Sentences with phrase «cap on emissions of greenhouse gases»
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).
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HALIFAX — Nova Scotia will require industrial facilities generating 50,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions per year to report emissions under its proposed cap and trade regime, although key details such as the actual caps and their effect on consumers are yet to be released.
In his email, Martens mentions everything from lowering the cap on greenhouse gas emissions and securing funding for long - neglected flood control structures and coastal erosion projects to banning the sale and importation of elephant and rhinoceros ivory and undertaking «one of the largest additions to the forest preserve in the state's history.»
The governor highlighted the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as one of the ways his administration will act, pushing for a more aggressive cap on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
So companies in the developed world have an annual limit on the level of greenhouse gas emissions they can produce, and if they exceed their cap, they can purchase credits generated by the emission reduction projects or low - carbon technologies in developing countries.
In that regard, I introduced the first Cap and Dividend legislation in the United States Congress, which would have put a price on greenhouse gas emissions and rebated the proceeds to consumers in the form of a Healthy Climate Dividend.
On Tuesday, the governments of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.
Those limits include caps on greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, the global conversion of land cover to cropland, and other mega-impacts on the earth's ecosystems.
In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.
And to negate some of the advantage this approach automatically gives to electric cars (whose greenhouse emissions include those generated by electric utilities), the award also incorporates other measures in its criteria, including a cap on greenhouse gas emissions of no more than 200 grams per mile.
«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.
In modifying or omitting such a requirement on the basis of infeasibility, the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, shall ensure, with an adequate margin of safety, the integrity of international offset credits issued under this section and of the greenhouse gas emissions cap established pursuant to section 703.
The new agreement will likely lead to a future set of limits allowing Kyoto parties to keep on capping greenhouse - gas emissions and trading carbon credits.
The end came with the failure of a seven - year effort in the Senate to pass a climate bill centered on a cap - and - trade system for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
His critics show few signs of ever accommodating the ideas he now presses, which include a prompt moratorium on new coal - burning power plants until they can capture and store carbon dioxide and a rising tax on fuels contributing greenhouse - gas emissions, with the revenue passed back directly to citizens, avoiding the complexities of «cap and trade» bills.
James E. Hansen, the NASA climate expert who has long been a bellwether for global warming campaigners, has strongly endorsed one of the less - popular options — a variant on the «cap and dividend» system for cutting greenhouse - gas emissions.
There's some sobering news on two fronts that many climate campaigners, and politicians, have put at the forefront of their climate agendas: passing legislation capping carbon dioxide emissions and demonstrating technology for capturing and burying the main human - generated greenhouse gas.
The National Academy of Sciences specifically called for a carbon tax on fossil fuels or a cap - and - trade system for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, calling global warming an urgent threat.
A very hopeful development, maybe even a game changer — by and large, that's how climate - change activists were greeting the surprising news out of Beijing of cooperation between the U.S. and China on capping and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
On climate change, the bulletin scientists say it is worsening: after flattening out for some years, global greenhouse gas emissions have resumed their rise, and the levels of the polar ice caps are at new lows.
The Independent Online reports that an unprecedented coalition of blue - chip US companies and environmental lobby groups will urge President Bush next week to get serious about global warming, calling for caps on carbon dioxide emissions that would cut greenhouse gases by 10 - 30 per cent over 15 years.
«At present, governments» attempts to limit greenhouse - gas emissions through carbon cap - and - trade schemes and to promote renewable and sustainable energy sources are prob ¬ ably too late to arrest the inevitable trend of global warming,» the scientists write in a paper published online in the scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, on Monday, 14 October 2012.
A few Democrats, particularly those representing poorer industrial areas, were deeply suspicious of cap - and - trade policies to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that their constituents would be hurt when a local polluter simply paid for pollution allowances rather than cutting back on the pollution itself.
Under Brown, California has sought to scale back dirty power plants, reduce the number of gas - powered cars on the roads, and cut industrial greenhouse gas emissions through a cap - and - trade program that requires businesses to pay to pollute.
Then - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was pushing for a carbon cap - and - trade program; still, the law's language allowed the ARB to consider a variety of methods for regulating greenhouse gas emissions, including a tax or fee on carbon dioxide.
Danger of Undermining Emissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas eEmissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissionsemissions.
A cap - and - trade system sets an upper limit, or cap, on emissions that declines over time in order to drive the amount of greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere.
The specific actions that I opposed in my essay were: (1) a cap - and - trade system for carbon emissions, (2) a carbon tax, and (3) $ 5 trillion of U.S. government spending between now and 2100 on technology designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Kilimanjaro's majestic glacial cap of 11,000 - year - old ice has long captured imaginations the world over, so it was not surprising that environmentalists focused their attention on it when scientists reported in 2001 that glaciers around the world were retreating, partly as a result of global warming caused by emissions of heat - trapping «greenhouse» gases from smokestacks and tailpipes.
Six of the eight said they would welcome or at least accept mandatory caps on their greenhouse - gas emissions.
«A global freeze will come about regardless of whether or not industrialized countries put a cap on their greenhouse gas emissions.
On the eve of the first climate change summit among Canada's provincial and territorial leaders, the Government of Ontario announced plans to establish a cap - and - trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
While the bill and likely substitute amendment offered by Senator Boxer would initiate the first step in placing a declining cap on greenhouse gas emissions so the United States can do its part to reduce the impacts of global warming,...
This act expires if either a statewide law places a charge, tax, or cap on the level of carbon emissions within the state, or an initiative by the people places a charge, tax, or cap on greenhouse gas emissions that is broadly imposed on persons subject to the carbon tax in this act.
Those in favor of sweeping new regulations on our economy to address the issue of global warming are demanding that Congress quickly pass a «cap - and - trade» bill on greenhouse gas emissions or face a battery of new mandates to be developed and imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Determination of which industries will likely be eligible for the energy - intensive, trade - exposed (EITE) industry allocations provided in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (HR 2454);
- Assessment of the potential impacts of this legislation on EITE industries;
- Identification of additional data that would be useful for determining trade impacts, allocation requirements, and greenhouse gas emission in other countries; and
- The other measures within ACES that could help to mitigate the effects of a cap - and - trade system on EITE industries.
To put the necessary cap on total cumulative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, leaders also agreed on net - zero emissions; that is, there must be «a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century».1
«I have no idea why the section on the contrarians would have been deleted,» said Mr. O'Keefe, now chief executive of the Marshall Institute, a nonprofit research group that opposes a mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions.
This bill contains a cap - and - trade program on greenhouse gas emissions by utilities and large industrial emitters, a carbon fee on transportation fuels, and a modest allocation of funds to energy efficiency.
16 November 2010 Governors from the US state of California, the Brazilian state of Acre, and the Mexican state of Chiapas have taken concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) by creating a working group designed to help Acre and Chiapas generate REDD credits that can be recognized by California's Air Resources Board (ARB) and sold as offsets to industrial emitters in California once the state's mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions goes into effect at the end of next year.
On Thursday, 65 countries representing 83 % of international aviation agreed to cap their greenhouse - gas emissions from international flights at 2020 levels from 2021 onward — in part by forcing airlines to offset emissions above that threshold, and MAYBE by funding programs that save forests and support sustainable agriculture around the world.
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.
On Tuesday, the governments of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.
Instead of regulating all sources of greenhouse gas emissions as originally proposed, lawmakers are considering placing a carbon cap initially only on utility companies.
1) A cap - and - trade system that would place an economy - wide limit on greenhouse gas emissions, and the reduction of U.S. emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.
If the major emitters of greenhouse gases find it hard to agree on setting caps on emissions now, what makes you think the world can agree to injecting aerosols in the stratosphere as a solution?
Scientists gathered by the UN in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say emissions of greenhouse gases would need to be capped by 2015 if global temperature rises are to be limited to two degrees Celsius.
Starting in 2012, the agency implemented a statewide cap - and - trade system that imposed a ceiling on greenhouse - gas emissions across key sectors and then distributed a fixed number of tradable pollution permits to businesses.
This broad risk category includes matters such as: how climate change affects the company's profitability, what opportunities / challenges climate change presents to the company, and what actions the company is taking in anticipation of the various climate change related regulations coming down the pipe (e.g. the anticipated mandatory cap - and - trade system on greenhouse gas emissions).
The oilsands are Canada's fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, but Trudeau has said that his decisions to approve the Trans Mountain project was part of a «trade off» to persuade Alberta to put a cap on the pollution from the oilsands and participate in a national climate change strategy.