Sentences with phrase «industrial emitters»

The GHG emission reductions are pooled and sold to industrial emitters, governments, funds and energy traders.

The EU will strengthen its Emissions Trading System from 2013 by expanding it to include greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide and to incorporate all major industrial emitters.

Airborne lead from cars is a thing of the past in the US — a real triumph for public health — but the Bush Administration tightened the lead standard in its last year in any case, because there are a few industrial emitters that hadn't been dealt with.

16 November 2010 Governors from the US state of California, the Brazilian state of Acre, and the Mexican state of Chiapas have taken concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) by creating a working group designed to help Acre and Chiapas generate REDD credits that can be recognized by California's Air Resources Board (ARB) and sold as offsets to industrial emitters in California once the state's mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions goes into effect at the end of next year.

California will also allow at least 600 industrial emitters across the state to use offsets to satisfy up to eight per cent of their compliance obligation.

This bill contains a cap - and - trade program on greenhouse gas emissions by utilities and large industrial emitters, a carbon fee on transportation fuels, and a modest allocation of funds to energy efficiency.

In addition, the process uses waste CO2 as a feedstock, allowing industrial emitters to produce valuable fuels rather than discard emissions or employ costly measures for capture and sequestration.

State environmental regulators finalized a rule requiring large industrial emitters to gradually reduce carbon emissions over time.

Alberta issues rebate cheques directly to households, alongside output - based subsidies for large industrial emitters, while in Ontario and Quebec, subsidies are available for low - emitting technology.

California has led the effort to introduce cross-border cap and trade on large industrial emitters with several other states and with four provinces in Canada.

The algae uses CO2 from air or industrial emitters with sunlight and saltwater to create fuel while dramatically reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage, with no reliance on food crops as feedstocks.

The major industrial emitters could be required (or induced through taxation for tradable permits) to capture their CO2 emissions or to convert part of their processes to run on power cells and clean electricity.

Ultimately, big industrial emitters will need «tiered systems» of sensors, Germain thinks.

The major industrial emitters at refineries, cement plants, and steel mills could be required (or induced through taxation) to capture their CO2 emissions or to convert part of their processes to run on power cells and clean electricity.

It would apply the «polluter - pay» principle not just to the 700 largest industrial emitters but to all major sources of greenhouse gases.

Environment Minister Iain Rankin said Friday that regulations are being developed that would make participation mandatory for about 20 large industrial emitters including Nova Scotia Power, Northern Pulp, Lafarge, and large oil and gasoline companies such as ExxonMobil, Imperial and Irving.

Reducing the need for paper products means less demand for tree cutting — this prevents deforestation, protects wildlife habitats, reduces pollution and other negative effects of paper industry, the third - largest industrial emitter of greenhouse gasses.

Not exact matches

Cotton fertilizers are major greenhouse gas emitters, and trucking cotton from farms to industrial gins, spinners and weavers generates transportation emissions, compounded by repeated energy - intensive heating and cooling processes.

A high mobility semiconductor is required for the pixel electronics in an OLED display, and making this layer organic (as well as the emitter materials) is the real breakthrough as it fully enables the flexibility and industrial benefits of OLED displays.

The extraordinary growth in power generation in China in recent years, which quickly vaulted the emerging industrial powerhouse to the top of the global list of carbon dioxide emitters, has collapsed under the weight of the global economic implosion — at least for now.

So click over and mess around — see which industrial scale carbon emitter is lurking in your neck of the woods.

The caps would apply to all major emitters of CO2 (defined as those responsible for more than 10,000 metric tonnes of CO2 per annum) and emitters of other industrial greenhouse gases.

The cement sector is the third - largest industrial energy consumer in the world, responsible for 7 % of industrial energy use, and the second industrial CO2 emitter, with about 7 % of global CO2 emissions.

The study presents a quantitative analysis of historic records for major carbon dioxide emitters worldwide, over a period starting in the 1850s — at the dawn of the industrial revolution — through 2010.

The report suggests looking at emissions by the industrial sector — the third - largest emitter — which under current policies are expected to increase by 18 percent by 2025.

Sometimes governments choose to allocate the cap by placing caps on «upstream» carbon users such as coal and petroleum companies and ignoring «downstream» carbon emitters such as coal fired industrial users.

Emissions from coal - fired power plants and other industrial concerns in China have made it the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, putting more climate - changing gases into the atmosphere each year than the US and the European Union combined.

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol requires modest emission cutbacks by industrial countries but not the United States, the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases, because it rejected Kyoto.

In January 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that Texas oil refineries, power plants, and other industrial facilities spewed out 294 million tons of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases in 2010 — more than the next two top emitters, Pennsylvania and Florida, combined.

The transportation sector is the largest emitter in the Ontario, followed by industrials such as cement and chemical manufacturers.

Enables industrial CO2 emitters to profit from applying waste streams for lucrative fuel markets

Indonesia, whose rapid clearing of rainforests accounts for about one - quarter of all carbon emissions from deforestation globally, has said that it will pledge to cut its emissions by 40 % from 2005 levels by 2030, if it receives international support: Currently deforestation is the source of 80 % of Indonesia's carbon emissions, and when these emissions are included in the nation's total (they aren't always, on some charts of highest emitting nations) it is in the top ten emitters — right up there with the US, China, and other industrial nations.

(Large emitters, under the rules, are defined as industrial facilities that emit more than 100,000 tonnes of CO2 or equivalent annually.)