Sentences with phrase «focus on the carbon emissions»

The new agreement focuses on the carbon emissions.

I am also troubled that the discussion of climate change is so focused on carbon emissions instead of understanding the impact of the total human footprint.

The newest iteration of the bill now reframes its focus on carbon emissions, calling for ZECs, not «Nuclear Diversity Certificates» as in the original bill.

Focusing on the carbon emissions associated with tropical deforestation, it showed that converting rainforests or grasslands to corn, soybean, or palm oil biofuel production led to a carbon emissions increase — a «biofuel carbon debt» — that was at least 37 times greater than the annual reduction in greenhouse gases resulting from the shift from fossil fuels to biofuels.

· Since 2008, Intel has linked a portion of every employee's compensation to environmental goals, focusing on carbon emission reductions in 2012 and solid waste recycling in 2013.

Not exact matches

We report on carbon emissions per 100,000 orders, and we focus on reducing our carbon intensity through operational efficiency.

An energy efficiency program focused on such things as EPA SmartWay trailers and fuel efficient truck fleets means this carrot company has lower carbon emissions and is working toward a smaller environmental footprint.

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

We are continuing to maintain our focus on reducing the carbon emissions from across our value chain.

Some observers quietly worry that, under Trump, a new focus on climate engineering could become part of a justification for delaying government action to curb carbon emissions, with the reasoning that geoengineering technologies could later be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere, or prevent the warming effects of solar radiation.

The focus of this technology is on the large - scale reduction of carbon emissions from fossil - fuelled power plants.

«If you choose to focus in the management plan on reducing carbon dioxide emission slightly, you'll achieve a significant environmental gain for a very small price,» says Associate Professor Petersen.

So far, climate change policies on the tropics have effectively been focusing on reducing carbon emissions from deforestation only, not accounting for emissions coming from forest degradation.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

A problem is that markets for trading carbon dioxide focus on cuts in emissions at power plants and factories burning fossil fuels, not renewable energies which are viewed as green.

«Many cities have outlined goals to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions, and obviously tree - planting is one way to achieve that goal,» said Chang Zhao, a graduate student in the Geographical and Sustainability Sciences department at the UI and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal PLOS One, «but our study shows it plays a minor role and that we need to focus on reducing carbon emissions over removing them.»

Up till now, China has mostly focused on long - term aspirational goals when it comes to emissions, reserving its short - term and medium - term targets for goals related to switching to lower carbon energy sources.

Even the 350 - ppm limit for carbon dioxide is «questionable,» says physicist Myles Allen of the Climate Dynamics Group at the University of Oxford, and focusing instead on keeping cumulative emissions below one trillion metric tons might make more sense, which would mean humanity has already used up more than half of its overall emissions budget.

The United States has released an ambitious, climate - and conservation - focused agenda for its 2 - year chairmanship that includes pushing for more research on black carbon, which accelerates melting in the region, and on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from the seabed and permafrost, as well as creating a network of marine protected areas in the Arctic and equipping Arctic villages with renewable energy sources.

Ultimately, the group focused its investigation on the five strategies that appear to hold the most promise: reducing emissions, sequestering carbon through biological means on land and in the ocean, storing carbon dioxide in a liquefied form in underground geological formations and wells, increasing Earth's cloud cover and solar reflection.

Prof Peres added: «Intergovernmental policies to reduce carbon emissions from tropical countries have primarily focused on deforestation, and to a lesser extent on forest degradation resulting from timber extraction and wildfires.

The debate about how to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide often focuses on emissions from generation of electricity and transport.

Earlier today, The Hill newspaper reported that the plan «would roll back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.»

The UNFCCC has focused on one policy — carbon cap - and - trade and emissions reductions.

Rio de Janeiro, for example, used a draft of the GPC to determine that transportation was responsible for a whopping 39 % of the city's total emissions; that led the government to focus on expanding public transit to more efficiently shrink its carbon footprint.

Considerable research focuses on capturing and storing harmful carbon dioxide emissions.

This year's edition focuses in part on coming up with ways to tackle carbon emissions while at the same time making necessary energy available to evermore of the globe's growing population.

GM crops that tolerate herbicides deserve some praise: They help minimize mechanical weed removal, which means less soil erosion, more carbon stored in the soil and fewer carbon emissions from tilling equipment making trips across fields, scientists noted in 2012 in a special issue of Weed Science focused on herbicide - resistance management.

The new report focuses on a controversial measure called the social cost of carbon (SCC), an estimate in dollars of the economic consequences of CO2 emissions.

The paper joins other academic research focused on the social cost of carbon, a measure used in climate regulations that estimates the total cost of future damage from additional carbon emissions.

-- http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/12/124002/article «It is known that carbon dioxide emissions cause the Earth to warm, but no previous study has focused on examining how long it takes to reach maximum warming following a particular CO2 emission.

Reducing our carbon emissions by 80 per cent isn't going to mean we just do or have 80 per cent less stuff — we need to focus on doing things differently, or doing different things.

Several sessions focused on general topics like best practices to cut emissions, carbon trading, and low carbon buildings and development.

On the non-governmental side, the Sustainable Cities Program at Energy Foundation China focuses on reducing carbon emissions and air pollution in urban areas with an emphasis on sustainable urbanization and transit systemOn the non-governmental side, the Sustainable Cities Program at Energy Foundation China focuses on reducing carbon emissions and air pollution in urban areas with an emphasis on sustainable urbanization and transit systemon reducing carbon emissions and air pollution in urban areas with an emphasis on sustainable urbanization and transit systemon sustainable urbanization and transit systems.

Toward those ends, Honda also focuses on factors like reducing carbon emissions, to help address global climate change.

Rather than focus on high - and low - polluting rich and poor nations, they focus on the emerging global class of a billion or so individuals — whether they reside in Shanghai or Chicago — who are responsible for an outsize portion of the world's emissions of carbon dioxide.

The piece focuses on the green tourism company Responsible Travel and its decision to cancel the carbon offsets it had offered since 2002, through which money flows to projects avoiding emissions as a way to compensate for all the tons of CO2 flowing from big jet engines.

The other focuses on New York City, where Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the City Council Speaker, Christine C. Quinn, are pursuing an ambitious plan to cut energy use and carbon - dioxide emissions by the city's huge assortment of older buildings (nice map at this link).

That challenge has been largely ignored, with the policy focus placed on emissions and emissions reduction and the political will to reduce them, without due regard to the current limits on alternative low carbon energy technologies.

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.

[UPDATE 5:30 p.m. Voices added below] Most concerns about growing emissions of carbon dioxide have focused on the gas's heat - trapping effect on climate.

From notifications on phones when the charge is complete to please unplug your charger to an app that lets users easily offset the carbon emissions of their travel, to getting into the smart home industry, Nokia is focusing on what the impact of one billion users on the earth adds up to.

You'll see a focus on the low - hanging fruit in the climate challenge — for instance, reining in unhealthful emissions of black carbon, which heats the air and helps melt Himalayan snows and also kills lots of people.

Formed in 2008 by CE2 Capital Partners and Energy Capital Partners, CE2 Carbon Capital, LLC is a company dedicated to building a portfolio of carbon offsets and other assets focused on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in North America.

Holdren says it's no longer realistic to focus on mitigating the causes of climate change — efforts such as limiting carbon emissions from fossil - fuel combustion.

President Obama's highly anticipated Climate Action Plan was released earlier this week, the centerpiece of which focuses on cutting carbon emissions from new and existing coal fired power plants.

Often when business action is discussed, we focus on commitments only, but even more significant are the efforts by business to engage in fundamental market transformation (such as a commitment to no net deforestation or zero carbon emissions by 2050).

Although uncertainties still linger, the technical sub-committee that focused on REDD for the two years leading up to Bali concluded not only that the magnitude of deforestation emissions was significant — approximately 20 % of global emissions — but that sufficiently cost - effective methodologies exist for measuring forest carbon and monitoring deforestation.

Perry's confirmation comes amid reports of draconian cuts to the department's budget, including rolling back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Our organization, which focuses on igniting action to develop and implement «negative emission» systems capable of cleaning up excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, hopes to help BECI demonstrate its leadership in emerging issues across the energy and climate space.