Sentences with phrase «emissions from all sectors of»

We believe the best approach is a carbon tax, which would address greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors of the economy.

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The shipping sector, along with aviation, avoided specific emissions - cutting targets in a global climate pact agreed in Paris at the end of 2015, which aims to limit a global average rise in temperature to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius from 2020.

But the livestock sector is responsible for about 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, through cows producing methane and production processes - comparable to all the direct emissions from cars, planes, ships and other transport.

But the devil is in the details of how each individual state will choose to cut carbon dioxide emissions from their power plant sectors.

You get some sense of the scale of the emissions trail that has accompanied this shift in economic geography when you consider that the emissions coming from China's export sector alone are greater than the total emissions from any other economy other than the US's.

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.

In fact, absent new measures Environment Canada's 2014 emissions trends report projected that oil sands emissions would drive increased emissions from the oil and gas sector of 45 Mt CO2e (to a total of 204 MtCO2e) between 2005 and 2020, offsetting the emission reductions made in other sectors.

This graphic depicts the carbon intensity of shipping wine from various global wine regions to key U.S. cities and bases its data on a seriously flawed, two - year - old working paper that is filled with untested assumptions, has not been peer reviewed, and does not accurately reflect the complexities of greenhouse gas emissions in the wine sector.

Rationalistaion of the food industry is likely to result in greater sector emissions as fresh food and livestock are transported greater distances for processing, and once processed transported again with refrigeration to wholesalers and retailers distribution centers and from there to retail outlets.

CO2 emissions from the agricultural sector represent 21 - 25 percent of total CO2 emissions, due to fossil fuels used on farms, shifting patterns of cultivation and chiefly, deforestation.

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the domestic sector currently make up some 26 % of total emissions.

International Road Transport Union president Christian Labrot added: «Autonomous trucks will bring many benefits to society, from cost savings and lower emissions to safer roads, and will also help the haulage sector deal with the current shortage of drivers in many parts of the world.

The U.S. power sector must cut carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels, according to federal regulations unveiled on Monday that form the centerpiece of the Obama administration's climate change strategy.

But blue states in the Northeast and along the West Coast have few coal plants left to close, meaning emission reductions will increasingly need to be wrung from other sectors of the economy.

By following carbon emissions in more than 100 countries and 57 industrial sectors — from the extraction of the fuels to the energy inputs in creating goods and services to delivery to the final consumer — he and his colleagues uncovered a more complete story of who emits the world's greenhouse gases, and at which point in the supply chain.

Environmental advocates said China's participation in the first six years of the system, when countries are expected to voluntarily opt in, would be necessary if the deal were to cover 80 percent of emissions from the sector.

ClimateWire ranked only the top 40 U.S. oil and gas companies by assets, who together contributed 67 percent of the methane emissions from the production sector.

reported in the journal «Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.

During the hearing, Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon showed a blown - up image of a letter Pruitt sent to the current EPA administrator several years ago opposing regulations limiting emissions from the energy sector.

They analyzed direct emissions from hospitals and clinician's offices, as well as indirect emissions generated by the sector's suppliers of energy, goods, and services.

About 40 % of U.S. emissions come from the power sector, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

About 30 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from the electric power sector.

Were that to happen, emissions would be as high as the entire transportation sector, which takes up 14 % of global greenhouse emissions, currently dominated by pollution from cars and trucks.

They multiplied these numbers by the amount of carbon emitted by each sector based on state data to identify carbon emissions from employment.

That's due to a lack of good data on emissions and output from the rest of the sectors.

The auto industry and researchers say this utopian view of transportation is on the horizon, and it could cut nearly all of the carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

Some activists, though, said they are concerned that the United States will focus entirely on private - sector funding and will once again sidestep ways of raising public money, including from «innovative sources,» like a tax on bunker fuels or airline emissions.

Conventional processing methods use a high - temperature blast furnace to heat the iron ore and other compounds to remove oxygen and yield a desired alloy, a method that creates a lot of carbon dioxide, according to a report last year from U.S. EPA on greenhouse gas emissions from the iron and steel sector.

If the world hopes to head off potentially dangerous temperature rises of above 2 degrees Celsius, emissions from the sector will have to be sharply curtailed by midcentury, scientists say.

But reducing emissions from the transportation sector is an increasingly important theme for Obama as he works to build a legacy of climate change action.

Within the sector, light - duty vehicles like passenger cars and smaller trucks, including SUVs, pickup trucks and minivans, were responsible for more than 50 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.

A climate deal between the United States and China could spur new regulations on vehicle - efficiency standards, refrigerant pollutants and methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, launching a new round of executive action that is sure to raise objections from a Republican - dominated Congress.

Thus, the IPCC argues the answer lies in a portfolio approach to reducing emissions from the energy supply sector, including replacing inefficient power plants, cutting down on the use of electricity in general and potentially moving from large, centralized power plants to small distributed ones.

Aviation accounted for 11 percent of energy - related carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation sector in 2010 in the United States, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation.

At least some of that amount can be achieved through regulations already in the pipeline, mainly U.S. EPA's draft rule to slash carbon emissions from the power sector and other measures included in the administration's Climate Action Plan.

Before Trump's reversal of both the domestic and international climate plans, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had recommended a 70 - percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from industrialized nations such as the U.S., where nearly half of emissions come from the electric and automotive sectors.

For example, Holmstead referenced a section in the draft that estimates that about 1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the U.S. transportation sector.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

A 2014 Chatham House report found greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector are estimated to account for 14.5 percent of the global total, more than direct emissions from the transport sector.

While all of the pledges submitted so far cover the energy sector, some have included it within a headline target for dealing with overall emissions, while others have explicitly set targets to control or reduce emissions from the energy sector.

The bulk of those committed emissions — 42 percent — will come from plants now operating in China, reflecting the massive growth of the Asian giant's power sector over the past two decades, according to the study.

Substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector are achievable over the next two to three decades through a portfolio approach involving the widespread deployment of energy efficiency technologies; renewable energy; coal, natural gas, and biomass with carbon capture and storage; and nuclear technologies.

[SLIDE 41] Lots of possibilities for mitigation: reducing the emissions from the energy sector, reducing deforestation, modifying agricultural practices.

Areas of expertise: Carbon pollution from the power sector, oil and gas emission standards, and the Clean Air Act

Lawmakers agreed to continue the exclusion of international flights from the EU ETS until 2021 but took steps to ensure that the sector will have to reduce and pay more for its soaring emissions.

The zero emission polar research station, which is approximately 220 Km from the Antarctic coast, is an ideal logistics hub for field exploration in the 20 ° - 30 ° E sector of Antarctica.

This allows for unprecedented insight in ship emission studies, far surpassing the level of knowledge available from most other traffic sectors or what has been previously available for the air quality research.

The most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, released last week, show that as the number of such facilities have increased in the U.S. between 2011 and 2014, total greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas operations have risen by about 6.2 percent.