«For Mediclinic, setting a science - based target makes business sense, we already see direct benefits
from emissions reduction efforts through cost savings and energy supply security,» said
Not exact matches
By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate
efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away
from fossil fuel use and
reductions in greenhouse gas
emissions.
But such a charismatic carbon project is all too rare these days, both because the carbon market is dominated by less robust
emission reductions from heavy industry in China and India as well as development
efforts that proceed with little thought of the environmental cost or co-benefits.
Reductions in
emissions from deforestation, in particular in the Amazon, have made a major contribution to global
efforts to control global warming; since 2005 the Amazon has seen its deforestation rate drop 77 % below the historic average.
Look at any list of main points in play in recent years: forest protection and planting, transfers of money and technology
from powerful to vulnerable,
efforts to set, measure and verify
emissions reductions — and you'll see a glaringly missing factor.
All -LCB- developed country Parties -RCB--LCB- all Annex I Parties and all current European Union (EU) member States, EU candidate countries and potential candidate countries that are not included in Annex I to the Convention -RCB--LCB- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries, countries that are not OECD members but whose economic development stages are equivalent to those of the OECD members, and countries that voluntarily wish to be treated as developed countries -RCB--LCB- shall -RCB--LCB- should -RCB- adopt legally binding mitigation commitments or actions including economy - wide quantified
emission limitation and
reduction objectives16 for the period
from -LCB- 1990 -RCB--LCB- 2013 -RCB--LCB- XXXX -RCB- until -LCB- 2017 -RCB--LCB- 2020 -RCB--LCB- XXXX -RCB-, while ensuring comparability of
efforts among them, taking into account differences in their national circumstances.
A new report assesses the credit risks that power plants face
from the global transition to an economy with lower carbon dioxide
emissions and finds that some U.S. coal plants are still exposed to those risks, despite Trump administration
efforts to roll back CO2
reduction rules.
This project is a collaborative
effort between NEWS, which owns and operates the landfill's waste - to - energy generation; Clinton County, which owns the landfill; and NativeEnergy, which has contracted to purchase the verified carbon offsets associated with certain methane
emission reductions from the project.
A cornerstone of this
effort is the Natura Carbon Neutral initiative, a public commitment to offset those
emissions that can not be reduced internally by investing in
emission -
reduction projects
from other institutions whose values and beliefs are aligned with their own.
News
from Bangkok on Thursday was of a continuing rift between rich and poor over how mitigation
efforts (
emissions reduction targets) will be structured, financed, reported, and verified.
This approach seeks
reduction efforts that are fair for all industrialized countries, by equally sharing the marginal abatement costs of greenhouse gas
emission reductions, aiming at a 25 percent
reduction from 1990 for these countries.
The joint assistance project Capacity building for CO2 mitigation
from international aviation aims at providing assistance to a selected group of 14 States in Africa and the Caribbean to support their
efforts in developing and implementing their States» Action Plans on CO2
emissions reduction from international aviation, to establish aviation environmental systems for
emissions monitoring at the State level and to identify, evaluate and implement mitigation measures in selected States.
Quote
from the UK's CCS roadmap: «according to the International Energy Agency, CCS will play a vital role in worldwide
efforts to limit global warming, delivering a fifth of the
emissions reductions needed by 2050.
«Meat production represents 18 percent of global human - induced GHG
emissions... While the world is looking for sharp
reductions in greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, growing global meat production is going to severely compromise future
efforts... a study
from the University of Chicago showed that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by 20 percent it would be as if they switched
from a standard sedan to the ultra-efficient Prius.»
That adds up to greenhouse gas
reductions of about 400 tonnes a year, and is in - line with BC Hydro's ongoing
efforts to help remote B.C. communities — too far away
from the electricity system to be serviced by the 98 % clean energy generated by BC Hydro — reduce their fossil fuel
emissions.
ComEd's SF6
emission reduction efforts are led by a team of representatives
from the Transmission and Substation Operations (T&S) and Environmental Services departments.
Joining the SF6
Emissions Reduction Partnership for Electric Power Systems can save money and provide your organization with recognition from the EPA as a leader in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas e
Emissions Reduction Partnership for Electric Power Systems can save money and provide your organization with recognition
from the EPA as a leader in the
effort to reduce greenhouse gas
emissionsemissions.
This
effort will help students recruit their peers and add their voices to the hundreds of thousands worldwide demanding strong
emissions reductions commitments
from their leaders at the Paris climate negotiations.
To the extent that a nuclear plant's output is replaced by electricity
from natural gas, the resulting
emissions set back national
efforts to achieve needed
emissions reductions.
A coalition launched today at the climate talks in Lima aims to boost
efforts to save billions of dollars and billions of tonnes of CO2
emissions each year by measuring and reporting
reductions of greenhouse gas
emissions resulting
from projects and programmes that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries.
EPA estimates that the annual
emission reduction in 2010
from this
effort for HFCs was 0.1 million metric tonnes CO2 equivalent.
Without major changes, the federal coal leasing program will continue to undermine federal, state, and international
efforts to reduce carbon pollution; the BLM Wyoming office plans to lease over 10 billion tons of coal in the coming years, dwarfing the
emissions reductions expected
from the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.
The shift
from binding and long term
emissions targets to voluntary Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) made inevitable the second historic shift in international climate mitigation
efforts, which is the formal and explicit recognition that we do not, in fact, have all the technology we need to achieve deep
reductions in
emissions.
But the paper points out that national
efforts to cut
emissions,
from greening the energy system to introducing more sustainable public transport and improving building quality, have more scope to affect widespread
emissions reductions.
Fugitive methane
emissions from natural gas systems represent a significant source of global warming pollution in the U.S.
Reductions in methane
emissions are urgently needed as part of the broader
effort to slow the rate of global temperature rise.
Saying «
reduction of particulate
emissions is hurting
efforts to reduce global warming
from CO2» is nonsense (or spin
from the coal lobby) equivalent to saying «turning off my air conditioner is hurting my
efforts to keep my house cool by opening the doors and windows to let in cool breezes.»
The author contends, based on a recent NASA study by Drew Shindell of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, that
reduction of particulate
emissions is hurting
efforts to reduce global warming
from CO2 — an own goal by the Green Team.
Paragrap 17 «Notes with concern that the estimated aggregate greenhouse gas
emission levels in 2025 and 2030 resulting
from the intended nationally determined contributions do not fall within least - cost 2 ̊C scenarios but rather lead to a projected level of 55 gigatonnes in 2030, and also notes that much greater
emission reduction efforts will be required than those associated with the intended nationally determined contributions in order to hold the increase in the global average temperature to below 2 ̊C above pre-industrial levels by reducing
emissions to 40 gigatonnes or to 1.5 ̊C above pre-industrial levels by reducing to a level to be identified in the special report referred to in paragraph 21 below;»