gas emissions], nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years,» the researchers write.

To investigate the impacts, Yale's Jodi Sherman, M.D. and first author Matthew Eckelman of Northeastern University first used an economic model based on federal data to calculate total emissions of different pollutants produced by the healthcare sector over a 10 - year period, drawing on national health expenditure data.

Plastic has a huge carbon footprint: Producing the petroleum - based material accounts for at least 100 milion tons of carbon emissions each year.

And when compared with a 1000 - year reconstruction of past droughts based on more than 1800 tree - ring chronologies collected across the continent, droughts forecast by nearly every one of those models are «unprecedented,» even if CO2 emissions are dramatically reduced, researchers say.

When the world's governments gather in December 2009 in Copenhagen to negotiate a treaty to restrain global greenhouse gas emissions, the science on which they base their decision could be as much as four years out of date.

The EPA's proposal for cutting power plants» greenhouse gas emissions through 2030 is based partly on the expectation that natural gas will play a crucial role, especially during the next five to 10 years.

At Xcel Energy, the utility firm with the highest total wind capacity in the United States, the number of forecasting errors has dropped since 2009, saving customers some US$ 60 million and reducing annual CO2 emissions from fossil - reserve power generation by more than a quarter of a million tonnes per year, says Drake Bartlett, a renewable - energy analyst with the firm who is based in Denver, Colorado.

He found that over 30 years, corn - based ethanol would actually increase emissions by nearly 100 percent, because farmers exploit previously unfarmed land to grow corn for ethanol.

And such techniques might be capable, at best, of sequestering one billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year (based on the extent of iron - deficient waters around the globe), compared with annual human emissions of more than eight billion metric tons and rising.

That is roughly 10 times the amount of all human - caused mercury emissions over the last 30 years, based on emissions estimates from 2016.

«Since the transition away from fossil fuels is likely to take a very long time, we foresee a long - term need to deal with coal - based emissions and, therefore, the sooner we begin to develop [carbon capture and storage] technology, the better,» Austin - based energy policy specialist Scott Anderson of Environmental Defense told a Senate panel earlier this year during a hearing on CCS technology.

Based on satellite monitoring and models that estimate the carbon released from burning vegetation (plus or minus 50 percent), the group reckons that U.S. fires produce 290 million metric tons of carbon per year, equal to about 5 percent of the nation's annual emissions from fossil fuels.

-- For a covered entity described in section 700 (13)(C), 1 emission allowance for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of fossil fuel - based carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or any other fluorinated gas that is a greenhouse gas (except for nitrogen trifluoride), or any combination thereof, produced or imported by such covered entity during the previous calendar year for sale or distribution in interstate commerce.

To investigate the impacts, Yale's Dr. Jodi Sherman, and first author Matthew Eckelman of Northeastern University first used an economic model based on federal data to calculate total emissions of different pollutants produced by the healthcare sector over a 10 - year period, drawing on national health expenditure data.

Hansen provided 3 emissions scenarios to bracket what was likely, based on models that are now 20 years old.

Mass bleaching and mortality are identified as the current crisis to corals, and based on the current rate of increase in global CO2 emissions (now exceeding 3 % per year), most reefs world - wide are committed to an irreversible decline.

California can reduce carbon emissions by more than 70 million metric tons by 2030 — akin to taking 15 million gasoline - powered cars off the road in one year — by adopting a higher target for its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), according to an analysis released by the UK - based research firm Cerulogy.

For latitudes above 60 ° N, emissions are estimated to be 18 — 29 Tg CH4 per year on the basis of top - down atmospheric model approaches.

Projections based on 29 climate models suggest that the number of high wildfire potential days each year could increase by nearly 50 percent by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.

Help reduce agriculture - related greenhouse gas emissions in rice - based farming systems by at least 28.4 megatons carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent / year by 2022 and by a further 28.4 megatons CO2 equivalent / year by 2030, compared to business - as - usual scenarios.

Hawken's latest project, Drawdown, ranks 100 climate change solutions based on their ability to actually reduce humanity's greenhouse gas emissions year over year by 2050.

Clean, State - of - the - Technology Buses to Hit the Streets Jul 26, 2016 DOT Fast Lane Blog Our years of work researching low or no - emission buses have paid off, providing the basis for FTA this year to oversee an annual grants program with dedicated funding for new technology buses, the Low or No - Emission (Low - No) Bus Competitive Grant Program.

The first year's cost is emissions based - with relatively clean vehicles like the Renault Twingo GT attracting a # 160 charge while dirtier cars like the Ford Mustang are right up there at # 1,200.

Based around the forthcoming Real Driving Emissions phase 2 (RDE2) regulations that aim to measure «real world» economy and emissions, the change will see the «First Year [tax] Rate» currently applied to new diesel cars rise by one band if they can not meet the Euro 6 emissions standards in the RDE2 «real world&raquEmissions phase 2 (RDE2) regulations that aim to measure «real world» economy and emissions, the change will see the «First Year [tax] Rate» currently applied to new diesel cars rise by one band if they can not meet the Euro 6 emissions standards in the RDE2 «real world&raquemissions, the change will see the «First Year [tax] Rate» currently applied to new diesel cars rise by one band if they can not meet the Euro 6 emissions standards in the RDE2 «real world&raquemissions standards in the RDE2 «real world» tests.

1 Based on model year 2012 fuel economy data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its report: «Light - Duty Automotive Technology, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, and Fuel Economy Trends: 1975 Through 2013.»

Horsepower ratings continued to drop, not only due to lower compression and tighter emissions controls but, beginning with the 1972 model year, a switch from gross (on dynamometer) to net ratings based on an engine in an actual vehicle with all accessories installed.

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On the other hand, a clean diesel powered Volkswagen Jetta produces about 6.4 tons per year, or about 45 percent more carbon - based emissions than the gasoline hybrid vehicle.

The automaker's current growth potential is capped by strict environmental regulations that impose a production limit of 10,000 cars per year based on current fleet - average emissions, reports Automotive News.

Based on current scientific understanding, this requires that global greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by at least 50 % below their 1990 levels by the year 2050.

That optimism may be based on the lowered warm - ing target in the Paris Agreement (2015), slowdown in the growth of global fossil fuel emissions in the past few years (Fig.

Each year, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) gives environmental scores to automakers based on average per - mile smog pollution and global warming emissions of the entire fleet of vehicles sold.

Because what we've learned in the last 10 years is some of these market - based mechanisms are very good at efficiently capturing emissions reductions at the margin but they are not advancing these infrastructure changes that are so expensive.

From an emissions modelling basis, it should be noted that even the most heavily exploited fossil resources (North sea oil being an example) struggle to rise above 2 % of total resources used per year.