Sentences with phrase «legislated emissions»

One interesting component of the SJC decision is its treatment of RGGI: although the Massachusetts DEP had argued that RGGI was a strategy the Commonwealth is currently employing as a means to meet its legislated emissions reductions, the SJC found that because RGGI does not guarantee emission reductions within the borders of Massachusetts, it can not be counted as a strategy which would directly lead to decreased emissions.

It is therefore significant that today's announcement acknowledged the link between an effective carbon pricing system and the need for legislated emissions reduction targets.

Today, the Energy Forum released an open letter urging Premier Christy Clark to deliver a Climate Leadership Plan that gets B.C. back on track to its legislated emissions target for 2050.

«This analysis highlights the extent of the gap between B.C.'s legislated emission reduction targets and where this initial plan takes us.

Not exact matches

To lead in safeguarding the environment, the climate change bill will make Britain the first country to legislate legally - binding cuts in carbon emissions.

Over the summer President Obama sketched a concept for a cap - and - trade bill that would legislate significant cuts in the United States» carbon emissions, but widespread skepticism — along with a weak economy — forced Senate majority leader Harry Reid to concede last July that such a bill would not pass.

He cited Australia's Parliament, under a conservative coalition elected last year, which last week repealed a two - year - old tax on carbon dioxide emissions — the country's only legislated policy for reducing global warming pollution.

It is a big mistake to legislate now pre-determined technical solutions for restricting CO2 emissions no matter how well - meaning or enlightened the protagonists.

[1] The resulting proposal was a market - based cap and trade approach which intended to legislate power plant emissions caps without specifying the specific methods used to reach those caps.

In its response to a consultation, the government said it will legislate to limit power plants to 450 grams of carbon dioxide for each kilowatt hour of electricity produced — effectively ruling out coal power without technology that captures emissions.

Businesses and congressmen who dislike the idea of legislating to control emissions may now decide that a new law, over which they can have some influence, would be better than regulation through an old one.

LONDON, April 26 — EU carbon prices are set to double by 2021 and could quadruple to $ 55 a tonne by 2030 if the European Commission ultimately legislates to align the bloc's current emissions targets with the Paris climate agreement, finds a new report by Carbon Tracker released today.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions Target Act passed setting a 33 per cent reduction target by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050, carbon neutral government legislated.

The country has a legislated goal of reducing emissions from the current total of some 500 million tonnes annually to about 120 million.

All it did was reduce the chance of an emissions trading scheme being legislated.

The deal prohibits state or local pollution authorities like CARB from directly regulating carbon emissions from refineries, as it legislates the market mechanism of cap - and - trade as the sole means within the state for regulating carbon emissions from stationary sources like refineries out to 2030.

I prefer a carbon tax over legislating cuts in emissions because I believe in the power of markets and human ingenuity to carry out the necessary adaptation with a minimum of cost and disruption.

Illinois and New York have each legislated financial support for nuclear power through zero - emission credits (ZECs) in their renewable portfolio standards.

The Governator takes the lead on climate change solutions] The bill, which would make California the first state in the country to legislate a cap on greenhouse gas emissions, requires the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to:

In 2004 it became the first American state to legislate to cut carbon - dioxide emissions from vehicles.

On August 31st, California became the first state to legislate for cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions — by 25 % by 2020.

Energy and Environment: Repudiate the Paris Climate Agreement Defund the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Overturn or at Least Defund the EPA's Clean Power Plan Repeal the EPA's Purloined Power to Legislate Climate Policy Repeal the EPA's Carbon Dioxide Standards for New Fossil - Fuel Power Plants Oppose Carbon Taxes Prohibit Use of Social Cost of Carbon as a Justification for Regulating Emissions Freeze and Sunset the Renewable Fuel Standard Require all Agencies to Meet Rigorous Scientific Standards Address Unaccountable Environmental Research Programs

When there is an increasing global trend of governments, industry and business working together to price carbon and reduce emissions, the absence of a legislated carbon price in Australia is disappointing.

The legislated budget counts the UK's allocation of EU traded emissions rather than actual output.

In Manitoba, for instance: «In 2008, the government issued a plan with a legislated target: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to six per cent below the 1990 level by 2012,» the auditors write.

EPA is now «legislating» climate policy through the Clean Air Act, issuing regulations to control greenhouse gas emissions from both mobile and stationary sources.

Mandates for limiting fossil - fuel emissions or protecting forests are nevertheless difficult to legislate, partly because the threat is uncertain.