Sentences with phrase «carbon emissions sectors»

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Obama had introduced a raft of regulations intended to slash emissions of carbon dioxide blamed for climate change, a policy course that accelerated the retirement of older coal - fired power plants and bolstered the nascent solar and wind sectors, which depend heavily on weather conditions for their power output.

Under the guise of a cap - and - trade plan, the NDP, they charge, would put a price on carbon emissions that would ruin the energy sector.

Despite Obama's clear signal that the pipeline's fate rests on carbon emissions, the Canadian government still hasn't implemented regulations on the oil and gas sector.

The plan enables states to be flexible and choose their own path to reduce carbon emissions from the power sector.

But the devil is in the details of how each individual state will choose to cut carbon dioxide emissions from their power plant sectors.

Increasingly, companies across sectors and geographies are turning to an internal carbon price as one tool to help them reduce carbon emissions, mitigate climate - related business risks, and identify opportunities in the transition to a low - carbon economy.

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

In his year - end interviews, and in the final days of the fall sitting of the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it would be crazy to impose additional costs on Canada's oil and gas sector in a time of low prices if the U.S. was not enacting similar carbon emission policies.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

Simply — and stringently — price carbon emissions across all sectors of the economy consistent with our obligation under article 4.4 of the UN Paris Agreement to undertake economy - wide absolute emission reductions, and allow the market to react to that unequivocally clear price signal.

John Ivison suggests that Peter Kent had some agreement to move forward with a «30/30» plan to regulate carbon emissions from the oil and gas sector.

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.

They call for a strengthening of the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS), including its expansion to new sectors such as aviation, a tightening of the carbon emissions allowed to each industry, and even an expansion of the scheme beyond Europe.

The U.S. power sector must cut carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels, according to federal regulations unveiled on Monday that form the centerpiece of the Obama administration's climate change strategy.

Five of the DfT's seven public sector agreements were missed, with two congestion targets, public transport use, air quality and carbon dioxide emissions targets all missed.

The CRC Scheme was designed to improve energy efficiency and cut carbon dioxide emissions in private and public sector organisations that are high energy users.

The next parliament could see cherished progressive liberal aspirations realised: a proportional electoral system; wider and better - defended civil liberties; a new, internationalist approach to foreign affairs and immigration; reform of the tax system to share wealth and curb carbon emissions; and an assault on the vested interests of the financial sector.

EPA's greenhouse gas inventory released yesterday shows that the transportation and electricity sectors now supply about the same amount of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions.

By following carbon emissions in more than 100 countries and 57 industrial sectors — from the extraction of the fuels to the energy inputs in creating goods and services to delivery to the final consumer — he and his colleagues uncovered a more complete story of who emits the world's greenhouse gases, and at which point in the supply chain.

But Suh's analysis finds that the service sector, which accounts for more than 60 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, pumps out 37.6 percent of overall greenhouse gas emissions in the country, or nearly 1.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Under the U.S. EPA proposal, carbon emissions from the power generation sector would fall by 30 percent below 2005 levels.

The CPP will require a 32 percent cut in utility - sector carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, with some states seeing reduction requirements as high as 45 to 47 percent.

EPRI's conclusions about energy technology gains were fed into a second computer model to assess the costs of stripping 80 percent of 1990 - level carbon emissions out of the electricity sector by 2050, approximating the goal of the House - passed climate bill.

The transportation sector makes up approximately 23 percent of all global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions, of which road transport is the largest and fastest - growing portion.

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

They multiplied these numbers by the amount of carbon emitted by each sector based on state data to identify carbon emissions from employment.

«Only a plan that combines carbon pricing with ambitious regulations in every sector of the economy will result in emissions reductions deep enough to reach our current climate targets and put Canada on a path to exceeding those targets.»

The auto industry and researchers say this utopian view of transportation is on the horizon, and it could cut nearly all of the carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans as soon as Friday to determine whether carbon dioxide from aircraft endangers public health, a first step to regulating emissions from the aviation sector, sources familiar with the rulemaking process said.

Lead researcher Dr Konstantinos Chalvatzis, of UEA's Norwich Business School and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said: «China's energy sector is under pressure to achieve a secure and affordable supply while at the same time reducing its carbon emissions.

Conventional processing methods use a high - temperature blast furnace to heat the iron ore and other compounds to remove oxygen and yield a desired alloy, a method that creates a lot of carbon dioxide, according to a report last year from U.S. EPA on greenhouse gas emissions from the iron and steel sector.

Nor is the problem confined to the private sector; the government of Hungary explicitly sold carbon credits to Japan that had already been used to offset domestic emissions — in effect, double counting the same theoretical emission reductions.

Most have pledged to roll back Obama's rules to cut carbon emissions by 32 percent in America's electricity sector.

Greenhouse impact In 2011 U.S. ammonia - producing facilities released 25 million tons of greenhouse gases (nearly all of it CO2)-- just under 14 percent of the chemical - manufacturing sector's total carbon footprint (and about 0.1 percent of total U.S. emissions).

The researchers found that reforesting topsoils across the country are currently adding 13 million to 21 million metric tons (13 - 21 teragrams) of carbon each year, an amount equivalent to about 10 percent of the total U.S. forest - sector carbon sink and offsetting about 1 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

The country also introduced a carbon tax on generation and vehicle emissions, its top two emitting sectors.

The sector's carbon footprint is second only to the power sector, contributing around 27 percent of overall emissions in the United States in 2013, according to U.S. EPA.

«Regardless of which theory proves correct, the goal is the same — to reduce carbon emissions, we need innovation in the private sector; not excessive government regulation to stifle some industries while rewarding others.

Less work required to capture the same amount of CO2 results in lowering the cost of using CCUS technology, making coal - to - chemicals factories a promising sector to reduce carbon emissions.

Despite concerted global efforts to reduce carbon emissions through the expansion of clean and renewable energy resources, fossil fuels continued to dominate the global energy sector in 2012, according to new figures released yesterday by the Worldwatch Institute.

These advances are steppingstones toward realizing Flight Path 2050, the European Union's aggressive goal to reduce the aviation sector's nitrous oxide emissions by 90 percent, noise pollution by 65 percent and carbon dioxide emissions by 75 percent by 2050.

Aviation accounted for 11 percent of energy - related carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation sector in 2010 in the United States, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation.

Not only does this plan work on all sources of carbon emissions rather than just the power sector, but its starting point for a price on carbon far exceeds the effective price that the Clean Power Plan would have achieved, Kaufman said.

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.

At least some of that amount can be achieved through regulations already in the pipeline, mainly U.S. EPA's draft rule to slash carbon emissions from the power sector and other measures included in the administration's Climate Action Plan.

In 2010, urban transportation accounted for almost a quarter of all carbon emissions produced across all parts of the transportation sector.

Senior Fellow Kyle Aarons said at least 10 percent could come from state progress on cutting carbon emissions from the power sector, assuming the draft rule moves ahead as proposed.

Before Trump's reversal of both the domestic and international climate plans, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had recommended a 70 - percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from industrialized nations such as the U.S., where nearly half of emissions come from the electric and automotive sectors.

Once all data are in, energy - related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2013 are expected to be roughly 2 % above the 2012 level, largely because of a small increase in coal consumption in the electric power sector.