Sentences with phrase «carbon credits within»

Compensation for the environmental services of forests must be provided through carbon credits within the Protocol as well as through financial incentives outside of the Protocol.

A second part of RA's climate program is to work to develop a mechanism for producers to receive payments for carbon credits within existing carbon markets.

Not exact matches

In the near term, federal policy could: i) level the playing field between air captured CO2 and fossil - fuel derived CO2 by providing subsidies or credits for superior carbon lifecycle emissions that account for recovering carbon from the atmosphere; ii) provide additional research funding into air capture R&D initiatives, along with other areas of carbon removal, which have historically been unable to secure grants; and iii) ensure air capture is deployed in a manner that leads to sustainable net - negative emissions pathways in the future, within the framework of near - term national emissions reductions, and securing 2 °C - avoiding emissions trajectories.

Within the electric sector, fee avoidance options include energy efficiency, installing solar energy or some form of carbon - free distributed generation on your home or business, subscribing a community solar project, or signing up for a competitive supplier option that procures high levels of renewable energy credits (RECs) or procures clean energy directly through a long - term contract.

-- If a reversal has occurred with respect to an offset practice within an offset project, for which offset credits are reserved under this paragraph, the Secretary shall retire offset credits from the offsets reserve to fully account for the tons of carbon dioxide equivalent that are no longer sequestered.

The rhetoric and predictions of global warming acolytes have been every bit as confusing in the United States, with former vice president and carbon - credit entrepreneur Al Gore telling an audience in a 2009 speech that «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years.»

In 2016, some 43.5 million carbon credits were removed from the marketplace, demonstrating a healthy appetite for offsetting within the business community.

To their credit the Zero Carbon Hub in the UK includes a «Fabric Energy Efficiency Standard» within the definition of «Zero carbon Homes».

I no longer believe that a complicated carbon trading regime — in which industries trade emissions «credits» — would work within the United States... So much is at stake for so many industries that the legislative process to create it would be easily distorted by their various lobbies.