At the recent Paris climate summit, the United States pledged to cut its greenhouse
gas emissions from all sectors up to 28 percent below the 2005 levels by 2025.
We believe the best approach is a carbon tax, which would address greenhouse
gas emissions from all sectors of the economy.
• Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (17 % of 2004 global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse
gas emissions from this sector primarily include carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation, land clearing for agriculture, and fires or decay of peat soils.
• Transportation (13 % of 2004 global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse
gas emissions from this sector primarily involve fossil fuels burned for road, rail, air, and marine transportation.
Not exact matches
As well as its decision on upstream oil and
gas, the World Bank Group said on Tuesday that it would, among other things, report the greenhouse
gas emissions arising
from investment projects it finances in «key
emissions - producing
sectors»
from 2018.
But the livestock
sector is responsible for about 14.5 percent of global greenhouse
gas emissions, through cows producing methane and production processes - comparable to all the direct
emissions from cars, planes, ships and other transport.
Build on its record as the first government to achieve an absolute reduction in greenhouse
gas emissions by working with provinces to reduce
emissions from the oil and
gas sectors while ensuring Canadian companies remain competitive.
In fact, absent new measures Environment Canada's 2014
emissions trends report projected that oil sands
emissions would drive increased
emissions from the oil and
gas sector of 45 Mt CO2e (to a total of 204 MtCO2e) between 2005 and 2020, offsetting the
emission reductions made in other
sectors.
One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse
gas emissions coming
from the electricity
sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon
emissions.
John Ivison suggests that Peter Kent had some agreement to move forward with a «30/30» plan to regulate carbon
emissions from the oil and
gas sector.
This graphic depicts the carbon intensity of shipping wine
from various global wine regions to key U.S. cities and bases its data on a seriously flawed, two - year - old working paper that is filled with untested assumptions, has not been peer reviewed, and does not accurately reflect the complexities of greenhouse
gas emissions in the wine
sector.
Greenhouse
gas emissions from the domestic
sector currently make up some 26 % of total
emissions.
By following carbon
emissions in more than 100 countries and 57 industrial
sectors —
from the extraction of the fuels to the energy inputs in creating goods and services to delivery to the final consumer — he and his colleagues uncovered a more complete story of who emits the world's greenhouse
gases, and at which point in the supply chain.
ClimateWire ranked only the top 40 U.S. oil and
gas companies by assets, who together contributed 67 percent of the methane
emissions from the production
sector.
About 30 percent of U.S. greenhouse
gas emissions come
from the electric power
sector.
Carbon capture has never been proved at scale in the power
sector but is considered the chief way to control heat - trapping
emissions from coal,
gas and other fossil fuels.
Conventional processing methods use a high - temperature blast furnace to heat the iron ore and other compounds to remove oxygen and yield a desired alloy, a method that creates a lot of carbon dioxide, according to a report last year
from U.S. EPA on greenhouse
gas emissions from the iron and steel
sector.
Brazil's greenhouse
gas emissions (GHG) fell 4.9 percent in 2012 as declining deforestation rates and a drought - induced drop in cattle herds outweighed increased
emissions from the energy
sector, an independent study showed on Thursday.
Within the
sector, light - duty vehicles like passenger cars and smaller trucks, including SUVs, pickup trucks and minivans, were responsible for more than 50 percent of the greenhouse
gas emissions from transportation.
A climate deal between the United States and China could spur new regulations on vehicle - efficiency standards, refrigerant pollutants and methane
emissions from the oil and
gas sector, launching a new round of executive action that is sure to raise objections
from a Republican - dominated Congress.
McCarthy said the administration will build upon vehicle fuel
emissions rules, regulations to reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
from refrigeration and air conditioning units, and future proposals to cut methane
emissions from oil and
gas production, as well as EPA's proposal to cut carbon
emissions from the power
sector.
The EPA's endangerment finding kicks off a process to regulate greenhouse
gas emissions from the aviation industry, the latest
sector to be regulated under the Clean Air Act after cars, trucks and large stationary sources like power plants.
Others say that Obama's speech marked an important firewall against legislative efforts to roll back everything
from EPA's upcoming climate rules to future regulations to reduce methane
emissions in the natural
gas sector.
For example, Holmstead referenced a section in the draft that estimates that about 1 percent of global greenhouse
gas emissions come
from the U.S. transportation
sector.
A 2014 Chatham House report found greenhouse
gas emissions from the livestock
sector are estimated to account for 14.5 percent of the global total, more than direct
emissions from the transport
sector.
Efforts to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions from the agriculture and forestry
sectors could lead to increased food prices — but new research identifies strategies that could help mitigate climate change while avoiding steep hikes in food prices.
Substantial reductions in greenhouse
gas emissions from the electricity
sector are achievable over the next two to three decades through a portfolio approach involving the widespread deployment of energy efficiency technologies; renewable energy; coal, natural
gas, and biomass with carbon capture and storage; and nuclear technologies.
Areas of expertise: Carbon pollution
from the power
sector, oil and
gas emission standards, and the Clean Air Act
Dr. Craft's expertise is on air toxics issues, focusing specifically on reducing criteria and greenhouse
gas emissions from the energy and transportation
sectors.
Either way, power
sector emissions fell due to switching
from coal to
gas, while
emissions from transport and heating increased slightly).
The most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for greenhouse
gas emissions from the oil and natural
gas sector, released last week, show that as the number of such facilities have increased in the U.S. between 2011 and 2014, total greenhouse
gas emissions from oil and
gas operations have risen by about 6.2 percent.
However, most states use few of the available transportation policy tools to reduce greenhouse
gas (GHG)
emissions from the transportation
sector,... Read more →
Japan's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a 26 % reduction in greenhouse
gas emissions by 2030
from 2013 levels.1 To achieve this, the Japanese government has set carbon targets for all
sectors backed up by a national carbon tax and Tokyo
emissions trading scheme.
The infrared camera, though, is doing more than just cutting
emission and reducing costs; it's changing the attitudes of the public and policy makers about the need to reduce
emissions from the oil and
gas sector.
Fugitive methane
emissions from distribution mains account for 32 percent of methane
emissions from the U.S. natural
gas distribution
sector.
Building on a history of working together to reduce air
emissions, Canada and the U.S., commit to take action to reduce methane
emissions from the oil and
gas sector, the world's largest industrial methane source, in support of achieving our respective international climate change commitments.
They pledged to cut such
emissions 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025
from the oil and
gas sector.
We recognize that actions to reduce
emissions, including
from deforestation and forest degradation, and to increase removals by sinks in the land use, land use change, and forestry
sector, including cooperation on tackling forest fires, can make a contribution to stabilizing greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere.
The industrial
sector was the biggest producer of CO2
emissions from natural
gas at 28 % for the January - March 2012 period, but those
emissions were up only 2 million metric tons
from a year earlier.
Abundant, affordable, natural
gas — which last year became the No. 1 fuel source for power generation — is the chief reason U.S. carbon
emissions from the power
sector have fallen to 25 - year lows:
On August 3rd, the Obama Administration released the Clean Power Plan (CPP) in an effort to regulate greenhouse
gas emissions from the electric power
sector in the US.
Their analysis focused on four well - researched, cost - effective
emission reduction measures: energy efficiency, wind and solar generation in the electric
sector, and conversion
from gas - powered to electric light - duty vehicles in the transportation
sector.
While America's energy renaissance has helped our economy, strengthened America's energy security and led the way in reducing carbon
emissions from the power - generating
sector, a regulatory avalanche aimed at the oil and natural
gas industry could threaten many of these gains.
The electric power
sector accounted for about 27 % of the CO2
emissions from natural
gas, while 26 % came
from the residential
sector.
Power
sector CO2
emissions declined by 363 million metric tons between 2005 and 2013, due to a decline in coal's generation share and growing use of natural
gas and renewables, but the CO2
emissions are projected to change only modestly
from 2013 through 2040 in the 3 baseline cases used in this report.
The greenhouse
gas inventory it filed with the UN suggests fugitive
emissions from the oil and
gas sector made up a third of its total footprint in 2014.
A shift away
from burning coal to cleaner natural
gas and renewable sources has seen power
sector emissions trend downwards since 2007.
The Pembina Institute's analysis indicates that the oil and
gas sector needs to make a 42 per cent reduction
from its projected 2020
emission level for Canada to achieve its 2020 climate goals.
Massachusetts needs an extra 3.4 million metric tons of greenhouse
gas emission reductions by 2020 that can not and will not come
from electric
sector renewable and efficiency programs as they are currently written.
The chart below breaks down
sector emissions from electricity, natural
gas, and petroleum use.