Sentences with phrase «by the greenhouse gas protocol»

In this respect, the ReGP will complement existing guidance frameworks as published by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, RE100 and CDP.

This standard was developed by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol).

The list was informed by two international GHG accounting and reporting standards developed by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol: the Mitigation Goal Standard and Policy and Action Standard.

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California winegrowers have committed themselves to measuring and reducing their greenhouse gas footprint by working with international partners to develop the Wine Industry Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol and sharing the accounting tool worldwide at greenhouse gas footprint by working with international partners to develop the Wine Industry Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol and sharing the accounting tool worldwide at no chargas footprint by working with international partners to develop the Wine Industry Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol and sharing the accounting tool worldwide at Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol and sharing the accounting tool worldwide at no charGas Accounting Protocol and sharing the accounting tool worldwide at no charge.

Wine Institute and its global partnership of wine associations contracted Provisor Pt Ltd, a consultancy firm with expertise in resource accounting in the wine industry, to develop the international wine industry protocol, based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol set by the World Resources Inprotocol, based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol set by the World Resources InProtocol set by the World Resources Institute.

SAN FRANCISCO - The International Wine Industry Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol, developed through a partnership between the Wine Institute of California, New Zealand Winegrowers, South Africa's Integrated Production of Wine program, and the Winemakers» Federation of Australia, will soon be released for use by the global wine industry.

The International Wine Industry Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol, developed through a partnership between the Wine Institute of California, New Zealand Winegrowers, South Africa's Integrated Production of Wine program, and the Winemakers» Federation of Australia, will soon be released for use by the global wine industry.

A push for oil sands oversight and new climate targets Harper has been a target of environmentalists for most of his tenure — they say he turned Canada into an international pariah by not regulating greenhouse gases from oil and gas, cutting clean energy and climate science programs, withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, «muzzling» scientists, pressing aggressively on Keystone XL and fossil fuels, and allowing the country's emissions trajectory to spiral away from targets under the Copenhagen Accord.

For example, many of the small dams investigated in the new study were supported by the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

And it is also clear — even to the negotiators who also agreed to be «informed» by the science expected from the International Government Panel on Climate Change's next assessment report in 2013 — that neither the «Durban Platform for Enhanced Action» nor the extended Kyoto Protocol are equal to the task of restraining ever - rising greenhouse gas emissions.

The biggest was certainly the decision by the Russian government to endorse the Kyoto Protocol, thus allowing the treaty to take effect and leaving the United States and Australia alone among industrial nations in their refusal to accept limits on greenhouse - gas emissions.

The «obvious solution», he said, was to limit the CDM to carbon dioxide, rather than the six greenhouse gases covered by the UN's Kyoto Protocol.

To comply, the 182 nations that signed the protocol must meet targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases — climate - warming gases that include the common industrial by - products carbon dioxide and methane.

As a provision of the Kyoto Protocol, the CDM enables industrial nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in part by purchasing «carbon offsets» from poorer countries, where green projects are more affordable.

A significant greenhouse gas not yet addressed by the IPCC (or the Kyoto Protocol) is nitrogen trifluoride.

Next month's University of California report warns that unless China radically changes its energy policies, its increases in greenhouse gases will be several times larger than the cuts in emissions being made by rich nations under the Kyoto Protocol.

Chlorofluorocarbons, banned by an international agreement known as the Montreal Protocol because they eat up atmospheric ozone, are also greenhouse gases.

Much of the rhetoric pressing for a new agreement was framed as «sealing the deal» on a new internationally legally - binding restriction on greenhouse gas emissions building on the model represented by the dead - end 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

In his book, Lomborg proposes that a modest carbon tax could pay for all of this work at a fraction the cost of a cap on emissions of greenhouse gases, the approach pursued by Europe under the Kyoto Protocol (and rejected in the United States).

Annual report on the technical review of greenhouse gas inventories and other information reported by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention that are also Parties to the Kyoto Protocol under Article 7, paragraph 1, of the Kyoto Protocol

By ratifying the Kyoto Protocol on December 17, 2002, Canada committed to lowering its greenhouse gas emissions to 6 % below 1990 levels by 201By ratifying the Kyoto Protocol on December 17, 2002, Canada committed to lowering its greenhouse gas emissions to 6 % below 1990 levels by 201by 2012.

Manfred Treber, senior adviser climate / transport, Germanwatch said: «The Kyoto Protocol adopted in 1997 had stated that the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) should pursue the limitation or reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol from international aviation, the IMO should do this for emissions from marine bunker fuels.

Created Kyoto Protocol Requires developed countries to decrease emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases by 5 % below their 1990 levels by 2012.

Total CO2 emissions of all industrialised countries that have quantitative greenhouse gas mitigation targets under the Kyoto Protocol increased in 2010 by 3.5 % (including the USA that did not ratify the prProtocol increased in 2010 by 3.5 % (including the USA that did not ratify the protocolprotocol).

Collectively the group of industrialised countries committed to a Kyoto target, i.e. excluding the USA that has not ratified the protocol, has the target of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by 4.2 % on average for the period 2008 - 2012 relative to the base year, which in most cases is 1990.

This group worked to ensure that the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions, was not adopted by the United States.

This technical document provides supplementary methods and good practice guidance for estimating anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks resulting from land use, land - use change and forestry (LULUCF) activities under Article 3, paragraphs 3 and 4, of the Kyoto Protocol for the second commitment period.

When confronted with that little - publicized fact, supporters of the Protocol admit that Kyoto is intended only as a first step, and that greenhouse gases will someday have to be further reduced by between 60 and 80 percent of 1990 emission levels.

There are 6 Greenhouse Gases (GHG's) that have been identified by the Kyoto Protocol, each of which have a carbon equivalent, or CO2e.

Articles 5, 7 and 8 of the Kyoto Protocol address reporting and review of information by Annex I Parties under the Protocol, as well as national systems and methodologies for the preparation of greenhouse gas inventories.

Under the Kyoto Protocol, Parties shall annually report emissions by sources and removals by sinks of CO2 and other greenhouse gases resulting from:

Reporting of LULUCF activities under the Kyoto Protocol refers to providing information, including estimates of the changes in carbon stocks and anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks from land use, land - use change and forestry activities, on:

For the first commitment period decision 15 / CMP.1 Guidelines for the preparation of the information required under Article 7 of the Kyoto Protocol stipulates that each Party included in Annex I shall include in its annual greenhouse gas inventory information on anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks from land use, land - use change and forestry activities under Article 3, paragraph 3, and, if any, elected activities under Article 3, paragraph 4, in accordance with Article 5, paragraph 2, as elaborated by any good practice guidance in accordance with relevant decisions of the COP / MOP on land use, land - use change and forestry.

By using the Montreal Protocol to remove one of the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, Parties could avoid more than 95 billion tonnes of CO2e by 2050, but they must act noBy using the Montreal Protocol to remove one of the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, Parties could avoid more than 95 billion tonnes of CO2e by 2050, but they must act noby 2050, but they must act now.

The Kyoto Protocol, in recognition of the disproportionate greenhouse gas contribution of developed countries, set legal reduction requirements for multiple target dates and has been signed by 191 states.

The country is expected to easily meet both its commitment under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 8 % from 1990 levels by 2008 - 2012 and a more stringent internal target of 20 % below 1990 levels by 2005.

ECO was pleased to wake up Sunday to the news that Presidents Obama and Xi had agreed to work together to combat climate change by phasing down the super greenhouse gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), under the Montreal Protocol.

This working paper provides details about greenhouse gas scope accounting and reporting per the World Resources Institute's Greenhouse Gas Protocol, explains the implications of scope double - counting for zero - carbon reporting when a renewable energy purchase is made, and proposes recommendations for consideration by key stagreenhouse gas scope accounting and reporting per the World Resources Institute's Greenhouse Gas Protocol, explains the implications of scope double - counting for zero - carbon reporting when a renewable energy purchase is made, and proposes recommendations for consideration by key stakeholdegas scope accounting and reporting per the World Resources Institute's Greenhouse Gas Protocol, explains the implications of scope double - counting for zero - carbon reporting when a renewable energy purchase is made, and proposes recommendations for consideration by key staGreenhouse Gas Protocol, explains the implications of scope double - counting for zero - carbon reporting when a renewable energy purchase is made, and proposes recommendations for consideration by key stakeholdeGas Protocol, explains the implications of scope double - counting for zero - carbon reporting when a renewable energy purchase is made, and proposes recommendations for consideration by key stakeholders.

By contrast, the Kyoto Protocol exempted emerging economies from any climate obligations, even though they are poised to overtake industrialized nations in greenhouse gas emissions within a matter of years.

It replaces all the previous draft versions of the GPC and supersedes the International Local Government Greenhouse Gas Emissions Analysis Protocol (community section) published by ICLEI in 2009 and the International Standard for Determining Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Cities published by the World Bank, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and UN-HABITAT in 2010.

Urge their state governments, and the federal government, to enact policies and programs to meet or beat the greenhouse gas emission reduction target suggested for the United States in the Kyoto Protocol — 7 % reduction from 1990 levels by 2012; and

Countries included in Annex B of the Protocol (most Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries and countries with economies in transition) agreed to reduce their human - induced heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride) by at least 5 % below 1990 levels in the commitment period 2008 to 2012.

Annual report on the technical review of greenhouse gas inventories and other information reported by Parties included in Annex I, as defined in Article 1, paragraph 7, of the Kyoto Protocol.

As for the non-CO2 forcings, it is noteworthy that greenhouse gases controlled by the Montreal Protocol are now decreasing, and recent agreement has been achieved to use the Montreal Protocol to phase out production of some additional greenhouse gases even though those gases do not affect the ozone layer.

A. To calculate a carbon - equivalent footprint of a product, Architecture 2030 recommends using either the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14000 standards or the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Scope III and Product Life Cycle standards for carbon footprints (currently under development by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development).

The body found that, without additional action, emissions of the greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol - namely carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, PFCs and HFCs - are likely to rise by 25 - 90 % by 2030 over their levels in 2000.

But the pact was never ratified by the U.S. Senate, making it toothless because the United States, which was then the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, wasn't bound to the protocol.

But in 2005, the combined EU - 15 emissions were still only 1.5 percent below 1990 levels [2], meaning that the EU - 15 is not on course to meet its international Kyoto Protocol obligations to cut greenhouse gas pollution by 8 percent by 2012.

But a strong European commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 % would be a much - needed signal to the UN climate meeting in Copenhagen 2009, where nations hope to conclude on a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol.

Under the Kyoto Protocol, Norway is committed to limit its greenhouse gas emissions to 1 % above 1990 levels by 2008 - 2012.