Sentences with phrase «from international offset»

«(C) encourage equitable sharing of profits and benefits derived from international offset credits with local communities, indigenous peoples, and forest - dependent communities.

«(C) encourage equitable sharing of profits and benefits derived from international offset credits with local communities, indigenous peoples, and forest - dependent communities.

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The ratings agency Moody's maintained the US's top - notch «Aaa» credit rating Thursday, saying, «The diversity, dynamism, and competitiveness of the US economy, along with the US dollar's status as the preeminent international reserve currency and very large size and depth of the US Treasury market, offset rising fiscal pressures stemming from aging - related entitlement spending, higher debt - service payments, and recent policy actions that will likely reduce future revenues and increase expenditures.»

He served as the Executive Chairman at Couchsurfing International, Inc., a hospitality exchange and social networking company, from August 2014 until August 2015, and Executive Chairman of TerraPass, Inc., a carbon offset company, from September 2009 to June 2014.

The decrease primarily resulted from a $ 175.2 million decrease in share - based compensation expense, primarily related to $ 183.4 million recognized as a result of the Merger, an $ 11.1 million decrease in Merger - related costs and a $ 2.3 million decrease in travel and corporate functions costs, partially offset by a $ 3.5 million increase in executive severance costs, a $ 2.8 million increase in sponsor - related consulting fees for interim executive and international consulting services, a $ 2.6 million increase in legal and accounting fees, a $ 1.9 million increase in sponsor - related management fees and a $ 1.0 million increase in contract negotiation services.

Overall revenue rose just 7 % as spiking demand in international markets, from which it gets a relative small portion of sales, was offset by a 1 % drop domestically.

A zero net transfer occurs when «inflows from new international lending have roughly offset the outflows to service debts incurred in earlier years»; a negative net transfer is when a country «actually pays more in debt service than it receives in new money» (p. 36).

The NHL is the first major U.S. sports league to undertake a complete carbon offset project, Bettman said, though the International Federation of Association Football, or FIFA, which serves as the international governing body for soccer worldwide, announced Wednesday that it offset all 331,000 metric tons of emissions from the this summer's World Cup in Brazil by financing offInternational Federation of Association Football, or FIFA, which serves as the international governing body for soccer worldwide, announced Wednesday that it offset all 331,000 metric tons of emissions from the this summer's World Cup in Brazil by financing offinternational governing body for soccer worldwide, announced Wednesday that it offset all 331,000 metric tons of emissions from the this summer's World Cup in Brazil by financing offset programs.

From 2012 through 2025, 5 percent of allowances would pay for efforts to prevent tropical deforestation and establish an international system of deforestation offsets.

On the indirect land - use side, policymakers should encourage mitigating or offsetting strategies from biofuels producers that help to address external land - use problems while we try to fix the international policy problems.

This, in turn, will help boost China's renewable energy capacity and lift carbon prices in the international offset market, which is being oversupplied by carbon credits from the U.N. - run Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

-- For international offset credits sold pursuant to this subsection, notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, United States Code, or any other provision of law, within 90 days of receipt, the United States shall transfer the proceeds from the auction, as defined in paragraph (1)(D), to the entity that offered the international offset credits for sale.

-- The regulations promulgated under section 721 (h) shall allow any entity holding international offset credits from reduced deforestation issued under section 743 (e) to request that the Administrator include such offset credits in an upcoming strategic reserve auction.

«(B) except as provided in paragraph (5) or (6), the quantity of the international offset credits is determined by comparing the national emissions from deforestation relative to a national deforestation baseline for that country established, in accordance with an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A), pursuant to paragraph (4);

In addition, no international offset credits shall be issued for emission reductions from activities with respect to which emission allowances were allocated under section 781 for distribution under part E.

«(C) the reduction in emissions from deforestation has occurred before the issuance of the international offset credit and, taking into consideration relevant international standards, has been demonstrated using ground - based inventories, remote sensing technology, and other methodologies to ensure that all relevant carbon stocks are accounted;

Countries are considering using CERs from emission reductions up to 2020 to achieve post-2020 mitigation targets, under both the Paris Agreement and the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).

The results indicate that, if CERs are accepted as eligible units of compliance under CORSIA without any restrictions, the demand for offset credits from international aviation to 2035 is unlikely to either materially impact the current price level for CERs or alter the overall level of greenhouse gas abatement undertaken.

«It's a fairly new phenomenon that the international component is offsetting negativity from an underwhelming North American debut,» he said, citing «Transformers: Age of Extinction» as a prime example.

Summarizes GAO's prior work examining (1) the challenges in ensuring the quality of carbon offsets in the voluntary market, (2) the effects of and lessons learned from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an international offset program, and (3) matters that the Congress may wish to consider when developing regulatory programs.

Safety ratings on the 2012 Chevy Colorado are mixed, with a top level «Good» rating from the International Institute of Highway Safety on frontal offset crash testing, but a «Marginal» rating on rear crash protection.

Unlimited is only being launched in the US right now and this results in a limited audience to offset an author's ability to earn revenue from international sales.

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03 May 2012 FRAMINGHAM, Mass., May 3, 2012 — A steep drop in shipments of Android - based tablets offset a strong quarter from Apple and caused the media tablet market to miss projections for the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker.

o a target of cutting CO2 emissions by 25 % (now 35 %) per passenger journey by 2012 o a 10 - point plan to reduce all other environmental impacts o a commitment to neutralise the carbon from all passenger journeys from the date of Eurostar's move to St Pancras International (14 November 2007), by offsetting them through investment in projects that reduce the same amount of CO2

Congress created the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program in 1975 to offset the cost of insuring objects that U.S. institutions borrowed from international lenders for exhibitions.

In addition, REDD + is likely to rely on two sources of funding: through carbon market offsets, where polluters in rich countries purchase carbon credits from local communities and developing nations that maintain their forests, or through bilateral deals, such as the Norwegian government's International Forests and Climate Initiative.

ICAO's Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is designed to complement the basket of mitigation measures the air transport community is already pursuing to reduce CO2 emissions from internatioInternational Aviation (CORSIA) is designed to complement the basket of mitigation measures the air transport community is already pursuing to reduce CO2 emissions from internationalinternational aviation.

Authorizes the EPA Administrator to issue international offset credits that originate from international bodies established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a UNFCCC protocol, or a treaty that succeeds the UNFCCC.

In addition, no international offset credits shall be issued for emission reductions from activities with respect to which emission allowances were allocated under section 781 for distribution under part E.

«For the purposes of decreasing the likelihood of catastrophic climate change, preserving tropical forests, building capacity to generate offset credits, and facilitating international action on global warming, the Administrator shall set aside the percentage specified in section 781 of the quantity of emission allowances established under section 721 (a) for each year, to be used to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries in accordance with part E.

The quantity of international offset credits shall be determined by comparing the project - level or program - level emissions from deforestation to a deforestation baseline for such project or program established pursuant to subparagraph (C).

No funds transferred from a purchaser to a seller of international offset credits under this paragraph shall be held by any officer or employee of the United States or treated for any purpose as public monies.

«(C) the reduction in emissions from deforestation has occurred before the issuance of the international offset credit and, taking into consideration relevant international standards, has been demonstrated using ground - based inventories, remote sensing technology, and other methodologies to ensure that all relevant carbon stocks are accounted;

«(B) except as provided in paragraph (5) or (6), the quantity of the international offset credits is determined by comparing the national emissions from deforestation relative to a national deforestation baseline for that country established, in accordance with an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A), pursuant to paragraph (4);

That decline is even sharper than in the EU which does have economy - wide climate policy, and where CO2 emissions in the first half of 2012 are down 11 % from 2005 levels (though the EU has an international offset program that yields additional emission reductions).

New Zealand, home of the world's second - oldest Emissions Trading System, chose not to participate in the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol, and forestry project transactions nearly ground to a halt due to competition from less expensive international offsets.

Although California's cap and trade regulations do not currently accept carbon offset credits from international forests projects, they provide a placeholder for them.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

«International sector - based offsets will exacerbate environmental justice issues and ARB has failed to address concerns from impacted communities living on the front lines of the climate crisis with some of the top offset users in our backyards.

This is consistent with ICAO's push to cap global emissions of civil aircraft at 2020 levels, as specified in its Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), that requires offsets for every year that an airline operator exceeds emissions from 2019 - 2020 levels.

As global initiatives such as the Paris Agreement and the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) come into effect, carbon neutrality has triggered a new wave of interest in sustainability from leading organizations.

The two - day workshops are directed towards representatives of international airlines affected by the Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) program with which the aviation industry plans to enable climate neutral growth from international airlines affected by the Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) program with which the aviation industry plans to enable climate neutral growth from International Aviation (CORSIA) program with which the aviation industry plans to enable climate neutral growth from 2020 onwards.

The agreement would therefore include common international accounting and reporting standards for countries taking on targets in four key areas: 1) comprehensive reporting and review of national GHG emissions; 2) common standards for quantifying, reporting, and reviewing emission reductions, including from changes in land use, land - use change, and forestry; 3) common standards for national GHG registries and 4) common methodologies for estimating emission reductions from developing country projects or programs funded by developed countries (known as offsets).

However, according to Professor Rosemary Rayfuse, an expert in International Law and the Law of the Sea at the University of New South Wales, Australia, who also attended the Woods Hole meeting, ocean fertilization projects are not currently approved under any carbon credit regulatory scheme and the sale of offsets or credits from ocean fertilization on the unregulated voluntary markets is basically nothing short of fraudulent.

PRESS RELEASE: Bond, the UK membership body for NGOs working in international development has partnered with climate and sustainable development expert ClimateCare to support its Climate + Care cookstove programme, by offsetting CO2 emissions generated by delegate travel to and from its annual conference yesterday.

Advantages to both parties created by the Ven as the means of exchange for the transaction include greater international pricing stability and an implied carbon offset resulting from the basket of carbon futures, commodities and leading currency components which determine ongoing Ven values.

These credits would allow California polluters to meet limits on greenhouse gas emissions by buying carbon offset credits from international initiatives intended to prevent destruction of tropical rainforests.

The use of credits from the UN-backed international offset markets also doubled in 2012 as companies looked to exploit a closing loophole previously described as «perverse» by Sandbag.

That, of course, would expand the opportunities for rich countries and rich - world companies to offset their emissions from dirty coal and inefficient cars by buying credits on international carbon markets.