Sentences with phrase «emissions impacts of policies»

To help policymakers and other decision makers develop effective strategies for managing and reducing GHG emissions through a better understanding of the emissions impacts of policies and actions

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Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.

Even without formal policy and programs, the importance of reducing emissions can be widely accepted by individuals and organizations and result in actions that have substantial impact.»

«Efforts to mitigate emissions take a variety of forms at the state and local level and may have substantial impact even in the absence of a unified national policy,» the paper notes.

«Identifying this causal effect is not only necessary for proposing regulatory policies on plant emissions, but also essential for inferring the long - term health impacts of such policies,» says Yang.

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

This article aims to show that behavioral multi-agent models are a suitable approach for assessing the impact of policy instruments to reduce CO2 emissions in road transport by introducing a multi agent model for the German road transport sector.

In line with the Honda's policy of reducing impact on the environment the engine is E10 - compliant and has Euro IV emission levels.

The possibility of quick and seemingly inexpensive geoengineering fixes could distract the public and policy makers from critically needed efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build society's capacity to deal with unavoidable climate impacts.

By midcentury, this would add up to nearly a quarter - billion more Chinese than currently projected by the U.N. And given China's impact on the environment, especially greenhouse gas emissions, this change of policy clearly portends a great deal.

As I wrote above, James Carville's campaign mantra about «the economy, stupid,» is vital to keep in mind here as well, so I'll closed with the voices of three economists who've extensively analyzed the economic impacts of accumulating greenhouse gases and various policies for curbing emissions.

In particular, future greenhouse gas emissions depend on societal choices, policies, and technology advancements not yet made, and climate - change impacts depend on both the amount of climate change that occurs and the effectiveness of development in reducing exposure and vulnerability.

Economic assessments of proposed policy to put a price on carbon emissions are in widespread agreement that the net economic impact will be minor.

As for the impact on policy, Lewandowsky said, «We show that the adverse effects of uncertainty are «leveraged» and hence amplified by more emissions.

April 8: «1.5 亿多辆 ： 控制中国汽车对环境影响的挑战 (150 Million and Counting: Challenges of Controlling the Environmental Impacts of China's Motor Vehicles)» by David Vance Wagner, International Policy Adviser, Vehicle Emissions Control Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection, People's Republic of China.

Policy attention to air quality is rising and global emissions of all the major pollutants fall in our projections, but their health impacts remain severe.

The latest relevant ABARE publication («Economic impact of climate change policy», ABARE Research Report 06 - 7) says that global CO2 emissions in its reference case closely follow those under the IPCC's A2 scenario to 2030 and that the latter scenario assumes a decline in economic growth after that year (pps.

When reviewing the environmental impacts of fossil fuel projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the judges said, the agency can't assume the harmful effects away by claiming that dirty fuels left untouched in one location would automatically bubble up, greenhouse gas emissions and all, somewhere else.

The impact of policies which involve trade - offs between one GHG and another (such as replacing coal with natural gas, which would reduce CO2 but might increase methane emissions) is especially uncertain, since current models of both gases» life - cycles (and thus their relative GWPs) may need to be revised in the future.

You may believe that it has nothing to do with the study of the impact of additional CO2 on the environment, but for many other scientists who are studying the issue and advocating that policies be implemented to reduce CO2 emissions; it is certainly true.

C - ROADS C - ROADS is an award - winning computer simulation that helps people understand the long - term climate impacts of policy scenarios to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Monitor trends in energy use and CO2 emissions: follow the evolution of 50 global energy efficiency indicators to better understand policies» impact.

Elsewhere, the US says it «do [es] not have updated information» about the impact of recent policy announcements on emissions.

It is being pointed out to you that the department's planning and programming policy commits the department to leadership in substantial emissions reductions to «reduce greenhouse gas emissions in support of U.S. climate change initiatives» and «to foster efforts to assess, adapt to, and mitigate the impacts of climate change».

The RGGI states use the production cost model Integrated Planning Model (IPM) to analyze the impacts of air quality policies including emissions and allowance costs.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

There are a number of transport emissions reduction policy measures that Congress could pursue, but the one that will have the most immediate impact is the one that will demand more from those modes of transportation that are currently the most fuel and carbon efficient — like passenger rail.

10:30 a.m. Panel II: Scenarios and implications: the impact of potential outcomes David Hunter, US Director, International Emissions Trading Association (moderator) Rob Brenner, Senior Fellow, Nicholas Institute, Duke University; Former EPA Director of the Office of Policy Analysis and Review at the Office of Air and Radiation (invited) William Brownell, Partner, Hunton and Williams Megan Ceronsky, Attorney, Environmental Defense Fund Kyle Danish, Member, Van Ness Feldman

I am trying to make the point that estimating the global economic impact of global warming GHG emissions and mitigation policies is extremely important.

I am trying to make the point that estimating the global economic impact of global warming GHG emissions and mitigation policies is critically important for justifying public expenditure on policies.

In order to provide a contribution, the study uses the IMPACT model to examine agriculture - GHG emissions links and the effects of policy and other changes on these links.

The model, which captures fuel use in the power, transport, and other energy sectors out to 2030, with fuel responsiveness parameterized to empirical literature, estimates the impacts of mitigation policies on CO2 emissions, revenue, premature deaths from local air pollution, household and industry groups.

We advise public policy makers at all levels with respect to the design of suitable instruments for emissions trading, incentives and funding mechanisms as well as the evaluation of their impacts.

While other measures are also essential — including technological solutions, personal lifestyle changes and policies to reduce fossil fuel use and develop alternative energy — the positive impact of each of those is reduced and may even be completely cancelled out by adding emissions from hundreds of millions of new people as our population increases.

Using the NRDC policy framework, along with the proprietary outlook from IHS Inc. on energy efficiency and power demand, the Energy Institute report then assesses the costs and market impacts of meeting the Obama Administration's emissions target of 42 % reductions below 2005 levels by 2030.

Amongst climate scientists and advocates of climate policy, a growing recognition is taking hold that the current trajectory of global emissions will almost certainly lead us to a world of dangerous climate change impacts.

The World Bank and the OECD could review the emission reduction policies and their costs, while national institutions could assess the impacts of climate change.

In practical terms, the law requires the government to transition from non-renewable to renewable energy; to develop new economic indicators that will assess the ecological impact of all economic activity; to carry out ecological audits of all private and state companies; to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; to develop policies of food and renewable energy sovereignty; to research and invest resources in energy efficiency, ecological practices, and organic agriculture; and to require all companies and individuals to be accountable for environmental contamination with a duty to restore damaged environments.

Its powerful combination of strong international leadership, progressive thinking and forward - looking policies are reflected in its calls for dramatic cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions and for mechanisms to help vulnerable countries adapt to the impacts of climate change.

To many economists and policy - makers, a market - based means of limiting carbon dioxide emissions makes sense, given that they are produced in every sector of the global economy, with impacts felt over the entire planet.

As an example of a «Free Market» policy that could make a significant impact on cutting global GHG emissions and providing many other valuable benefits as well, assume the USA decides to remove the impediments to low - cost nuclear power.

The policy problem is a chain of numbers, each of which can be assigned a clear, unambiguous, unmetaphysical estimated probability distribution: the emissions trajectory, the carbon cycle feedbacks, the climate response, the ocean chemistry response, the ice sheet response, the impacts, these are all quantitative.

Later on in the opinion piece, Lomborg states that climate «alarmism has encouraged the pursuit of a one - sided climate policy of trying to cut carbon emissions by subsidizing wind farms and solar panels,» referring to renewable energy policies and technology as «expensive, feel - good measures that will have an imperceptible climate impact.»

«(3) an analysis of the status of worldwide greenhouse gas reduction efforts, including implementation of the Safe Climate Act and other policies, both domestic and international, for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

But when you look at the big impact on emissions so far, they are mostly out of luck and accident as opposed to policy.

The emissions impact would be comparable to that of other major climate policies under consideration by the Obama administration.