Sentences with phrase «national emissions»

Given this, national economic interest alone is an ethically bankrupt justification for national positions on long - term vision and national emissions reduction targets.

The idea here is exactly parallel to my discussion of the rationale of national emissions trading.

Such a system of measurements can increase the reliability of national emissions estimates.

This story described great disagreements among nations on how to allocate national emissions targets on the basis of equity.

The bulk of these regulations require national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants.

The ultimate goal is to achieve a 35 % reduction in national emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.

To really understand what each country's climate plan means for national emissions — and to trust that they're on track to meet it — you need clear and complete information.

This big shift from coal to gas has had a huge impact on national emissions of warming gases.

It would reduce national emissions by 80 percent by 2050, measured against 2005 levels.

As with national emissions, this list would look different if all greenhouse gases were included.

However, current national emissions - reduction pledges appear to be insufficient to keep global warming below 2 °C [2].

For example, reducing overall national emissions could make the climate impact of an additional child up to 17 times lower than current projections, the study found.

That was less than 4 per cent of the increase in national emissions during that time, which was overwhelmingly from cities and industry.

A key point to recognize is that negotiating the minimum price would be much simpler compared to negotiating a complete set of individual national emissions caps.

The default national emissions target is a 5 % reduction relative to 2000 levels, at 2020.

Finally, talking about the harm caused by global fossil fuel pollution gets us out of a very limited conversation about national emissions.

Particularly, in relation to the development of culturally inclusive rules around national emissions trading schemes and the potential for international investment.

«The ability to accurately estimate greenhouse gas sources and sinks is a prerequisite for international agreements or national emission reduction programs to be effective,» the academies said in a joint statement.

The work included data from a variety of sources, including national emissions inventories kept by the United Nations, global estimates of energy use and direct measurements of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and involved dozens of authors from institutes around the world.

A directive establishing national emission ceilings (NEC) for four air pollutants was adopted in 2001.

For the first two quarters of 2012 - 13, national emissions from this sector were around 14 million tonnes lower, on an annualised basis, compared with emissions for the same period in the previous year.

All this leads Stephen Tindale, former director of Greenpeace UK, to argue in a recent report that international climate negotiations should be focused less on setting national emissions targets and more on fixing these perverse financial incentives against a low - carbon economy.

As Professor Green mentioned, the singular focus on emissions is pervasive, and in some cases understandable (for instance, comparing national emissions accounts — measured in MTCO2 — is often much easier than harmonizing and comparing trade - adjusted energy consumption — measured variously in Mtoe, GWhs, bbls, EJs, etc etc).

In other cases — for example, national emissions baselines and global mitigation pathways — they are projected from or based upon authoritative, externally - sourced data.

Last Tuesday, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said the agency does not intend to let California set the agenda for national emission limits on vehicles.

A new Climate Change Authority, headed by former reserve bank governor Bernie Fraser, will advise the government on the future emissions caps within the emissions trading scheme, national emissions trajectories, and many other aspects of the scheme including the role of price floor and ceiling after the initial three years.

In the previous chapters, I have raised a number of concerns and opportunities relevant to Indigenous peoples and our communities to engage in emerging carbon and environmental markets and the developing national emissions trading scheme.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the reconsideration process for its Clean Air Act pollution standards National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Major Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters (known as Boiler Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT)-RRB-, in Spring 2012.

The AAA says results of the tests it commissioned also suggest upcoming national emissions - reduction regulations may be based on flawed assumptions.

By transitioning to renewable energy options, companies will be able to help their respective governments achieve national emissions reduction targets in line with the Paris Agreement, and thus help stem global temperature increases.»

I do agree with Pearce that there is huge room for improvement, and he is also right to suggest that it is crazy to use national emissions averages for passenger km by rail to calculate emissions produced by inherently low occupancy trains, like sleepers.

To determine a national average for charging emissions, we average the emissions of the grids where EVs are sold today, based on 2014 registration data — a «sales - weighted» national emissions average.

In accordance with the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines, which are used by Parties to prepare their greenhouse gas inventories, emissions from fuel sold to ships or aircraft engaged in international transport (known as «bunker fuels») should not be included in national emission totals, but reported separately.

It is also a consistent outcome if Australia takes on commitments for net national emissions that represent a commensurate contribution to an ambitious global effort, like the 80 % reduction target at 2050.

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

One of the ethical issues raised by these facts is whether nations which may have much smaller national emissions reductions commitment obligations for the nation derived from an acceptable equity framework should nevertheless be expected to limit activities of individuals causing high levels of ghg emissions.

Even though most individual coal - fire plants meet national emission standards, the overall coal consumption is too big, Yang said, noting that «the appearance of massive smog reveals problems in the national energy structure.»

Across the globe, no major national emissions reduction plan is currently on track to meet the IPCC's 2020 goals, the World Resources Institute (WRI)

There are several different ways of measuring greenhouse gas emissions, for example, see World Bank (2010)[109]: 362 for tables of national emissions data.

After Paris, it's widely believed that the petroleum industry is entering an «ex growth» phase, meaning demand for oil will level off and eventually begin to decline as national emissions regulations tighten and clean energy alternatives become more affordable.

The average methane emissions per pneumatic controller reported in this study are 17 percent higher than the average emissions per pneumatic controller in the 2012 EPA greenhouse gas national emission inventory (released in 2014), but the average from the study is dominated by a small subpopulation of the controllers.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell nearly 10 percent from 2005 to 2012, more than halfway toward the U.S.'s 2020 target pledged at United Nations climate talks, according to the latest national emissions inventory.

Current U.N. rules require countries to submit national emissions inventories.