Sentences with phrase «carbon value»

Given the immense possibility for carbon markets in the future land owners should give serious consideration to carbon values in making land use decisions.

That would help preserve biodiversity in ecosystems with a lower carbon value.

By assuming a mean carbon value of US$ 43 per tonne, Vargas calculated that Wilma caused a potential cost of US$ 1160 per hectare of forest by increasing soil emissions to the atmosphere and reducing forest gross primary productivity.

Second, because the power plants regulated by RGGI were operating in restructured electricity markets — in which power generators compete on open wholesale markets — they were going to capture the extra carbon value in their wholesale price bids anyway.

So under a performance standard, almost all renewable energy generation qualifies without regard to whether the REC or carbon value of the project's production is essential to getting it financed.

Projects are being developed at sites globally to protect and restore coastal ecosystems for their «blue» carbon value.

From summaries circulated overnight, the package — as expected — is a classic piece of American legislative compromise, with multi-billion-dollar incentives and investments and favors aimed at enthusing states rich in coal and agribusiness (despite big questions about the carbon value of some supposedly carbon - sopping farming methods).

To illustrate the economic potential of carbon credits versus oil - palm, we compared the net present value (NPV) of a standard 1,000 - hectare sawit kelapa plantation to a 1,000 - hectare peat swamp preserved for its carbon value.

Our results show that preserving land for its carbon value is worth more than sawit kelapa at present prices for carbon in legally binding markets: $ 9.99 million for the EU ETS Trading Scheme, $ 8.02 million for the Secondary Clean Development Mechanism, and $ 6.32 million for State of the Voluntary Markets report.

Local people could continue to subsist from forest areas (possibly non-market timber harvesting, hunting, and collection of forest products like rattan, fruit, and nuts) without degrading the carbon value of the land.

Carbon offsets may someday offer the possibility that protected areas could seek compensation for their carbon value.

These include a conservative scenario, which considers a slower decline in the relative cost of EVs; a reference scenario, which assumes technology costs and performance improve over time across the economy under existing state - level policies and targets; a progressive scenario, which includes a carbon value of $ 15 / ton of carbon dioxide starting in 2020 in the reference scenario; and a transformation scenario, in which the carbon value starts at $ 50 / ton in 2020.

«Borneo's forests are known to be extremely diverse in terms of species per hectare — we now also know about the carbon value of them as well.»

If we can see the coal, we can accurately assign its carbon value if that electricity is serving California load.

Poseidon will allow these carbon consequences to be visible for the first time by enabling a carbon value to be added directly into everyday products.