Sentences with phrase «carbon abatement»

PUBLIC servants are drawing up plans to collapse 33 climate change schemes run by seven departments and eight agencies into just three bodies run by two departments under a substantial rewrite of the administration of carbon abatement schemes under the Coalition.

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It has the potential to leverage economic benefits for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through participation in carbon abatement projects.

IPAs have already set international benchmarks for innovative carbon abatement programs involving funding partnerships with industry to offset carbon emissions.

Are the Eurocrats giving up on their job and people killing carbon abatement schemes?

Land management and maintenance of the biodiversity and ecosystems through programs including Working on Country and the development of Indigenous Management Agreements, as well as carbon abatement through fire management, and carbon sequestration may all be opportunities available to Indigenous land owners.

Thirdly, a substantial portion of the economic impact (previous modelling exercises indicate around one third) is due not to Australia's carbon abatement policies but to the actions of other countries.

In the context of development opportunities, the following examples outline ways in which Indigenous people are currently contributing, informally and formally, to environmental services through carbon abatement projects.

However, critics now question whether these taxpayer - financed offsets are actually facilitating new carbon abatement.

Of all the low - emission energy sources, cracking the Holy Grail of carbon abatement from coal could turn out to be the most lucrative business opportunity in the entire low - emission energy field.

Even under optimistic assumptions about global carbon abatement, the Earth is expected to warm by 4oC or more by the end of the century, making it hotter than it has been for 15 million years, and crossing several tipping points along the way that will make it impossible to stabilise the global temperature at any level.

«These programs internalize the cost of pollution into the market and preserve the most cost - effective source of carbon abatement available to consumers.

While the Government says carbon abatement costs per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) should be about # 56 ($ 87) for road transport, the report says the cost using the current generation of biofuels ranges from about # 105 to # 715 ($ 165 - 1,100).

The review conducted in this study indicates that, in general terms, when it comes to leveraging the potential of broadband to promote environmental sustainability, high - income countries tend to focus on carbon abatement strategies, whereas developing nations envisage the use of broadband to reinforce the preservation of biodiversity and promote eco-friendly development.

Ecuador will forgo 846 million barrels of heavy crude reserves and, in turn, become the first developing country to propose an effective, quantifiable and verifiable carbon abatement model.

Prominent listings include Quilpie, a 166,000 hectare carbon abatement and beef cattle aggregation in Charleville, Queensland being offloaded by institutional asset managers SLM Partners, and Wanderribby, a 2700 hectare cattle feedlot and grazing property near Meningie in South Australia being sold by vertically integrated beef producers the Gunner family.

Environmental Advocates of New York says the Cuomo team deserves credit for its aggressive State Energy Plan, but cautions the goals may be just out of reach should the state go the way of re-firing outdated fossil fuel plants and raiding carbon abatement programs like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Investing in super and ultra-supercritical technologies in India remains a cost - effective carbon abatement alternative compared to investment in other generation technologies.

Furthermore, NGOs and standards bodies can help incentivize CDR through updating protocols and standards in a way that appropriately rewards carbon removal alongside carbon abatement.

If carbon abatement can be achieved in coal - fired power, the resource can have a bright future both in Australia and overseas.

This economy - wide transition represents opportunities through demand created for materials needed to drive carbon abatement; however, it also poses risks associated with shifts away from some incumbent commodity use.

These specific carbon abatement measures have either been driven by European directives or by completely independent domestic political pressures and rules.

[43] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples will be able to conduct carbon abatement projects on land rights land or native title land as part of the CFI and be issued with ACCUs for any carbon reduction or removal achieved.

Critics question whether carbon offsets projects are actually facilitating new carbon abatement, and the World Wildlife Fund released a report last year calling 20 percent of the UN's certified emissions reduction credits, as facilitated through the controversial clean development mechanism process, bogus.

The high - end scenario here only models the 17 percent reduction from an economy - wide measure such as a cap - and - trade program as the extent of the U.S. contribution to global carbon abatement.

«The court's decision to dismiss the lawsuit regarding the Zero Emission Credit segment of New York's Clean Energy Standard (CES) is good news for New York's climate efforts and citizens across the state because it preserves the most cost - effective source of carbon abatement available to consumers.

Amid all the wailing and gnashing of teeth in many Anglo countries about the cost of carbon abatement and clean energy, the European Union remains steadfast in its belief that's investing in the future is a lot cheaper than business as usual.

Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) delivered via the gas grid offers CO2 lifecycle savings of up to 90 % compared with fossil fuel alternatives, and offer sa more cost - effective solution than electricity for carbon abatement in transport applications, according to a new feasibility study published by National Grid (UK), the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) and Centrica.

One recurring cause of tension has been the policy of successive Governments to fund programmes to address both fuel poverty and carbon abatement through levies on domestic energy bills.

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Although environmental groups believe investing in renewables is a better idea, «carbon abatement» techniques such as CCS could reduce fossil fuel emissions by up to 90 per cent, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Extensive manufacturing processes and battery disposal had the potential to cloud the carbon abatement potential of EVs.

The geo - clique are lobbying for a huge injection of public funds into geoengineering research, justified on the grounds that «the world» (read America in the era of the Tea Party) will never countenance the carbon abatement policies we so badly need.

So the Waxman - Markey bill, while going through the complex motions of creating a carbon abatement regime, takes care to neutralise itself.

To design a performance - based program for carbon abatement, the strategy defined major sectors contributing to carbon emissions, referred to as «high - impact sectors».

Already, people close to the fossil fuel industry have begun to talk of geoengineering as a substitute for carbon abatement.

to identify and facilitate access to economic opportunities arising from carbon abatement and mitigation.

Under an agreement between Darwin Liquid Natural Gas and the Northern Territory Government, the company pays the government an annual fee of $ 1 million for carbon abatement.