Sentences with phrase «emissions restrictions in»

US cars produce slightly less power than their European counterparts due to emissions restrictions in place at the time.

E-Hold mode should prove especially attractive to markets such as China, with heavy emissions restrictions in urban centres.

Not exact matches

Responding to public outrage, the government has recently introduced a series of measures like making public the level of air pollution in Beijing and also plans to impose emission restrictions on the steel, coal and petrochemicals industries, among others.

(CNN)-- Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday that a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency is «on the table» in efforts to counter the Obama administration's proposed restrictions on carbon emission from power plants.

The UK is pushing for EU restrictions in aviation emissions to include international flights entering European airspace.

By calling for re-energizing CCS development, PCAST is making two judgments: 1) that the coal industry is highly likely to remain competitive even as it complies with EPA restrictions on emissions of SOx, NOx, Hg, and other toxics; and 2) that a substantial price on carbon is highly likely to arrive in a time frame of relevance for a CCS development effort.

Under this scheme, investors could earn credits for projects that cut emissions in developing nations even though the host country faced no binding restriction on its output of these gases.

Restrictions set for SO2 emissions by the European Community and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution will begin to take effect early in the next century, and may limit coal to conventional stations fitted with flue - gas desulphurisation (FGD) equipment, which removes SO2 from exhaust gases, or to any purpose - built clean coal stations that will have been built.

However, the differences between particle emission restriction paths in the next few decades do not carry any major impact considering the end of the century.

Allthough this is only one of several possible offset sources under consideration by policy makers, we find already that, without restrictions on offset eligibility, CORSIA will not incentivise any further emission reductions beyond those that will happen without the scheme and will also not provide price signals that reward previous investments in CDM projects.

Anyways emissions restrictions are why in most cases «leaded» fuels are few and far between.

Secondly, the elite in places like China, London, or Paris still want to ride in size and style despite rising restrictions on emissions.

In 1980, due to ever - increasing emissions restrictions, Pontiac dropped all of its large displacement engines.

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It arrived on the market in 1975 when the F - Series was in its sixth generation and was placed between the F - 100 and the F - 250 in order to avoid certain emission control restrictions.

Vehicles like the Mission E will play a key role in markets such as China where restrictions on emissions are expected to become the world's toughest in the coming years.

On Friday afternoon, three non-governmental organizations charged that a «secret Mexican text» was being drafted that could, following Japan's lead early in the week, end efforts to create new binding emissions restrictions to replace those that expire in 2012 under the Kyoto Protocol.

During 2005 talks over the climate treaty in Montreal, for example, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a group opposing emissions restrictions, tried to illustrate its view of carbon markets by handing out mock emissions credits.

That fight had been particularly intense in negotiations shaping the Kyoto Protocol, the first climate treaty with binding restrictions on emissions from some countries.

Foes of emissions restrictions, from conservative lawmakers to scientists who reject catastrophic climate change, are also in overdrive.

The problem is, I don't think you can tell China (who is making great strides against poverty) «It is likely that emissions restrictions will put a damper on your growth, but there is a possibility that there will be a proliferation of alternative energies beyond anything we have ever seen before, and you could see an increase in growth».

When push comes to shove, people will not accept the restrictions in their life styles which will be necessary to cut our carbon emissions until the damage becomes so obvious that it will be too late.

Even if they don't, here's my longstanding concern: Any package of legislation focused on emissions restrictions will — because of the nature of congressional compromise — inevitably be too weak to have much of an impact where it matters — in the atmosphere.

In the meantime, the United States and China, with the world's biggest economies and greenhouse - gas emissions, rejected the pact's mandatory restrictions on the gases and were often portrayed by environmental campaigners as stifling progress.

In the first period (2005 - 07) the allocation will not impose any tough restrictions on emissions, because it is a trial period, and the Kyoto limits do not apply until 2008.

In this case the Stakeholder meeting presented the plan for the future of RGGI that includes tightening the emissions restrictions, extending the program beyond 2020, and tweaking some of the program elements.

When asked about specific proposals to reduce climate change, most Democrats (90 %) and smaller majorities of Republicans (65 %) say that restrictions on power plant emissions would make a difference in reducing climate change, as would tax incentives encouraging businesses to reduce their carbon emissions (85 % and 65 %, respectively).

For instance, 79 % of Americans say that restrictions on power plant emissions can make a difference in reducing the effects of global climate change.

As a result, Brulle insisted, the public is uncertain about the alarmist claim that man - made carbon dioxide emissions are causing severe climate change, and the government in turn has failed to enact the kind of restrictions on emissions Brulle favors.

In February 2008, investment banks Morgan Stanley, Citi, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Bank of America announced that any future lending for coal - fired power would be contingent on the utilities demonstrating that the plants would be economically viable with the higher costs associated with future federal restrictions on carbon emissions.

Proponents of the RPS plans say that the mandated restrictions will reduce harmful emissions and spur job growth, by stimulating investment in green technologies.Motivated by a desire to reduce carbon emissions, and in the absence of federal action to do so, 29 states (and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) have required utility companies to deliver specified minimum amounts of electricity from «renewable» sources, including wind and solar power.

A study carried out by the Finnish Meteorological Institute examined how different types of emissions restrictions would change the radioactive effects of particulates in coming decades.

E.g., although only 15 % of «conservative Republicans» say they believe that the «earth is warming mostly due to human activity,» almost double that percentage agree that «restrictions on power plant carbon emissions» (29 %) and «international agreements to limit carbon emissions» (27 %) would «make a big difference» in «address [ing] climate change»!

Gjefsen says that in America the major political restrictions on emissions never materialised.

For a preview of what this could mean to American families, one can look to Germany, where due to restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions, electricity costs three - times more than in the US and gasoline is now $ 8.00 per gallon.

As long as rules are not clear — e.g. regarding eligible activities, fungibility of credits, import restrictions into important markets such as the EU ETS — the risks for most investors simply are too high,» he said, noting that prior attempts to include forestry in emissions reductions schemes have left participants disappointed.

Opposing the efforts of this movement is the CCCM, which engages in a wide variety of activities opposing any legislative attempts to enact mandatory restrictions on carbon emissions»

On the question of power plant carbon emissions, for example, 76 % of liberal Democrats said restrictions can make a big difference in addressing climate change, while only 29 % of conservative Republicans agreed.

This is hardly depicting geoengineering as a «potential solution» or «a supplement» to the restriction of emissions, as is claimed in the abstract of the paper.

(O'Neill 1989, 224) In the case of national and sub-national emissions targets, this would entail voluntary emissions reductions beyond legal restrictions on occasions when legal frameworks prescribe goals inadequate for distributive and retributive justice criteria.

However, the globe is on a cooling trend right now = > http://bit.ly/nz6PFx, and there is no restriction in CO2 emission.

This reality ought to be enough to stop the anti-fossil fuel (via carbon dioxide emission restrictions) crusaders in their tracks.

However, a new treaty may be adopted in the future that includes restrictions on shipping emissions.

For example, the reliability of data for emissions / concentrations and their conversion to radiative forcing is validated by our inability to reject a restriction that equalizes the temperature effect of a change in radiative forcing across gases (7).

The company is studying what to do with other older coal - fired units in light of the soot regulations, tightening restrictions on the disposal of coal ash and new limits on emissions of mercury and other toxics that are pending.

Starting with the negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty in 1997, it has promoted the idea that lingering uncertainties in climate science justify delaying restrictions on emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases.

Andy Revkin's concern that battles over emissions restrictions are a losing political game in the Senate climate and clean energy debate, and a distraction from a more immediate need to initiate a «sustained energy quest» (DotEarth blog, New York Times,... Continue reading →

However, the differences between particle emission restriction paths in the next few decades do not carry any major impact considering the end of the century.

So, now that flight restrictions have been lifted and air travel has resumed, any dip in emissions caused by Eyjafjallajökull is but a tiny blip on the global warming radar.

And they essentially translate into the following: Romney will do his best to remove restrictions on coal pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and does not believe the government has a role in addressing climate change.