Sentences with phrase «emission permits from»

And ECO knows that the negotiators are well aware of the fact that strong new rules to eliminate the gigantic surplus of emission permits from the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period will make a real difference.

But western European nations, especially France, wanted to see the U.S. make painful cuts in its use of energy rather than permit the purchase of unused emission permits from Russia.

Unused greenhouse - gas emission permits from the first period won't have buyers in the second phase, officials from the European Union and the United Nations said earlier this week.

Carbonkiller is an initiative by the Dutch environmental organisation WISE that allows anyone to buy and destroy emission permits from the massively oversupplied European carbon market with the aim to raise the price and to increase public engagement in one of Europe's key climate tools.

Through carbon trade, countries with higher carbon emissions could purchase emission permit from those with lower emissions or even negative emissions.

The Baytown project is waiting on air quality and greenhouse gas emissions permits from federal and state agencies, and we are hopeful they will come soon.

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.

They also say that no international control regime will be permitted to slow their economic growth away from poverty, certainly not as long as their per capita emissions remain a fraction of the West's, especially that of the United States.

The bill aims to ameliorate these effects by allowing emitting plants to continue for a while by buying permits or allowances from other producers whose emissions are below their allowances — hence «cap and trade.»

On Monday, Gina McCarthy, the E.P.A. assistant administrator for air issues, told state environmental officials in a letter that if Texas would not regulate carbon emissions from smokestacks, the federal government would seize control of the state's permitting program on Thursday.

In most systems, the cap gets lower over time, giving businesses a choice: slash emissions further or buy permits on the market from another company.

Notably, California and 11 other states had been seeking waivers from the EPA permitting them to pass laws requiring reduced car emissions of greenhouse gases from the 2009 model year onward.

Instead, the numbers — meant to represent average emissions from industrial activities — were incorporated into permits stipulating how much pollution individual facilities could release.

Launched in 2003, it relies on companies such as Cargill, DuPont, Intel, Ford and Monsanto to make legally binding but voluntary commitments to meet emissions targets either by reducing emissions from their factories or by purchasing permits from other members of the exchange who have exceeded their targets.

Its east European members have unused emissions permits left over from the first period of the Kyoto protocol.

The companies then decide individually whether it is cheaper to reduce emissions, which would free up extra permits for sale, or buy permits from others on the open market.

They accepted - despite advice from energy analysts that trading would permit the US and Japan to raise their domestic emissions by between 12 and 16 per cent above any national targets.

Its East European members have unused emissions permits left over from the first period of the Kyoto protocol.

Accordingly, it is possible that in the future, U.S. EPA or individual states may seek (or be required) to regulate carbon dioxide or other GHG emissions from biomass - fired power plants, including requiring such plants to retroactively obtain permits or install pollution control technology.

The Oregon bill would set a gradually declining limit on total carbon emissions in the state from large emitters and auction emissions permits to affected entities.

Volvo takes the usual line that charging the pack with grid power from renewable sources permits much lower life - cycle carbon emissions.

Limited and early analytical results from integrated analyses of the costs and benefits of mitigation indicate that they are broadly comparable in magnitude, but do not as yet permit an unambiguous determination of an emissions pathway or stabilisation level where benefits exceed costs.

«Limited and early analytical results from integrated analyses of the costs and benefits of mitigation indicate that these are broadly comparable in magnitude, but do not as yet permit an unambiguous determination of an emissions pathway or stabilization level where benefits exceed costs [3.5].»

But nearly all of the research money under the Obama plan was slated to come from the revenues generated by auctioning permits for greenhouse gas emissions.

• New coal - fired power plants would only be permitted when they replace existing coal - fired capacity (so they would not increase the total capacity) unless they were completely clean, i.e., unless they had a way of removing carbon dioxide from emissions.

Separate caps on carbon emissions by the electric utilities and manufacturing sectors, which would have to buy permits to pollute from the federal government.

The latest draft of the Senate legislation includes a system somewhat different from the House bill's to ensure that the price of emissions permits does not rise or fall too quickly.

A glowing report on Canada's efforts does not mention that Canada formally withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol late last year, and a reference to South Korea's emissions trading scheme, due to start in 2015, does not say that 90 per cent of the scheme's permits will initially be issued for free.

The use of cap - and - trade systems with marketable permits has been effective at the national level, ranging from restricting the catch in an Australian fishery to reducing sulfur emissions in the United States.

The changes will keep the provision for unlimited outsourcing of Australia's national responsibilities by allowing the purchase of permits from overseas without limit, so that the scheme has no mechanism for ensuring that Australia's emissions (as opposed to domestic permits) will drop by even one tonne by 2050.

By allowing an unlimited number of permits to be bought from overseas, through such dubious schemes as REDD and the CDM, the CPRS can not guarantee that even one tonne of Australian emissions (as opposed to domestic permits) will be cut.

Firms that need to increase their emission permits must buy permits from those who require fewer permits.

The French had a point: the emission trading scheme, while it would have allowed the U.S. to sign on, was really a cop - out, since buying unused permits from Russia would mean that overall emissions to the atmosphere would not actually be reduced at all.

The plan would force companies to buy permits from the government for greenhouse gas emissions above a certain cap.

Excludes the following units from consideration as major emitting facilities or major stationary sources (or parts thereof) for purposes of compliance with provisions concerning prevention of significant deterioration of air quality and plan requirements for nonattainment areas: (1) those that are subject to the performance standards of this Act; or (2) those with properly operated and maintained equipment to limit particulate matter emissions or subject to a permit under an applicable implementation plan that provides a specified particulate matter emissions limitation and that use good combustion practices to minimize carbon monoxide emissions.

The Point Carbon study, released in June, said countries like the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy — faced with a $ 5 - per - ton rise in emissions permit prices — would switch from coal to gas.

She also knew money from emissions permits would flow into Germany's so - called «climate fund,» which helps finance green - energy projects around the world.

First a government establishes an emission limitation for total emissions from the government's jurisdiction and then permits or allowances are either given away or auctioned off and in this way create a society - wide «cap.»

One potential solution to the current impasse involves establishing a fixed amount of emissions for new power plants from which credit - satisfying permit requirements could be provided to supplement those from market sources.

EU industry has so far largely been protected from overseas competitors not subject to carbon pricing as it has received free emissions permits.

States can draw from a number of options, including joining or starting a cap - and - trade program, which sets limits on emissions, then allows for the purchase and sale of pollution permits; boosting their share of renewable energy in electricity generation; and tightening efficiency standards on plants and energy users.

To meet the 5 % reduction target, another 100 million tonnes would have to be covered by buying emissions credits from developing countries and overseas permits, likely from the European Union.

For coal - fire boilers in thermal plants, the maximum allowed sulfur dioxide emission in the specially controlled regions is halved to 50 milligrams per cubic meter, from the 100 milligrams per cubic meter that is currently permitted in most of the country, said the report.

25 percent of emissions permits to be auctioned with option to increase later (Friends of the Earth and other NGOs wanted 100 percent from the start of the scheme)

Strict limits on the number of emissions permits airlines can buy from projects in developing countries in order to incentivise emissions cuts within the EU.

These include energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, planning for the impacts of climate change, environmental permitting, the threat to businesses and their critical infrastructure from rising sea levels and flooding and water regulations.

All emissions permits to be sold to airlines at auction rather than given out for free; A multiplier of at least two, to be used to compensate for the additional impacts of emissions from aircraft at altitude;

Companies that exceed their permits must buy extra allowances from those companies who have managed to reduce their emissions - or pay stiff fines.

Although black carbon from motor vehicles is already regulated under vehicle PM emission rules due to known PM health effects, such regulations still permit substantial BC emissions, and the climate effects of such emissions are significant.

If emissions exceed what is permitted by a country's allowances, an installation must purchase allowances from others.