Sentences with phrase «emissions reduction efforts»

Emissions of perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) have actually declined during this time due to emission reduction efforts in the aluminum production industry (PFCs) and the electricity transmission and distribution industry (SF6).

The AB 32 year 2020 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets (year 2020 levels reduced to year 1990 measured levels) could be achieved by primarily addressing electricity generation and industrial sector greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts through increased use of renewable energy, energy efficiency and fuel substitution efforts.

Francois Bester, their Environmental Systems Manager said, «For Mediclinic, setting a science - based target makes business sense, we see direct benefits from emissions reduction efforts through cost savings and energy supply security.»

Funding delayed (p. 126 and 150): Last year, Ottawa promise $ 2 billion over two years, starting this year, for a Low Carbon Economy Fund to support emission reductions efforts by provinces and territories.

At the same time, «much greater emissions reductions efforts... will be required» to meet the target endorsed by the UN 195 - nation climate body, it said.

have achieved senior management approval for their strategies, making emission reduction efforts part of corporate policy.

Longer - term commitment to renewable energy will pay off for ministers unless the world rejects emissions reduction efforts completely, government advisers have found.

With the help of the Delta Institute and the Climate Trust, nonprofits focused on market - driven emissions reduction efforts, offsets are paid out to farmers when they document reductions in their nitrogen fertilizer use.

That said, the news comes at a time of great uncertainty over the future of global emissions reduction efforts, while nations around the world are convening in Germany for the U.N. climate conference.

ComEd's SF6 emission reduction efforts are led by a team of representatives from the Transmission and Substation Operations (T&S) and Environmental Services departments.

Until US policymakers move beyond the Cato - style climate logical fallacies, the EPA regulation of large GHG emitters via the endangerment finding is the only large - scale emissions reductions effort we have.

«The data are also being used to inform regulatory actions and voluntary emission reduction efforts,» the EPA said.

They studied the effects of emission reduction efforts at the Beijing Olympics.

They have taxed their residents to fund emission reduction efforts, limited their own fossil fuel use, and tried to prohibit or reduce the environmental impacts of fossil fuel production within their borders.»

Recognizing the impact of short - lived climate pollutants on near - term climate change, agricultural productivity, and human health, we support, as a means of promoting increased ambition and complementary to other CO2 and GHG emission reduction efforts, comprehensive actions to reduce these pollutants, which, according to UNEP and others, account for over thirty percent of near - term global warming as well as 2 million premature deaths a year.

«For Mediclinic, setting a science - based target makes business sense, we already see direct benefits from emissions reduction efforts through cost savings and energy supply security,» said Francois Bester, the company's environmental systems manager.

«For Mediclinic, setting a science - based target makes business sense, we already see direct benefits from emissions reduction efforts through cost savings and energy supply security,» said

«Building a greenhouse gas emissions inventory enables city leaders to manage their emissions reduction efforts, allocate resources and develop comprehensive climate action plans,» said Rio de Janeiro mayor and C40 Chair Eduardo Paes said in a statement.

The world's top CO2 producers are going to have to participate in an emissions reduction effort to make a significant impact on global CO2.

To be sure, the third world will be an important part of any greenhouse emissions reduction effort.

Keurig Green Mountain recognized that despite their emissions reduction efforts, part of the carbon footprint would remain.

MIT's emissions reduction efforts are being informed by a recently completed report outlining plans for cutting campus greenhouse gas emissions.

In light of this legislative failure and the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in 2010, environmental activists worried the US would not be able to achieve its target and that other countries would moderate their emission reduction efforts in response.

Also being discussed are reductions in line with the emission reduction efforts currently expressed in countries» nationally - determined climate pledges.

For industrialized countries, parties agreed to avoid a gap in emissions reductions efforts and monitoring between the expiration of the Kyoto Protocol and whatever treaty succeeds it at the end of 2012.

Under the mantra of «measure, reduce, and offset» companies have accounted for the use of offsets as part of their emission reduction efforts along with other measures, including energy efficiency projects and renewable energy procurement.