Sentences with phrase «emissions baselines for»

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«At a local level we are providing farmers with support to understand their emissions and how to identify efficiency opportunities, as we work towards a target of climate neutral growth to 2030 for on farm emissions from a 2015 baseline.»

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 tiFor 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 tifor utilities and other major energy users to reduce emissions below baselines based on recent emission levels that decline over time.

The company would then accrue credits for the difference between the «baseline» emissions that would have been released had the Chinese burned coal to generate electricity and the essentially zero emissions discharged by the wind farm.

The 2.1 per cent rise projected for 2013 means global emissions from burning fossil fuel are 61 per cent above 1990 levels, the baseline year for the Kyoto Protocol.

The authors have also compared baseline emissions versus mitigation emissions levels to formulate mitigation potential at break - even prices for 2010, 2020 and 2030.

In 2008, Chile launched its first National Climate Change Action Plan, for the period from 2008 to 2014, to gather information on what was happening in the country, identify the baselines for emissions cuts and measure other key variables.

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.

-- The regulations promulgated under this paragraph shall include standards and protocols for project eligibility, certification of destroyers, monitoring, tracking, destruction efficiency, quantification of project and baseline emissions and carbon dioxide equivalent value, and verification.

«(B) except as provided in paragraph (5) or (6), the quantity of the international offset credits is determined by comparing the national emissions from deforestation relative to a national deforestation baseline for that country established, in accordance with an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A), pursuant to paragraph (4);

-- 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.

Normalized well - to - wake GHG emissions for low -, baseline - and high - emission cases for jet fuel pathways under different land use change scenarios.

The institute was a pioneer for ALMA and the Event Horizon Telescope and carried out the 1st VLBI (Very - long - baseline interferometry) observations at 1 mm in 1995 to successfully detect Galactic center event horizon emission.

We're establishing a baseline GHG emission, water use, and recycling figures to create reduction targets for the future.

Seeing this as a baseline, positive CO2 feedback from temperature changes, or a running out of capacity for greater uptake from CO2 accumulation, would be seen as adding more CO2 to the air in addition to anthropogenic releases, but it would have to surpass some level before it would result in a total atmospheric accumulation of CO2 greater than anthropogenic emissions (first, as a rate, and later, cummulative change).

This draws into question the justification for changing the baseline for the cumulative emissions analysis, given it quickly becomes apparent is that the use of a different dataset can undermine the conclusion that present day temperatures lie outside of the model distribution.

For example, under the CPP, Pennsylvania is required to reduce its emissions by 25 %, relative to its 2012 adjusted emissions baseline.

The EPA would then set emissions standards — the rate of carbon emissions — for power plants by first tallying the share of electricity generated by coal and gas - fired plants in each state during a set of baseline years — in the NRDC example, 2008 - 10.

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.

Down slope winds sometimes transport these emissions to the observatory, where they are detected as a «noisy» increase above smooth baseline levels for some gases.

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

Using the 195 pounds / MMBtu emissions rate for biomass assumed in EPA's Regulatory Impact Analysis, as in the CPPBIO195 case, EIA projects that biomass generation in 2020 and 2030 would be 33 % and 71 % below the respective AEO2015 baseline levels of 24 billion kWh (BkWh) and 41 BkWh for those years.

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.

From these data, we obtained four near - term and four long - term future climate scenarios by adding the differential between future time periods and the baseline time period for each model and emission scenario to each current monthly baseline climate map.

MIT's greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced by 9 percent from 2016 levels, primarily due to electricity produced via a solar power purchase agreement last year with a solar farm in North Carolina, and by 16 percent from the 2014 baseline year — half of the minimum reduction called for.

Given that decline, environmentalists lobbied the administration for cuts relative to a more recent baselines year, when emissions were lower than in 2005, because that would represent a greater total reduction.

This model is integrated for the period 1961 — 1990 (baseline) and the future time period 2071 — 2100 (High emission scenario, A2).

CO2 emissions in 2015 were 41 million tons less than the 2006 - 2008 baseline so the investments that were projected to avoid the release of 20.5 million tons of CO2 could account for no more than 50 % of the observed reduction.

The 2005 baseline emissions inventory documented in the 2007 Air Quality Management Plan formulated by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (56) was used for all species, except SO2 / H2SO4.

The report surveys a range of ways in which farm emissions can be lowered and its baseline figures have been read for the technical potential of each technique in 2010, with adjustments (see attachment).

(or methodology) covers the rules that determine the eligibility, additionality, baseline and emissions for each type of project.

They include Annex 1 (industrialised) countries» baseline emissions; qualitative and quantitative assessments of the role of carbon sinks; and the difficulty from an economic and legal perspective of interpreting and inferring impacts in relation to specific provisions attached to each flexibility mechanism for regulating the extent of their use.

An offset protocol (or methodology) covers the rules that determine the eligibility, additionality, baseline and emissions for each type of project.

The energy system reference cases used for future greenhouse gas (GHG) emission pathways in climate change research are a case in point: baseline emission scenarios commonly project levels of coal combustion many times higher than current reserve estimates by the year 2100.

Global marine black carbon emissions inventories and baseline air emissions inventories produced for major ports in Indonesia, Ghana, Bangladesh, Kenya and Chile

Three scenarios were developed to assess the options that states have to reduce their emissions: (1) a Baseline Scenario («business as usual») that projected emissions in 2030 without any policy changes, (2) the Primary Scenario that will achieve the 45 % reduction from 1990 levels, and (3) an Accelerated Scenario that examines options for ambitious states that want to lead the region in reducing emissions.

The annual report also outlines measures undertaken by the CDM Executive Board and its support structure to enhance the efficiency of many processes under the CDM, such as guidelines for standardized emissions baselines and simplification of the CDM requirements.

-- The regulations promulgated under this paragraph shall include standards and protocols for project eligibility, certification of destroyers, monitoring, tracking, destruction efficiency, quantification of project and baseline emissions and carbon dioxide equivalent value, and verification.

The quantity of international offset credits shall be determined by comparing the project - level or program - level emissions from deforestation to a deforestation baseline for such project or program established pursuant to subparagraph (C).

Overall, the average annual SF6 emission rate for the Partnership has decreased approximately 87 percent from the 1999 baseline emission rate of 14.2 percent to 1.9 percent in 2013.

Such credits shall be determined by comparing the emissions from deforestation within that state or province relative to the state or province deforestation baseline for that state or province established, in accordance with an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A), pursuant to subparagraph (C) of this paragraph.

The compliance obligation for emissions above the baseline level will only apply to international flights between States that have agreed to participate in the Pilot Phase.

-- 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.

«(B) except as provided in paragraph (5) or (6), the quantity of the international offset credits is determined by comparing the national emissions from deforestation relative to a national deforestation baseline for that country established, in accordance with an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A), pursuant to paragraph (4);

Accounting for emissions or absorptions from living ecosystems is inherently difficult, making the rules and baselines particularly important.

This is the proper baseline for those who are concerned about whether e-hybrids would increase emissions compared to a business as usual case.

Other important details also went unspecified: There's no word on how many allowances will be distributed for free versus auctioned, what baselines and procedures will be used, or how the system will fit with China's many other non-market policies to reduce emissions.

For all of these reasons, the administration has set a goal of reducing U.S. energy - related greenhouse gas emissions by 17 % in the next decade and 83 % by 2050 (relative to a 2005 baseline).

It would not include, for example, emissions from China or India, which presumably continue through 2100 per the baseline scenario.

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.