Sentences with phrase «of emission caps»

That would certainly please our developing country allies, who are getting a little testy on the subject of emission caps.

Prices and trading volumes reflect many factors, including differences in the rigor of emission caps, enforcement standards, project monitoring and auditing.

In shifting to a mandate strategy instead of an emissions cap, Obama is hoping to encourage the growth of low emissions energy technologies without specifically capping emissions.

Observing that Kyoto hasn't come close to its goal of «an internationally harmonized binding system of emissions caps,» Weitzman shows why: the Kyoto framework induces each nation to game the system by attempting to maximize the efforts required of others while minimizing its own.

This limits potential damage to the integrity of the emissions cap from illegitimate offsets.

The competitiveness of conventional coal - fired electricity generation relative to other technologies diminishes as the stringency of an emissions cap increases.

why impose the meaningless expense of an emissions cap upon ourselves?

Since it's ultimately all up to the big national emitters, why impose the meaningless expense of an emissions cap upon ourselves?

Why should Japan impose the meaningless expense of an emissions cap on themselves, they're only ~ 2 % of global emisssions?

Why should Germany impose the meaningless expense of an emissions cap on themselves, they're only ~ 2 % of global emisssions?

Why should Canada impose the meaningless expense of an emissions cap on themselves, they're only ~ 2 % of global emisssions?

Why should California impose the meaningless expense of an emissions cap on themselves, they're only ~ 2 % of global emisssions?

Not exact matches

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality will begin presenting its draft greenhouse gas program next week to the state's pollution board for approval to create the state's first cap - and - trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Virginia's limit, or «cap,» on carbon dioxide emissions would tighten 30 percent between 2020 and 2030, while adding measures to maintain market stability with a reserve of credits that power plant owners can purchase to help them comply.

Cenovus and Suncor have been vocal supporters of the NDP government's climate change policies which include an annual 100 - megatonne cap on total emissions from the oilsands.

Under the guise of a cap - and - trade plan, the NDP, they charge, would put a price on carbon emissions that would ruin the energy sector.

Nova Scotia will require industrial facilities generating 50,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions per year to report emissions under its proposed cap and trade regime.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia will require industrial facilities generating 50,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions per year to report emissions under its proposed cap and trade regime, although key details such as the actual caps and their effect on consumers are yet to be released.

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

However, the government added, such targets should be «ambitious enough to lead to absolute reductions in emissions and thus support the establishment of a fixed cap on emissions.»

Price: Though the policy doesn't impose a hard cap on emissions, it imposes a hard cap on the price of carbon.

That would limit the amount of GHGs per unit of output rather than putting a cap on aggregate emissions.

Provinces where agriculture is a significant part of the economy could opt for a cap - and - trade scheme which would guarantee emission reduction and reward good stewardship.

This will be accomplished through a combination of a «cap and trade» carbon pricing system, mandatory vehicle emission standards, and investing in renewable energy production and consumption.

But as the consortium of Asian energy companies that submitted the Canadian project for regulatory approval three years ago weighs it's options in a global energy market now flooded with cheap oil and gas, and further considers the 190 conditions attached to Ottawa's approval, including a cap on annual green house gas emissions, it may be some time before this project crosses the finish line.

The report claims the emissions cap included in Alberta government's climate change plan will cost Canada's oil sands industry $ 250 billion and is the latest in a concerted effort by conservative opponents of the NDP to undermine its flagship policy.

The Party has also removed the cap on wind power to encourage the development of more non-renewable wind energy; initiated studies on the feasibility of carbon capture and storage as a means of disposing carbon dioxide emissions; and provided grants to promote the bio-energy industry.

Overly optimistic projections of future oil supply, which are much higher than the latest NEB projections and don't consider the Alberta government's cap on oil sands emissions imposed by its Climate Leadership Plan.

A hard cap on oilsands emissions was the product of secret negotiations between four top oilsands companies and four environmental organizations.

He cited the Paris climate accord, in which governments committed to capping heat - trapping emissions, as an example of taking action to fight global warming based on scientific evidence.

His other challenge came out of my major moral claim, that any serious effort to reduce emissions by any significant amount, let alone the 60 - 80 % called for by the European Union and some of our presidential candidates, would destroy economies all over the world and condemn the poor to perpetual poverty - which is why China and India will have nothing to do with emissions caps.

Last September California became the first US state to impose a cap on the emission of carbon dioxide and other gases and has since called for other states to follow suit.

The ad accuses Slaughter of a voting for a slew of tax increases, including the so - called «cap and trade» emissions measure and trots out the frequent Republicant talking point that the 2010 federal health care bill cuts $ 716 billion for Medicare, which is actually spread out over 10 years and targets subsidies to insurance companies.

The targets place the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) at the heart of EU policy on climate change, with support for an EU - wide central cap on eEmissions Trading Scheme (ETS) at the heart of EU policy on climate change, with support for an EU - wide central cap on emissionsemissions.

The UK government was praised for leading the way in pushing for a cap of emissions, but will need to do more to persuade other EU states of the need for firmer action and should campaign for an EU - wide cap on emissions.

«With this proposal, New York will lower the emissions cap even further and set the precedent for recognizing and taking action against climate change to support the future of communities across the globe,» said Governor Cuomo.

In his email, Martens mentions everything from lowering the cap on greenhouse gas emissions and securing funding for long - neglected flood control structures and coastal erosion projects to banning the sale and importation of elephant and rhinoceros ivory and undertaking «one of the largest additions to the forest preserve in the state's history.»

Environmental protections: Cuomo called for Northeast and eastern states that are part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap - and - trade program, to further reduce emissions.

The governor highlighted the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as one of the ways his administration will act, pushing for a more aggressive cap on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

He voted in favor of the stimulus but against a «cap and trade» bill aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The tail of this pulsar has a cap of emission, followed by a narrow double tail that extends almost five light years away from the star.

Yet plans to tackle automobile emissions remain in their infancy outside California, which has implemented an economywide cap - and - trade program and a host of policies aimed at curbing carbon from cars and trucks.

China leans toward cap and trade In a separate effort published yesterday, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report concluded that climate policy researchers who work in China would prefer an emissions trading market that puts the highest burden on energy - intensive regions and cities in eastern China and, as the market moves west, becomes less costly.

The groups support using 5 percent of valuable greenhouse gas emission allowances under the bill's cap - and - trade system to prevent tropical deforestation and reduce international forest emissions.

Lamatogne is pushing to follow New Jersey's lead and pull New Hampshire out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap - and - trade program limiting utility emissions in New England states, New York, Delaware and Maryland.

Instead, with the imposition of a cap - and - trade program, O'Connor said, people looked at the sources of coal and realized they could obtain it from different parts of the country with lower sulfur, cutting emissions at less cost.

It had a near - miss for capping carbon emissions after the House passed the «American Clean Energy and Security Act» by a narrow vote of 219 - 212 in June 2009, only to see it dissolve in the Senate controlled by Democrats a year later.

So companies in the developed world have an annual limit on the level of greenhouse gas emissions they can produce, and if they exceed their cap, they can purchase credits generated by the emission reduction projects or low - carbon technologies in developing countries.

Four out of seven Chinese pilot regions — Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin and Hubei — have issued their versions of cap - and - trade plans for greenhouse gas emissions.

In that regard, I introduced the first Cap and Dividend legislation in the United States Congress, which would have put a price on greenhouse gas emissions and rebated the proceeds to consumers in the form of a Healthy Climate Dividend.