Sentences with phrase «of national emissions»

Because of the National Emissions Ceilings Directive (NEC Directive), NOx and SO2 emissions reductions in the Netherlands allow the Netherlands to emit more from other sources or to take less other measures to reduce emissions.

In the real world, where UN negotiations have not only failed to agree on an international regime of national emissions targets adding up to a safe global target, but have even agreed to delay such an agreement until it will be too late, radical unilateral action is needed to get a momentum for global action.

Unfortunately, the current bill can not limit the amount of greenhouse gases that farmers can emit, even though agriculture is responsible for 15 % of our national emissions.

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

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

A new era of power market reforms and the introduction of a national Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will erode the margins for coal plants to unattractive levels by 2020.

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

(Washington, DC)-- The following is a statement from The Climate Reality Project President and CEO Kenneth Berlin on Chinese President Xi Jinping's announcement of a national emissions trading program:

MMA 2006, Report to National Emissions Trading Taskforce: Impacts of a National Emissions Trading Scheme on Australia's Electricity Markets, McLennan Magasanik Associates Pty Ltd..

Electricity production is the single largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States, accounting for 34 % of national emissions.

In some of these places, international tourism may account for as much as 80 percent of their national emissions.

In addition, the discrepancy in methane source estimates is particularly pronounced in the south - central United States, where we find total emissions are ∼ 2.7 times greater than in most inventories and account for 24 ± 3 % of national emissions.

To date, emissions from hydroelectric reservoirs have not been taken into account in assessments of national emissions of greenhouse gases.

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

This technical document provides the following information: - An update of global greenhouse gas emission estimates, based on a number of different authoritative scientific sources; - An overview of national emission levels, both current (2010) and projected (2020) consistent with current pledges and other commitments; - An estimate of the level of global emissions consistent with the two degree target in 2020, 2030 and 2050; - An update of the assessment of the «emissions gap» for 2020; - A review of selected examples of the rapid progress being made in different parts of the world to implement policies already leading to substantial emission reductions and how they can be scaled up and replicated in other countries, with the view to bridging the emissions gap.

Not exact matches

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Although the National Association of Manufacturers, or NAM, which represents 11,000 U.S. manufacturers, has forcefully condemned recent moves by the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Keller voluntarily cut his company's emissions 20 percent from 2005 to 2010.

But while that is a crucial national conversation, the heated pipeline debate sometimes means we pay a lot less attention to the kinds of things we should build in Canada if we're serious about reducing carbon emissions.

VANCOUVER — Merran Smith, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, made the following comments in response to the announcement of an advisory group to shape Canada's national zero - emission vehicle strategy:

The move came after Canada's National Energy Board announced a broader review of the Energy East project, including its impact on upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions.

The contribution to national GHG emissions from electricity generation in Canada is about a third of what it is in the US.

TransCanada put its application on hold in September after the National Energy Board said would use a tougher review process that would include looking at indirect emissions related to the pipeline, from production to end use of the oil.

Dave Sawyer, one of the authors of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy report, and blogger at EnviroEconomics.ca, makes some pertinent insider comments on the efficacy of a carbon tax in reducing emissions from personal transportation, a major source of emissions: While the carbon tax will â $ œdriveâ $ some reductions in vehicle kilometers traveled, -LSB-...]

«Greenhouse gas emissions are going to go through the roof with a project of this kind,» said Wilderness Committee National Campaign Director Joe Foy «From escaped methane at the drill sites to the massive carbon emissions required to cool the gas, to more escaped methane on the long trip across the ocean to Asia and then the emissions from burning the gas.

A special emission of bolivars will feature the national heroes Francisco de Miranda and Simón Bolívar, on 200 and 500 - bolivar bills respectively.

A computational study of x-ray emission from high - Z x-ray sources on the National Ignition Facility laser

Systematic national programs of these sorts would lead to a steady and substantial decline in the emission of greenhouse gases and greatly increase our ability to lead the family of nations into international agreements on the environment.

As Li Junfeng, the director - general of China's National Center on Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, observed: «Through this kind of lifestyle change, it is expected that the livestock industry will [be transformed] and carbon emissions will be reduced.»

Commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), the LCA found that corrugated packaging recovery reduced the industry's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 35 percent between 2006 - 2014 by keeping corrugated out of landfills.

The National Energy Guarantee purports to deliver the twin goals of meeting the emissions reduction target Australia signed up to in Paris in 2005 and making energy affordable and reliable again.

But we don't yet have a national emissions reduction target that any credible expert believes is capable of delivering on our Paris commitments for the machinery to deliver.

Managing transport demand on both the interurban and urban networks involves an increasingly important set of tools to meet the major national objectives of improving journey time reliability and reducing carbon emissions.

That's why we have committed more than # 2Bn since 2011 to increase the uptake of ultra low emission vehicles, support greener transport schemes and set out a national plan to tackle pollution in our towns and cities.»

The EU National Emission Ceilings Directive sets ceilings for each Member State for emissions of ammonia, oxides of nitrogen, sulphur dioxide and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

The committee is pushing for the establishment of a national framework of low emissions zones in order to assist local authorities in reducing traffic pollution.

Mukasa's 2001 research concluded that the toxic particles released from commercial truck emissions on the Peace Bridge are the likely reason for the respiratory health problems found in 45 percent of west side households, which is nearly four times the national average.

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The order gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the authority to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan, the set of rules that established goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil - fueled electricity plants through a national trading system.

«If the world does not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, continued heating could increase the vulnerability of plants, wildlife, physical features, and cultural resources in the globally unique US national parks.»

Damon Matthews of Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and his colleagues calculated national contributions to warming by weighting each type of emission according to the atmospheric lifetime of the temperature change it causes.

And the U.S. can take credit for about 21 percent of those emissions, according to the report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«Our hope is that all countries will come forward with their national goals and [collectively cut emissions] 40 percent by 2025,» said A.K. Abdul Momen, permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations.

The National Association of Governors is the latest legislative group to support the American Institute of Architects» goal of zeroing out new and renovated buildings» greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Because according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reducing global carbon emissions should begin at home.

«Where this model really shines is explaining the late emission,» says Chris Fryer of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico — one of the physicists who first proposed the burrowing black hole theory in the 1990s.

The International Energy Agency and a national Dutch body, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, published comparable projections of slowing global emissions earlier this year.

Limestone scrubbers deployed at natural gas power plants could help reduce carbon emissions as well as lower ocean acidification by pumping a byproduct of the scrubbing process back into the water, according to an experiment conducted by the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Controlling greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades could substantially reduce the consequences of carbon releases from thawing permafrost during the next 300 years, according to a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.

In 2008, they drew on data covering 1980 to 2006 to argue that there had been «declining intensities of impact, from energy use and carbon emission to food consumption and fertiliser use, globally and in countries ranging from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774).

The National Hockey League will significantly reduce its carbon footprint — as well as the greenhouse gas emissions of its 30 franchise teams — through improved energy conservation, detailed efficiency analyses and the purchase of renewable energy certificates (RECs) under a newly signed agreement with Constellation Energy Group, the league announced yesterday.