Sentences with phrase «offset increased emissions»

Governments worked with the airline industry to design a market - based mechanism enabling airlines to offset increased emissions with reductions in other sectors.

Faster plant growth due to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide may offset increased emissions from forest die - off in the tropics, asserts a new study based on climate modeling.

Last week, in an effort to offset the increasing emissions likely to follow the demise of the nuclear levy, Gummer announced that he would pump # 25 million a year into the Energy Saving Trust.

This could be because wealthier people tend to take more vacations, while better technology, such as what's found in countries with cleaner energy infrastructures, only weakly offset increasing emissions.

Not exact matches

Increases in emissions from air and sea transport will more than offset the savings from passenger cars unless new technologies can somehow make the same kind of impact on them as Elon Musk et al. have had on the car industry.

In fact, absent new measures Environment Canada's 2014 emissions trends report projected that oil sands emissions would drive increased emissions from the oil and gas sector of 45 Mt CO2e (to a total of 204 MtCO2e) between 2005 and 2020, offsetting the emission reductions made in other sectors.

With increased attention to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and offsets, the goal of the project partners is to provide a free, easy - to - use, wine industry specific, greenhouse gas (GHG) protocol and calculator that will measure the carbon footprints of winery and vineyard operations of all sizes.

Assuming that greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, the widespread adoption of cool roofs in the Los Angeles metropolitan area would offset some of the warming expected by midcentury, the team reported in 2016 in Environmental Research Letters.

With dedicated programs for increasing recycling, conserving energy and water, sourcing greener beans, using sustainable building techniques and materials in new stores, and offsetting carbon emissions, Starbucks has worked hard to set a green example.

Improvements in efficiency, driven by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, could for many years offset increases in demand from a growing population with higher living standards, forestalling the need for reactors.

-- In this subsection, the term «sectoral basis» means the issuance of international offset credits only for the quantity of sector - wide reductions or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions, or sector - wide increases in sequestration of greenhouse gases, achieved across the relevant sector of the economy relative to a domestically enforceable baseline level of absolute emissions established in an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A) for the sector.

(1) ensure that offset credits represent verifiable and additional greenhouse gas emission reductions or avoidance, or increases in sequestration; and

-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, may issue, in accordance with this section, international offset credits based on activities that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or increase sequestration of greenhouse gases, in a developing country.

«(2) ensure that such offset credits represent verifiable and additional greenhouse gas emission reductions or avoidance, or increases in sequestration;

«(i) increase the percentage of emissions that can be offset through the use of international offset credits to reflect the amount that 1.0 billion exceeds the number of domestic offset credits the Administrator determines is available, at prices generally equal to or less than emission allowance prices, for that year, up to a maximum of 0.5 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions; and

Major objectives include national - level accounting of carbon stocks and emissions from blue carbon ecosystems, increased management effectiveness of blue carbon ecosystems within protected areas, and the development of blue carbon offsets for tourism activities.

They also suggest that the documented 30 % increase in global primary productivity over the 20th century has likely enhanced uptake of atmospheric mercury, thereby practically offsetting increasing mercury emissions.

The fundamental flaw in the article is in inducing the reader to believe that it would require tripling the gross vegetative uptake of the entire planet to offset the net carbon atmospheric increase, while using figures for the net vegetative uptake and the gross emissions.

Such is the case for the explanation — popular with the press when it was first proposed — that an increase in aerosol emissions, particularly from China, was acting to help offset the warming influence of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

However, there was a significant reduction on Ontario ozone levels, which was offset by increased emissions from natural gas power plants that substituted for some of the electricity from the shuttered coal - fired power plants.

To address this need, a policy instrument similar to a Renewable Portfolio Standard could work wonders — if countries / states mandated that an increasing fraction of their emissions be offset through direct air capture, it would create a bankable demand driver that would stimulate further investments in technology research and development.

That's why, the ministry says, the federal government agreed with the 2011 Energy Package to introduce compensatory arrangements for businesses competing at a global level, including measures to offset increases in the price of power stemming from the EU's carbon emissions trade, and a cap on their renewables allocation charge.

We look forward to working with ICROA to expand carbon market activity in the U.S. and internationally through innovative, large - scale emissions reduction offset projects as well as increased developing country market access and participation.»

Hence, the emission reduction achieved by the policy would be partially offset by a net increase in foreign emissions, a phenomenon known as carbon leakage.

The displacement of domestically produced emission - intensive goods by products produced in other countries would cause some of the reduction in U.S. emissions to be offset by increases in foreign emissions.

The study linked to in your point # 5 points out that there is increased CO2 when modulating coal fired plants to account for gaps in wind generation, and that offsets any CO2 emissions saved with wind power.

Just because China is producing more does not apparently mean there is more in the atmosphere — it may be reductions in other areas like the US and Europe are offsetting Chinese emissions or that nature has mechanisms for absorbing and eliminating the increased emissions.

This suggests that while the UK has made progress in reducing its own carbon dioxide emissions, these reductions have been offset by increased emissions in other countries through the consumption of imported goods and services.

As the trading price of carbon offsets increases, presumably emissions will go down, but then so will the purchase of offsets.

The economic benefit of better air quality, from improved human health and increased yields from agriculture and forestry, can offset costs associated with emissions reductions.

Even if it increases for population (i.e. population grows more slowly in future), any matching decrease in doubling time for per - capita energy consumption will offset that increase and CO2 emissions will therefore continue to follow the curve.

The expected introduction of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use, but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.That's because a plug - in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug - ins to run up -LSB-...]

This means that total CO2 emissions are likely to be similar as in 2015, with the increase in fossil fuel emissions being offset by the decrease in land - use emissions.

Title V: Agricultural and Forestry Related Offsets - Subtitle A: Offset Credit Program From Domestic Agricultural and Forestry Sources -(Sec. 502) Requires the Secretary to establish a program governing the generation of offset credits from domestic agricultural and forestry sources to ensure that: (1) offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increased sequestration; and (2) offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that result in a permanent net reduction in atmosphericOffset Credit Program From Domestic Agricultural and Forestry Sources -(Sec. 502) Requires the Secretary to establish a program governing the generation of offset credits from domestic agricultural and forestry sources to ensure that: (1) offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increased sequestration; and (2) offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that result in a permanent net reduction in atmosphericoffset credits from domestic agricultural and forestry sources to ensure that: (1) offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increased sequestration; and (2) offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that result in a permanent net reduction in atmosphericoffset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increased sequestration; and (2) offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that result in a permanent net reduction in atmosphericoffset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that result in a permanent net reduction in atmosphericoffset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that result in a permanent net reduction in atmospheric GHGs.

Authorizes the EPA Administrator to issue international offset credits based on activities that reduce or avoid GHG emissions, or increase sequestration of GHGs, in a developing country if: (1) the United States is a party to a bilateral or multilateral agreement that includes the nation hosting the offset project; and (2) the host nation is a developing country.

Requires the EPA Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing a program for the issuance of offset credits that: (1) ensure that such offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increases in sequestration; (2) ensure that offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that are permanent; and (3) include as reductions in GHGs reductions achieved through the destruction of methane and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) or other ozone depleting substances.

The huge fall in CO2 from coal use in 2016 was partially offset by increased emissions from oil (up 1.6 %) and gas (up 12.5 %).

(1) ensure that offset credits represent verifiable and additional greenhouse gas emission reductions or avoidance, or increases in sequestration; and

For this reason, ACR has prioritized pathways for the development of innovative and transformative offset project types that can achieve major emissions reductions, strengthen the resiliency of natural systems, increase food security and benefit people.

For example, this poll is a bit old (from 2009), but it shows that ``... 58 % support a tax on carbon emissions to create incentives to reduce emissions and increase efficiency, and that provides tax refunds to individuals and households to offset the overall impact of the carbon tax....»

-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, may issue, in accordance with this section, international offset credits based on activities that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or increase sequestration of greenhouse gases, in a developing country.

(5) explains the cause of the slowdown in global warming after around 2000 — cooling from increased Eastern SO2 emissions offset the warming caused by Western Clean Air efforts, resulting in a net slowdown in the rate of decreasing global SO2 emissions.

-- In this subsection, the term «sectoral basis» means the issuance of international offset credits only for the quantity of sector - wide reductions or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions, or sector - wide increases in sequestration of greenhouse gases, achieved across the relevant sector of the economy relative to a domestically enforceable baseline level of absolute emissions established in an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A) for the sector.

If legislation requiring an emission performance standard for new coal plants is enacted, then Congress should simultaneously take steps to offset the additional costs of installing CCS systems and provide relief from electricity price increases.

«(i) increase the percentage of emissions that can be offset through the use of international offset credits to reflect the amount that 1.0 billion exceeds the number of domestic offset credits the Administrator determines is available, at prices generally equal to or less than emission allowance prices, for that year, up to a maximum of 0.5 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions; and

Increasing soil carbon builds a reservoir and helps to offset greenhouse gas emissions.

Alberta is providing two - for - one carbon offset credits for the project that they argue could have a perverse market impact of increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

These massive failings led Carbon Trade Watch and 120 other groups to note that «The use of offset projects has resulted in an increase of emissions worldwide... and has brought severe social and environmental consequences to communities where the offset projects are implemented, together with communities living next to the industrial facilities that buy the credits» and to call on Europe to scrap the European Emissions Tradinemissions worldwide... and has brought severe social and environmental consequences to communities where the offset projects are implemented, together with communities living next to the industrial facilities that buy the credits» and to call on Europe to scrap the European Emissions TradinEmissions Trading System.

Drops in emissions in developed economies were offset by strong growth in many developing countries and an increasing reliance on coal.

The expected introduction of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use, but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.That's because a plug - in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug - ins to run up to 40 miles without kicking on their gasoline engines.