Sentences with phrase «of overall emissions reductions»

Reduced fuel consumption in homes and industry was responsible for an additional 12 % of the overall emissions reductions.

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This can bring overall GHG emissions cuts to a total of 780,000 tonnes compared to conventional drip brewed coffee — a 23 % GHG reduction.

So far, several Canadian provinces and territories have decided how they are going to achieve their share of Canada's overall carbon emissions reduction goal.

Those that reduce emissions below the cap can sell their excess permits to those sources that fail to meet the targets — the trade part of the market — resulting in an overall reduction of pollution at the lowest economic cost, in theory.

-- Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the Secretary shall establish an independent advisory committee, to be known as the «USDA Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee», to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agricultural and forestry practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gases.

Autoblog adds, «The study suggests that the increase in hybrid vehicle sales will be influenced by such factors such as increased pressure from government agencies to reduce fuel consumption and overall vehicle emissions, as well as a drastic reduction in the cost of hybrid technology.»

Contributing an additional weight reduction of 75 kg * and improving the overall driveline efficiency, the front - wheel - drive version enables the Range Rover Evoque coupé to achieve class - leading CO2 emissions of sub 130g / km *.

* Horsepower and torque expected to top previous model (testing is ongoing — check media.gm.com for updates) * NOx emissions reduced at least 63 percent over 2010 models * Quieter operation * High - pressure (30,000 psi / 2, 000 bar) Piezo - actuated fuel system for greater fuel efficiency, improved performance and reduced emissions * Exhaust brake system that enables controlled vehicle slowdown on downhill grades without actuating the brakes * Selective catalytic reduction after - treatment system using diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) injection to provide the best overall diesel characteristics and performance — with a range of about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) between DEF refills * Combustion and after - treatment have been optimized to provide about 700 miles (1,125 km) between diesel particulate filter regenerations — a 75 - percent improvement over the previous system and significant contributor to improved fuel efficiency, as the regeneration process requires additional fuel * B20 biodiesel capability for an alternative fueling option * Internal revisions that improve durability

The White House also announced that, in the context of an overall deal in Copenhagen that includes robust mitigation contributions from China and the other emerging economies, the president is prepared to put on the table a U.S. emissions reduction target in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels in 2020 and ultimately in line with final U.S. energy and climate legislation.

A breakdown of the costs revealed that whereas carbon emission reduction policies contributed 16 % of the overall rise in prices, 84 % was due to VAT (an additional # 20), the price of gas (# 290) and the expenses involved in delivering it to homes.

Computer modeling of the NRDC plan, which used the same model used by the EPA, suggests that if the EPA does follow this approach, the US could see a 26 percent cut in power plant emissions — and an overall reduction in the US carbon footprint of 10 percent by 2020 — the largest share of achieving the 17 percent reduction the president has called for.

«Use of full or partial CCS technology should not be part of the BSER [best system of emissions reduction] for existing EGUs [electricity generating units] because it would be more expensive than the measures determined to be part of the BSER, particularly if applied broadly to the overall source category.»

• Solar generating capacity continues to be rolled out, as costs decline expanding to supply the seasonal maximum of daily average, with pumped hydro to provide daily balancing until superior technologies come on - line, and open - cycle gas turbines shifting to a purely back - up function, with consequent substantial reductions in overall fossil CO2 emissions.

Reports submitted at the end of November 2012 bring the second - year total to an overall 23 percent emission reduction below the base - year emissions.

usa.gov / 1u3Z2Qa) on the value of solar and wind on the western electric grid details the overall reductions in emissions that would result from higher levels of wind and solar electricity.

Subtitle B: USDA Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee -(Sec. 531) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an independent USDA Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agriculture and forestry practices that reduce or avoid GHG emissions or sequester GHGs.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

-- Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the Secretary shall establish an independent advisory committee, to be known as the «USDA Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee», to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agricultural and forestry practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gases.

The Advisory Board shall recommend changes to offset methodologies, protocols, or project types, or to the overall offset program under this part, to ensure that offset credits issued by the Administrator do not compromise the integrity of the annual emission reductions established under section 703, and to avoid or minimize adverse effects to human health or the environment.

In particu - lar where this leads to an overall increase in N us efficiency, the result is a reduction in emissions per kg of product (Olesen et al., 2006).

Overall, the EU will only scrape its target of an eight percent reduction in emissions relative to 1990 levels and will rely heavily on buying carbon credits from developing countries in order to achieve it.

The net effect of increased roughage none - theless yields an overall reduction in emissions.

A critical threat to the potential for future reduction of CO2 emissions from use of fuel economy technologies is that they can be used to increase vehicle power and size rather than to improve the overall fuel economy and reduce carbon emissions.

The least - efficient policies still achieved significant emissions reductions, with an overall impact of just four - tenths of a percent on economic growth.

Because non-carbon generation (the second factor) has a zero - carbon factor for direct emissions, the overall reduction in total carbon intensity was applied to total generation, i.e., multiplying total generation by the 2005 value of 0.608 mt / MWh.

Making CFLs, tubelights and other efficient lighting systems accessible to the poor by massive price reduction and prohibiting the sale of inefficient lights like incandescent bulbs, could cut these emissions by 95 million tonnes - that's a 5 % reduction of overall annual emissions.

This is in the economic logic of achieving overall emissions reductions at the lowest possible cost.

In other words, the U.S. is leading all industrialized nations in CO2 reductions — the greenhouse gas responsible for three - fourths of global warming, according to this report — and is also reducing methane emissions that represent a relatively minuscule contribution to the overall GHG radiative forcing (i.e. global warming) identified in this report.

The White House also announced that, in the context of an overall deal in Copenhagen that includes robust mitigation contributions from China and the other emerging economies, the President is prepared to put on the table a U.S. emissions reduction target in the range of 17 % below 2005 levels in 2020 and ultimately in line with final U.S. energy and climate legislation.

It is an initiative of world citizens who are committed to climate justice through achieving an overall reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and a unified distribution of these emissions among all of humankind.

Ms. Redford needs to propose a carbon price that actually leads to overall emissions reductions so that the oil industry takes on its share of Canadian emissions reductions, just like everyone else does.

Commenting on the release of the emissions figures, Dr Mary Kelly, Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency stated, «the Emissions Trading Scheme is designed to bring about reductions in emissions at least cost, and is seen to play an increasingly important role in assisting European industry implement the type of reductions envisaged in the EU Commission's recent decisions on an overall 20 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductionemissions figures, Dr Mary Kelly, Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency stated, «the Emissions Trading Scheme is designed to bring about reductions in emissions at least cost, and is seen to play an increasingly important role in assisting European industry implement the type of reductions envisaged in the EU Commission's recent decisions on an overall 20 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductionEmissions Trading Scheme is designed to bring about reductions in emissions at least cost, and is seen to play an increasingly important role in assisting European industry implement the type of reductions envisaged in the EU Commission's recent decisions on an overall 20 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductionemissions at least cost, and is seen to play an increasingly important role in assisting European industry implement the type of reductions envisaged in the EU Commission's recent decisions on an overall 20 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductionemissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductions.»

«Overall, it has been a disappointing set of outcomes for forests, in particular because there has been no decision on measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions reductions.

The overall annual emissions reduction from this displacement is estimated to be 48,000 tons of nitrous oxide; 1,500 tons of particulate matter; and 1.0 million tons of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas.

The report also found that a strong economy - wide emissions reduction program along with the full use of energy efficiency measures is the best way to achieve these reductions at low overall costs.

The study says this is vital if the EU is to meet its emission reduction targets, centred on cutting overall emissions of greenhouse gases by 40 % on 1990 levels by 2030.

The last words from the Swiss scientists are these: «The hiatus has not changed our projections of the overall magnitude of climate change or the emission reductions that are required to address it.»

Interestingly, while this pathway has considerably greater overall emissions than the other pathways, it's peak rate of emissions reductions is quite high.

Under the CDM, when a project (such as a wind farm) in a developing nation results in an overall fall in emissions it will receive «carbon credits», called Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) based on the amount of emissions that have been reduced.

CRITICISMS Among the criticisms of the CDM is the risk of non-additionality — that companies will be rewarded for projects that do not in fact lead to an overall reduction in emissions, or that a project will reduce emissions but that other emissions will increase elsewhere (known as leakage).

This renewable source of electricity generation has an important contribution to the overall reduction of CO2 emissions.

For many countries, tackling oil and gas methane emissions, including as a component of their Intended Nationally - Determined Contributions to the UN agreement to be adopted this year in Paris, could make a meaningful contribution to their overall GHG reductions by 2030.

«Almost two - thirds of JI credits were used in the ETS, so the poor overall quality of JI projects may have undermined the EU's emission reduction target by some 400 million tonnes of CO2, about a third of the reductions required by the ETS from 2013 to 2020,» she said.

For example, a facility that met its compliance target of 12 per cent reduction in carbon intensity could still see overall emissions rise 76 per cent by doubling its oil output.

Electricity generation emission reductions are clearly the driver of the overall downward trend in CO2 emissions in the U.S. since 2005, as natural gas» share of the U.S. electricity generation fuel mix has grown from 21 percent to 34 percent during that timespan.