Sentences with phrase «global emission caps»

Despite various loopholes, the system of global emission caps supplemented by an international system of emissions trading including the opportunities provided by the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation, is a beautiful structure.

Not exact matches

While on the stump, Obama promised to establish a cap and trade program to reign in the carbon emissions responsible for global warming.

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

But as the consortium of Asian energy companies that submitted the Canadian project for regulatory approval three years ago weighs it's options in a global energy market now flooded with cheap oil and gas, and further considers the 190 conditions attached to Ottawa's approval, including a cap on annual green house gas emissions, it may be some time before this project crosses the finish line.

He cited the Paris climate accord, in which governments committed to capping heat - trapping emissions, as an example of taking action to fight global warming based on scientific evidence.

Nine Mid-Atlantic and New England states have agreed to cut power plant greenhouse gas emissions across the region by 65 percent by 2030 through the nation's first cap - and - trade program to reduce carbon contributing to global climate change.

Former Vice President Al Gore today lauded what he called «the best, most hopeful step» in years to contain global warming: 16 state prosecutors joining New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's crusade against energy giants that they assert have fraudulently fought caps on greenhouse gas emissions.

It's an attempt to peel back the smothering blanket of global warming by giving people a financial incentive to reduce emissions under an economic concept known as cap and trade.

But Intercontinental Exchange also runs Europe's main carbon emissions trading platforms, and that's a growth business even with no prospects of a global deal to cap emissions on the horizon, Sprecher said.

Those limits include caps on greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, the global conversion of land cover to cropland, and other mega-impacts on the earth's ecosystems.

If the world ever does reach an accord to cap CO2 emissions, the PurGen model might go global and the carbon might go back underground.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

A truly strict global system, involving the majority of countries and imposing a tight cap on total emissions, would cut emissions more than the European trading scheme.

And strong reductions — bringing global emissions to zero by the 2080s — can cap the growth of humidity extremes by the midcentury.

Moreover, to level the playing field and allow all new innovations to compete, you should support a cap on CO2 emissions to limit global warming or accomplish the same by placing a tax on carbon emissions.

A deal this fall to cap carbon emissions from global aviation at 2020 levels must be enforceable and set long - term goals in line with the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, a coalition of environmental groups said.

The United Nations scientific community is pointing to the overwhelming evidence that global warming, from increased greenhouse gas emissions, is propelling us towards an irreversible runaway melting of the ice caps and northern permafrost while rising temperature cause massive forest fires.

If the UNFCC meeting in Bali this December does not agree on some form of hard cap on global CO2 emissions, then the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is going to go on rising at unprecedented rates, and hence AGTs will go on rising at an equally unprecedented rate.

Focus on a global cap on emissions, going down with time, and local and regional caps as steps to achieve it.

The take - home messages are that global warming legislation needs to cap CO2 emissions from power plants and include strong efficiency standards for building shells and the appliances and heating and cooling equipment inside them.

California enacted a cap on global warming emissions in 2006, and yesterday the Tokyo metropolitan assembly adopted an ordinance requiring

In order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisis.

James E. Hansen, the NASA climate expert who has long been a bellwether for global warming campaigners, has strongly endorsed one of the less - popular options — a variant on the «cap and dividend» system for cutting greenhouse - gas emissions.

Set up a global cap and trade system for greenhouse gas emissions --- all greenhouse gas emissions from all sources.

This week, I will urge the delegates in Bali to adopt a bold mandate for a treaty that establishes a universal global cap on emissions and uses the market in emissions trading to efficiently allocate resources to the most effective opportunities for speedy reductions.

-- A pair of top - notch economists, Robert Stavins of Harvard University and Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, urge policy makers not to discard market - based approaches to global warming and other environmental problems because of the death of efforts to pass a climate bill centered on a cap - and - trade mechanism for cutting emissions.

My point is this: In my view, the Times should find out, and convey to the public (in one place and in organized fashion), the views of each and every Congressperson, and person running for Congress, regarding a moratorium on coal - fired power plants (until their carbon dioxide emissions can be eliminated), a carbon «cap - and - auction» or «cap - and - trade» system, or carbon tax, and related matters having to do with global warming.

Couric: John McCain proposed legislation calling for mandatory caps on global warming gases or CO2 emissions.

They said the biggest countries should pursue ways to drive the most polluting industries toward lower emissions, but a global cap has no prospects of helping drive progress.

European Union policy makers for the past decade have emphasized the need to implement a regulatory regime to put a global cap on emissions and to enable wealthy countries to finance ways of cutting carbon in the developing world.

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The «Report» says that the US economy will grow to «$ 26 trillion by 2030, but, with a cap on the greenhouse gas emissions that cause «global warming», the economy will reach the same level two to seven months later.

That's why, the ministry says, the federal government agreed with the 2011 Energy Package to introduce compensatory arrangements for businesses competing at a global level, including measures to offset increases in the price of power stemming from the EU's carbon emissions trade, and a cap on their renewables allocation charge.

The bottom line is, there is only one scenario with a good chance of averting irreversible climate change: one that caps global cumulative industrial - era carbon emissions at under one trillion tons.

The National Academy of Sciences specifically called for a carbon tax on fossil fuels or a cap - and - trade system for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, calling global warming an urgent threat.

The company which finances verified emissions reductions at $ 3 per ton now might be able to save future expenditures (particularly in the event of a global cap - and - trade system) or turn a 500 % profit in a little over a decade.

On climate change, the bulletin scientists say it is worsening: after flattening out for some years, global greenhouse gas emissions have resumed their rise, and the levels of the polar ice caps are at new lows.

In 2006, after being bombarded with «man - made global warming» hysteria, our state legislators approved the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (i.e., AB32) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sources throughout the state and work via a «cap and trade» sglobal warming» hysteria, our state legislators approved the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (i.e., AB32) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sources throughout the state and work via a «cap and trade» sGlobal Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (i.e., AB32) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sources throughout the state and work via a «cap and trade» system.

The tools exist to cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to meet aggressive global warming caps, but it may take more catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina to forge the political will, a top U.N. expert said.

The announcement by the U.S. and China was important for several reasons: Together they account for around 40 percent of global GHG emissions, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists; there had heretofore been few signs of a Chinese willingness to commit to capping emissions; and it raised hope that future global negotiations might actually yield an agreement to rein in emissions enough to keep the average global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.

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This sets in train a process that could potentially lead to a cap on the number of allowances dealt on the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) aligned with the objective of keeping global warming «well below 2C».

The Independent Online reports that an unprecedented coalition of blue - chip US companies and environmental lobby groups will urge President Bush next week to get serious about global warming, calling for caps on carbon dioxide emissions that would cut greenhouse gases by 10 - 30 per cent over 15 years.

Yet the OPIC emissions cap effectively prevents it from participating in almost all natural gas - fuelled power projects — and thus directly leaves millions of the global poor in the dark.

There is a good case for lifting the cap in its entirety: This policy denies access to basic electricity for the world's most vulnerable while making no meaningful dent in global emissions.

Analyst Mark Lewis of Kepler Cheuvreaux, a Swiss private bank, calculates that to meet emissions targets that could cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius will mean lost fossil - fuel revenues of no less than $ 28 trillion (PDF) in the coming two decades.

«At present, governments» attempts to limit greenhouse - gas emissions through carbon cap - and - trade schemes and to promote renewable and sustainable energy sources are prob ¬ ably too late to arrest the inevitable trend of global warming,» the scientists write in a paper published online in the scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, on Monday, 14 October 2012.

The Lieberman - Warner American Climate InSecurity Act (A-CISA) has, as its core centerpiece, a poorly structured Cap and Trade program, inadequate for achieiving required reductions in US (and Global) GreenHouse Gase (GHG) emissions while giving away $ 500 billion (and likely more) to serial polluters, making the task of reducing America's fossil - fuel addiction that much more costly -LSB-...]

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The EU has long led the way on carbon emissions, implementing a cap and trade system in 2005, having set ambitious emissions reductions targets, having per person emissions that are less than half of those in the USA, Canada, and Australia, and which in general has been the global model on climate policy.