Sentences with phrase «emissions mitigation measures»

Any number of these emissions mitigation measures could come into play before 2025.

Clients value our market knowledge as well as our practical experience in designing, financing and implementing emissions mitigation measures.

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«People may wonder if these measures have any effect at all, if they are under the naive expectation that mitigation of emission will immediately and straightforwardly produce some benefit.

So, additional preventive measures need to be considered in addition to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, to help coastal regions especially in transition and developing countries to adapt and to limit damage costs.»

Next year's school, «Adaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climateMitigation: Responses to Climate Change,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climatemitigation measures, and climate policies.

It has been especially pro-active around the mitigation of carbon emissions and last year, along with the International Tourism Partnership (ITP) and 12 major hotel chains including Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott and Starwood, launched the Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative, which aims to help hotels reduce, measure and communicate their carbon footprints.

Authors project with high confidence that continued growth in emissions from global passenger and freight activity could «outweigh future mitigation measures,» says a preliminary version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) study obtained by ClimateWire.

An unprecedented study titled, «Lifecycle Assessments of Railway Bridge Transitions Exposed to Extreme Events,» published in Frontiers in Built Environment, benchmarks the costs and carbon emissions for the life cycle of eight mitigation measures and reviews these methods for their effectiveness in three types of extreme environmental conditions.

Given the depth of decarbonisation required for a low - carbon future and the central role that businesses will need to play, strengthening complementary measures that target business engagement can increase emissions mitigation.

Some adaptation measures to climate change, like air - conditioning and water pumps use energy and may contribute to even higher CO2 emissions, and thus necessitate even more mitigation (high agreement, limited evidence)[4.5.5].

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One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

Moreover, in a new publication, Opportunities to Enhance Non-Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in China, WRI researchers find that these emissions could nearly double by 2030 (relative to 2005 levels) if China doesn't take additional measures to curb them.

The joint assistance project Capacity building for CO2 mitigation from international aviation aims at providing assistance to a selected group of 14 States in Africa and the Caribbean to support their efforts in developing and implementing their States» Action Plans on CO2 emissions reduction from international aviation, to establish aviation environmental systems for emissions monitoring at the State level and to identify, evaluate and implement mitigation measures in selected States.

Identifying and implementing appropriate measures for emissions mitigation and adaptation to climate change

ICAO's Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is designed to complement the basket of mitigation measures the air transport community is already pursuing to reduce CO2 emissions from international aviation.

(B) is determined by the interagency group to have in force national policies and measures that are capable of producing measurable, reportable, and verifiable greenhouse gas emissions mitigation.

(A) developing and implementing methodologies and programs for measuring and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and verifying emissions mitigation;

He said there will also be mitigation measures, including «how to reduce emissions from energy production and deforestation.»

Mitigation measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissions lessen the impacts of climate change on water resources.

Many mitigation measures that reduce emissions of climate - altering pollutants (CAPs) have important direct health benefits in addition to reducing the risk of climate change.

Bolivia draws strongly and explicitly upon ethical justifications for requiring deep cuts in national ghg emissions by other nations, together with financial contributions and holistic mitigation and adaptation measures, capable of both reducing poverty and vulnerability to climate change yet has not identified an equity framework that could be applied at the global scale.

Indeed, pre-2020 mitigation measures are likely the only way warming can be limited to 1.5 degrees, as most studies suggest that, to limit warming to that degree, carbon emissions have to peak around 2020.

Figure 3.23: Cumulative emissions reductions for alternative mitigation measures for 2000 to 2030 (left - hand panel) and for 2000 - 2100 (right - hand panel).

The numerous mitigation measures that have been undertaken by many Parties to the UNFCCC and the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol in February 2005 (all of which are steps towards the implementation of Article 2) are inadequate for reversing overall GHG emission trends.

Evaluation of cropping systems for water efficiency, energy efficiency, GHG emissions and economics (profit and risk) to assess potential GHG mitigation measures at the farm level.

Reliable GHG inventories are essential, both at national and international level, for: assessing the international community's collective and individual efforts to address climate change and progress toward meeting the ultimate objective of the Convention; evaluating mitigation options; assessing the effectiveness of policies and measures; making long - term emission projections; providing the foundation for emission trading schemes.

Yet cutting back in this sector, «will be challenging, since the continuing growth in passenger and freight activity could outweigh all mitigation measures unless transport emissions can be strongly decoupled from GDP growth.»

Among the many mitigation measures currently under development, some could provide new opportunities to hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers, pastoralists and forest dwellers, through their roles as sequesters of carbon, through the changes they can make in their land use and cultivation practices to reduce GHG emissions, and as small scale producers of clean energy.

I suppose the battle - lines here are drawn between on the one - hand those who believe in either significant natural feedbacks impacting the carbon cycle as - we - speak or who believe today's mitigation measures are useless, and on the other - hand those who would welcome some signs of a weakening of the accelerating CO2 - rise as this would encourage more mitigation actions (and less hand - wringing) and who consider CO2 emissions reporting is more than «fluff».

Because of the long atmospheric lifetime of some of the main greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, there is a mismatch between the payoff from climate change mitigation, which involves reducing emissions of planet warming greenhouse gases to lessen to severity of climate change, and climate change adaptation, which refers to measures to better withstand the impacts of climate change.

Mitigation scenarios (also known as climate intervention or climate policy scenarios) are defined in the TAR (Morita et al., 2001), as scenarios that «(1) include explicit policies and / or measures, the primary goal of which is to reduce GHG emissions (e.g., carbon taxes) and / or (2) mention no climate policies and / or measures, but assume temporal changes in GHG emission sources or drivers required to achieve particular climate targets (e.g., GHG emission levels, GHG concentration levels, radiative forcing levels, temperature increase or sea level rise limits).»

Figure SPM.9: Cumulative emissions reductions for alternative mitigation measures for 2000 to 2030 (left - hand panel) and for 2000 - 2100 (right - hand panel).

As a result of the Ngarluma Yindjibarndi community's negotiation position, the State also agreed to commission a Rock Art Study to monitor the emissions from industry, identify impacts on the rock art and identify potential mitigation measures.

California's Air Resources Board today released an analysis of the Newhall Ranch environmental plan saying that it «would not result in any net additional» greenhouse - gas emissions «after the mitigation measures are fully implemented.»