Sentences with phrase «based on the carbon reductions»

The monitoring and reporting continues year on year, as the project is paid by results — based on the carbon reductions achieved.

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

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

The standard would require reductions in the carbon footprint of the fuels supplied in Canada, based on lifecycle analysis.

To stop CO2 ppm rising and holding them at under 408 ppm for 2018 would require a reduction in Net carbon emissions of at least 2 GtC / yr on current use based on multiple lines of refs in published papers from Hansen down to the latest PhD student of climate science.

A March 7 memorandum from agency experts to the White House team recommended that the carbon dioxide pledge be kept, saying the Energy Department study «was based on assumptions that do not apply» to Mr. Bush's plan and «inflates the costs of achieving carbon dioxide reductions.»

I expect that if IPCC presses for carbon reductions based on such, it will be strongly opposed until verification has been obtained and the verification itself verified.

April 21: «碳在中国的未来 (The Future of Carbon in China)» by John Romankiewicz, New Energy Finance, providing an overview on the demand projection for offsets from Chinese emissions reduction projects and look at the current outlook for CDM and disucssing the potential of domestic markets for credits (carbon and otherwise) based on China's NAMA action.

He also described the design of MOFs and COFs based on porphyrins that can be fine - tuned for efficient electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction.

Sofidel Group (known in Italy mainly for its Regina brand) is re-launching its commitment to the environment by broadening its agreement with WWF's Climate Savers, based on the voluntary definition of substantial reduction plans for carbon dioxide emissions through the implementation of innovative strategies and technologies.

So it appears we are being asked to consider «the tragedy of the commons» as the basis for our carbon reduction plans, based on an incomplete understanding of the component parts of this complex jigsaw.

Second, the GDP that the country is basing its carbon reductions on has grown at an average of 6.6 percent over recent years.

In the EU, vehicle carbon reduction has lead to increased diesel use which planned on a good bit of Palm oil based bio-diesel which has created air pollution problems and tropical deforestation.

The Clean Power Plan, as crafted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets achievable carbon pollution reduction goals for each state, based on the unique energy mix currently serving the power needs of each state.

The youth, between 9 and 14 years old, had petitioned the State agency to create a rule mandating reductions of greenhouse gas emissions based on the most current climate science, which says that 350 ppm of carbon dioxide is the maximum level for a safe climate system.

«Thanks to successful reductions in our carbon emissions and offsetting through forest and climate protection projects in Kenya, Indonesia, and India, Allianz has been operating on a carbon - neutral basis since 2012.»

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

(B) effective and cost - effective control technologies, operations, and strategies for additional domestic and international black carbon emissions reductions, such as diesel retrofit technologies on existing on - road, non-road, and stationary engines and programs to address residential cookstoves, and forest and agriculture - based burning;

«(ii) upon implementation, will achieve an emission limit that is at least a 50 percent reduction in emissions of the carbon dioxide produced by the emission point, measured on an annual basis, determined in accordance with section 812 (b)(2); and

«(5) include as reductions in greenhouse gases reductions achieved through the destruction of methane and its conversion to carbon dioxide, and reductions achieved through destruction of chlorofluorocarbons or other ozone depleting substances, if permitted by the Administrator under section 619 (b)(9) and subject to the conditions specified in section 619 (b)(9), based on the carbon dioxide equivalent value of the substance destroyed.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

Current research activities include the synthesis and characterization of carbon - dioxide reducing electrocatalysts that are based on Earth - abundant metals and studies of the reaction kinetics of carbon - dioxide reduction with active catalysts.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

The plan focuses on equity as a key outcome of climate action and adds a consumption - based inventory to recognise the full capability of the city to achieve carbon reductions even beyond the city's boundaries.

I then made my pitch for a carbon fee - bate policy which would place a carbon price on oil sands and other sources of carbon emissions equivalent to that paid by firms in the EU and which, if implemented worldwide, would allow the world to meet science - based emissions reduction targets.

Most scenario studies collected for this assessment that are based on the idealized assumptions that all countries of the world begin mitigation immediately, there is a single global carbon price applied to well functioning markets, and key technologies are available, find that meeting a 430 480 ppm CO2eq goal by century's end would entail a reduction in the amount global consumers spend of 1 4 % in 2030, 2 6 % in 2050, and 3 11 % in 2100 relative to what would happen without mitigation.

However, he has also indicated that PUP is likely to support abolition of the Carbon Tax and the extensive measures aimed at promoting renewable energy and the independent science - based body responsible for advising government on future carbon reduction targets.

«Although it is probable that introduction of wind power onto the grid produces a net reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, it is possible, or even likely, that a grid based entirely on gas turbines would actually produce carbon emissions that were lower still.»

Construction company TODA Corporation commits to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 carbon dioxide emissions by 35 percent between 2010 and 2030, based on a 2.1 percent compounding annual reduction target.

Based on the average annual emission reductions of the project, this results in monetary benefits amounting $ 303 USD per tonne of avoided carbon emissions.

«The ACR Nested REDD + Standard is built on 15 years of work by Winrock around the world, providing technical assistance and building local capacity to design and implement science - based methods to measure, monitor and report carbon emission reductions from forests,» said Dr. Sandra Brown, director and chief scientist of Winrock International's Ecosystem Services group and Dr. Nancy Harris, lead scientists for the Standard.

The present most rapid pathway for carbon emissions reductions involves an urgent build - out of renewable and non-carbon based energy systems to replace all fossil fuels with a focus on wind, solar, and electrical vehicle economies of scale and production chains.

Jaguar Land Rover, owned by India - based Tata Group, has been working with ClimateCare since 2007 on community impact and carbon reduction programmes.

As I wrote last year when the rule was initially announced, many states are already well on their way to achieving the required reductions, thanks in part to a recent boom in cheap natural gas and the Obama administration's choice of 2005 as the basis year for cuts, which was close to America's all - time peak in carbon emissions.

These benefits are a result of RGGI's market - based, cap - and - invest approach, which sets an annually declining limit on carbon pollution while enabling the power sector to achieve the reductions flexibly at least cost.

That is, Obama who has paraded himself as a Green candidate, is offering a zero percent reduction on carbon emissions from the 1990 base year.

It is also important to note that most governments at the Ministerial segment of the Second Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (held in Geneva in June 1996) concluded that there is sufficient evidence to warrant reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, based on IPCC's Second Assessment Report.

The Prime Minister's Task Group recommends a process based closely on the Clean Development Mechanism of the Protocol, which allows firms with carbon reduction obligations to generate credits by investing in emission reductions in poor countries.

The same arguments, based on the same «consensus» created by WGII and WGIII are being made by the major UK political parties, who, as we have also reported, are promising 60, 80 and 100 % carbon reductions by 2050.

Implicit carbon price: This is calculated based on how much it costs a company to implement emissions reduction projects, such as renewable energy purchases or energy - efficiency upgrades.

The Princeton group's multi-stage formula estimates individual emissions based on lifestyle and income rather than per capita national income — a departure from the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which set no specific goals or timetables for emission reductions by developing nations until the developed world had found a model for low - carbon economic growth.

Under the CDM, when a project (such as a wind farm) in a developing nation results in an overall fall in emissions it will receive «carbon credits», called Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) based on the amount of emissions that have been reduced.

Most «skeptics» have concluded, based on the available data, that the cost of «going to war» against CAGW (with carbon taxes, carbon rationing, top - down forced reductions in fossil fuel consumption, etc.) would be far greater than any «benefit» that might result, and would thus be «skeptical» of entering such a «war».

The basis of our disagreement with the majority report is its failure to recognise the importance of the constraint put on all future emission reduction targets and policies by Australia's carbon budget.

Although some nations have acknowledged their ethical duties to base their INDC on ethically justifiable criteria, almost all INDC submissions have not explained how specific emissions reductions commitments link to a specific desired atmospheric ghg concentration levels and its associated carbon budget that will provide some level of confidence that a warming limit will be achieved nor why their ghg emissions reductions commitment is fair as a matter of distributive justice.

Based on market feedback, NYSERDA designed the C&I Carbon Challenge to give large, non-residential energy users greater flexibility in using Clean Energy Fund resources to unlock highly cost - effective carbon reduction opportunities.

Because the proposed carbon tax is on only one sector of the economy, the overall goal of carbon reductions could fail simply because driving up the price of electricity makes the conversion to electric based residential heating and transportation more difficult.

At the other end of the spectrum, the self - consistent climate change amelioration plan I presented in IYSSSS # 511 shows that it may be possible to avoid the climate Apocalypse if we do hard demand reduction on fossil - based energy until the transition to low carbon technology is complete.

In my initial response to you, I stated, in part: «So, given how far down the climate change road we have gone already, we have two main choices if we want to devise a plan (based on 1 C target) that will avoid the ultimate catastrophe: make outlandish assumptions about demand reduction, or make outlandish assumptions about carbon removal.

The 10 % per year front end emissions reductions of Hansen's half - reforestation plan or Anderson's base plan (even though it is based on the 2 C political target) will result in GDP reductions on the order of 6 - 7 % per year initially, which will decline EXTREMELY gradually as high carbon sources are replaced by low carbon sources.