Sentences with phrase «current emissions cap»

«California's current emissions cap is very unlikely to be binding,» said UC - Berkeley energy economist Severin Borenstein, «so losing Diablo Canyon would raise emissions.»

«California's current emissions cap is very unlikely to be binding,» Borenstein told me, «so losing Diablo Canyon would raise emissions.»

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Current emissions are less than the cap — approximately 70 megatonnes / year.

As compensation, the transport secretary said the government would push for a European cap on aviation emissions, set below current levels.

Current debate on Capitol Hill and in many statehouses favors programs that cap emissions and lower the cap over time, using permits to ensure compliance.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

Called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the group seeks to cut current emissions by 10 percent by 2019 through a cap - and - trade system.

The automaker's current growth potential is capped by strict environmental regulations that impose a production limit of 10,000 cars per year based on current fleet - average emissions, reports Automotive News.

He alluded to last year's successful passage of a climate and energy bill in the House, but made no mention of the current proposal by his Democratic allies in the Senate for legislation including a cap and trading mechanism for emissions.

This whole discussion about burning fossil fuels, cap and trade, the EPA attempt to regulate carbon emissions and the current actions of Congress to stop EPA is ALL rooted and based in the Greenhouse Theory.

The new report further states that greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates would induce changes in the oceans, ice caps, glaciers, the biosphere, and other components of the climate system.

The current RGGI review process may result in lower emissions caps, but these changes are unlikely to take effect by 2020 and don't meet the Kain standard for emission reduction regulations.

So, once we clear away the underbrush, we can see that the case for a carbon tax or a cap - and - trade emissions rationing system is really that it would be a hedge against the risk that actual damages from warming would be much, much worse than current risk - adjusted projections indicate.

What we have asked Gov. Inslee for is a Climate Recovery Rule for the state of Washington, detailing and describing how Washington will use its existing authority to cap and draw down GHG emissions in a manner consistent with the best current scientific understanding of what it will take to protect not just these eight brave youths, but all of us, present and future generations alike.

The DOE in February withdrew its proposal to cap emissions, following a landmark ruling in November 2015 which found that the state's current standards fail to «preserve, protect, and enhance the air quality for the current and future generations.»

Indeed, we estimate that the extra tightening of the EU - ETS cap required to align with a Paris - compliant EU - wide trajectory for 2030 and beyond would require incremental emissions reductions of 1.6 Gt over 2021 - 30 versus our base - case scenario under the current cap.

Although these policies may not provide the environmental certainty of a cap - and - trade system, they can drive emissions reductions and may be more suited to the current development of China's financial markets and enforcement infrastructure.

New emissions data for the 10,000 industrial installations covered by the EU - wide cap and trade scheme shows that greenhouse gas output fell in 2012 by 1.4 % despite the ETS's current ineffectual state.

It seems the current economy argues, almost to the point of screaming, in favor of cap and trade over taxing of emissions.

That cap might have been a little lower, or possibly even a little higher than it's current emissions level.

Absolute caps in total carbon emissions, 90 % less than current emission levels, need to be accepted in every sector of the economy.

Furthermore, «the international community should move quickly to replace current cap - and - trade structure by one in which the central economic mechanism is a tax on greenhouse gas emissions.»

Current economic studies also suggest that the most efficient policy is to raise the cost of CO2 emissions substantially, either through cap - and - trade or carbon taxes, to provide appropriate incentives for businesses and households to move to low - carbon activities.

While the Kyoto treaty was a massively - flawed document, with current technologies a Kyoto type cap and trade approach is about the only way we have available to slow or halt CO2 emissions.