Sentences with phrase «national carbon emissions»

To achieve these targets, the plan calls for controlling emissions from energy - intensive industries like power and steel, building a unified national carbon emissions trading market, implementing emissions reporting and verification for key industries, and establishing a green finance system, among other measures.

Reductions in national carbon emissions could prevent more than 3,000 premature deaths per year by cleaning up the air across the nation, finds a new study published yesterday in Nature Climate Change.

Forests in the United States absorb and store more than 750 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year, or more than 10 percent of national carbon emissions.

What is Barack Obama's Administration doing to cut national carbon emissions and promote renewable energy?

The ambitious bill seeks to shape a new energy policy for the US, and it proposes a number of revolutionary green advances: a surprisingly aggressive plan to reduce national carbon emissions and a strong US renewable energy standard are both in the mix.

We took a step there with a recent national carbon emissions per household map where we show interactively the average footprint for each US zip code.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change states that nuclear power reduces UK national carbon emissions by between 7 % and 14 %, so nuclear power is contributing to the UK's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

EPA has proposed first - time national carbon emissions standards for new coal - fired power plants, effectively barring new facilities unless they can trap and store carbon emissions, a technology that hasn't been commercialized.

Meanwhile consumers remain largely unaware of efficiency's advantages, advocates say, thereby bypassing an easy target for considerable cuts in national carbon emissions.

The formula: Targets based on the ratio of national carbon emissions to GDP.

The White House has used the EPA because politically a national carbon emissions reduction plan wouldn't be able to pass through Congress.

Al Gore...» said he wanted to ensure the US enacts a national carbon emission cap and ratifies a new global pact on climate change in the next three years.

J. Wayne Leonard, the chief executive of New Orleans - based Entergy Corp., has upped the ante on his demand that the federal government and his fellow major industry executives deal with global warming, abandoning support for a national carbon emissions «cap and trade» program in favor of a per - ton fee on carbon emissions.

Analysis shows that strong growth in renewable energy and energy - efficient technologies, together with a national carbon emissions trading program, provide an affordable and achievable pathway for the United States to cut global warming emissions.