Sentences with phrase «biggest emissions sector»

«Really the third biggest emissions sector is the industrial sector.

Not exact matches

The pan-European Stoxx 600 was 0.13 percent lower with the auto sector the biggest faller amid an emissions cheating scandal.

New Democrats have repeatedly pointed out that it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.

The wide scale use of existing and — in particular — emerging innovative energy technologies can bring big emissions savings to the sector.

The power sector contributes 40 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions of the United States, and coal - fired power plants are the sector's biggest emitters.

But campaigners have expressed concern that the burden of pollution is likely to be shifted to other regions, with high - emission sectors like thermal power still on course to expand rapidly in big, coal - rich regions like Inner Mongolia, Ningxia or Xinjiang.

And in general, what the models do not and can not take into account is creativity; surely, faced with an economy in which there are big monetary payoffs for reducing greenhouse - gas emissions, the private sector will come up with ways to limit emissions that are not yet in any model.

In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

The emissions trading scheme will initially cover only the power sector, not heavy industry as planned, but will nonetheless become the biggest in the world

«Drones can make a significant impact on emissions, especially now that transport is the biggest polluting sector out there,» said Joshuah Stolaroff, an environmental scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

Although the most visible example of the future of electric mobility is the consumer electric car, the commercial transportation sector and heavy industry are two major areas where transitioning to cleaner fuels will have a big impact on air quality, GHG emissions, and other undesirable consequences of fossil fuels.

The industrial sector was the biggest producer of CO2 emissions from natural gas at 28 % for the January - March 2012 period, but those emissions were up only 2 million metric tons from a year earlier.

The transportation sector has eclipsed power plants as the biggest source of US carbon emissions, and EPA calculated in 2010 that the tougher fuel - efficiency standards would prevent more than one year's worth of total US carbon emissions over the lifetime of new vehicles sold from 2012 through 2025.

Half New Zealand's emissions come from agriculture and it is time the sector's leaders acknowledged there is a big potential for savings now instead of constantly claiming more time is needed for research.

This combination allowed the team to do a much more detailed assessment of the way different policies would affect decisions by the power producers and distributors — a key point, since the electricity sector has the most immediate potential for changes that could reduce emissions, and is the biggest contributor to emissions overall.

On their own, CAFE standards are a very big deal as the transportation sector has now eclipsed the electric power as the largest source of climate changing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the U.S..

The UK's biggest supermarket chain is taking a strong leadership position in its sector through aggressively cutting carbon emissions.

That's a bad thing, because transportation is the single biggest source of the state's carbon emissions, more than twice as big as the electricity sector:

As far as I can tell, Cap and Trade doesn't touch the 33 % of emissions that come from the transportation sector because CaT is targeted at big industry and utilities.

«The gathering and processing sector, a piece of the supply chain that most people don't even know exists, may be the biggest single fraction of emissions coming from natural gas,» said Mark Brownstein, who leads the Environmental Defense Fund's work on methane emissions.

Coal is still the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, so the cap on the energy sector will matter most, but still, I'm not sure how K - G - L, or Keggles, could possibly plan on tackling the oil industry without either a cap on its emissions or a tax.

The oil and gas sector is one of the biggest sources of methane emissions in the county.

One thing that becomes overwhelmingly clear from this graphic is that the energy sector is the biggest source of emissions globally.

(One big caveat here is that many of America's carbon - free nuclear plants are in danger of closing, which could slow or halt the drop in power - sector emissions.)

Worldwide tourism accounted for 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions from 2009 to 2013, new research finds, making the sector a bigger polluter than the construction industry.