Sentences with phrase «baseline emission»

While the agency counted in - construction nuclear plants toward states» baseline emission rates under the finalized plan, it stopped short of including existing nuclear generation to lower baseline emissions rates for each state.

The radiative forcing estimates are based on the forcing of greenhouse gases and other forcing agents.5 The four selected RCPs were considered to be representative of the literature, and included one mitigation scenario leading to a very low forcing level (RCP2.6), two medium stabilization scenarios (RCP4.5 / RCP6) and one very high baseline emission scenarios (RCP8.5).

Overall, the average annual SF6 emission rate for the Partnership has decreased approximately 87 percent from the 1999 baseline emission rate of 14.2 percent to 1.9 percent in 2013.

The energy system reference cases used for future greenhouse gas (GHG) emission pathways in climate change research are a case in point: baseline emission scenarios commonly project levels of coal combustion many times higher than current reserve estimates by the year 2100.

«Given that the average capacity of the registered projects and those in the validation pipeline are in the range of 2,000 - 3,000 [megawatts], resulting in a large amount of emission reductions per project activity, extra caution should be given to ensure that the baseline emissions are estimated in a transparent and conservative manner,» the panel says in its recommendation to the Executive Board.

The authors have also compared baseline emissions versus mitigation emissions levels to formulate mitigation potential at break - even prices for 2010, 2020 and 2030.

-- The regulations promulgated under this paragraph shall include standards and protocols for project eligibility, certification of destroyers, monitoring, tracking, destruction efficiency, quantification of project and baseline emissions and carbon dioxide equivalent value, and verification.

And the «purchase» of additional mitigation potential from developing countries is precisely the sort of measurable, reportable, and verifiable transfers of finance and technology that will be needed to drive such investment, and thus a rapid deviation from baseline emissions growth in the developing world.

The 2005 baseline emissions inventory documented in the 2007 Air Quality Management Plan formulated by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (56) was used for all species, except SO2 / H2SO4.

They include Annex 1 (industrialised) countries» baseline emissions; qualitative and quantitative assessments of the role of carbon sinks; and the difficulty from an economic and legal perspective of interpreting and inferring impacts in relation to specific provisions attached to each flexibility mechanism for regulating the extent of their use.

-- The regulations promulgated under this paragraph shall include standards and protocols for project eligibility, certification of destroyers, monitoring, tracking, destruction efficiency, quantification of project and baseline emissions and carbon dioxide equivalent value, and verification.

It pays particular attention to the literature that criticizes the IPCC SRES scenarios and concludes that uncertainties and baseline emissions have not changed very much.

The transfer mechanism under a quantity approach takes place through the allocation of baseline emissions.

Allowances were distributed to regulated entities based on their reported baseline emissions.

GHG Reduction Potential Possible reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases (quantified in terms of absolute reductions or in percentages of baseline emissions) that can be achieved through the use of technologies and measures.

For some types of projects, it will be difficult to credibly and accurately determine additionality and estimate baseline emissions using standardized criteria and parameters.

«Because forecasting the future of the energy economy for the next 50 — 100 years is impossible (not just difficult),» they conclude, «there is no valid baseline emissions scenario to which the costs of a mitigation scenario can be compared.»

Indeed, it is possible that baseline emissions in the future (i.e. after 2050) will be consistent with a pathway of emissions that results in atmospheric GHG concentrations that generate net benefits.

Structure: Owned by Baseline Emissions Management Inc., a for - profit emissions reduction marketing firm.

Proponents of taking action now argue that any delay would increase the total cost of emissions reductions — because baseline emissions (i.e. the emissions that would occur without any mandated reductions) would be higher and the size of any such future reduction would have to be greater.

But such arguments presume both significant increases in baseline emissions and a need dramatically to reduce such emissions.

GHG mitigation is expected to reduce GMAT change relative to baseline emissions, which in turn could avoid some adverse impacts of climate change.

Offset Once you have measured your baseline emissions and set targets to reduce them, the next step is to offset your residual carbon footprint.

Any plan to reduce emissions by, say, 5 % will (a) require concerted action from the management of the company to establish the company's baseline emissions, (b) require an outlay up front to finance initiatives and new technologies that will reduce emissions and (c) will likely result in greater efficiencies and therefore impact future operating expenses.

Not exact matches

In April 2015, it reported it had reduced production - related CO2 emissions by 50 per cent, from a 2005 baseline.

Russia has gone them one better: By picking a 1990 baseline, before the collapse of the Soviet Union's economy, they figure they can actually continue to increase their emissions and still claim a long - term reduction.

Sustainability efforts made by some of Europe's leading food manufacturers slashed CO2 emissions from manufacturing operations by more than half in 2016 compared to a 1990 baseline, says the Food and Drink Federation (FDF).

Our business has grown significantly since our baseline year of 2012/13, so naturally, our absolute carbon emissions have risen.

«At a local level we are providing farmers with support to understand their emissions and how to identify efficiency opportunities, as we work towards a target of climate neutral growth to 2030 for on farm emissions from a 2015 baseline.»

State government agencies have provided baseline numbers for 1990 emission levels and expected 2020 levels based on current trends.

The «baseline scenario» showed that the difference in green - house emissions was insignificant (in fact, disposables even scored slightly better).

· Meeting international climate change commitments of reducing carbon emissions by 80 % (from the 1990 baseline).

Achieving the 2025 target will require a further emission reduction of 9 - 11 % beyond our 2020 target compared to the 2005 baseline and a substantial acceleration of the 2005 - 2020 annual pace of reduction, to 2.3 - 2.8 percent per year, or an approximate doubling;» Substantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarbonization.

If current emissions trends continue (RCP8.5) we could cross the 1.5 °C threshold in 10 to 15 years, somewhere between the years 2025 - 2030, compared to 2045 - 2050 when a 1985 - 2005 baseline is used.

But the US president is measuring his cuts against 2005 emissions; most other nations use 1990 as a baseline.

For example, Karoly and Hamilton note in their op - ed that under the authority's recommendations, there would be no incentive for utilities and other major energy users to reduce emissions below baselines based on recent emission levels that decline over time.

This 13 - year baseline provides astronomers with enough time to notice important differences in the X-ray emission and its properties.

The company would then accrue credits for the difference between the «baseline» emissions that would have been released had the Chinese burned coal to generate electricity and the essentially zero emissions discharged by the wind farm.

The 2.1 per cent rise projected for 2013 means global emissions from burning fossil fuel are 61 per cent above 1990 levels, the baseline year for the Kyoto Protocol.

In 2008, Chile launched its first National Climate Change Action Plan, for the period from 2008 to 2014, to gather information on what was happening in the country, identify the baselines for emissions cuts and measure other key variables.

The main benefit of the study, based on new analyses of the carbon content of the country's coal, is that «it provides a baseline for future emission policies,» says Dabo Guan, a co-author of the paper and a climate change economist at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, U.K.

-- The term «national deforestation reduction activities» means activities in developing countries that reduce a quantity of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation that is calculated by measuring actual emissions against a national deforestation baseline established pursuant to section 754 (d)(1) and (2).

«(B) except as provided in paragraph (5) or (6), the quantity of the international offset credits is determined by comparing the national emissions from deforestation relative to a national deforestation baseline for that country established, in accordance with an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A), pursuant to paragraph (4);

-- In this subsection, the term «sectoral basis» means the issuance of international offset credits only for the quantity of sector - wide reductions or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions, or sector - wide increases in sequestration of greenhouse gases, achieved across the relevant sector of the economy relative to a domestically enforceable baseline level of absolute emissions established in an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A) for the sector.

With the correlated signals measured on each baseline (the imaginary line connecting the two telescopes as seen from the observed source), an image of the emission surrounding the black hole can eventually be reconstructed.

Lifecycle GHG emissions of CTL / CBTL / BTL compared to 2005 petroleum diesel baseline.

Normalized well - to - wake GHG emissions for low -, baseline - and high - emission cases for jet fuel pathways under different land use change scenarios.

The institute was a pioneer for ALMA and the Event Horizon Telescope and carried out the 1st VLBI (Very - long - baseline interferometry) observations at 1 mm in 1995 to successfully detect Galactic center event horizon emission.

We're establishing a baseline GHG emission, water use, and recycling figures to create reduction targets for the future.

Baselines We are using 2016 to establish a baseline so we can make targeted reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and water use in the future.