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In addition to its work in Côte d'Ivoire, Mondelēz International is also supporting national forest - related emission reduction programs in Ghana, where Cocoa Life is implementing its environmental strategy alongside the United Nations Development Program.

In any case, the point is that the EU, by unilaterally committing to carry its proper share of the global burden of meeting the 2ºC target, would not only reaffirm its commitment to that target, but also prefigure the principle - based differentiation system that is necessary to support and sustain an emergency emissions reduction program in a profoundly unequal world.

A Critical Analysis of the FCPF Carbon Fund and Emissions Reductions Programs in Africa, here.

Not exact matches

We also believe our current programs, initiatives, and partnerships have been evaluated and selected carefully by management to maximize the impact our Company can have in contributing to the worldwide reduction of GHG emissions.

So, as far as I can see, essentially the same outcome as the double - credits achieves, both in terms of revenue for Shell and cost to the CCEMF could have been achieved with a $ 15 per - ton - sequestered payment from the CCEMC without sacrificing the integrity of emissions reduction accounting within the offset program.

Farmer Brothers has also revamped its sustainability programs, ramping up our recycling efforts and driving large reductions in water usage and greenhouse gas emissions.

The release touted their efforts to advance energy efficiency and renewable energy programs alongside their aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in North America to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, and 80 percent by 2050.

House Democrats said that by 2020, the program would achieve additional emission reductions equivalent to 10 percent of U.S. emissions in 2005.

«The Commission is concerned that over-reliance on international offsets — given the practical difficulty of assuring that emissions reductions claimed in other countries are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable — could undermine program goals and political support, especially if substantial U.S. funds are leaving the country to support abatement efforts abroad rather than at home,» it states.

In August, the Port of New York and New Jersey approved several initiatives to reduce emissions, including a voluntary speed reduction program similar to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

«Vessel speed reduction does significantly reduce emissions, and that's why we have had a vessel speed reduction program in place at our port for several years,» said Arley Baker, a spokesperson for the Port of Los Angeles.

«The ability to accurately estimate greenhouse gas sources and sinks is a prerequisite for international agreements or national emission reduction programs to be effective,» the academies said in a joint statement.

The current bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research program to deemphasize climate research in favor of biological research, prevents DOE and the Defense Department from collaborating on biofuels production, and strips emissions reduction from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) mission.

It will focus, in particular, on regulatory design elements and the legal and institutional mechanisms that would be required to enable California to recognize emissions reductions from jurisdictional REDD programs as offsets under California's cap - and - trade program.

We've reduced those emissions by about 40 % since then despite growth in the coal sector, which, if we assume that reduction is all due to CMM programs, implies about 0.1 trillion cubic feet of methane, so not your «trillions» but not insignificant.

This workshop will discuss key environmental considerations in the development of a REDD offset program including the establishment of reference levels against which emissions reductions should be measured, systems to monitor, report and verify avoided deforestation and degradation, and ways to ensure that programmatic emissions reductions are in addition to those that would have otherwise taken place.

In a draft of the first Review Report for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), the staff of the California Air Resources Board (ARB) notes that the harmonization of LCFS programs globally will be important «for ensuring that global GHG emission reductions actually result from these programs».

Channel Islands Region Incentive - Based Vessel Speed Reduction Programs 2014 and 2016 In 2014, in partnership with local agencies and non-government organizations, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary launched a trial incentive program to slow ships down in the Santa Barbara Channel to reduce air emissions and reduce the likelihood of fatality from a ship strike to endangered whales in the regioIn 2014, in partnership with local agencies and non-government organizations, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary launched a trial incentive program to slow ships down in the Santa Barbara Channel to reduce air emissions and reduce the likelihood of fatality from a ship strike to endangered whales in the regioin partnership with local agencies and non-government organizations, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary launched a trial incentive program to slow ships down in the Santa Barbara Channel to reduce air emissions and reduce the likelihood of fatality from a ship strike to endangered whales in the regioin the Santa Barbara Channel to reduce air emissions and reduce the likelihood of fatality from a ship strike to endangered whales in the regioin the region.

The emergence of the camera technology has reduced cost and time associated with leak detection and repair programs and is leading to significant reductions in emissions and wasted natural gas with very little cost.

A new report though shows that the shipping industry not only need not worry about emission reduction programs increasing their costs; in fact, deploying methods to cut emissions could actually save the industry money: That's the word coming via WWF of the International Maritime Organisation.

And it's underwriting the program with some of the fees collected through the state's cap and trade program and placed in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), so the initiative is essentially turning industry emissions into low carbon energy.

The general argument of the critics appears to be the lack of evidence to support «dramatic» programs of harsh greenhouse controls (e.g. 80 % reductions in emissions).

However, the U.S. has pledged to reduce emissions by 26 - 28 % from 2005 levels by 2025 in its internationally determined contribution (INDC) to the UN process, meaning that the US must make more than an additional 16 % reduction from fuel efficiency standards, energy efficiency programs, non-CO2 greenhouse gas (e.g. methane, hydrofluorocarbons) reductions, and other components of Obama's climate action plan in order to meet its INDC.

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI): Spearheaded the formation of the successful RGGI cap - and - trade program among northeast and mid-Atlantic states, led effort to reduce RGGI's carbon emission cap by 45 percent in 2014, and recently called for an additional cap reduction of at least 30 percent between 2020 and 2030.

These offset types are both eligible to be converted to ARB compliance Offset Credits, which can be used by California entities to help meet their emissions reductions obligations in the Cap - and - Trade Program.

Unless the supported programs using RGGI auction revenues would be funded at the same level using other funding sources in the absence of RGGI, these programs provide a tangible incremental reduction in emissions.

The program also allows for the limited use of CO2 offsets, which are reductions in emissions from activities not subject to the RGGI cap, as a compliance option.

«It's hard to pin down, but in two to three years I would expect Chiapas to be in good shape in having a robust REDD program that is generating emissions reductions that could be verified,» he says, citing a project called MREDD + as an example of efforts aimed at developing a robust REDD framework in Mexico.

Despite the reduction in the cap beginning in 2014, it remains to be seen whether the updated program caps will result in significant emissions reductions compared to the outcomes that might occur absent the new caps.

In addition to Sony's operational emission reduction targets, the company is also announcing additional 2020 commitments including a goal to reduce the annual energy use of their products by 30 per cent on average (compared to 2013 levels), a goal to increase the use of renewable energy, a target to reduce logistic - related emissions by 10 per cent, and a program to engage suppliers and contract manufacturers to reduce their GHG emissions.

If you select an annual 1.5 % energy savings target, building codes (high), combined heat and power (medium), ESCO programs, and utility - scale solar PV (high), the results show that those policies together can achieve a 20 % reduction in 2012 emissions, at a lower cost than many other compliance options.

That's a very serious issue, and one of the things I'm very keen to get across in this book is that I do not in any way see geoengineering as an alternative to a program of emissions reduction.

To achieve the verification of carbon credits, the program team completed all the data collection with participating farmers and quantified greenhouse gas emission reductions in accordance with the ACR methodology.

Such programs and measures include (1) requirements that publically - funded projects mandate that all diesel construction equipment be retrofitted with the best available technology to reduce particulate emissions; (2) continued funding and implementation of EPA's Diesel Emission Reduction Program and similar state - based diesel emission reduction programs; and (3) incentives to accelerate fleet turnover, in which vehicles and parts are properly recycled or Reduction Program and similar state - based diesel emission reduction programs; and (3) incentives to accelerate fleet turnover, in which vehicles and parts are properly recycled or reduction programs; and (3) incentives to accelerate fleet turnover, in which vehicles and parts are properly recycled or scrapped.

«These rules provide the foundation for a new comprehensive greenhouse gas Reporting Program that EPA is confident will spark significant interest in and support for greenhouse gas emissions reductions,» she wrote.

But even if Massachusetts got even more out of its existing electric sector emission reduction programs by following these examples, that still leaves a 1.9 million metric ton gap to compliance with the Global Warming Solutions Act in 2020.

It is being pointed out to you that the department's planning and programming policy commits the department to leadership in substantial emissions reductions to «reduce greenhouse gas emissions in support of U.S. climate change initiatives» and «to foster efforts to assess, adapt to, and mitigate the impacts of climate change».

The upper bound in CO2 emissions reductions due to RGGI is an econometric model that estimates that emissions would have been 24 percent higher without the program.

This is not even to mention the fact that direct investment in job - creating clean - energy programs and infrastructure can help to accelerate emissions reductions and enable more aggressive reduction targets.

Based on the CO2 reduction numbers claimed in the Proceeds report the revised emissions cap appears to be risky and threatens the credibility of the program.

In basic terms, the CDM is a program in which developing countries, like China, who are not bound by carbon emission reduction obligations, are encouraged to undertake projects in their jurisdiction that result in carbon emission reductions through financing provided by developed countries, who are themselves bound by such obligations and can credit such emission reductions to their obligations, even though those reductions have taken place in the developing countrIn basic terms, the CDM is a program in which developing countries, like China, who are not bound by carbon emission reduction obligations, are encouraged to undertake projects in their jurisdiction that result in carbon emission reductions through financing provided by developed countries, who are themselves bound by such obligations and can credit such emission reductions to their obligations, even though those reductions have taken place in the developing countrin which developing countries, like China, who are not bound by carbon emission reduction obligations, are encouraged to undertake projects in their jurisdiction that result in carbon emission reductions through financing provided by developed countries, who are themselves bound by such obligations and can credit such emission reductions to their obligations, even though those reductions have taken place in the developing countrin their jurisdiction that result in carbon emission reductions through financing provided by developed countries, who are themselves bound by such obligations and can credit such emission reductions to their obligations, even though those reductions have taken place in the developing countrin carbon emission reductions through financing provided by developed countries, who are themselves bound by such obligations and can credit such emission reductions to their obligations, even though those reductions have taken place in the developing countrin the developing country.

It is both EPA's most aggressive greenhouse gas regulatory program to date and the core of the U.S. emission - reduction pledge in the current round of climate treaty negotiations.

In the final Clean Power Plan, EPA provides a «panoply» of tools to help states utilize emissions trading programs to comply with the CO2 reduction targets established in the rulIn the final Clean Power Plan, EPA provides a «panoply» of tools to help states utilize emissions trading programs to comply with the CO2 reduction targets established in the rulin the rule.

At climate negotiations at COP - 13 in Bali, Indonesia in 2007, parties to the UNFCCC agreed to replace the Kyoto Protocol with an agreement that would create a second commitment period under the UNFCCC and would include binding emissions reductions for developed countries and new programs on adaptation for developing countries, deforestation, finance, technology transfer, and capacity building.

The Lieberman - Warner American Climate InSecurity Act (A-CISA) has, as its core centerpiece, a poorly structured Cap and Trade program, inadequate for achieiving required reductions in US (and Global) GreenHouse Gase (GHG) emissions while giving away $ 500 billion (and likely more) to serial polluters, making the task of reducing America's fossil - fuel addiction that much more costly -LSB-...]

Title V: Agricultural and Forestry Related Offsets - Subtitle A: Offset Credit Program From Domestic Agricultural and Forestry Sources -(Sec. 502) Requires the Secretary to establish a program governing the generation of offset credits from domestic agricultural and forestry sources to ensure that: (1) offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increased sequestration; and (2) offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that result in a permanent net reduction in atmospheriProgram From Domestic Agricultural and Forestry Sources -(Sec. 502) Requires the Secretary to establish a program governing the generation of offset credits from domestic agricultural and forestry sources to ensure that: (1) offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increased sequestration; and (2) offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that result in a permanent net reduction in atmospheriprogram governing the generation of offset credits from domestic agricultural and forestry sources to ensure that: (1) offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increased sequestration; and (2) offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that result in a permanent net reduction in atmospheric GHGs.

Requires the EPA Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing a program to use emission allowances set aside to reduce GHG emissions from deforestation in developing countries, with the objectives to: (1) achieve 720 million tons of reductions in 2020 and a cumulative emission reduction of 6 billion tons by 2025, (2) build institutional capacities in developing nations; and (3) preserve intact, native forests.

Requires the EPA Administrator to issue regulations allowing: (1) any person to exchange instruments in the nature of offset credits issued before January 1, 2009, by an approved state or a voluntary offset program for emission allowances; and (2) the EPA Administrator to provide compensation in the form of emission allowances for other documented early reductions or avoidance of GHG emissions or GHGs sequestered before January 1, 2009, that meet specific conditions.

Requires the EPA Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing a program for the issuance of offset credits that: (1) ensure that such offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increases in sequestration; (2) ensure that offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that are permanent; and (3) include as reductions in GHGs reductions achieved through the destruction of methane and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) or other ozone depleting substances.

Although some progress was made on a few issues in the two year lead - up to Copenhagen, little progress was made on the major issues and particularly on commitments for GHG emissions reductions and funding for adaptation, deforestation programs, and technology transfer.