Sentences with phrase «emissions baseline based»

In part, that is because Pacala and Socolow built their scenario on a business as usual (BAU) emissions baseline based on assumptions that do not appear to be coming true.

Not exact matches

State government agencies have provided baseline numbers for 1990 emission levels and expected 2020 levels based on current trends.

For example, Karoly and Hamilton note in their op - ed that under the authority's recommendations, there would be no incentive for utilities and other major energy users to reduce emissions below baselines based on recent emission levels that decline over time.

The main benefit of the study, based on new analyses of the carbon content of the country's coal, is that «it provides a baseline for future emission policies,» says Dabo Guan, a co-author of the paper and a climate change economist at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, U.K.

-- In this subsection, the term «sectoral basis» means the issuance of international offset credits only for the quantity of sector - wide reductions or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions, or sector - wide increases in sequestration of greenhouse gases, achieved across the relevant sector of the economy relative to a domestically enforceable baseline level of absolute emissions established in an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A) for the sector.

The reduction in CO2 - cooling (of a layer between TOA and some other level) assumes the increased downward emission at the base of the layer from the non-CO2 absorber within the layer is greater than the decreased OLR at TOA, which is the absorption of radiation from below the layer minus the emission from the layer reaching TOA (refering to the «baseline effects» that would remain if the preexisting CO2 were removed).

Then, the agency would set a target emission rate for each state for 2020, based on the state's baseline share of coal and gas generation.

Len Sauers, Vice President Global Sustainability at Procter & Gamble, said: «We recently announced a new science - based goal to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2020, compared to a 2010 baseline.

In addition to the Base Policy case, EIA's analysis includes several sensitivity cases encompassing different interpretations or implementations of the proposed rule as well as a scenario in which further emissions reductions are required beyond 2030, all of which use the AEO2015 Reference case as their baseline.

In other cases — for example, national emissions baselines and global mitigation pathways — they are projected from or based upon authoritative, externally - sourced data.

In the Base Policy case (CPP), which uses the standard EIA treatment of biomass generation as a net zero emissions generation source, EIA projects that biomass generation in 2020 and 2030 would be 46 % above and 5 % below the respective AEO2015 baseline levels for those years.

An analysis of the US refining sector, based on linear programming (LP) modeling, finds that refining plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to a modest increase in refinery CO2 emissions (ranging between 5.4 % to 9.3 %) from a 2010 baseline, depending upon... Read more →

-- In this subsection, the term «sectoral basis» means the issuance of international offset credits only for the quantity of sector - wide reductions or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions, or sector - wide increases in sequestration of greenhouse gases, achieved across the relevant sector of the economy relative to a domestically enforceable baseline level of absolute emissions established in an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A) for the sector.

In other words, Mr. Romm has used external sources to develop his own emissions business as usual baseline, and then used other external sources to create his own climate forecast based on this emissions forecast.

The radiative forcing estimates are based on the forcing of greenhouse gases and other forcing agents.5 The four selected RCPs were considered to be representative of the literature, and included one mitigation scenario leading to a very low forcing level (RCP2.6), two medium stabilization scenarios (RCP4.5 / RCP6) and one very high baseline emission scenarios (RCP8.5).

Aviva achieves climate neutrality by first reducing emissions as far as possible, and is aiming for a 70 % reduction in energy consumption by 2030, based on a 2010 baseline.

Allowances were distributed to regulated entities based on their reported baseline emissions.

Economy expressed doubt about the ability to obtain an accurate baseline on emissions for reasons described above, despite the existence of estimates by various sources (see, e.g., CARMA) because these estimates are based on energy inputs but may not take into account emissions from sources such as methane from soil, for instance.

The ethical basis for why national INDCs should specify; (a) the number of tons of ghg emissions that will be reduced by implementation of the INDC by a specific date, (b) the warming limit and associated carbon budget that the nation's INDC is seeking to achieve in cooperation with other nations, (c) the equity principles assumed by the nation in determining the fairness of its INDC, and (d) for Annex 1 nations, emissions reductions that will be achieved by the INDC from 1990, a common baseline year.

It also recommends a new emissions trading scheme for electricity generation based on an emissions - intensity baseline.

Malmö is aiming to reduce its CO2 emissions 25 percent by 2012 based on 1992 baselines, and the rooftop turbines project is meant to help with that goal.