Sentences with phrase «emissions intensity per»

The report shows a continued decoupling of emissions from economic growth — since 2005, the emissions intensity per unit of GDP has decreased by 16.4 percent.

This commitment is driven by a target to reduce emissions intensity per employee by 40 % over the same time period.

This commitment is driven by a target to reduce emissions intensity per employee 30 % over the same time - period.

The default inputs for population growth rate, GDP per capita growth rate, emissions intensity per capita, fossil fuel reserves, etc. are variables in the model and people who are competent at driving these models can change them.

By the end of 2015, Yingli Solar will: • Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity per megawatt (MW) of solar (PV) panel; production by 13 % from 2010 levels (Scope 1 and... Read More»

Emissions intensity per unit of useful energy is the «technology» question (think «breakthrough»...)

Not exact matches

A new combined - cycle natural gas power generator would generally expect to have an emissions intensity of less than 400 kg per megawatt hour, so these regulations are unlikely to be binding.

(He's talking about intensity — in other words, emissions per unit of production.

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.»

The approach the government had in mind was the following: target the largest polluters, those with emissions over 100,000 tonnes per year, and use «intensity targets.»

When it decided to attach a price tag to carbon emissions, Alberta turned to the Gazette announcement, crafting a system targeting emissions above 100,000 tonnes per year through intensity targets.

We report on carbon emissions per 100,000 orders, and we focus on reducing our carbon intensity through operational efficiency.

«Arnott's expects they will reduce the carbon emissions intensity of the refrigeration equipment by 13 % resulting in savings of $ 50,000 in energy costs per year.»

Our GHG emissions intensity is 0.339 metric tons CO2 - e per ton of product sold (0.155 metric tons in direct energy and 0.184 metric tons in indirect energy).

According to figures from the World Bank, the Chinese economy's carbon intensity — the amount of CO2 emissions relative to the size of economic output — has decreased by almost 70 per cent over the past three decades (see «Peak planet: Carbon dioxide intensity «-RRB-, and a further 20 per cent reduction from current levels is promised by 2020.

Currently, China is working on a pledge to curb emissions intensity — the amount of carbon pumped into the atmosphere per unit of gross domestic product — but has not indicated when it might cut absolute emissions.

The combination of a long beam - path and high - intensity emission enhances the measurement, so even chemicals present at parts - per - billion levels can be detected.

The report's innovative feature, Blank said, is its analysis not just of total emissions, but emissions per dollar of economic output - what the agency calls «CO2 intensity.»

The statement also said that China will cut its carbon intensity, or greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP, by 60 - 65 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, a large increase from its 40 - 45 percent goal for 2020.

With the world watching, China's president Hu Jintao offered his country's biggest climate change initiative yet at the UN this morning, saying China would establish emissions intensity targets — not absolute targets, but cuts in emissions per unit of

He then described Mr. Bush's chosen way of measuring progress — by tracking the amount of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product (tons per dollar)-- and said the country was on track to reach Mr. Bush's goal, set in 2002, of an 18 percent drop in greenhouse «intensity» by 2012.

To reach Singapore's Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement — to reduce emissions intensity by 36 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, and peak carbon emissions by 2030 — the public has to engage in dialogue with the government and help shape a carbon tax that reflects Singapore's ambition.

Because we had to set a deadline for ourselves so that we could actually get our recommendations in the hands of the Chinese, our analysis unfortunately does not include China's most recent announcement regarding its target to reduce its carbon intensity per unit GDP by 40 - 45 percent by 2020 (see previous post «China to adopt «binding» goal to reduce CO2 emissions per unit GDP by 40 to 45 % of 2005 levels by 2020 «-RRB-.

By the end of 2010, CLP met its first carbon - emission intensity reduction target of 0.8 kilograms of CO2 per kilowatt - hour and exceeded its 5 % renewable energy target for 2010.

-LSB-...] to reduce its carbon intensity per unit GDP by 40 - 45 percent by 2020 (see previous post «China to adopt «binding» goal to reduce CO2 emissions per unit GDP by 40 to 45 % of 2005 levels b... «-RRB-.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

Today, the State Council announced that China will commit to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP, or carbon intensity, by 40 to 45 percent of 2005 levels by 2020.

China has succeeded in growing its economy and lifting more people out of poverty, while reducing its CO2 emissions per unit of GDP (carbon intensity) by 15 percent between 2005 and 2011.

Another clever trick with China is to use emissions «intensity», or emissions per unit GDP, which, given China's GDP is going through the roof, means emissions will too, despite intensity reducing.

Antiquated so - called subcritical coal - fired power plants have an emissions intensity of just under 1,000 kg of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

The vulnerability of an investment in fossil fuel reserves or hardware to competition from renewable energy and decarbonization doesn't just depend on the carbon intensity of the fuel type — its emissions per equivalent barrel or BTU — but also on its functions and unique attributes.

China's 12th Five Year Plan (2011 - 2015) sets a national target for the reduction of carbon emissions, through the reduction of carbon intensity per unit of GDP by 40 - 45 % by 2020.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

The electricity emissions intensity factor for the entity, expressed in tons of carbon dioxide equivalents per kilowatt hour, is determined by dividing --

Even if every coal power station were closed and replaced with zero - emissions technology, the NEM's emissions intensity would still be three times this 15g per kWh limit.

In the United States, the Bush administration's «Clear Skies» proposal requires a decline in carbon emissions per unit of economic output (known as carbon intensity), but not overall carbon emissions.

The recommended 30 % target translates into large reductions in per capita emissions and in the emissions intensity of Australia's GDP.

But as the Authority's report shows (in Figure 3 of its report, see below), Australia's per capita emissions and emissions intensity at 2025 would still be much higher than those of the United States and more than twice Europe's, under their respective targets.

Third, the government would require firms whose emissions intensity exceeds the benchmark to pay into a fund, while firms who outperform the benchmark would be able to extract from the fund at the current price per ton of emissions.

The carbon intensity of production, a measure of CO2 emissions per unit of GDP, dropped by just 0.7 per cent in 2009, well below the long term average of 1.7 per cent per year.

This fuel landscape will impact the country's CO2 emissions per capita, but structural changes — like new, efficient steam power plant developments — are expected to help reduce Malaysia's carbon intensity by 33 %.

... BHP was on track to beat a target of a five percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions per unit of production by end - June 2007, and had set a target of a further 6 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 2012.»

CO2 emissions are the product of «population» (number of people or consumers) times «material affluence» (GDP per person or per capita GDP) times «carbon intensity of the economy» (tons of CO2 emitted per GPD generated).

HP further commits to reduce the scope 3 emissions intensity from first - tier production and product transportation suppliers (emissions per million US$ revenue) 10 % by 2025, using a 2015 base year.

HP also commits to reduce the scope 3 emissions intensity from the use of its products (emissions per unit for personal systems and per printed page for printers) 25 % by 2020, using a 2010 base year.

Other key variables such as per capita emissions, energy and carbon intensity of the economy (tonnes C per dollar of real GDP), and cumulative emissions are also displayed.

China has said it will try to voluntarily reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide per unit of economic growth — a measure known as «carbon intensity» — by 40 to 45 percent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels.

Energy intensity added 16 MMmt of CO2 emissions, falling at a rate of 1.4 %, compared with the higher 2005 — 15 annual average decline of 1.7 % per year.

In the chart below we separate out the changes into the emission intensity (emissions per unit economic activity, dark blue), production structure (the relationship between industry sectors, pink), export structure (the mix of products exported, bright green) and export volume (the total amount of exports, light blue).

Furthermore, it's easy to see from this equation that as population rises through the coming decades, as expected, either the combination of the GDP per Capita or Carbon Intensity of the Economy terms must fall nearly to zero, in order to drive deep reductions in the Carbon Emissions side of the equation.