Sentences with phrase «emission reduction measures implemented»

Despite the stringent emission reduction measures implemented in Beijing over the past decade, a series of unprecedentedly severe haze events hit this megacity in January 2013.

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Testifying to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in 2007, Ramanathan said of cutting black carbon emissions that «at best, it is a short - term measure to probably buy a decade or two, time for implementing CO2 emission reduction strategies.»

As a second step, First Climate will assess the opportunities to reduce the carbon footprint by implementing emission reduction measures.

The joint assistance project Capacity building for CO2 mitigation from international aviation aims at providing assistance to a selected group of 14 States in Africa and the Caribbean to support their efforts in developing and implementing their States» Action Plans on CO2 emissions reduction from international aviation, to establish aviation environmental systems for emissions monitoring at the State level and to identify, evaluate and implement mitigation measures in selected States.

While the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change findings make clear that future climate policy will be needed to significantly reduce emissions, the timing of the precise policy measures that will implement those reductions remain unclear.

If the proposed nomenclature change is adopted by the United Nations, which collects greenhouse gas inventories from nations every year, it could change the optics of the climate change reductions nations are implementing, said Bryce Payne, director of science and technology at Gas Safety Inc., a company that measures methane emissions.

On or before 30 June 2007, ARB will publish a list of discrete early action greenhouse gas emission reduction measures that can be implemented prior to the measures of AB 32.

The study estimated a maximum reduction of emissions of the world fleet of about 18 % by 2010 and 28 % by 2020, when all measures were to be implemented.

For over 15 years, Winrock has been a global leader in designing and implementing science - based methods to measure, monitor and report GHG emissions reductions in the agriculture, land use and forestry sectors for clients including the United Nations, the World Bank and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

«The ACR Nested REDD + Standard is built on 15 years of work by Winrock around the world, providing technical assistance and building local capacity to design and implement science - based methods to measure, monitor and report carbon emission reductions from forests,» said Dr. Sandra Brown, director and chief scientist of Winrock International's Ecosystem Services group and Dr. Nancy Harris, lead scientists for the Standard.

In the waste sector, different measures will be implemented for waste - to - energy conversion and reduction of methane emissions.

Increasingly implemented in the marketplace over time, the strategies in each wedge provides greater and greater reductions in carbon emissions compared to what the emissions would have been without the measure (business as usual).

The country can get on this pathway by setting strong interim emission reduction targets for major carbon - emitting sectors, implementing complementary renewable energy and energy efficiency policies, and through state or regional measures.

Accordingly, over the next few decades the focus of climate policy should be to: (a) broadly advance sustainable development (particularly in developing countries since that would generally enhance their adaptive capacity to cope with numerous problems that currently beset them, including climate - sensitive problems), (b) reduce vulnerabilities to climate - sensitive problems that are urgent today and might be exacerbated by future climate change, and (c) implement «no - regret» emission reduction measures while at the same time striving to expand the universe of such measures through research and development of cleaner and more affordable technologies.