Sentences with phrase «emissions from the sector by»

In 2016, the three nations announced the North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership Action Plan, which includes commitments to reduce methane emissions from the sector by 40 — 45 percent by 2025 and collaborate on implementation of the World Bank's Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 Initiative.

Not exact matches

Build on its record as the first government to achieve an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by working with provinces to reduce emissions from the oil and gas sectors while ensuring Canadian companies remain competitive.

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

The global dairy sector contributes 4 % to global GHG emissions with an estimated 2.7 % coming from global milk production, processing, and transportation, according to a report conducted by the FAO in 2007.

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.

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.

That was despite a 17 percent decrease in power - sector emissions, which was offset by rising pollution from industrial, commercial and residential sectors.

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.

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.

Under the U.S. EPA proposal, carbon emissions from the power generation sector would fall by 30 percent below 2005 levels.

The CPP will require a 32 percent cut in utility - sector carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, with some states seeing reduction requirements as high as 45 to 47 percent.

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.

By 2030, with HVDC lines meeting at 32 nodes between regional grids, the United States could add enough wind and solar power to cut power sector emissions by up to 80 % from 1990 levels, the researchers concludeBy 2030, with HVDC lines meeting at 32 nodes between regional grids, the United States could add enough wind and solar power to cut power sector emissions by up to 80 % from 1990 levels, the researchers concludeby up to 80 % from 1990 levels, the researchers concluded.

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.

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.

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 carbon emissions from the sector could triple by 2050 if left unchecked, the International Coalition for Sustainable Aviation, which represents a half dozen non-profit groups, warned in a statement.

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.

In the UK, the built environment sector needs to find a further 39 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from the 1990 baseline in order to meet the government's target to reduce carbon emissions in the sector by 50 per cent by 2025.

The European Union set «20-20-20» targets — a 20 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from 1990 levels; increasing energy generation from renewable sources by 20 per cent and a 20 per cent improvement in the EU's energy efficiency — and it is expected that public sector buildings lead the way.

Japan's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a 26 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from 2013 levels.1 To achieve this, the Japanese government has set carbon targets for all sectors backed up by a national carbon tax and Tokyo emissions trading scheme.

I have often imposed on the moderators» patience by noting the rapid growth of solar and wind energy for electricity generation, which for me gives rise to optimism that we can eliminate GHG emissions from that sector much more quickly than many people believe.

They pledged to cut such emissions 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025 from the oil and gas sector.

We recognize that actions to reduce emissions, including from deforestation and forest degradation, and to increase removals by sinks in the land use, land use change, and forestry sector, including cooperation on tackling forest fires, can make a contribution to stabilizing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Separate caps on carbon emissions by the electric utilities and manufacturing sectors, which would have to buy permits to pollute from the federal government.

To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving would simply have to increase, according to a report released Thursday by researchers at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Three - quarters of new electricity generation through 2040 will come from clean energy, and the sector's emissions will peak by 2026, a new BNEF forecast says.

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

Since 2012, carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector declined by 10.5 percent, but those emissions reductions could be...

Carbon emissions from the nation's energy sector fell in 2016 for the third year in a row, according to figures released by the government and analyzed by Greenpeace Tuesday.

The «Clean Power Plan» requires a 32 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions (from 2005) by 2030 in the electric power sector.

However, the speed of change in the power sector is not matched elsewhere: CO2 emissions from oil use in transport almost catch up with those from coal - fired power plants (which are flat) by 2040, and there is also a 20 % rise in emissions from industry.

The CPP specifies intensity rate targets for existing fossil fuel - fired electric generating units operating or under construction as of early 2014, with the stated aim of reducing carbon emissions in the power sector by 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030.

Power sector CO2 emissions declined by 363 million metric tons between 2005 and 2013, due to a decline in coal's generation share and growing use of natural gas and renewables, but the CO2 emissions are projected to change only modestly from 2013 through 2040 in the 3 baseline cases used in this report.

«EU member states are obliged to cut the emissions from non-ETS sectors by 10 per cent overall by 2020.

Emissions within the transportation sector are primarily from fuel used by on - road vehicles, such as passenger cars and trucks.

The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Clean Power Plan already calls for existing power plants to trim emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, and the administration is looking to use the EPA to force further improvements in fuel efficiency in the transportation sector, among other measures.

Massachusetts needs an extra 3.4 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2020 that can not and will not come from electric sector renewable and efficiency programs as they are currently written.

Its inclusion of forestry means that a significant burden is removed from the energy sector as the country attempts to stem its rising emissions by 2030.

If one nation desires to keep its total emissions below its fair share of safe global emissions by keeping their transportation sector low while having slightly larger emissions from their manufacturing sector, most theories of international responsibility would give that nation some choice on how it would achieve its international GHG obligations.

In order to get back on track with decarbonisation of the electricity sector in a manageable way, policymakers across the EU will have to address this market failure by turning the focus from subsidies back to the emissions trading system.

In an 80 percent renewables future, carbon emissions from the power sector would be reduced by 80 percent, and water use would be reduced by 50 percent.

India needs to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from its rice and livestock sectors according to a study by CIMMYT and partners.

Because emissions from the power sector are limited by regulation, emissions reductions produced by renewable energy generation will be counted toward compliance with the CAR.

If all that coal power was replaced by cleaner natural gas, greenhouse - gas emissions from the power sector could fall by as much as 7 percent.

-- by examining the question from different vantage points: from that of global integrated assessment models, from bottom - up studies of individual economic sectors, and from published work on the mitigation potential in international aviation and shipping emissions.

Despite EEI's 1989 pledge to reduce atmospheric emissions, annual CO2 emissions from the electricity sector remained higher in 2016 than they were when McCollum testified in 1989, due in large part to ongoing efforts by some in the industry to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on CO2 emissions from power plants.