A portion of each national target is allocated to the installations in the four sectors with the remainder available to
cover emissions from sectors not covered (such as transport).
Not exact matches
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.
Environmental advocates said China's participation in the first six years of the system, when countries are expected to voluntarily opt in, would be necessary if the deal were to
cover 80 percent of
emissions from the
sector.
While all of the pledges submitted so far
cover the energy
sector, some have included it within a headline target for dealing with overall
emissions, while others have explicitly set targets to control or reduce
emissions from the energy
sector.
The nationwide market would initially
cover only China's vast, state - dominated power generation
sector, which produced almost half of the country's
emissions from the burning of fossil fuels last year.
It
covers carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions from key industry
sectors, such as energy, paper, metal and cement and regulates approximately 11,400 installations owned by ca. 5,000 companies across Europe.
As unforeseen price fluctuations have left the European
emissions market without enough incentives to sufficiently reduce carbon
emissions even
from sectors covered by the ETS, France is already pushing for a regional minimum price on carbon
emissions for the power
sector.
As unforeseen price fluctuations have left the European
emissions market without enough incentives to sufficiently reduce carbon
emissions even
from sectors covered by the ETS,
Either way, the
emissions covered by INDCs are then aggregated with projected future
emissions from countries,
sectors and gases not
covered by INDCs.
Today, the European Parliament voted on the Effort Sharing Regulation which
covers the
emissions from the transport, building, agriculture and waste
sectors in the 2021 - 2030 period.
To quantify the growth in
emission transfers via international trade, we developed a trade - linked global database for CO2
emissions covering 113 countries and 57 economic
sectors from 1990 to 2008.