Sentences with phrase «carbon value of the project»

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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.

The project will develop ways to quantify the amount of carbon that these marine ecosystems can sequester, and to value the ecosystem services provided by coastal habitats.

-- The regulations promulgated under this paragraph shall include standards and protocols for project eligibility, certification of destroyers, monitoring, tracking, destruction efficiency, quantification of project and baseline emissions and carbon dioxide equivalent value, and verification.

The «giant test tubes», each enclosing 40,000 litres of seawater, were then enriched in carbon dioxide to levels covering the range from present day values to those projected for the year 2150.

To get an idea of how the group's projects work, explore the details of the effort in Sofala, Mozambique, where farmers get a small payment for the carbon - absorbing value of adding a tree crop, cashews, to their plantings.

The Project on International Climate Agreements at Harvard's Belfer Center has been churning out important work, including a recent paper on the value of an agreement for sequestering carbon in forests.

Independent study analyzes monetary value of the co-benefits from First Climate's Household Biogas Project in India In addition to emissions reductions, carbon offsetting delivers an array of economic, social and environmental co-benefits.

In addition to our core business of sourcing and marketing carbon offsets, NativeEnergy provides consulting services to renewable energy and carbon reduction technology developers to assist in maximizing their project's value.

Significantly, buyers also indicated a willingness to pay up to 33 % more per tonne of CO2 for projects with verified social, economic and environmental co-benefits, drawing upon the value co-benefits from carbon offset programmes can deliver for the business.

The BT approach uses values estimated from existing studies that are published in academic or grey literature as an approximation for valuing environmental services and social welfare of carbon offset projects.

The analysis found, somewhat surprisingly, that only proceeding with lower cost, less carbon - intensive projects needed to satisfy demand in a carbon - constrained world will add over $ 100 billion to the value of the world's seven oil majors, unless oil prices spike beyond $ 100 a barrel for a sustained period of time — well over OPEC's long - term average assumption of around $ 80 a barrel.

-- The regulations promulgated under this paragraph shall include standards and protocols for project eligibility, certification of destroyers, monitoring, tracking, destruction efficiency, quantification of project and baseline emissions and carbon dioxide equivalent value, and verification.

--(i) At any time after the Administrator promulgates regulations pursuant to subparagraph (A), the Administrator may, pursuant to the requirements of part D of title VII and based on the carbon dioxide equivalent value of the substance destroyed, add the types of destruction projects authorized to receive destruction offset credits under this paragraph to the list of types of projects eligible for offset credits under section 733.

However, this can still prove to be a value - add proposition if they simply avoid developing high cost, high carbon projects,» said Mark Fulton, adviser to Carbon Tracker and co-author of the report.

A significant proportion of fossil fuel projects outside the carbon budget are related to future projects, which companies still have time to cancel — the less that energy transition risks are factored into company planning now, the greater chance of value impacts in the future.

AgCert, another British - based aggregator of credits, went bankrupt earlier this year, and Econergy International, a renewable - energy and carbon project developer, recently agreed to be sold for less than half its market value at the time it went public in 2006.

The challenges facing wetland restoration as a viable mechanism for carbon sequestration include the high costs of wetland restoration, which may surpass the value of carbon finance in projects, which necessitates partnering projects with more traditional funding pathways.

This extreme growth shows that low carbon projects can stand on their own two feet, becoming mainstream investment options with strong business cases without any internalization of environmental values.

World carbon markets have been on the ropes over the past several years, as the global economic downturn prompted prices of EU allowances to fall 90 % from their pre-recession peak, while the value of UN-backed offsets that finance low carbon projects in developing countries became almost worthless.

Significant economic value is lost after each use, and given the projected growth in consumption, by 2050 oceans are expected to contain more plastics than fish (by weight), and the entire plastics industry will consume 20 % of total oil production and 15 % of the annual carbon budget.

Assuming the IPCC's value for climate sensitivity (i.e. disregarding the recent scientific literature) and completely stopping all carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between now and the year 2050 and keeping them at zero, will only reduce the amount of global warming by just over a tenth of a degree (out of a total projected rise of 2.619 °C between 2010 and 2100).

The list of environmental projects that Scouts the world over are participating in is impressive: «From Australian Scouts identifying ways to reduce water consumption in their Scout halls or around the home; Mexican Scouts making the world's largest Scout fleur - de-leis from cans in an effort to educate the community on the values of recycling; Scouts from Canada partnering with Southern African Scouts in learning to reduce their impact on carbon emissions and understanding about climate change...»

When looking at carbon offset projects we have to avoid Western middle class views of what people want and value — there is a tendency to assume that because we don't do something others won't either.