Sentences with phrase «increased emissions elsewhere»

However, imposing a carbon tax or other policy to reduce emissions in one country can lead to increased emissions elsewhere — a phenomenon known as carbon leakage.

Not exact matches

«If there are no further interventions by these governments, expect to see strong increases in urban car travel and urban energy and carbon dioxide emissions in China and India and elsewhere around the world,» said Lew Fulton, a co-author and co-director of the NextSTEPS Program at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis.

Would not the increase in temperatures elsewhere on Earth, perhaps coupled with higher rainfall, lead to an increase in temperate and tropical emissions?

Furthermore, as I have repeatedly explained to you elsewhere, the annual increase of the anthropogenic emissions is about 0.1 GtC / year.

The fuel prohibited from use in California will simply be used elsewhere, which will result in increasing overall GHG emissions as a result of less stringent environmental standards in places those fuels would ultimately be consumed and of increased GHG emissions from increased transportation distances.

Elsewhere, I cited as an example an abrupt warming from massive release of permafrost methane precipitated by the gradually accumulating temperature increase from further CO2 emissions.

The projects which are associated with reductions in emissions could be swamped by increases in emissions elsewhere.

The global carbon accounting system that the Paris Agreement operates under counts emissions where they occur, so fossil fuel exporters like Australia can increase production with impunity, knowing the combustion emissions count elsewhere, and are not subject to their national commitments.

The amount of CO2 going elsewhere is increasing faster than the emissions increase.

The rapid growth of carbon footprints in wealthy countries led to concerns about carbon leakage — where climate mitigation policies in one country lead to increases in CO2 emissions elsewhere — and industrial competitiveness, because international mitigation targets were slated to apply to developed countries and not the Global South.

It appears from your posts here and elsewhere, that you are a firm supporter of the IPCC premise that a) AGW, caused principally by human CO2 emissions, has been the cause of most of the observed increase in global temperatures since the mid-20th century and b) thus represents a serious potential threat to humanity and our environment.

But the hefty increase in emissions from fast - developing parts of the world like China and India had the effect of canceling out the sharp decline in emissions elsewhere.

Funny how it can be that human emissions are scrubbed clean after 5 years but the increase just happens to come from elsewhere.

CRITICISMS Among the criticisms of the CDM is the risk of non-additionality — that companies will be rewarded for projects that do not in fact lead to an overall reduction in emissions, or that a project will reduce emissions but that other emissions will increase elsewhere (known as leakage).

The extra emissions reduction in the Netherlands reduce demand for greenhouse gas allowances on the European market, thus lowering the price and allowing for an increase of emissions elsewhere in the EU.