Sentences with phrase «for carbon abatement»

Under an agreement between Darwin Liquid Natural Gas and the Northern Territory Government, the company pays the government an annual fee of $ 1 million for carbon abatement.

However, Indigenous lands offer mature established native forests (natural carbon sinks) that have a significant capacity for carbon abatement, and would benefit from carbon certificates in recognition of this, rather than being forced into plantations.

Already, people close to the fossil fuel industry have begun to talk of geoengineering as a substitute for carbon abatement.

Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) delivered via the gas grid offers CO2 lifecycle savings of up to 90 % compared with fossil fuel alternatives, and offer sa more cost - effective solution than electricity for carbon abatement in transport applications, according to a new feasibility study published by National Grid (UK), the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) and Centrica.

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Not exact matches

Environmental Advocates of New York says the Cuomo team deserves credit for its aggressive State Energy Plan, but cautions the goals may be just out of reach should the state go the way of re-firing outdated fossil fuel plants and raiding carbon abatement programs like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Without dedicated revenues from carbon regulations, the CDR field is left to fight an uphill battle against other GHG abatement approaches for the limited public funding available for energy / environment technology R&D.

The SkyShares model enables users to relate a target limit for temperature change to a global emissions ceiling; to allocate this emissions budget across countries using different policy rules; and then uses estimated marginal abatement costs to calculate the costs faced by each country of decarbonising to meet its emissions budget, with the costs for each country depending in part on whether and how much carbon trading is allowed.

While the Government says carbon abatement costs per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) should be about # 56 ($ 87) for road transport, the report says the cost using the current generation of biofuels ranges from about # 105 to # 715 ($ 165 - 1,100).

For a given level of carbon abatement, people deciding to reduce their own carbon pollution will lead to less disruption to polluting industries and hence less economic cost.

A considered panel of the world's most eminent pure market economists concluded that of 15 different systems for cutting emissions, the three worst, the three least effective, the three most costly per tonne of abatement were variations of the carbon tax or ETS.

A magazine which excels at publishing calls for green technology and carbon abatement is Climate Spectator.

I also found it interesting to see the less than strident call for abatement of carbon dioxide emissions at the time those papers were published.

The Investment Summary Report notes the fraction of funding that reduce carbon emissions (overall 80 %) for energy efficiency (57 %), clean & renewable energy (15 %), and GHG abatement (8 %) programs.

That is, the wholesale cost of electricity for the simulated system would be seven times more than now, with an abatement cost that is 13 times the starting price of the Australian carbon tax and 30 times the European carbon price.

Urs led several large technical assistance programs for greenhouse gas abatement and carbon markets in India and Latin America.

Several studies have been done of the costs for various carbon abatement strategies, such as this one by McKinsey & Company.

The geo - clique are lobbying for a huge injection of public funds into geoengineering research, justified on the grounds that «the world» (read America in the era of the Tea Party) will never countenance the carbon abatement policies we so badly need.

Even under optimistic assumptions about global carbon abatement, the Earth is expected to warm by 4oC or more by the end of the century, making it hotter than it has been for 15 million years, and crossing several tipping points along the way that will make it impossible to stabilise the global temperature at any level.

If the SCC can be shown to be negative at current levels of abatement (and bear in mind that your excellent chart of net benefits for various abatement paths refers to benefits relative to the 2010 policy stance) then I'd be content to freeze policy at current levels but to steadily transfer all policies to a carbon tax, or at least to cost them on a common basis, ie to treat renewable subsidies as implicit carbon taxes.

This economy - wide transition represents opportunities through demand created for materials needed to drive carbon abatement; however, it also poses risks associated with shifts away from some incumbent commodity use.

re negative carbon prices: SCC calculations allow for a level at which (marginal) abatement costs exceed projected damages so the SCC is negative.

While the statement above is true — and while more publicly funded R&D into all greenhouse gas abatement strategies (including carbon removal) is almost certainly a positive thing — focusing exclusively on this «one thing» to fight climate change is likely sub-optimal for a number of reasons:

Carbon removal solutions will not lead to moral hazard around reducing emissions, as carbon removal proponents will work to build carbon removal as a complement to GHG abatement solutions for mitigating climate change.

We show that when SGE is a less perfect substitute for abatement — that is, when damages from carbon concentrations matter more relative to damages from temperature — then SGE is used less intensively and abatement is used more intensively.

This analytical report argues that the structure of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has reduced the effectiveness of the resources spent on carbon reduction and attempts to measure the cost of the ineffectiveness analysing the projects registered under the CDM by measuring their cost of abatement against the price paid for doing the abatement.

Joe Morrison, CEO of the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, explained that «in time, as the carbon market matures and world prices per tonne rise, these credits will more than pay for the costs of the fire abatement projects.»

Under the State Government's two - year - old Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme, energy suppliers such as AGL and Energy Australia must buy carbon credits to meet mandatory targets for reducing greenhouse gas.

«The court's decision to dismiss the lawsuit regarding the Zero Emission Credit segment of New York's Clean Energy Standard (CES) is good news for New York's climate efforts and citizens across the state because it preserves the most cost - effective source of carbon abatement available to consumers.

In short, supporting Indigenous futures on country has the potential to generate economic benefits - not just for Aboriginal people, but also for the nation - in meeting international biodiversity conservation obligations and potentially in meeting carbon abatement goals.103

Winner of the 2007 Eureka Prize for innovative solutions to climate change, the Western Arnhem Land Fire Abatement (WALFA) project, utilises traditional fire burning practices to reduce carbon emissions and generate income for local communities.

IPAs have already set international benchmarks for innovative carbon abatement programs involving funding partnerships with industry to offset carbon emissions.

[43] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples will be able to conduct carbon abatement projects on land rights land or native title land as part of the CFI and be issued with ACCUs for any carbon reduction or removal achieved.

It has the potential to leverage economic benefits for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through participation in carbon abatement projects.

[45] A methodology contains detailed rules for «implementing and monitoring specific abatement activities and generating carbon credits under the scheme».