Sentences with phrase «for national emissions»

[4] According to Department of Climate Change timeframes, exposure draft legislation for the national emissions trading scheme, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, will be released in February 2009 with a view to introducing a bill into Parliament in May 2009.

The next entry in the series will look at the ethical issues entailed by the need for national emissions reductions commitments to be based on «equity» and «justice».

To really understand what each country's climate plan means for national emissions — and to trust that they're on track to meet it — you need clear and complete information.

By signing the UN climate treaty, the State once again expressly accepted its responsibility for the national emission level and in this context accepted the obligation to reduce emissions as much as needed to prevent dangerous climate change.

Last Tuesday, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said the agency does not intend to let California set the agenda for national emission limits on vehicles.

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Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

First, Trudeau had to work with the NDP government in Alberta to twin his plan for a national price on carbon with its provincial plan and with its idea to put an emission cap on the oil sands.

There targets will be achieved through government laws imposed on industries, as well as national caps for industrial emissions commonly associated with smog and acid rain.

Commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), the LCA found that corrugated packaging recovery reduced the industry's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 35 percent between 2006 - 2014 by keeping corrugated out of landfills.

But we don't yet have a national emissions reduction target that any credible expert believes is capable of delivering on our Paris commitments for the machinery to deliver.

The EU National Emission Ceilings Directive sets ceilings for each Member State for emissions of ammonia, oxides of nitrogen, sulphur dioxide and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

The committee is pushing for the establishment of a national framework of low emissions zones in order to assist local authorities in reducing traffic pollution.

Mukasa's 2001 research concluded that the toxic particles released from commercial truck emissions on the Peace Bridge are the likely reason for the respiratory health problems found in 45 percent of west side households, which is nearly four times the national average.

President Obama's plan for national standards to curb power plant emissions is based, in part, on a cap and trade type program already existence in New York.

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The order gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the authority to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan, the set of rules that established goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil - fueled electricity plants through a national trading system.

And the U.S. can take credit for about 21 percent of those emissions, according to the report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006.

The bulk of these regulations require national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants.

A national push to curb greenhouse gas emissions and promote clean energy technologies is creating an unusual business challenge for electric utilities

The «pan-Canadian framework» on climate change is not fully fleshed out but does call for a national meeting with provinces within 90 days of the Paris climate conference in December to establish new national emissions targets and «targeted funding» to provinces to meet those targets.

The business case is to sell the CO2 declines generated by such plankton blooms via an international or national market for such emissions reductions.

National representatives discussed such impacts, stressing the urgency for action to slow them in their remarks to attendees during one of four concurrent sessions on curbing greenhouse emissions, adapting to climate change, technological solutions, and how to pay for such changes.

Cooney himself made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.

Instead, the Administration's plans for energy conservation and using energy sources with less CO2 emission will help in the short - term, he said; down the road, a new National Climate Change Technology Initiative will help develop cutting - edge technologies such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration, Bush said.

The findings highlight the urgent need for policy - makers worldwide to re-think the issue as many decision - makers, national and internationally, assume that fossil fuel emissions can be offset through sequestering carbon by planting trees and other land management practices.

And although it may prepare them for any federal program — both presidential candidates support a national cap - and - trade program for greenhouse gas emissions — it may also end up driving electricity production outside the region higher.

For example, President Bush also committed to intensity targets in lieu of proposing any national medium or long - term cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

EVs good on emissions, cost and national security For business and military leaders who met yesterday at the Hudson Institute, the real savings from EVs come at the national level.

McCain has cosponsored a bill, so far rejected by his colleagues, that would set up a national system of tradable emissions permits for greenhouse gases and would require U.S. emissions in 2010 to be no more than in 2000 — not quite Kyoto, which sets the levels 7 percent below 1990 — but a start.

Now, thanks to the much higher sensitivity of XMM - Newton, a group led by Jelle Kaastra of the SRON National Institute for Space Research in Utrecht, the Netherlands, says it has detected the feeble x-ray emission of the WHIM.

«The sensitivity and resolution of the VLA, following its decade - long upgrade, made it possible to identify the specific objects responsible for nearly all of the radio background emission coming from beyond our own Milky Way Galaxy,» said Jim Condon, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).

During that same period, these companies spent $ 45 million on ads for clean coal and $ 125 million in lobbying dollars to defeat a national renewable energy standard and federal legislation to place mandatory limits on CO2 emissions.

Many Warsaw delegates say the 2015 accord looks likely to be a patchwork of national pledges for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, anchored in domestic legislation, after Copenhagen failed to agree a sweeping treaty built on international law.

Last year, for instance, an industry - funded study on the methane emissions from fracking wells was published in the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Butler showed that if every person in the world ate 50 g of red meat and 40 g of white meat per day by 2050, greenhouse gas emissions from meat production would stabilise at 2005 levels — a target cited in national plans for agricultural emissions.

The effort to create a national market for such CO2 emissions received a serious blow when the U.S. Senate abandoned the effort to pass a climate bill this summer.

And that is the most devilish detail of all: So - called «additionality,» the concept that in order to count against some kind of national or international budget for greenhouse gas emissions, the emissions avoided or reduced must be in addition to what would have happened anyway.

Meanwhile consumers remain largely unaware of efficiency's advantages, advocates say, thereby bypassing an easy target for considerable cuts in national carbon emissions.

For the E.U. and Japan, national emissions grew at a much slower rate, due in part to slower economic expansion, fortuitous changes in their energy systems and societal choices to use energy more efficiently.

The numerous rules will address issues such as how countries will track and report their emissions and have them verified, all in a transparent way; how countries will be required to communicate their future emissions - reduction plans as well as their pledges for funding adaptation efforts; and if and how market mechanisms, such as emissions trading between countries, will be applied to national targets.

Baldick estimated that the United States would have to adopt a national climate policy imposing a price of $ 30 per ton of greenhouse gas emissions before wind power can stand on its own economically — a target that appears out of reach politically, at least for now.

A new study to be published by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research finds that a 70 percent cut in emissions should stabilize temperatures at a mark not too much higher than today.

In 2008, Chile launched its first National Climate Change Action Plan, for the period from 2008 to 2014, to gather information on what was happening in the country, identify the baselines for emissions cuts and measure other key variables.

The researchers analyzed climate suitability projections over time for 513 species across 274 national parks, under a high and low greenhouse gas emission scenario.

Launched in mid-2010 after 3 years of technical consultation, the Yasuni ITT project was lauded by foreign governments and environmental groups as an innovative way to fight global warming: Not exploiting the Ishpingo - Tambococha - Tiputini (ITT) oilfields in Yasuni National Park will, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), prevent the emissions of around 410 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — equivalent to the annual emissions of France and accounting for 20 % of Ecuador's known oil reserves.

My attention was piqued on February 8 when 86 leading evangelical Christians — the last cohort I expected to get on the environmental bandwagon — issued the Evangelical Climate Initiative calling for «national legislation requiring sufficient economy - wide reductions» in carbon emissions.

Some cities, especially in the developing world, simply don't have access to the kind of data needed for a comprehensive inventory; Maleki says he often works in places where the only emissions data available are on a national scale.

«The ability to accurately estimate greenhouse gas sources and sinks is a prerequisite for international agreements or national emission reduction programs to be effective,» the academies said in a joint statement.