Sentences with phrase «emissions reduction requirements»

Because past reductions are not going to be as easy as in the past it would be prudent to delay further emission reduction requirements.

The NAMAs, however, would not constitute binding emissions reduction requirements for developing countries in contrast to the binding obligations of developed countries in the Kyoto Protocol that would be further developed in Copenhagen.

The group, along with other campaigners, argued at the time that «avoided deforestation» would allow developed countries to meet emission reduction requirements without cutting emissions from industrial sources, including power generation, construction, agriculture, and transportation.

Tightened standards could impose unachievable emission reduction requirements on virtually every part of the nation, including rural and undeveloped areas.

With continued Clean Power Plan emissions reduction requirements through 2040 under the Policy Extension Case (CPPEXT), the shift to higher natural gas - fired generation is maintained through 2030 - 35 (Figure 5 and Table 3).

Designating natural gas plants as the best available technology — essentially requiring utilities to generate less electricity from coal and more from gas instead of being limited solely to requiring that coal plants operate more efficiently — has allowed the administration to establish much more ambitious emissions reduction requirements and is one of the central provisions that legal opponents have challenged.

Anticipating EPA's finalized Clean Power Plan rule, CRS concluded by raising serious doubts about whether RGGI is stringent enough that states could count their participation as compliance with EPA's emission reduction requirements.

The findings do not in and of themselves impose any emission reduction requirements but rather allow EPA to finalize the GHG standards proposed earlier this year for new light - duty vehicles as part of the joint rulemaking with the Department of Transportation.

Even without an emissions reduction requirement in place, API modeling projects natural gas will continue to drive emissions reductions in the power sector, due to fuel switching.

Companies could buy and sell credits among themselves, and could satisfy up to 15 percent of its emission reduction requirements by submitting tradeable allowances from another nation's market in greenhouse gases, or by contributing to projects that sequester carbon dioxide emissions.

Climate Bill Analysis Part 20: Over-Allocation of Pollution Permits Would Result in No Emissions Reduction Requirement During Early Years of Climate Program