Sentences with phrase «emissions permitted over»
A carbon budget is the cumulative amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions permitted over a period of time to keep within a certain temperature threshold.
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Current debate on Capitol Hill and in many statehouses favors programs that cap emissions and lower the cap over time, using permits to ensure compliance.
In most systems, the cap gets lower over time, giving businesses a choice: slash emissions further or buy permits on the market from another company.
Each year the number of permits declines, reducing emissions over time.
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is busy girding itself for a fight over new greenhouse gas emissions rules, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case on whether lawsuits over climate ought to be permitted.
Its east European members have unused emissions permits left over from the first period of the Kyoto protocol.
Its East European members have unused emissions permits left over from the first period of the Kyoto protocol.
Shannon Fisk, an attorney for the National Resources Defense, which has joined EPA in the federal lawsuit against DTE over violating the New Source Review provisions when it upgraded its Unit 2, pointed out the MDNRE issued DTE's permit just 8 days after the end of the public comment period regarding greenhouse gas emissions.
With resurgent debate over the relative merits of carbon taxes and emissions trading, attention has turned again to Europe where the market price of emissions permits has fallen sharply as a result of the financial crisis and recession.
The lack of a «conceivable pathway to reducing CO2 concentrations... on the timescales put forth by the Paris Agreement» is not improved by said Agreement's permitting «developing countries» (responsible for about 65 % of global emissions) to prioritise «economic... development and poverty eradication» over CO2 reduction, merely encouraging them to «move over time towards... emission reduction or limitation targets»: https://judithcurry.com/2016/08/16/cop21-developing-countries/