Sentences with phrase «for major emitters»

There's a cap on carbon, and a fee on carbon, and «compliance flexibility for major emitters,» but it's not clear how all those pieces work together.

Matthew Marler, yes, the DDPP proposes practical methods for the major emitters to decrease fast enough to meet global emission budget targets such as those from the IPCC.

Take a look at ideas such as those proposed in the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project for the major emitters, and discuss those instead of saying it is just too impossible to be worth any effort.

If it is China, then all the more reason to support China's low - carbon growth policies, to demand more nuclear / hydro / CCS / wind etc and to work as hard as possible at crafting a truly global emissions treaty that will include targets of some sort for all major emitters.

The United States and European Union had pushed for major emitters — and particularly governments of G - 20 nations — to unveil their plans by the end of March.

According to the U.S. interpretation, the Durban agreement calls for all major emitters to, for the first time in history, by 2020 be held to the same legal obligations in the quest to cut carbon.

Not exact matches

The major industrial emitters could be required (or induced through taxation for tradable permits) to capture their CO2 emissions or to convert part of their processes to run on power cells and clean electricity.

The declaration states: «In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.»

In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.

And yet that is the central issue facing the world at Durban: most non Annex - 1 countries — a category now including such poverty - stricken nations as the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Singapore and so on — insist that a new round of Kyoto is the be-all and end - all, an absolute precondition for any progress towards a truly global deal encompassing all the major emitters.

Second place was scooped up by the U.S. as well, this time for re-opening the Major Emitters (or as they call it, Major Economies) negotiations in the midst of the Bali negotiations, distracting from the process at hand.

The CPRS actually rewards the major corporate emitters for failing to act despite having been on notice since at least 1997 that the emission reduction targets would be adopted.

The caps would apply to all major emitters of CO2 (defined as those responsible for more than 10,000 metric tonnes of CO2 per annum) and emitters of other industrial greenhouse gases.

If one thinks a little bit about how this might work in practice, the two critical objectives one has to achieve in designing an effective regulatory framework for enforcing major carbon reductions is to ensure that the framework is implemented strictly according to existing regulatory review processes and procedures; and that it fairly distributes the burden of compliance equally among all carbon emitters — which includes of course most all of America's adult population.

Agriculture has become a major emitter of greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide — which are now responsible for 19 % of total global emissions.

Unfortunately, Australia's plan, like Europe's, gave away far too much to major emitters of CO2 and does far too little to reduce emissions, aiming for a 5 percent cut in carbon by 2020, with uncertainty as to how deep the cuts may be beyond then.

The study presents a quantitative analysis of historic records for major carbon dioxide emitters worldwide, over a period starting in the 1850s — at the dawn of the industrial revolution — through 2010.

Instead, in the first years after the adoption of climate legislation, emitters will also be able to get credit for conservation activities that are part of state or province efforts to reduce deforestation in cases where those states or provinces themselves are major sources of carbon pollution.

James Thornton, head of the ClientEarth NGO — a group of environmental lawyers — says attaching liability for climate change to major carbon emitters is close to reality.

For years, many developing countries have said that the only successful international climate agreement is a binding one, requiring major emissions emitters to meet reduction goals.

National green leaders, who had spent the previous year insisting that progress toward capping U.S. carbon emissions would ensure the successful conclusion of a global emissions - reduction agreement in Copenhagen, pretended like they'd never suggested that the United Nation's climate change conference could ever achieve such an outcome and praised Obama for ditching the United Nations and striking out to reach an agreement — any agreement — among major emitters.

All of the world's major emitters, both developed and developing, must make significant contributions to hitting IPCC's «50 by 50» goal, and that can best be accomplished through cooperation and healthy competition in the race for the best alternatives to our carbon loaded energy economy.

The AWG - LTC will be the pathway to reframe the worlds countries in terms of major emitters vs. rest of the world, or take a more differentiated approach to CBDR as I've argued for before (see previous post «Thinking Out of the Climate Box: Re-Examining Monolithic Approaches to the «Common But Differentiated Responsibilities» Impasse «-RRB-, against China's wishes.

Creating incentives in the United States for clean technologies will help drive down the prices of these technologies, making them much easier for China and other major emitters to adopt.

To avoid administrative paralysis, economic disruption, and political backlash, the Tailoring Rule exempts all but the largest GHG emitters from PSD and Title permitting requirements over the next six years, raising from 100/250 tons per year to 75,000 / 100,000 tons per year the cutoff for regulation as a «major» emitting facility.

That's just one of several headline takeaways on a Tuesday of big announcements from Brazil, China, and the US — three of the world's top greenhouse gas emitters — with major implications for the UN climate talks in Paris later this year.

However, the prospect for such an agreement in Cancun that covers all the world's major emitters appears remote.

Washington state, like the entire West Coast, is a leader on forward - thinking climate policy with legislative targets for emission reductions, a greenhouse gas inventory of major emitters, and a Clean Air Rule adopted by the Inslee Administration.

So too for the way we should approach our negotiating position with the major emitters in the developing world.

Caps will error because (1) they won't cover some major emitters for decades, (2) they won't cover land - use changes, (3) the best scientific estimate of climate sensitivity is uncertain by hundreds of billions of tonnes, (4) the earth's CO2 uptake by 2 ° target date is highly uncertain.

In his time as a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani, Holmstead was implicated in a 2010 scandal revealing that he and another former Bush EPA official - turned - lobbyist ghostwrote a legislative amendment for Senator Lisa Murkowski (I - AK) that would have undermined the Clean Air Act's provision to control climate - altering greenhouse gases from major emitters.

For most, this means just joining in encouraging the major emitters of the world to ramp down.

Roughly half of the permits issued to major carbon dioxide emitters will initially be given away for free, rather than auctioned

It promised billions of dollars in climate financing for developing nations, but did not require deeper emissions cuts by major emitters.