Sentences with phrase «carbon buildings sector»

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Soon after, more than 75 companies, organizations and local governments called on the government to take action to reduce carbon pollution from the buildings sector.

It builds upon other certification systems, such as the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, and tackles some of the most challenging issues facing the palm oil sector, such as the destruction of high carbon stock forests and the abuse of the most vulnerable workers,» said Matthias Diemer, Chair of the Palm Oil Innovation Group.

A realistic energy plan must also address the sectors of transportation and building heating and cooling, each of which account for one - third of the state's carbon footprint, as well as agriculture, which accounts for 10 %.

McCarthy said the administration will build upon vehicle fuel emissions rules, regulations to reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from refrigeration and air conditioning units, and future proposals to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production, as well as EPA's proposal to cut carbon emissions from the power sector.

In the UK, the built environment sector needs to find a further 39 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from the 1990 baseline in order to meet the government's target to reduce carbon emissions in the sector by 50 per cent by 2025.

The European Union set «20-20-20» targets — a 20 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from 1990 levels; increasing energy generation from renewable sources by 20 per cent and a 20 per cent improvement in the EU's energy efficiency — and it is expected that public sector buildings lead the way.

Keeping a building's carbon footprint to a minimum is also of key importance within the education sector, with the need to appear socially responsible being at the forefront of most people's agenda.

Of the sources of carbon dioxide emissions from the residential building sector, heating, cooling and water heating account for almost 60 percent; of commercial buildings, over 30 percent.

• Sets a goal to reduce carbon pollution by at least 3 billion metric tons cumulatively by 2030 — more than half of the annual carbon pollution from the U.S. energy sector — through efficiency standards set over the course of the Administration for appliances and federal buildings;

Under President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the United States has acted under existing laws to cut emissions with sector - specific policies, including: emissions regulations; tax incentives for clean energy technologies; standards for energy - efficient appliances, buildings, and vehicles; and voluntary partnership programs to address market barriers to low - carbon strategies.

Right now, our global competitors are growing their clean energy sectors in order to dominate a market that some expect to expand by $ 2 trillion over the next decade.16 As we describe in our report, Creating a Clean Energy Century, 17 China is committed to investing over $ 700 billion in clean energy over the coming decade, 18 in addition to building 245 new nuclear plants19 and putting a price on carbon.

From 2020 onwards, all new installations need to be built according to the best available low carbon technology standard, which, for the steelmaking sector, for example, excludes building conventional blast furnaces.

Buildings in Multnomah County contributed 44 percent of the area's total carbon emissions in 2013, according to a sector - wide greenhouse gas emissions inventory referenced in the Portland 2015 Climate Action Plan.

In the words of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, achieving carbon neutrality «requires transformative rather than incremental approaches,» with a roadmap for long - term and deep reductions in the building, energy, and transportation sectors.

The UK Green Building Council has come together with Green Building Councils from around the world to publish a series of commitments from the private sector that would result in massive carbon savings from buildings and construction.

The objective of the program is to launch an unprecedented alliance of organizations committed to putting the building sector on the path to zero carbon by the year 2050.

The report argues for a strong GEF role in such emerging sectors with high mitigation potential as urban systems combining transport, buildings, water supply, waste treatment, food supply and land use zoning, AFOLU (Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storage.

On March 10 Seattle took a key step on its path to be carbon neutral by 2050, when Mayor Ed Murray signed three energy efficiency ordinances that will reduce carbon pollution in the building sector.

The event will feature an engaging discussion of key proven and emerging strategies for cities to achieve carbon emission reductions in the building sector.

Sector - based analysis includes the power sector, building efficiency, transport, carbon pricing.

The smart response would be to secure the low - and - rising carbon price and then start pushing other emission reduction policies, namely sector - specific regulations, industrial policies focused on capacity building, and large - scale investments in RD&D.

Danish concerns were addressed with the introduction of a «cap and trade approach» to sectors previously considered outside the bloc's carbon market such as agriculture, buildings and transport — which alone represents 31 % of the bloc's emissions.

«When it comes to building products, reducing the carbon footprint from concrete is one of the most significant actions that the building sector can take.»

Here's the thing: If a state shifts a bunch of transportation and building heat over to electricity, overall consumption of electricity could rise and average electricity - sector efficiency could fall, at least temporarily, even as economy - wide carbon emissions decline.

An analysis using industry data found that building the ACP and a second controversial pipeline project, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, would more than double the carbon footprint of Virginia's power sector.

As the major greenhouse gas - emitting sectors, including electric power, ground transportation, and buildings are brought under the carbon - cutting umbrella at the federal policymaking level, we believe the aviation sector should not be given an automatic pass.

Pressure from sectors of the building materials industry last November forced a delay in the publication of a database detailing the carbon footprint of building materials in Ireland, Passive House Plus can reveal.

The graphic below shows a collection of carbon pricing programs, illustrating that most price the power and industrial sectors (first two columns), some price transportation and buildings (middle two columns), and a few also price waste and forestry (far right columns).

Elrond Burrell is very well regarded in the low energy building sector and I believe he has got it right, where the Zero carbon Hub have got it wrong.

Our carbon market's a critical part of the story long term, but Mary Nichols, head of the Air Resources Board, has a portfolio of individual goals within the vehicle sector, buildings, etc..

Because buildings last for 50 — 100 years or longer, it is often assumed that cutting carbon emissions in the building sector is a long - term process.

Here at the Center, we plan to add our own efforts to building a new, sustainable paradigm for the land sector — a paradigm that turns carbon into a resource for feeding the world and restoring our precious landscapes.

As our recent Roadmap to Zero Emissions publication illustrates, we are approaching a critical time in the building sector as we work towards a carbon neutral future.

Building on New York State's support for private sector solutions to lower the cost of clean energy, C&I Carbon Challenge gives large energy consumers the flexibility to tap into their in - house expertise to reduce their carbon footprints and control their energy costs.

Construction is certainly one of the major energy - consuming and carbon dioxide producing sectors; however, it is not the hardware of buildings — bricks and mortar — that is the sole source of the issue, but its software — the people who inhabit or occupy these buildings.

Ontario will encourage the construction of near net zero and net zero energy and carbon emission homes and buildings to reduce emissions in the building sector.

«Working with leading U.S. companies in a variety of sectors, we believe that we can achieve the nation's goals of reducing energy use and carbon emissions, plus set an example that other commercial building owners can follow.»