Sentences with phrase «carbon vehicle sector»

Most worryingly there appears to be no plan put in place for if the low carbon vehicle sector should fail to ever meet consumer expectations.

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Global rivals in the sector face mounting costs to engineer vehicles that emit little or no carbon dioxide, and can avoid collisions using complex robotic driving systems.

Up until 2009 the three key government departments with a stake in the low carbon vehicles [LCV] sector were the Department for Transport, the Department for Business, Innovations and Skills and the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

The policy landscape for the low carbon vehicles (LCV) sector in the UK is a complex and at times confusing mix of competing objectives.

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

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.

Under President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the United States has acted under existing laws to cut emissions with sector - specific policies, including: emissions regulations; tax incentives for clean energy technologies; standards for energy - efficient appliances, buildings, and vehicles; and voluntary partnership programs to address market barriers to low - carbon strategies.

«In the transportation sector, electrification and expansion of both passenger and freight rail and conversion of on - road vehicles to electric drive, hybrids, and turbo diesels, coupled with the recently enacted CAFÉ standards, will allow total residual carbon emissions to drop well below 10 percent of today's levels.

In the end, the only way to keep this carbon in the ground is to 1) reduce demand with greatly improved efficiency, and 2) introduce low - carbon alternatives in the transport sector that people actually WANT to drive (e.g., electric vehicles running on power produced with natural gas, renewables or nuclear).

He said, however, that liquid biofuels can and should play a central role in reducing the transportation sector's petroleum dependence, alongside programs to reduce vehicle sizes, charge for carbon emissions, and encourage lifestyles requiring less personal mobility.

But to fully capitalize on the potential of electric vehicles for reducing climate - altering carbon emissions from the transport sector, an analyst recently explained in Issues, new investments are needed in large - scale electricity storage and new public policies are needed to encourage recharging when renewable energy sources are providing the power.

The transportation sector has eclipsed power plants as the biggest source of US carbon emissions, and EPA calculated in 2010 that the tougher fuel - efficiency standards would prevent more than one year's worth of total US carbon emissions over the lifetime of new vehicles sold from 2012 through 2025.

Pollution Probe works with government and the heavy - duty vehicle sector to help facilitate the coordinated efforts required to reduce the carbon footprint of freight transport.

Recent research has identified diesel vehicles and engines as one of the most attractive sectors for black carbon mitigation.

While diesels are the workhorses of the transport sector and relatively energy efficient (as compared to gasoline vehicles or jet aircrafts), their combined contribution to transportation - related climate warming greenhouse gases and other short - lived climate pollutants, particularly black carbon, is significant.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

The CEM Electric Vehicle Initiative (EVI) recognizes the importance of reducing carbon emissions in the transportation sector, which account for almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and is one of the fastest - growing energy end use sectors.

In the transportation sector, the state enjoys one of the country's highest rates of electric vehicle (EV) ownership, while researchers and startups are developing low - carbon biofuels and advanced vehicle technologies.

Projections of U.S. transportation energy use indicate that better vehicle efficiency and low - carbon fuels will not be sufficient to reach sectoral emissions reduction goals if travel demand grows at pre-recession rates, so managing demand will be a key ingredient of climate policy for the sector.

For over 40 years, TCPs have brought together experts from the public and private sectors to share experiences in fields as diverse as ocean energy, smart grids, carbon capture and storage and hybrid and electric vehicles.

Our carbon market's a critical part of the story long term, but Mary Nichols, head of the Air Resources Board, has a portfolio of individual goals within the vehicle sector, buildings, etc..