Sentences with phrase «not overall carbon emissions»

In the United States, the Bush administration's «Clear Skies» proposal requires a decline in carbon emissions per unit of economic output (known as carbon intensity), but not overall carbon emissions.

Not exact matches

But this transition should not be burdensome; by establishing production metrics for monitoring waste, as well as electricity consumption, gas consumption, waste water intensity and overall carbon emissions, your sites can identify ongoing efficiencies and potential cost savings for your company to support your bottom line.

It does not expressly endorse a «cap and trade» approach as opposed to a carbon tax but does recommend creating an overall «budget» for greenhouse gas emissions over a stretch of decades that can lead to a clear, directly measurable goal.

The graph above, from the Dutch report, shows clearly how relentless overall emissions growth in countries climbing out of poverty (as electrification, manufacturing and mobility expand fossil fuel demand) was not blunted by the recession and is sending them and the rich world (which is getting ever more efficient and exporting manufacturing) toward some kind of carbon common ground.

In a passage that will likely hearten those seeing the climate change fight as a fight over capitalism, leaked version includes the pope's rejection of markets in carbon credits as a solution, warning (this is The Guardian translation) that this «could give rise to a new form of speculation and would not help to reduce the overall emission of polluting gases.»

Russia and Japan are two industrial countries that did not see an overall decline in carbon emissions over the past five years.

Those companies that do buy offsets are doing so as part of an overall carbon management strategy and they mostly use offsets to tackle emissions they can't eliminate internally.

«Now we are beginning to realize that our growing green infrastructure is a valuable tool in reducing the amount of harmful carbon in our atmosphere not only by helping to reduce overall carbon emissions, but also by capturing existing carbon already produced.»

And then they set off the cost of the experiment against the notional overall rewards to the planet in not felling the forests, in terms of delayed carbon emissions — an estimated 3,000 metric tons of CO2 — and found they had backed a winner: the payback for humanity was 2.4 times the actual cash cost of protection.

And then they set off the cost of the experiment against the notional overall rewards to the planet in not felling the forests, in terms of delayed carbon emissions — an estimated 3,000 metric tons of CO

China can not avoid an overall cap on carbon emissions indefinitely, but it is not in a position realistically to accept a cap at Copenhagen.

What matters for climate change is not reducing carbon on a unit by unit basis, but reducing emissions overall.

According to the Kyoto Protocol, which the United States did not ratify, countries were told to reduce their overall emissions, which they can achieve by controlling carbon dioxide, methane or any of the other greenhouse gases.