Sentences with phrase «in real emission reductions»

The availability of verified emissions data has allowed the Commission to ensure that the cap on national allocations under the second phase is set at a level that results in real emission reductions.

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Public expectations for the pace of emissions reduction may disappoint some, but there are few who foresee a future where Canada is not making real progress in this area, at least over the coming 20 years.»

Isn't the real problem the government's fear of intervening in the economy directly despite the crying need to crowd in emissions - reduction and climate - change - adaptation spending?

Today, I am pleased to announce another important building block in our Climate Change plan — designed to help us achieve our targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to generate real emission reduction opportunities across the economy.

«The Commission is concerned that over-reliance on international offsets — given the practical difficulty of assuring that emissions reductions claimed in other countries are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable — could undermine program goals and political support, especially if substantial U.S. funds are leaving the country to support abatement efforts abroad rather than at home,» it states.

There are a lot of reasons to believe that there is a real reduction in man - made sources of carbon monoxide, such as vehicle emissions and tropical forest burning, that should persist.»

Targeting a reduction in air pollution in towns and cities, the project will develop a tool that will remotely measure real - time vehicle emissions in order to identify high - emitting vehicles.

«It has been observed for some time that real world driving conditions do not deliver the emission reductions shown in the laboratory.

My primary objection to nuclear power is precisely that, completely apart from its very real dangers and toxic pollution, it is not a short - term solution if «short - term solution» is defined as one that can make a significant contribution to reducing GHG emissions in the time frame within which such reductions are needed.

If the belief that rising CO2 emissions are going to cause catastrophic changes to the climate force policy changes that result in real, measurable reductions in emissions and pollution, is that a bad thing?

4) I support substitution strategies, including rapid deployment of RE and electrification of transportation, because there is the real potential for rapid emissions reductions in the near term.

The European Environmental Markets (EEM) launched on February 11 as a new exchange platform for spot transactions of European Union Allowances (EUAs) and Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs), meaning that participants can conduct transactions in real time.

On the plus side, emissions levels have come close to 1990 levels, and we have seen real reductions in emissions per capita and per dollar of state GDP.

To be effective, the successor to the Clean Development Mechanism must guarantee real, measurable and long - term benefits both in terms of emission reductions and...

One is real progress in rich countries» emission reduction targets.

«It will be a win - win if we can demonstrate through our pilot projects that the carbon market can provide alternate revenue streams to help local farmers and landowners adopt practices that will improve water quality in addition to achieving real greenhouse gas emission reduction benefits.»

The real GHE is the reduction of surface emissivity, also possibly coupled convection as atmospheric GHG thermal - emission Poynting Vectors annihilate the UP PVs in that wavelength interval.

I hope I am wrong but I fear that commitments to vast reductions in emissions decades hence are no more real than commitments to end aggressions or war.

Carbon dioxide emissions have been eliminated by direct intervention on the production cycle and through compensatory real emission reductions in the form of carbon offsets.

carbon offset methodology is the first of its kind and provides real opportunities for achieving a meaningful level of emissions reductions in the agriculture sector.

Newly approved by the American Carbon Registry (ACR) and co-authored by project partners DU, TCT, The Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense Fund and Terra Global Capital, the Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands (ACoGS) carbon offset methodology is the first of its kind and provides real opportunities for achieving a meaningful level of emissions reductions in the agriculture sector.

They called for justice and real solutions to the climate crisis, including steep and immediate reductions in carbon emissions, stopping fossil fuels and deforestation, building renewable community - owned energy solutions, and transforming our food systems, all in the context of respect for human rights.

Barcelona - The potential of REDD to deliver real reductions in emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and to protect the rights of indigenous peoples in their forest homes hangs in the balance as language protecting forests remains missing from negotiating text for a climate change agreement.

They are also concerned with how much extra effort you have to put in to try and control peak - emissions and the CO2 level when real reductions begin.

The Government would therefore like to enshrine the commitments in the Energy White Paper 2003 to reduce CO2 emissions by 60 % on 1990 levels by 2050; and to achieve «real progress» by 2020 (which would equate to reductions of 26 - 32 %) towards the long - term goal within a new legal carbon management framework (outlined in Section 5).

«Carbon offsets involve fundamental tradeoffs and may not be a reliable long - term approach to climate change mitigation,» the report said, adding: «It is not possible to ensure that every credit represents a real, measurable and long - term reduction in emissions.»

President Obama finally came out with a plan to use the power of the administration to address climate disruption and to start making the real reductions in carbon emissions that we need to stave off the very worst impacts of climate change.

In July, printer manufacturer Kyocera released a survey showing 47 percent of the United Kingdom's large companies view carbon trading as a confusing scheme that lacks any real value in pursuing carbon emission reductionIn July, printer manufacturer Kyocera released a survey showing 47 percent of the United Kingdom's large companies view carbon trading as a confusing scheme that lacks any real value in pursuing carbon emission reductionin pursuing carbon emission reductions.

We hope that the upcoming United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen will follow this example and focus as much on bottom - up technological strategies for achieving real reductions in emissions as it will on top - down targets for carbon caps.

For example, Adequacy and feasibility of the 1.5 C long - term global limit (Schaeffer et al. 2013) notes: «Constrained by real emissions until 2010 and energy - economic reduction potential until the 2020s, the 1.5 °C scenarios necessarily require net - negative CO2 emissions in the second half of the 21st Century.

The price increase would be far higher, in the real world, to achieve a given reduction in emissions.

Experience with the voluntary carbon market shows REDD projects can lead to real reductions, if only a portion of avoided emissions is tradable, it factors in the total deforestation in a jurisdiction and creates a buffer for uncertainty.

Cities and counties are taking real steps to tackle climate change — from expanding their use of renewable energy to adopting aggressive emissions reductions targets and investing in sustainable infrastructure.

Cap and trade may seem like the big offer on the emission reductions table at the moment — one mention of alternatives like a straight carbon tax send many people (the average American in particular) into apoplectic fits — but Annie «The Story of Stuff» Leonard wants you to take a closer look.There are so many troubling details in how cap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other options.

For many of the groups working for the equal involvement of women in climate change issues, the deliberations on climate change are too narrowly focused on the politics of emissions reductions, rather than the long - term social and community initiatives that could underpin a real shift in a global consciousness or more effective practices of post-disaster rebuilding.In a statement to the U.N. General Assembly in July of this year, executive director of the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), June Zeitlin, points out: «Women have always been leaders in community revitalization and natural resource management.

Even in rich countries, small reductions in emissions offer no sign of the real break with the status quo we'd need to upend the iron logic of these three numbers.

What I mean by this question is that climate change poses a real challenge to social change movements because it is gradual, delayed in its effects, and uneven in its impacts.The message that is coming from climate scientists at present, along with climate - hawkish public figures, is that we still have time to change — that international conferences, evolving public policies, steady but small annual emissions reductions, could still prove sufficient to keep us within the «safe zone».

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With the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference behind us, it seems like every front page is still devoting most of its real estate to environmental concerns: battles in the U.S. Senate over the Waxman - Markey bill; CO2 reduction targets for various countries; emissions restrictions on the automotive industry.