Sentences with phrase «cut emissions from this sector»

To dramatically cut emissions from this sector, a comprehensive solution must include improved vehicle fuel efficiency, smart growth policies that reduce vehicle miles traveled, and clean fuel alternatives.

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The shipping sector, along with aviation, avoided specific emissions - cutting targets in a global climate pact agreed in Paris at the end of 2015, which aims to limit a global average rise in temperature to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius from 2020.

But the devil is in the details of how each individual state will choose to cut carbon dioxide emissions from their power plant sectors.

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

Its self - starting leadership will be a key factor in stopping deforestation, making forest supply chains sustainable, and cutting GHG emissions from the land sector.

The U.S. power sector must cut carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels, according to federal regulations unveiled on Monday that form the centerpiece of the Obama administration's climate change strategy.

The CPP will require a 32 percent cut in utility - sector carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, with some states seeing reduction requirements as high as 45 to 47 percent.

By 2030, with HVDC lines meeting at 32 nodes between regional grids, the United States could add enough wind and solar power to cut power sector emissions by up to 80 % from 1990 levels, the researchers concluded.

The auto industry and researchers say this utopian view of transportation is on the horizon, and it could cut nearly all of the carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

Thus, the IPCC argues the answer lies in a portfolio approach to reducing emissions from the energy supply sector, including replacing inefficient power plants, cutting down on the use of electricity in general and potentially moving from large, centralized power plants to small distributed ones.

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.

Senior Fellow Kyle Aarons said at least 10 percent could come from state progress on cutting carbon emissions from the power sector, assuming the draft rule moves ahead as proposed.

Before Trump's reversal of both the domestic and international climate plans, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had recommended a 70 - percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from industrialized nations such as the U.S., where nearly half of emissions come from the electric and automotive sectors.

The infrared camera, though, is doing more than just cutting emission and reducing costs; it's changing the attitudes of the public and policy makers about the need to reduce emissions from the oil and gas sector.

They pledged to cut such emissions 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025 from the oil and gas sector.

Efforts to cut emissions from the private sector and sub-national levels of government will also be needed.

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

«EU member states are obliged to cut the emissions from non-ETS sectors by 10 per cent overall by 2020.

Especially because many of the changes that need to be made to dramatically cut emissions would also materially improve the quality of life for the majority of people on the planet — from allowing kids in Beijing to play outside without wearing pollution masks to creating good jobs in clean energy sectors for millions.

It's working to reverse the Clean Power Plan, which sought to cut power - sector emissions 32 percent by 2030, and President Trump has announced a withdrawal from the global Paris climate accord.

Building on the U.S. Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, in January 2015, the Administration announced a goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025 and has committed to finalize recently proposed standards for methane emissions from the oil and gas sectorEmissions, in January 2015, the Administration announced a goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025 and has committed to finalize recently proposed standards for methane emissions from the oil and gas sectoremissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025 and has committed to finalize recently proposed standards for methane emissions from the oil and gas sectoremissions from the oil and gas sector in 2016.

The EPA is on the verge of finalizing regulations that would limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by forcing states to adopt measures to cut emissions from the energy sector.

US President Barack Obama's new climate plan aims to cut greenhouse emissions from the nation's coal - dominated power sector by 32 % by 2030.

It is expected to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the US electric sector by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.

But a lack of demand from carbon markets and uncertainty about how many credits could be used as part of future global emissions cuts has scared off many private sector investors.

In other words, with US emissions at about 25 % of global GHG emissions, elimiating gasoline from the US transportation sector would cut global emissions by about 2 percent.

If the Clean Power Plan's goals are extended beyond 2030 to reduce carbon emissions from the power sector 45 % by 2040 (CPPEXT on the graph), the emissions cuts are more significant and accelerate to 2040.

A recent study found that Australia could cut emissions from its energy sector to zero by 2050 and still grow GDP by an average of 2.4 percent over that period.

At the recent Paris climate summit, the United States pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors up to 28 percent below the 2005 levels by 2025.

The U.S. power sector must cut carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels, according to federal regulations unveiled by the EPA on Monday.

Yet cutting back in this sector, «will be challenging, since the continuing growth in passenger and freight activity could outweigh all mitigation measures unless transport emissions can be strongly decoupled from GDP growth.»

For a nation with such a storied history, the UK has been all about the future of energy in recent years, cutting power sector carbon emissions almost 50 percent from 2010 - 2016 alone and announcing a phase out of coal power by 2025.

Cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas sector is one of the least expensive, most effective ways to address climate change.

Murray, 77, founder of the largest privately held coal mining company in the U.S., told Monday's Guardian he is confident the president will follow through on promises to scrap the clean power plan, former President Barack Obama's signature climate change plan, which was designed to cut carbon emissions from the power sector by 32 percent by 2030.

The Administration's actions represent important steps to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector.

NORWAY - Aims to cut emissions by 30 percent from 1990 levels by 2020 and to make the nation «carbon neutral», meaning that any emissions in one sector would be offset elsewhere, by 2030.