Sentences with phrase «for greenhouse gas emissions»

It sets an interim target for greenhouse gas emissions reductions: 45 percent below 2001 levels by 2030.

The policy requires states to measure and set reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions by vehicles on highways.

The models use mathematical equations to represent our physical understanding of the atmosphere and ocean, the role of life, and possible future scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions.

An international market for greenhouse gas emissions rights will be no exception.

Set up a global cap and trade system for greenhouse gas emissions --- all greenhouse gas emissions from all sources.

The talks are aimed at getting governments to be far more ambitious than their current national plans for greenhouse gas emissions cuts.

It is also addressing climate change directly in its operations by reducing its operational impact through aggressive goals for greenhouse gas emissions, water, and paper.

Under cap - and - trade, the market will establish a price for greenhouse gas emissions allowances.

The simulations suggest that, for greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates, changes in climate will very likely be larger than the changes already observed during the 20th century.

The plan would force companies to buy permits from the government for greenhouse gas emissions above a certain cap.

This message does not support the political agenda for greenhouse gas emission reduction.

Even if you remain convinced that oil consumers, rather than oil manufacturers, are the parties that should be held liable for greenhouse gas emissions, that gets us nowhere.

The lawsuits are not the first to pursue companies for their greenhouse gas emissions, but they present new twists.

Why It Matters: The debate has centered on arguments that the tax revenue is needed to keep roads safe, but gas taxes have significant implications for greenhouse gas emissions.

But his idea could add to political pressure to get CCS going — and that could be good news for greenhouse gas emissions.

The proper design of a cap - and - trade system for greenhouse gas emissions is not a simple matter.

Other approaches have focused instead on corporate responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions, with a 2013 study employing a carbon accounting approach to hold some 90 companies responsible for climate change.

This working paper identifies common errors when accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from purchased electricity in China.

Europe must fully account for the greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and «indirect land use change» caused by expanding agrofuels.

The Obama administration is looking forward to a host of new environmental regulations that go far beyond the president's plans to issue new standards for greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants.

The debate was nominally on the Lieberman - Warner bill that would establish a federal cap and trade program for greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2012, with the caps gradually ramping down to 80 % below 1990 emissions by 2050.

The American Carbon Registry (ACR) modular methodology Restoration of Degraded Deltaic Wetlands of the Mississippi Delta v2.0 details requirements for greenhouse gas emission reduction accounting from wetland restoration activities implemented on degraded wetlands of the Mississippi Delta.

In testimony for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearing (earlier post) on the proposed endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (earlier post), Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson urged the EPA to include black carbon in the finding.

Meanwhile, leaders in China, analysts there say, are seriously debating a 2025 peak year for greenhouse gas emissions as well as an absolute cap on coal within the next five years.

Gaffin, S.R., 1998: World population projections for greenhouse gas emissions scenarios.

2017 marked a tough year for many of you, with several issues affecting our community and the revenue earned from advertising through the YouTube Partner April 4, 2017: Review of the Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric

For those that aren't up to cruising altitude on this one: From January 1 the EU emission trading scheme includes airlines landing in Europe, requiring airlines to pay for permits for the greenhouse gas emissions created by their flights.

Thawing permafrost has potentially damaging consequences, not just for greenhouse gas emissions, but also the stability of buildings located in high - latitude cities.

Thankfully, in November 2007 the Center and our allies prevailed in Center for Biological Diversity v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a major lawsuit filed against the Department of Transportation for failing to properly account for greenhouse gas emissions when setting unreasonably low national fuel economy standards.

U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a sixth - term Republican from Washington State who is a climate change denier and an ardent opponent of regulations for greenhouse gas emissions, has been nominated by President - elect Donald Trump for Secretary of Interior.

Meehl and his colleagues used two sophisticated computer models of global climate to predict what would happen under various scenarios for greenhouse gas emission controls, taking into account the oceanic time lag.

The GWP was presented in the First IPCC Assessment (Houghton et al., 1990), stating «It must be stressed that there is no universally accepted methodology for combining all the relevant factors into a single global warming potential for greenhouse gas emissions.

We are environmental and energy regulators from a group of 12 states, and we are providing comment on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on State Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Sources (ANPRM)[1].

It does not expressly endorse a «cap and trade» approach as opposed to a carbon tax but does recommend creating an overall «budget» for greenhouse gas emissions over a stretch of decades that can lead to a clear, directly measurable goal.

Identifies risk - management principles pertinent to the international market for greenhouse gas emissions rights and fashions recommendations for each.

Alberta has released its latest figures for greenhouse gas emissions by major facilities.

We'll need to come back to this at the next conference of the climate change convention, to be held in Doha this December — a curious choice, given Qatar's position close to the top of the league table for greenhouse gas emissions per head.