Sentences with phrase «carbon content of»

A Commerce Department spokesman said Locke was not endorsing a tax on imports or any other particular policy option to reduce the carbon content of imported goods.

The comment followed Locke's statement last week in China that U.S. consumers should pay for the carbon content of goods they consume from countries around the world.

The simplest way of calculating the emissions attributable to the KXL pipeline is to take the amount of product, let's say 830,000 barrels per day (the stated capacity of the pipeline), and multiply it by the carbon content of bitumen (0.48 tonnes of CO2 per barrel), which gives emissions of about 7 billion tonnes of CO2 over 50 years.

There's a low - carbon fuel standard to limit the carbon content of imported fuel.

Unless there is an effective tax on the carbon content of the manufacture etc of imported goods, then the tax on domestic producers gives money to consumers to buy cheaper imported goods.

Carbon intensity is calculated as the ratio of the sum of the carbon content of all fuels to the sum of the energy content of all primary energy sources.

This practice boosted the carbon content of the soils from a meager 0.5 percent to 9 percent.

Jacobson's models, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmospheres, concluded that, even with stringent U.S. and European standards, diesel vehicles could warm the climate more over 100 years than gasoline - powered cars as a result of the relatively higher black carbon content of diesel.

This has the advantage of simplicity and transparency, although it does not relate the tariff specifically to the carbon content of the import.

To find out, researchers at Salisbury University in the U.S. and National University of Singapore analyzed the carbon content of mangrove vegetation as well as the soil underneath it.

Estimates are in particular based on carbon isotope - 13 ratios and stomatal anatomy in naturally preserved leaf material, leaf intercellular CO2 concentrations offer new insights into the carbon content of past atmospheres.

In an April 1, 2012 column in The New York Times, Prof. Richard H. Thaler of the U-Chicago Booth School of Business aptly summed up the near - unanimity among economists that carbon taxing is the optimal way to reduce CO2 emissions: «Consider a recent poll of a panel of economists conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where I teach... [Forty - one] economists in [a poll conducted by the] University of Chicago... were asked whether they agreed with this statement: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles.»

Estimates of the carbon content of all fossil fuel reservoirs including unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale and various gas reservoirs that can be tapped with developing technology [114] imply that CO2 conceivably could reach a level as high as 16 times the 1950 atmospheric amount.

«Carbon equivalent units» are defined as carbon dioxide equivalents multiplied by the carbon content of carbon dioxide (i.e., 12/44).

This document stated that Lobe B Leigh Creek coal is classified as sub-bituminous black coal and typically has a water content of 31 % and a carbon content of 35 %.

They measured the organic carbon content of the samples and determined how much of the soil volume was taken up by large bodies of ground ice.

Sequestration, as applied to the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2)(also called carbon capture and storage; CCS), is the storage of carbon dioxide, or the carbon content of the carbon dioxide, in a sink.

In essence, the carbon tariff, if enacted, would assess a levy on goods being imported into the Unites States from countries that do not enact controls on carbon emissions based on the carbon content of the good.

Provisions exist to avoid double taxation and to estimate the carbon content of electricity from unspecified / unknown generation sources, and electricity sold by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).

Norway does the same thing by the way, it's set itself this fab goal of being carbon neutral by 2050 but in the process refuses to count the carbon content of it's massive fossil fuel exports — instead running itself on hydro to hit it's targets.

Such a reduction is more than 10 times as great as the carbon content of tar sands oil carried by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline (830,000 barrels / day)[242].

And, due to economics, there is already a shift under way to nat gas, the lowest carbon content of the fossil fuels, at least in the US.

The carbon content of every fossil fuel, from anthracite or lignite coal to heating oil and natural gas, is precisely known.

In addition, I have shown you that the total future GH warming from the principal GHG, CO2, is constrained by carbon content of all remaining fossil fuels on Earth to an absolute asymptotic maximum of around 2C, which could theoretically occur in 200 to 300 years, in the unlikely event that all fossil fuels get 100 % used up by then

After all, scores of methodologies now exist for measuring the carbon content of trees, identifying the immediate threats to the forest, and quantifying the degree to which a project removes that threat.

Most of the carbon was stored in the top metre of soil (not including roots) however the variation in carbon content was most noticeable for aboveground woody biomass where wildlands had 12 times the carbon content of vineyards.

In tranquil, well - behaved parts of the ocean like near the Galapagos, it would be probably easier to document changes in the carbon content of the upper ocean than it would be on land.

If necessary to protect America's competitiveness, reformers could also impose a tax on the carbon content of imports from countries that do not tax their own emissions.

Documenting a change in carbon content of surface waters might be possible in the tropics, but it would be a nightmare in the Southern Ocean, probably impossible to do reliably.

On Sunday, the best climate policy in the world got even better: British Columbia's carbon tax — a tax on the carbon content of all fossil fuels burned in the province — increased from $ 25 to $ 30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, making it more expensive to pollute.

The letter also proposes two disclosure improvements that would address the core, material risks posed by climate reality: disclosures of future Capex by break - even price bands and the carbon content of reserves and resources.

Transportation measures generally contribute a higher percentage to emissions reductions than to energy use reductions due to the relatively high carbon content of most transportation fuels.

However, researchers investigating the fossil - related carbon content of municipal and industrial wastewaters at various points in the treatment process found that relevant amounts of petroleum products, such as synthetic chemicals from detergents, wash into wastewater and can eventually add to total greenhouse gas emissions.

Tax - A carbon tax is a levy on the carbon content of fossil fuels.

Pepco / Exelon will need to pay a carbon fee based on the carbon content of their Standard Offer Service (SOS) electricity load.

For natural gas, the local distribution company providing gas would pay the fee, which would be based on the carbon content of each cubic foot of natural gas sold to customers.

In a nutshell, a carbon price assigns a clear cost to each unit of carbon emitted or the carbon content of a fuel burned.

HERE is a poll by the IGM of their Economic Experts Panel on a carbon tax; the question posed was: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles».

Pratseyo is now attempting to save the country's peat forests which contain eight times the carbon content of other rainforests by engineering a massive land - swap, essentially by convincing palm oil producers to move their operations to degraded land.

Not surprisingly, the carbon content of energy is the same in 2013 as it was in the early 1990s and actually rose a little since 2000.

The levy would be linked to the carbon content of the fuel and the price of carbon in the other markets.

In Dr. Hansen's approach, a straightforward rising tax is imposed on the carbon content of fuels, instead of Mr. Barnes's notion of a shrinking supply of purchased, and traded, permits.

At that time the carbon content of the atmosphere was only around 600 gigatons of carbon.

Thus, the carbon in the Powder River coal amounts to 67.5 gigatonnes, far below the carbon content of the Athabasca Oil Sands.

He also cites problems with a straight tax on carbon content of fuels.

The number of permits each company needs would be based on the carbon content of its fuels.

And indeed, during the last seven years, the carbon content of British electricity has reduced significantly.

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The plan also includes a border tax adjustment: U.S. companies exporting goods to countries without a similar carbon price would receive a rebate of tax paid, and imports from companies outside the U.S. would face fees based on the carbon content of their products.

She analyzed the carbon content of 29 samples of sediment collected along two of the larger waterways (one of which included remnants of 148 beaver dams, and the other had 100).