Sentences with phrase «non-co2 emissions abatement»

The objectives of the report were to understand the technology options Australia has at its disposal to meet its emissions abatement commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement as well as provide new economic opportunities for Australian industry.

We partnered with the Department of Environment & Energy to develop a comprehensive analysis of the technology options available to help Australia meet its emissions abatement targets and create new opportunities for Australian industry.

The evidence already indicates that too much warming is already built into the global biosphere in order to expect that emissions abatement would avert a global warming crisis.

On the other hand, climate science education has focused heavily on the fundamental science and relatively little on emissions abatement strategies, adaptation strategies, and economics.

McKinsey analyzed over 250 emissions abatement opportunities, according to the report.

What's more, strategies to enhance carbon sinks are almost identical to related GHG emission abatement strategies.

First, this framing draws unfounded distinctions between GHG emissions abatement and carbon removal approaches, and risks painting carbon removal as an alternative to GHG emission abatement instead of the complement that it is.

In fact, even though they consistently exaggerate the economic costs of emission abatement, all of the economic models show that the economic impact of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol would be disappearingly small.

Advocates of CCS argue that bringing down the costs of the new technologies will enable CCS to exploit its full emission abatement potential and contribute to sustainable, secure and competitive energy.

Prior to joining the Paulson Institute, Kevin was the director of the China Buildings Program with the Energy Foundation for over five years, managing a grant portfolio of building energy efficiency, green buildings, appliance energy efficiency, and non-CO2 emissions abatement.

It is cited frequently as demonstrating that the world should begin immediate, aggressive emissions abatement.

It should not, therefore, be surprising that formal efforts to weigh the near - term costs of emissions abatement against the long - term benefits from avoided global warming show few net benefits, even in theory.

«We had a suitable emissions abatement program, the Clean Energy Futures package.

The majority of CDM projects favour cheap emissions abatement to the detriment of the sustainable development requirement.

This example brings us all the way back to the start of my essay, and the central problem for advocates of aggressive emissions abatement advocates: despite the rhetoric, the projected damages from global warming just don't appear to justify the costs of the proposed remedy.

Total emissions abatement of 150 Mt CO2 — e are contracted for as a result of the three ERF auctions thus far.

Global emissions abatement by technology and region in the 66 % 2 °C Scenario relative to the New Policies Scenario.

See this link: http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2006/04/hansen-has-been-wrong-before.php Notice that while it may look close to Scenario C, that was actually the scenario of «concerted, worldwide emissions abatement».

«The Kyoto Protocol and the Emergence of «Contraction and Convergence» as a Framework for an International Political Solution to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Abatement,» in O. Hohmeyer and K. Rennings, (eds.)

This factsheet covers end - use energy efficiency, in particular for products and buildings, and how this can become the most successful, cost effective, greenhouse gas emission abatement measure used by each and every country.

One way of achieving that is to allow transfer of funds through a Clean Development Mechanism, such as the one available in the European trading scheme, which allows polluters in Europe to pay for emissions abatement in places such as China if that is more cost - effective than reducing pollution themselves.

The economic benefits are well known: By letting markets work, a tax achieves a given amount of emissions abatement at the lowest cost.

In this strategy, Canada examines an emissions abatement pathway that is consistent with reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, relative to 2005 levels.

So allocating revenue generated from such a tax to carbon emissions abatement should make sense.

From climate finance to technology innovation, emissions abatement to energy transitions, our global team specialises in translating international trends to local opportunities.

Not exact matches

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«The Commission is concerned that over-reliance on international offsets — given the practical difficulty of assuring that emissions reductions claimed in other countries are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable — could undermine program goals and political support, especially if substantial U.S. funds are leaving the country to support abatement efforts abroad rather than at home,» it states.

Now, new research by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis sheds light on what happens underground when CO2 is injected into basalt, illustrating precisely how effective the volcanic rock could be as an abatement agent for CO2 emissions.

Although environmental groups believe investing in renewables is a better idea, «carbon abatement» techniques such as CCS could reduce fossil fuel emissions by up to 90 per cent, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The countries are aiming to set up a so - called Methane Abatement Facility with pledges of $ 100 million under the auspices of the World Bank to buy and cancel carbon credits, initially from projects that cut emissions at landfill waste sites.

They scrutinized adaptation plans which incorporate urban planning and development actions that lead to the abatement or reduction of vulnerability to climate change, and mitigation plans that include actions such as improved energy efficiency and renewable energy generation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Prompt the politicians to feel a deep need to read not only the IPCC reports but also related reports regarding our (U.S.) emissions, abatement options, and specific recommendations, e.g., the recent PCAP report and McKinsey report.

We present the first global analysis of the costs of abating the estimated 76 million tonnes of methane emitted worldwide each year in oil and gas operations, which suggest that 40 - 50 % of these emissions can be mitigated at no net cost, because the value of the captured methane could cover the abatement measures.

Carbon dioxide data from Pieter Tans, «Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide — Mauna Loa,» NOAA / ESRL, at www.cmdl.noaa.gov, viewed 16 October 2007, with historical estimate in data from Seth Dunn, «Carbon Emissions Dip,» in Worldwatch Institute, Vital Signs 1999 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999), pp. 60 — 61; fossil fuel emissions calculated from International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2006 (Paris: 2006), p. 493; deforestation emissions from Vattenfall, Global Mapping of Greenhouse Gas Abatement Opportunities up to 2030: Forestry Sector Deep - Dive (Stockholm: June 2007Emissions Dip,» in Worldwatch Institute, Vital Signs 1999 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999), pp. 60 — 61; fossil fuel emissions calculated from International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2006 (Paris: 2006), p. 493; deforestation emissions from Vattenfall, Global Mapping of Greenhouse Gas Abatement Opportunities up to 2030: Forestry Sector Deep - Dive (Stockholm: June 2007emissions calculated from International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2006 (Paris: 2006), p. 493; deforestation emissions from Vattenfall, Global Mapping of Greenhouse Gas Abatement Opportunities up to 2030: Forestry Sector Deep - Dive (Stockholm: June 2007emissions from Vattenfall, Global Mapping of Greenhouse Gas Abatement Opportunities up to 2030: Forestry Sector Deep - Dive (Stockholm: June 2007), p. 27.

Accounting for emissions from indirect land - use change pushes up abatement costs for agricultural biofuels to between # 215 and # 5,540 ($ 330 - 8,500) per tonne of CO2e depending on the feedstock used, says the report.

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The SkyShares model enables users to relate a target limit for temperature change to a global emissions ceiling; to allocate this emissions budget across countries using different policy rules; and then uses estimated marginal abatement costs to calculate the costs faced by each country of decarbonising to meet its emissions budget, with the costs for each country depending in part on whether and how much carbon trading is allowed.

As negotiators lay the groundwork for comprehensive GHG emission accounting and abatement programs, they need to ensure that the frameworks they develop appropriately incentivize CDR projects.

As an economy reduces its emissions it will start with the cheapest abatement measures (energy savings) and then move to the more expensive measures by replacing energy - using equipment and switching from high - emission sources such as coal to low emission sources such as natural gas and nuclear power.

An emissions price path with this property precludes all opportunities for arbitrage because the discounted marginal cost of abatement is constant across time.

Differences in carbon prices can be attributed to differences in reference scenario emissions, and thus the level of abatement required, along with differences in the cost of abatement technologies.

Investors need long run signals to develop new low - cost, lower - emitting technologies, which will be essential to drive abatement in the developing world, where emissions are projected to grow the most.

Sulfur Dioxide, SO2, Acid Rain, Air Pollution Emissions Trading, Pollution Abatement, Clean Air Act, Cap and Trade

In the 1980s, tradable - permit systems were used to accomplish the phasedown of lead in gasoline -(at a savings of about $ 250 million per year), and to facilitate the phaseout of ozone - depleting chloroflourocarbons (CFCs); and in the 1990's, tradable permits were used to implement stricter air pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costs).

To reconcile a century of 3 percent growth with the more ambitious goal of reducing resource consumption and pollutant emissions, the abatement of resource and emissions intensity would have to be even more drastic.

When denominated by such indicators, all responsible projections indicate that we expect to be made worse off by coercive policies to force immediate, aggressive abatement of carbon dioxide emissions.

A considered panel of the world's most eminent pure market economists concluded that of 15 different systems for cutting emissions, the three worst, the three least effective, the three most costly per tonne of abatement were variations of the carbon tax or ETS.

This approach seeks reduction efforts that are fair for all industrialized countries, by equally sharing the marginal abatement costs of greenhouse gas emission reductions, aiming at a 25 percent reduction from 1990 for these countries.

We need new policies, regulatory frameworks, and institutions focused on four areas: creating market - based incentives to innovate and raise carbon productivity; addressing market failures that prevent abatement opportunities from being captured profitably; resolving issues of allocation and fairness, in particular between the developed and developing worlds and between industry sectors; and accelerating progress to avoid missing critical emissions targets.

Chichilnisky, Graciela (1993): The abatement of carbon emissions in industrial and developing countries.