Sentences with phrase «methane emissions from the sector»

In 2016, the three nations announced the North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership Action Plan, which includes commitments to reduce methane emissions from the sector by 40 — 45 percent by 2025 and collaborate on implementation of the World Bank's Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 Initiative.

To do this, countries and their oil and gas industry partners need to significantly improve measurement and accounting of methane emissions from the sector.

Not exact matches

But the livestock sector is responsible for about 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, through cows producing methane and production processes - comparable to all the direct emissions from cars, planes, ships and other transport.

ClimateWire ranked only the top 40 U.S. oil and gas companies by assets, who together contributed 67 percent of the methane emissions from the production sector.

A climate deal between the United States and China could spur new regulations on vehicle - efficiency standards, refrigerant pollutants and methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, launching a new round of executive action that is sure to raise objections from a Republican - dominated Congress.

McCarthy said the administration will build upon vehicle fuel emissions rules, regulations to reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from refrigeration and air conditioning units, and future proposals to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production, as well as EPA's proposal to cut carbon emissions from the power sector.

Others say that Obama's speech marked an important firewall against legislative efforts to roll back everything from EPA's upcoming climate rules to future regulations to reduce methane emissions in the natural gas sector.

Fugitive methane emissions from distribution mains account for 32 percent of methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas distribution sector.

Building on a history of working together to reduce air emissions, Canada and the U.S., commit to take action to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, the world's largest industrial methane source, in support of achieving our respective international climate change commitments.

In the agricultural sector, most of the approximately 5 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions are from methane and nitrous oxide rather than carbon dioxide.

Rice cultivation is the third largest source of methane emissions in the sector, and the top two rice producing states, Arkansas and California, are responsible for over half of U.S. emissions from rice production.

A new paper (Turner et al., GRL, 2016) suggests a rapid increase (contrary to EPA estimates) and Gina McCarthy recently was quoted as saying «Methane emissions from existing sources in oil and gas sector are substantially higher than we previously understood.»

This shows U.S. emissions of methane from the natural gas sector decreased noticeably during one of the largest increases in natural gas production in the nation's history.

But the findings of the Alberta study clearly suggest that actual methane emissions from the upstream oil and gas sector (excluding mined oil sands) are likely to be at least 25 to 50 per cent greater than estimated.

Building on the U.S. Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, in January 2015, the Administration announced a goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025 and has committed to finalize recently proposed standards for methane emissions from the oil and gas sector iMethane Emissions, in January 2015, the Administration announced a goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025 and has committed to finalize recently proposed standards for methane emissions from the oil and gas sectorEmissions, in January 2015, the Administration announced a goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025 and has committed to finalize recently proposed standards for methane emissions from the oil and gas sector imethane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025 and has committed to finalize recently proposed standards for methane emissions from the oil and gas sectoremissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025 and has committed to finalize recently proposed standards for methane emissions from the oil and gas sector imethane emissions from the oil and gas sectoremissions from the oil and gas sector in 2016.

A major share of greenhouse gas emissions from the food and agriculture sector arises from cows, goats and sheep — ruminants that create the greenhouse gas methane as part of their digestive process.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the Methane Reduction Plan, a suite of 25 actions to reduce methane emissions from the landfill, oil and gas, and agricultural sectors across theMethane Reduction Plan, a suite of 25 actions to reduce methane emissions from the landfill, oil and gas, and agricultural sectors across themethane emissions from the landfill, oil and gas, and agricultural sectors across the state.

Depending on how the methane leakage controversy is resolved, switching from coal combustion to natural gas combustion could help lower ghg emissions from the electricity sector in the short term.

Food waste reduction and organics diversion also represent significant opportunities to reduce emissions from the waste sector, particularly since food waste and other organic materials are the source of methane emissions from landfills.

Canada is committed to reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 - 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025.

Orr asserts that McKibben's assertions that methane emissions are from the oil - and - gas sector are «simplistic» and «inappropriate.»

This can include transformative or innovative actions to reduce black carbon and methane emissions from household energy, transportation, municipal solid waste, the brick sector and other combustion industries, agriculture and the oil and gas industry; or to replace hydrofluorocarbons used in cooling and refrigeration.

One very interesting point to note about Australian livestock methane emissions is the fact that emissions from this sector have not changed since about 1910.

«The gathering and processing sector, a piece of the supply chain that most people don't even know exists, may be the biggest single fraction of emissions coming from natural gas,» said Mark Brownstein, who leads the Environmental Defense Fund's work on methane emissions.

Despite its climate significance, very few countries have taken steps to regulate methane emissions from the oil and gas sector or set specific goals to reduce emissions in the future.

The study found evidence of even greater discrepancies in individual sectors; methane emissions from livestock, for example, were estimated at twice the level estimated by EPA.

There is a claim, promoted especially by some in the farm sector, that because methane is short - lived, and because methane levels plateaued for a short time while ruminant numbers continued to increase, efforts to reduce emissions from enteric fermentation are therefore worthless or near worthless.

Methane emissions occur in all sectors of the natural gas industry, from production, through processing and transmission, to distribution.

But even with ambitious new rules addressing emissions from all of those sources, there's still significant work to do to reduce methane emissions from the natural gas sector.

The Transmission and Storage sector accounts for 16 % of the total methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry.

The Processing sector accounts for 6 % of the total methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry.

The Production sector accounts for 72 % of the total methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry.

The Distribution sector accounts for 6 % of the total methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry.

In a press release, the KIT scientists said that their findings were actually congruent with the NIWA study, stressing that «increasing emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, combined with emissions from wetlands and maybe animal husbandry increasingly appear to have caused the renewed increase in methane concentration in the last decade.»

Cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas sector is one of the least expensive, most effective ways to address climate change.

Her work was primarily focused on Clean Power Plan implementation and regulation of methane emissions from the natural gas sector.

The Administration's actions represent important steps to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector.