Sentences with phrase «carbon emissions issues»

Local news source Malaysian Insight reported on July 5 that the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the country said it «is not involved and does not have any partnerships with Ecobit» - a blockchain project that claims to address environmental and carbon emissions issues and which closed an initial coin offering (ICO) just last month.

We could stop all world hunger in a blink and stop all the energy related carbon emissions issues with the building of geothermal and solar plants.

The media speak of Algae oil, several recent articles in the media, or grasses that increase existing ethanol yields by up to 250 % (recently reported again in the UK media), of CCS trials in Australia, of CCS ready power stations (hillarious to be fair) and of wind and solar farms portrayed as if they will solve our carbon emissions issues.

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With the scope and reach of a political platform, the company publicly declared goals for itself on practically every major social issue it touches, from local sourcing and carbon emissions to ethical recruiting and the treatment of workers in its suppliers» factories.

But in a letter to Kerry and other State Department officials, Kristin Delkus, TransCanada's general counsel, pointed to new policies on carbon emissions in Canada, specifically a federal rule issued in May to cut emissions down to 70 percent of their 2005 levels within 15 years.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber's Global Energy Institute, issued the following statement today regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's issuance of an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking addressing carbon emissions from power plants:

Although the wine industry and most other agricultural industries are considered low producers of carbon emissions, GHG issues, such as gaining market access to retailers interested in carbon foot printing, providing data for marketing purposes and / or carbon credit accounting, are becoming more significant to brands and image.

It takes place on January 1st, 2018, when the UK government loses its right to issue carbon dioxide emission permits.

«United States innovation and business leadership have been key drivers to lowering our carbon emissions over the last 20 years, and we should continue to have an influential seat at the table as the rest of the world addresses these issues,» said Stefanik, of Willsboro, a member of the Bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus.

Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Jerry Brown, of California, issued a joint statement reaffirming their commitments to exceeding targets of the now - jeopardized plan, and reducing carbon emissions.

All three were committed to carbon reduction and emissions saving, but all three had different priorities and different approaches to the issue.

On Monday, Gina McCarthy, the E.P.A. assistant administrator for air issues, told state environmental officials in a letter that if Texas would not regulate carbon emissions from smokestacks, the federal government would seize control of the state's permitting program on Thursday.

'' [E] missions of black carbon are the second strongest contribution to current global warming, after carbon dioxide emissions,» wrote Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a prominent climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Greg Carmichael, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Iowa, in the April 2008 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.

If the UNFCCC is happy with the project, it issues us with a certificate for a number of carbon credits (1 tonne of carbon, or the equivalent, abated equals 1 carbon credit) which can then be sold to companies who need to reduce their net emissions.

Concerned scientists, politicians and activists have long dreamed of a global carbon market, one that would compel companies, wherever they are based, to buy emissions permits, issued annually, or to stop emitting.

► A Letter in this week's Science, from Brett Favaro of the Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Resources at the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, considered the issue of carbon emission by scientists in the course of their research and suggested adoption of a «carbon code of conduct» for scientists.

Under a cap, government sets a limit on total carbon emissions and issues tradable permits up to the limit.

The findings highlight the urgent need for policy - makers worldwide to re-think the issue as many decision - makers, national and internationally, assume that fossil fuel emissions can be offset through sequestering carbon by planting trees and other land management practices.

In their latest paper, published in the February issue of Nature Geoscience, Dr Philip Goodwin from the University of Southampton and Professor Ric Williams from the University of Liverpool have projected that if immediate action isn't taken, Earth's global average temperature is likely to rise to 1.5 °C above the period before the industrial revolution within the next 17 - 18 years, and to 2.0 °C in 35 - 41 years respectively if the carbon emission rate remains at its present - day value.

COPENHAGEN — The economic outlook may be daunting, and everyone in Copenhagen agrees on the need to cut CO2 emissions, but just how to stimulate investment in low - carbon technologies is a long - standing and contentious issue.

The UN expects China to account for 41 % of all carbon credits issued by 2012, but a recent paper in Nature suggests that a loophole in the system has allowed investors to get rich without cutting significant amounts of emissions.

«This is partly about reducing carbon emissions, but it's also an air quality issue that has become very, very urgent,» said Kate Gordon, vice chairwoman for climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute, the China - focused environmental policy think tank led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Using executive authority, the President will issue a new rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants in the United States.

Boxer and the Senate's other senior Democrats — who control the body — have largely deemphasized the issue since 2010, when they abandoned a major effort to pass legislation aimed at curbing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

My attention was piqued on February 8 when 86 leading evangelical Christians — the last cohort I expected to get on the environmental bandwagon — issued the Evangelical Climate Initiative calling for «national legislation requiring sufficient economy - wide reductions» in carbon emissions.

When the world talks climate change — as is currently under way in Durban, South Africa — the main issue is carbon dioxide emissions.

Many of his mistakes are big ones: he bungles the issues involving reserves and resources that are critical to his core argument about oil remaining cheap; he drastically misleads his readers about the extent to which sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal - burning have been reduced; he trivializes the climate - change risks from coals carbon dioxide emissions by suggesting we know the impacts will be worth only 0.64 cents per kilowatt - hour.

The U.K. government is keen to address societal issues such as obesity and carbon emissions by finding ways to change behavior without using regulation.

Current proposals are to set a limit on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse - gas emissions by issuing permits that limit those emissions to entities like power and industrial plants.

GM crops that tolerate herbicides deserve some praise: They help minimize mechanical weed removal, which means less soil erosion, more carbon stored in the soil and fewer carbon emissions from tilling equipment making trips across fields, scientists noted in 2012 in a special issue of Weed Science focused on herbicide - resistance management.

For many of the millions who suffered through these record heat waves and the relatives of the tens of thousands who died, cutting carbon emissions is becoming a pressing personal issue.»

By framing the issue in terms of a carbon budget based around cumulative emissions, the IPCC's most recent report showed that it doesn't necessarily matter what short - term emissions reduction targets are adopted, or which country cuts emissions by a particular amount relative to another nation's pledges.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) includes a constellation of issues unfolding under the general umbrella of climate meetings; these issues range from low - carbon technology transfer agreements to finance to emissions reductions targets.

«I issued our Clean Power Plan to reduce America's carbon emissions,» Obama said at a news conference at the White House.

A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

The U.S. State Department will issue an environmental review of the pipeline that states it will not lead to a significant increase in carbon emissions, and it will not face any environmental objections from the State -LSB-...]

However, the high end of the IPCC range (or even higher) is often waved about in order to hype the issue and draw «concern» from the general public such that they stand behind efforts to limit carbon dioxide emission.

For example, who has worked to stop sensible progress restraining carbon emissions and oil demand, muzzled an open scientific debate on on these issues, kept secret the participants in high level meetings to develop energy policy, vetoed one measure after another that would have advanced his country ever so little in a direction towards climate restraint.

Voigt et al (2016) «Warming of subarctic tundra increases emissions of all three important greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide» The research (now reported fully bar the detailed experimenting in Voigt 2018) applies only to peatlands and concludes that N2O emissions as an issue requiring reappraisal.

It's the tendency to discuss the climate issue in terms of «carbon emissions.»

It's not the cutting of GHG emissions that are the real issue: it's the cutting into the 35 % and growing overload of carbon dioxide already on the globe that has to be addressed for getting some control of global warming.

That's the optimistic opinion put forth by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — she issued that statement as Congress set about the «mother of all climate weeks» to debate revolutionary climate and energy legislation that could potentially land the US a cap and trade system to cut nationwide carbon emissions.

There's some torquing, as well, around a new commentary on the measured and projected carbon emissions (both in methane and carbon dioxide) from warming, thawing Arctic tundra published in this week's issue of Nature.

What's in question is not the effect per se, which is certainly real, but the issue of sensitivity, i.e., how sensitive is the environment to the greenhouse effect produced by carbon from fossil fuel emissions?

Once we adopt the perspective that it is unacceptable to use the atmosphere as a sewer, we will address issues related to all sorts of emissions: sulfur, black carbon, methane, carbon dioxide, etc..

Given the domestic hurdles facing Obama, the inability to raise significant funds for the Green Climate Fund and China's long farewell to its growth in carbon emissions, we may still be another decade away from seeing this issue turn around.

This is a key issue, and John McCain has put solutions over partisanship to pursue meaningful, market - driven cap and trade legislation aimed at drastically reducing harmful carbon emissions.»

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).

The first issue addressed in this post is that plausible carbon uptake could hardly keep pace with ongoing anthropogenic emissions.

They have lots of uses and will help ameliorate carbon issues but they are not going to be a huge part of emissions reductions going forward.