Sentences with phrase «carbon emission intensity»

To do so, means cutting the carbon emission intensity of power plants - that is, reducing the amount of CO2 that is spewed out for each megawatt generated.

«Arnott's expects they will reduce the carbon emissions intensity of the refrigeration equipment by 13 % resulting in savings of $ 50,000 in energy costs per year.»

India has announced it will cut its carbon emissions intensity of its economy by as much as a quarter from 2005 levels by 2020.

«My view is that a Chinese target of a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions intensity between 2005 and 2020 would be a continuation of historical trends,» said Jim Watson, from the Tyndall Centre for climate change research in Britain [and whose report on China's carbon scenarios we've discussed on this blog; see previous post «Tyndall Centre Climate Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon»].

In 2016, BT achieved our previous science based target to reduce our carbon emissions intensity by 80 % on 1996/97 levels four years early and saved # 220 million through driving efficiencies in our networks, data centres and buildings in the process.

The difference between Professor Nordhaus's optimal carbon tax policy and a fifty - year delay policy is insignificant economically or climatologically in view of major uncertainties in (1) future economic growth (including reductions in carbon emissions intensity); (2) the physical science (e.g., the climate sensitivity); (3) future positive and negative environmental impacts (e.g., the economic «damage function»); (4) the evaluation of long - term economic costs and benefits (e.g., the discount rate); and (5) the international political process (e.g., the impact of less than full participation).

Not exact matches

Although its strong economic growth means overall emissions are still increasing, China has reached its 2020 «carbon intensity» targets ahead of time by implementing serious environmental policies and technological innovation.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

When it decided to attach a price tag to carbon emissions, Alberta turned to the Gazette announcement, crafting a system targeting emissions above 100,000 tonnes per year through intensity targets.

For seven consecutive years Walmart has reduced our Scope 1 and 2 carbon intensity, and we believe we are on track to hold our absolute emissions flat over this decade, despite our Company's continued growth.

But this transition should not be burdensome; by establishing production metrics for monitoring waste, as well as electricity consumption, gas consumption, waste water intensity and overall carbon emissions, your sites can identify ongoing efficiencies and potential cost savings for your company to support your bottom line.

We report on carbon emissions per 100,000 orders, and we focus on reducing our carbon intensity through operational efficiency.

This graphic depicts the carbon intensity of shipping wine from various global wine regions to key U.S. cities and bases its data on a seriously flawed, two - year - old working paper that is filled with untested assumptions, has not been peer reviewed, and does not accurately reflect the complexities of greenhouse gas emissions in the wine sector.

According to figures from the World Bank, the Chinese economy's carbon intensity — the amount of CO2 emissions relative to the size of economic output — has decreased by almost 70 per cent over the past three decades (see «Peak planet: Carbon dioxide intensity «-RRB-, and a further 20 per cent reduction from current levels is promised by 2020.

In 2008, they drew on data covering 1980 to 2006 to argue that there had been «declining intensities of impact, from energy use and carbon emission to food consumption and fertiliser use, globally and in countries ranging from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774).

Currently, China is working on a pledge to curb emissions intensity — the amount of carbon pumped into the atmosphere per unit of gross domestic product — but has not indicated when it might cut absolute emissions.

In addition to reduced energy intensity, carbon dioxide emissions reflected lower residential sector demand for heating after a warmer - than - usual winter in 2012.

Aldy's scheme allows that plant to satisfy the standard through a combination of buying low or zero - emissions power and making its own power with lower carbon intensity.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

Mostly, these pledges are not to cut emissions but carbon intensity.

Chinese emissions grew at 4.2 %, due to slower economic growth and faster improvements in carbon intensity of the economy compared to the previous decade

Indian emissions grew at 5.1 %, due to robust economic growth and a continued increase in the carbon intensity of the economy

Those steps include deriving 40 % of electric power capacity from fossil fuel — free sources by 2030, reducing its emissions intensity by 33 % to 35 % by 2030, and expanding forests to create a carbon sink capable of absorbing 2.5 billion to 3 billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere.

So if we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lower the carbon intensity of our fuel, energy grasses such as miscanthus and switchgrass are going to result in the biggest reductions, not corn stover.»

Well - to - wheels vehicle emissions (gCO2 equiv.km - 1) by energy source, vehicle energy intensity (MJkm - 1), and fuel carbon intensity (gCO2 equiv.

Future emissions estimated based on OECD projections for economic growth and steady progress towards the upper (65 %) or lower (60 %) end of China's carbon intensity target for 2030.

A new study by consultancy Roland Berger defines an integrated roadmap for European road transport decarbonization to 2030 and beyond; the current regulatory framework for vehicle emissions, carbon intensity of fuels and use of renewable fuels covers only up to 2020/2021.

The statement also said that China will cut its carbon intensity, or greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP, by 60 - 65 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, a large increase from its 40 - 45 percent goal for 2020.

From ramping up its carbon intensity target to limiting coal use to implementing an emissions trading scheme, recent signs show that the country is already...

2) To the extent that there are any hopeful signs regarding intentional geo - engineering, those who profit from carbon emissions will immediately demand a relaxation in the intensity with which we pursue carbon reductions.

An 18 % decrease in carbon intensity is still an increase in carbon emissions.

Or will authorities finally beging to plan where homes and buildings are, tighten up on fuel and emissions regulations, and do all the things that make peoplpe more healthy AND, oh yes, also mean that factor of two or three lower carbon intensity?

Against this background, we invite notably the emerging economies to address the increase in their emissions by reducing the carbon intensity of their economic development.

This emissions increment is a concern in the present, as current policies in the US and EU aim to reduce the carbon intensity of fuels.

An assessment belied by the fact that quite a few nations met their Kyoto goals and have already achieved significant emissions reductions; that Paris NDCs are much more inclusive and ambitious, and there is already visible action toward meeting them; and that beyond treaty obligations and commitments, carbon intensity is falling over much of the world including the US and China.

He then described Mr. Bush's chosen way of measuring progress — by tracking the amount of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product (tons per dollar)-- and said the country was on track to reach Mr. Bush's goal, set in 2002, of an 18 percent drop in greenhouse «intensity» by 2012.

Among other initiatives, we're proud to have reduced our greenhouse gas emissions intensity by more than 30 % since 1990; to be the initial developer of a supercritical coal plant that will emit 15 % lower carbon dioxide than existing plants; to be a founding member of the FutureGen Alliance; to be a part of Australia's low - carbon Coal 21 program; and to be the only non-Chinese partner in China's zero - emissions GreenGen project.

To reach Singapore's Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement — to reduce emissions intensity by 36 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, and peak carbon emissions by 2030 — the public has to engage in dialogue with the government and help shape a carbon tax that reflects Singapore's ambition.

Because we had to set a deadline for ourselves so that we could actually get our recommendations in the hands of the Chinese, our analysis unfortunately does not include China's most recent announcement regarding its target to reduce its carbon intensity per unit GDP by 40 - 45 percent by 2020 (see previous post «China to adopt «binding» goal to reduce CO2 emissions per unit GDP by 40 to 45 % of 2005 levels by 2020 «-RRB-.

The South Australian independent senator Nick Xenophon has said he won't vote for the carbon tax repeal until the Coalition agrees to change Direct Action to incorporate the intensity - based emissions trading scheme proposed by Frontier Economics.

The CPP specifies intensity rate targets for existing fossil fuel - fired electric generating units operating or under construction as of early 2014, with the stated aim of reducing carbon emissions in the power sector by 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030.

Decarbonizing the world's electricity supply,... would deliver a little less than half the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions necessary by 2035 to limit the eventual increase in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius,... The carbon intensity of electricity has increased by 6 % since 1990, largely due to growing use of coal for power generation in emerging economies, it said.

The flattening of the world's carbon emissions since 2014 has been driven in large part by this falling energy intensity, it adds.

It is informative to calculate volcanic analogs that elucidate the size of humanity's carbon footprint by scaling up volcanism to the hypothetical intensity required to generate CO2 emissions at anthropogenic levels.

But, if we tweak that a bit, we can replace the largely irrelevant notion of «renewability» with emissions - intensity, and we have something like a carbon price.

By the end of 2010, CLP met its first carbon - emission intensity reduction target of 0.8 kilograms of CO2 per kilowatt - hour and exceeded its 5 % renewable energy target for 2010.

-LSB-...] to reduce its carbon intensity per unit GDP by 40 - 45 percent by 2020 (see previous post «China to adopt «binding» goal to reduce CO2 emissions per unit GDP by 40 to 45 % of 2005 levels b... «-RRB-.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

Today, the State Council announced that China will commit to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP, or carbon intensity, by 40 to 45 percent of 2005 levels by 2020.

China's reductions are all the emissions reductions from energy intensity (cuts), they don't include the quantity in carbon sinks, and they don't include other reductions, they are only the savings from the production processes and energy consumption,» he told a news conference in Beijing.