Sentences with phrase «emissions technology deployment»
This piece, published in Nature Climate Change, explores the need for BECCS technology in accordance with IPCC projections and assesses the challenges that accompany large scale negative emissions technology deployment.
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According to Governor Paterson's Climate Action Council, which issued an Interim Report earlier this month identifying strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, the State over time will need to significantly increase deployment of solar technologies to address climate change.
Reducing emissions through energy efficiency With respect to its own multibillion - dollar portfolio of drilling operations, refineries and pipelines, Exxon Mobil said it «addresses the risk of climate change in several concrete and meaningful ways,» including through energy efficiency measures, deployment of less carbon - intensive technologies at its facilities and even the development of products that help consumers use energy more efficiently.
Through this Memorandum, both countries will work jointly to accelerate development and deployment of clean energy technologies and to strengthen cooperation on adaptation to climate change, climate science, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from forests and land use.
«Global deployment of advanced natural gas production technology could double or triple the global natural gas production by 2050, but greenhouse gas emissions will continue to grow in the absence of climate policies that promote lower carbon energy sources.»
In the team's new analysis, Smith and Mizrahi use what they contend are more reasonable projections for emissions reductions, a more conservative timeline for the development and deployment of methane - capture technology, and more realistic estimates for how quickly Earth's climate will respond to reductions in methane and soot.
The colored fields (wedges) show estimated emission reductions achieved in the carbon - intensive industry in the period 2010 — 2050, assuming ambitious deployment of technologies and measures that are currently commercially available.
As the deployment of these technologies will likely be limited due to any combination of the environmental, economic or energy constraints examined in the study, «Plan A» must be to reduce greenhouse gas emissions aggressively now.
With a sustained national commitment, the United States could obtain substantial energy - efficiency improvements, new sources of energy, and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through the accelerated deployment of existing and emerging energy technologies, according to the prepublication copy of the capstone report of the America's Energy Future project of the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
Substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector are achievable over the next two to three decades through a portfolio approach involving the widespread deployment of energy efficiency technologies; renewable energy; coal, natural gas, and biomass with carbon capture and storage; and nuclear technologies.
These programs and initiatives have resulted in many demonstrations and deployments of zero emission buses in various public and private fleets, which have encouraged further purchasing and use of these buses while collecting data to further advance the technology.
Requires demonstration, deployment, or evaluation projects in public transportation to seek, among other things, the deployment of low or no emission vehicles, zero emission vehicles, or associated advanced technology.
Honda is a leader in the development and deployment of advanced fuel cell vehicle technologies and today has more than 450 Clarity Fuel Cell vehicles — with an industry - leading 366 - mile zero - emissions driving range rating1 — in the hands of customers.
While all such forecasts are implicitly uncertain, this one helps clarify where to focus efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions; reinforces the importance of resolving questions about how to safely expand, while not stopping, extraction of vast domestic reserves of natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting coal.
Significant progress toward a long - term global goal will be made by increasing financing of the broad deployment of existing technologies and best practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build climate resilience.
In both, he asserts that the current legislative proposals, by focusing incentives on deployment of today's wind and solar technology, could actually stifle the vital need to build the capacity for achieving deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions once the easier reductions are achieved.
The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The imperative to limit emissions in order to reach this target drives changes in the energy system, including shifts to electricity, to lower emissions energy technologies and to the deployment of carbon capture and geologic storage technology.
The nation is once again assessing how best to stimulate the deployment of advanced energy technologies in response to recent high energy prices — caused by the growing world demand for energy, wars in the Middle East, and last year's hurricanes — and concerns about the adverse environmental effects, particularly greenhouse gas emissions, of using conventional fossil energy.
The Alliance for a Sustainable Future helps mayors and business leaders work together to reduce carbon emissions, speed deployment of clean technologies, and promote sustainable development.
Policy at the national level must encourage the deployment of clean energy technologies, and include greenhouse gas emission reduction targets (such as those under the Paris Agreement), carbon pricing mechanisms, and investment in energy research, development and demonstration.
(Sec. 115) Amends the CAA to require the EPA Administrator to promulgate regulations providing for the distribution of emission allowances (established by this Act) that are allocated to support the commercial deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technologies in electric power generation and industrial operations.
Subtitle B: Disposition of Allowances -(Sec. 321) Amends the CAA to set forth provisions governing the disposition of emission allowances, including specifying allocations: (1) for supplemental emissions reductions from reduced deforestation; (2) for the benefit of electricity, natural gas, and / or home heating oil and propane consumers; (3) for auction, with proceeds for the benefit of low income consumers and worker investment; (4) to energy - intensive, trade - exposed industries; (5) for the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology; (6) to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy; (7) to be distributed to Energy Innovation Hubs and advanced energy research; (8) to invest in the development and deployment of clean vehicles; (9) to domestic petroleum refineries and small business refiners; (10) for domestic and international adaptation; (11) for domestic wildlife and natural resource adaptation; and (12) for international clean technology deployment.
Requires the President to establish an interagency group to administer the program to provide developing countries with assistance from the United States to encourage widespread deployment of technologies that reduce GHG emissions and to encourage developing countries to adopt policies and measures that will reduce GHG emissions.
«(4) review and compare the emissions reduction potential, commercial viability, market penetration, investment trends, and deployment of the technologies described in paragraph (3), including --
(1) deployment of technologies to capture and sequester carbon dioxide emissions from electric generating units or large industrial sources (except that assistance under this subtitle for such deployment shall be limited to the cost of retrofitting existing facilities with such technologies or the incremental cost of purchasing and installing such technologies at new facilities);
«(3) review the current and future projected deployment of technologies and practices in the United States that reduce or limit greenhouse gas emissions, including --
This means that a carbon budget for the next couple of decades may have inbuilt assumptions around longer term efforts to mitigate emissions, including deployment of technologies such as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
• Flexible approaches to motivate achieving CO2 emission limits that may vary by economic sector, and could include, depending on the sector, market - based incentives; governmental loan guarantees; investment tax credits; performance standards; tax reform; incentives for technology research, development and deployment; and other appropriate policy tools.
(4) deployment of low - or zero emissions technologies that are facing financial or other barriers to their widespread deployment which could be addressed through support under this subtitle in order to reduce, sequester, or avoid emission;
Subsidizing the deployment of clean technology at a scale that would actually create deep cuts in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would eventually cost hundreds of billions of dollars each year.
Achieving negative emissions will involve what the analysis calls «the deployment of uncertain and at present controversial technologies, including biomass energy with carbon capture and storage.»
Here's why: Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, while simultaneously meeting the surging demand for energy in developing countries, requires the development and deployment of clean energy technologies on a massive scale.
Supports the development, demonstration, and deployment of innovative transportation technologies and strategies that increase fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
«Similarly,» Wagner writes, «we can achieve US emissions reduction goals for 2020 and possibly even 2030 through deployment of existing technologies.»
The conference took place in Brussels and covered three main themes: the opening session «Coal and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions», followed by a panel discussion on «Creating new pathways to drive deployment of technologies to reduce GHG emissions» and finally the afternoon technology session focusing on «Coal in the global energy mix — pathways to reducing GHG emissions».
At the same time, if emissions reductions are too modest over the coming two decades, it may no longer be possible to reach a goal of 450 ppm CO2eq by the end of the century without large ‐ scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal technologies.
Technology improvements and deployment are pushed to their maximum practicable limits across the energy system in order to achieve net - zero emissions by 2060 and to stay net zero or below thereafter, without requiring unforeseen technology breakthroughs or limiting economTechnology improvements and deployment are pushed to their maximum practicable limits across the energy system in order to achieve net - zero emissions by 2060 and to stay net zero or below thereafter, without requiring unforeseen technology breakthroughs or limiting economtechnology breakthroughs or limiting economic growth.
The alliance creates a framework for mayors and business leaders to develop concrete approaches to reduce carbon emissions, speed deployment of new technology, and respond to the growing impacts of climate change.
That's why the World Coal Association believes it is important to focus on a role for low emission coal technologies and to support their wider deployment.
To meet global energy challenges associated with CO2 emissions, development and deployment of all available technologies will be necessary to achieve a more sustainable future.
In order to achieve emissions reductions consistent with international climate objectives, we need to balance these issues, recognising the importance of low - cost energy and the need to widen the deployment of all low emission technologies.
The IEA estimates that carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced to a level that would limit long ‐ term global temperature increases to 2 °C through broad deployment of low ‐ carbon energy technologies, including CCS.
Also published in Nature Climate Change, a UC Berkeley team shows how BECCS technology could help enable the transition to carbon negative power across western North America: «We show that BECCS, combined with aggressive renewable deployment and fossil - fuel emission reductions, can enable a carbon - negative power system in western North America by 2050 with up to 145 % emissions reduction from 1990 levels.»
Accelerating the deployment of renewable energy technology will be the key to making a nontrivial impact on global emissions and resource depletion before the end of this century.
WCA believes that the pathway to zero emissions from coal starts with the deployment of high efficiency low emission coal technologies (HELE) and progresses to carbon capture use and storage (CCUS).
Political and financial support for CCS, alongside policy parity with other low emission technologies, will help to encourage widespread deployment.
The measure will provide $ 10 billion to the coal industry for «clean coal technology» that will capture emissions from coal - fired power plants, and it will provide an accelerated bonus for early deployment of this technology.
Alternative pathways of early deployment of negative emission technologies need to be considered to ensure that climate targets are reached safely and sustainably.
The rapid emergence of China, India, and other developing economies as formidable economic competitors to OECD economies has also rendered two further pillars of the old framework untenable: first, the notion that rich countries would agree to very deeply cut their own emissions to create more atmospheric space for poor nations emissions to grow or, alternatively, that they would heavily subsidize the deployment of cleaner but more expensive energy technologies in the developing world.