Sentences with phrase «emission reductions from»

Unfortunately, the fact that the world's second largest emitter and largest per - capita emitter, the United States, famously never ratified the Kyoto Protocol — the very idea of the protocol was rejected by the U.S. Senate in 1997 by a vote of 95 - 0 — and that it does not require emission reductions from developing countries including the biggest emitters like China and India, calls into question whether the protocol by itself could ever assure climate safety.

On behalf of the Bank, First Climate carried out a purchase of the equivalent amount of emission reductions from the project and the credit retirement within the CDM registry.

And relative to 2010, achievements include carbon emission reductions from firm - wide electricity use of 36 % and business travel by 10 %.

The Energy Commission will work with the Air Resources Board in the development of combined heat and power to meet the state goals for emission reductions from this technology.

In 2010, the organization alleged that emission reductions from HFC - 23 destruction projects under the CDM were actually increasing global greenhouse gas emissions.

Renewable energy is the first supply - side resource in the loading order and a key strategy for achieving greenhouse gas emission reductions from the electricity sector.

The chart below shows the amount of direct and indirect greenhouse gas emission reductions from anaerobic digesters on livestock farms from 2000 through 2016.

Significant emission reductions from the transportation sector will help protect public health and ensure the Bay Area meets state and national air quality standards while reducing greenhouse gases.

Providing new, tangible examples that CCUS is real and provides substantial emission reductions from multiple industries.

Significant emission reductions from the transportation sector will help the Bay Area attain and maintain state and national air quality standards and reduce greenhouse gases.Bay Area residents and visitors can learn more about the bike share system at www.bayareabikeshare.com, scheduled to go live later today, facebook.com/bayareabikeshare,and @sfbayareabikeshare on Twitter.The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is the regional agency responsible for protecting air quality in the nine - county Bay Area.

The agreement would therefore include common international accounting and reporting standards for countries taking on targets in four key areas: 1) comprehensive reporting and review of national GHG emissions; 2) common standards for quantifying, reporting, and reviewing emission reductions, including from changes in land use, land - use change, and forestry; 3) common standards for national GHG registries and 4) common methodologies for estimating emission reductions from developing country projects or programs funded by developed countries (known as offsets).

How do you measure, report and verify emission reductions from forests?

Sector 2: GHG emission reductions from industrial processes (non-combustion, chemical reaction, fugitive, and other)

«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.

«We look forward to stakeholder feedback and ultimately to providing this new tool to encourage high - quality emission reductions from nested REDD + projects targeting both voluntary and emerging compliance markets.»

We find that the additional emission reductions from the 65 percent RES target in Germany will leave the carbon price $ 4 / t lower in 2030; down from $ 25 / t.

However, very large CO2 emission reductions from this sector are hard to achieve and need significant investments to upgrade industrial plants and deploy CCS technology.

This «tax swap» approach is more likely to generate emission reductions from industrial sectors because it keeps the price signal in place, compared to an exemption approach that mostly lets EITEs off the hook.

In addition, no international offset credits shall be issued for emission reductions from activities with respect to which emission allowances were allocated under section 781 for distribution under part E.

Outcomes The cumulative savings for direct emission reductions from electricity use are greater than the combined annual electricity consumption of Disneyland Resort in California, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.

This project is a collaborative effort between NEWS, which owns and operates the landfill's waste - to - energy generation; Clinton County, which owns the landfill; and NativeEnergy, which has contracted to purchase the verified carbon offsets associated with certain methane emission reductions from the project.

«Being the first of a kind emission reductions from sustainable rice production, Microsoft valued the innovation by farmers and the investment in technology to catalyze measuring and monitoring emission reductions», said Rob Bernard, Chief Environmental Strategist, Microsoft.

GHG emission reductions from the project activity will be 136,936 tonnes of CO2 per year, with the total expected GHG emission reductions across the 10 year crediting period of 1,369,360 tonnes of CO2.

So I believe we should work together to see how to change the drivers of development pathways for both developed and developing countries and the unite way we expect more emission reductions from developed countries while we have new innovative development pathways for emerging economies.

In addition, no international offset credits shall be issued for emission reductions from activities with respect to which emission allowances were allocated under section 781 for distribution under part E.

But such a charismatic carbon project is all too rare these days, both because the carbon market is dominated by less robust emission reductions from heavy industry in China and India as well as development efforts that proceed with little thought of the environmental cost or co-benefits.

But «undoubtedly there is a need for much deeper emission reductions from industrialized countries.»

They want emission reductions from forests in developing nations allowed into U.S. compliance - based carbon markets.

It aims to increase carbon emission reductions from 25 % of 2007 levels to 38 % by 2030, above Singapore's pledge of a 36 %, its CDL Future Value 2030 document states.

To be honest, the emissions reductions from our power sector — in many ways the heart of the Paris Agreement — may not make much difference in achieving temperature stabilization in any event.

I think you can make a compelling case that an emissions reduction sourced through CCS is worth more to Alberta than an emissions reduction from an existing, proven technology.

He also notes that the report may underestimate emissions reductions from improved conventional cars, biofuels, and other technologies.

Again, the potential to realize emissions reductions from the land use sector is being overlooked.

To earn credits, a project should owe its existence to the prospective earnings from carbon credits: the emissions reductions from the project should be additional to what would have happened in the absence of the CDM.

An analysis by the nonprofit Carbon Tax Center found that if the initial carbon price of $ 40 per ton rises by $ 5 each year beginning in 2018, it would result in a 40 percent emissions reduction from 2005 levels by 2030.

«Then regulatory agencies may want to assess how they can encourage emissions reductions from sources that are having localized impacts,» Morello - Frosch said.

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.

Maximum output is now 85ps (79ps for the outgoing variant) while improvements in fuel consumption from 55.4 mpg to 57.7 mpg on the combined cycle, plus emissions reductions from 119g / km CO2 to 114g / km CO2 make the 1.2 petrol engine one of the most efficient around.

Global average surface temperature anomalies, 2000 - 2100, as projected by MAGICC run with the original RCPs as well as with the set of RCPs modified to reflect the EPA 30 % emissions reductions from U.S power plants.

SACRAMENTO, CA, October 24, 2017 — The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a non-profit enterprise of Winrock International, announces the approval of a milestone methodology developed by The Nature Conservancy and TerraCarbon to measure and verify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions from the restoration of peat soils.

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.

New federal environmental regulations call for substantial emissions reductions from U.S. power grids.

The results show that when considering climate change over the next 20 - 30 years, taking into account the influence of short - lived pollutants dramatically changes the relative benefit of emissions reductions from a particular activity or region.

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.

Subtitle B: Disposition of Allowances -(Sec. 321) Amends the CAA to set forth provisions governing the disposition of emission allowances, including specifying allocations: (1) for supplemental emissions reductions from reduced deforestation; (2) for the benefit of electricity, natural gas, and / or home heating oil and propane consumers; (3) for auction, with proceeds for the benefit of low income consumers and worker investment; (4) to energy - intensive, trade - exposed industries; (5) for the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology; (6) to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy; (7) to be distributed to Energy Innovation Hubs and advanced energy research; (8) to invest in the development and deployment of clean vehicles; (9) to domestic petroleum refineries and small business refiners; (10) for domestic and international adaptation; (11) for domestic wildlife and natural resource adaptation; and (12) for international clean technology deployment.

The deep emissions reductions from energy efficiency have provided similar regional health benefits and local ones as well.

We're pleased to report that new offset projects are already in the development pipeline utilizing the four new voluntary carbon offset methodologies approved by ACR in 2012 including a first - of - akind methodology for emissions reductions from

Bullfrog Power publishes Green Energy CO2e Emissions Calculators and Methodologies to ensure our customers are aware of how emissions reductions from the generation of their energy are calculated, and to make sure our customers are equipped with reliable, defensible estimates of CO2e emissions avoided by the green energy produced on their behalf.

Four additional carbon offset methodologies are currently in ACR's approval process for publication in 2013 including California and Mid-South modules for Emission Reductions in Rice Production, a modular approach to Grazing Land and Livestock Management in beef and dairy production, a methodology for Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands to commodity crop production, and a methodology for quantifying emissions reductions from Carbon Capture and Storage in Oil and Gas Reservoirs.