Sentences with phrase «emissions technologies since»

This is important, market - driven progress on climate, which API and its member companies consider an important issue for constructive engagement — engagement that also is seen in approximately $ 90 billion in oil and natural gas industry investments in zero - and low - emissions technologies since 2000, nearly as much as the federal government and more than twice that of the next largest industry sector.

Not exact matches

All the major oilsands companies are seriously pushing technology to reduce emissions and costs, and have been doing so extremely seriously the past couple years since the price crash of late 2014 and the Paris Agreement,» says Vredenburg, who also led a team of researchers that studied open innovation among energy companies.

«Since the transition away from fossil fuels is likely to take a very long time, we foresee a long - term need to deal with coal - based emissions and, therefore, the sooner we begin to develop [carbon capture and storage] technology, the better,» Austin - based energy policy specialist Scott Anderson of Environmental Defense told a Senate panel earlier this year during a hearing on CCS technology.

The scandal made headlines once again this month as European investigators now believe that BMW, Daimler (Mercedes - Benz), and Volkswagen have been colluding on diesel technology since the 90s, including how to control diesel emissions.

Since 1990 it has concentrated on engine technology for reducing emissions and improving fuel economy.

Since BCCS is the only known strategy that when combined with reductions in emissions has any hope in hell of actually reversing AGW, then I would say it is very critical we in the Western developed world do our best to help our African neighbors obtain more modern electrical systems rather than antiquated and obsolete already coal technology.

We might consider a compromise with the Chinese that grandfathered and excused greenhouse emissions before Kyoto in return to a pledge to share technology and research, but that required nations to make additional cuts (or purchase additional emissions credits) to compensate for emissions since then.

The opportunity, Navarro Llanos said, was that since countries like hers had done almost nothing to send emissions soaring, they were in a position to declare themselves «climate creditors,» owed money and technology support from the large emitters to defray the hefty costs of coping with more climate - related disasters, as well as to help them develop on a green energy path.

Carbon capture could reduce emissions from the electricity sector as well, but since it will raise the cost of producing power, the technology will not be widely deployed until other nations adopt similar carbon prices.

Since 2005, methane emissions from hydraulically fractured natural gas wells have plummeted 79 percent — with technology and innovation allowing industry to capture more of a product that can be delivered to consumers.

Government investments in residential buildings research and development since the 1980s, through a variety of energy efficiency and technology transfer programs, have yielded impressive returns in terms of avoided energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Future efforts to control and limit mercury emissions, since the technology for doing it is yet to be identified, will make paper fiber still more attractive as a fuel substitute for coal.

Notably, the United States has reduced carbon emissions 14 percent since 2005, with about two - thirds of those reductions attributable to increased natural gas use made possible by hydraulic fracturing technology.

Exxon said it has spent about $ 8 billion since 2000 to deploy low - emission energy equipment across its operations and that it's conducting and supporting research on technologies to make further cuts.

And other emissions could be cleaned up, since «clean - coal» technologies have been effectively utilized in Europe now for over twenty years.

This has been replaced since 2004 with solar cooking technology, allowing a pretty serious reduction in carbon emissions.

Accordingly, over the next few decades the focus of climate policy should be to: (a) broadly advance sustainable development (particularly in developing countries since that would generally enhance their adaptive capacity to cope with numerous problems that currently beset them, including climate - sensitive problems), (b) reduce vulnerabilities to climate - sensitive problems that are urgent today and might be exacerbated by future climate change, and (c) implement «no - regret» emission reduction measures while at the same time striving to expand the universe of such measures through research and development of cleaner and more affordable technologies.

Since the rule took effect in 2015, some coal - fired power plants have retired, but most operators chose instead to install control technology to reduce these emissions.

The need to remove carbon from the air using negative emissions technologies is a topic receiving quite a bit of attention since the shift to more ambitious climate targets.