Sentences with phrase «cut carbon intensity»

«The Department of Energy estimates that existing Chinese policies will already cut carbon intensity by 45 to 46 percent,» Mr. Levi said.

Last November president Xi Jinping announced the country would target an emissions peak by 2030, building on its 2009 voluntary target to cut the carbon intensity of GDP 40 - 45 % by 2020.

Between 2005 and 2010, China cut its carbon intensity (CO2 emissions divided by gross domestic product) by 21 percent, and, last November, it unveiled expanded climate targets in a joint agreement with the US.

Even as China's emissions continue to rise, the IEA points out that the nation has cut its carbon intensity (carbon emissions linked to GDP) by 15 percent since 2005.

The statement also said that China will cut its carbon intensity, or greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP, by 60 - 65 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, a large increase from its 40 - 45 percent goal for 2020.

Shell said in late November that it aspires to cut the carbon intensity of its energy operations and of the energy products it sells by 20 % by 2035 and «around half» by 2050.

Most were about cutting the carbon intensity of their economies rather than actually cutting emissions.

Not exact matches

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

China has committed to cutting its carbon dioxide intensity by between 40 and 45 percent by 2020 compared to 2005 levels and increasing its share of non-fossil-fuel energy to 15 percent.

Currently, China is working on a pledge to curb emissions intensity — the amount of carbon pumped into the atmosphere per unit of gross domestic product — but has not indicated when it might cut absolute emissions.

India has announced it will cut its carbon emissions intensity of its economy by as much as a quarter from 2005 levels by 2020.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

Mostly, these pledges are not to cut emissions but carbon intensity.

But are bicycles or even carbon intensity cuts enough?

China's reductions are all the emissions reductions from energy intensity (cuts), they don't include the quantity in carbon sinks, and they don't include other reductions, they are only the savings from the production processes and energy consumption,» he told a news conference in Beijing.

In its action plan for the Paris COP21 meet, India pledges to reduce its carbon intensity — a measure of a country's emissions relative to its economic output — by 35 percent by 2030, rather than an absolute cut in emissions.

To do so, means cutting the carbon emission intensity of power plants - that is, reducing the amount of CO2 that is spewed out for each megawatt generated.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

According to the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy, the carbon intensity of the U.S. economy was cut by 17 percent between 1990 and 2000, yet total emissions increased during that time by 14 percent due to a 39 - percent increase in economic activity.

The plan has several targets, these include a cut in the carbon intensity of GDP 17 % by 2015, to cut energy intensity by 16 %.