Sentences with phrase «fuel export emission»

It's perhaps also worth noting that that the pace of fossil fuel export emission growth in Australia is accelerating rather than contracting, in spite of a carbon tax and a resources tax.

Not exact matches

Updated below, 12:51 p.m. A comprehensive and sobering Associated Press story by Dina Cappiello provides a valuable update on how United States policies promoting exports of coal are undercutting domestic efforts to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas released when fossil fuels are burned.

The graph above, from the Dutch report, shows clearly how relentless overall emissions growth in countries climbing out of poverty (as electrification, manufacturing and mobility expand fossil fuel demand) was not blunted by the recession and is sending them and the rich world (which is getting ever more efficient and exporting manufacturing) toward some kind of carbon common ground.

Factor in the «carbon light» CO2 from coal seam gas projects in the East (and other LNG expansion in the north and west) and you're talking about Australia's fossil fuel emission exports equating to TWO Saudi Arabias by 2020, not one as I've been saying to many disbelieving ears.

The UNFCCC framework sees every country working to abate its domestic emissions or maybe reducing emissions elsewhere to offset them but not dealing with exports of fossil fuels and how they are used elsewhere.

At the same time the study showcased how wind energy can dramatically cut emissions, save billions in fossil fuel costs and generate new export opportunities.

Any domestic emissions cuts will be far outweighed by planned exponential growth of fossil fuel exports.

Finally, we learned Australia must support its carbon price with other new and existing policies to address domestic emissions, and start phasing out its fossil fuel exports.

Domestic emissions are only one part of Australia's contribution to climate change, which also includes emissions from the burning of fossil fuel exports (which dwarf domestic emissions) and emissions from the manufacture of imported products.

Proposed Australian coal export projects collectively have been identified as the second largest proposed expansion of fossil fuel CO2 emissions after Chinese coal mining.

According to IPCC carbon accounting conventions, the carbon emissions from burning exported fossil fuels are assigned to the country where they are burned.

In «Dirty Deals ``, Friends of the Earth Europe and other environmental groups reveal how U.S. negotiators at the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks work to undermine the EU's Fuel Quality Directive and unleash exports of dirty fuels, including tar sands oil, a highly intensive source of greenhouse gas emissions.

This was followed by a session delving into the market realities of high wind integration in Alberta, including the findings of CanWEA's ground - breaking Pan-Canadian Wind Integration Study, which demonstrated how Canada can get more than one - third of its electricity from wind energy without compromising grid reliability, and at the same time dramatically cut emissions, save billions in fossil fuel costs and generate new export opportunities.

Five future reports are planned on how to eliminate emissions from other sectors (Transport, Buildings, Land Use and Agriculture, Industrial Processes, and Replacing Fossil Fuel Export Revenue).

A 2014 Department of Energy study found that exporting U.S. LNG will reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, because U.S. natural gas consumed in Europe or Asia has lower life - cycle GHG emissions than power generation from locally sourced fossil fuels.

Currently, officials estimate national fossil fuel - related emissions by what is burned (known as production) within a nation, but this approach underestimates the emissions contributions from countries that extract oil and oil for export.

Australia should aim for zero emissions unconditional on international action, start phasing out its fossil fuel exports, and play a constructive role in climate talks.