Sentences with phrase «on carbon in»

The ACR Corporate Excellence award was presented to Microsoft for the company's leadership in setting an internal price on carbon in order to achieve 100 percent carbon neutrality while driving company - wide efficiency and innovation.

According to that report, 150 companies worldwide impose a price on carbon in their internal operations and investment decisions and 212 companies are directly engaging with policymakers in support of carbon pricing legislation.

A Pigovian tax on carbon in fuels is going to be the most efficient possible way to reduce CO2 production.

The aim of the campaign, in Al Gore's words, was to put «a price on carbon in the economy, and a price on denial in politics.»»

But in response to a recent e360 article by the co-founders of the Breakthrough Institute, an economist argues we must also cap emissions or put a price on carbon in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

For the purposes of this effort to develop a system that could put a price on carbon in the New York State wholesale electric market I agree that the IWG SCC estimate minus the RGGI cost is the appropriate parameter to use.

I would love to tell you that it will not place a disproportionately high price on carbon in Canada relative to climate leaders such as the EU.

This year, he will be leading a historic conversation with industry leaders on carbon in the fourth industrial revolution, which will build on his commentary published in the scientific journal Nature: Carbon is not the enemy during COP22 in Marrakech, November 2016.

If they don't enact a stiff tax on carbon in 2021; and if they don't start using the full legal authority of the Clean Air Act to regulate all sources of carbon emissions — implementing what is in effect a carbon fuel rationing scheme — then they can be rightly accused of being totally dishonest and hypocritical in claiming to be concerned about the impacts of climate change.

Prices on carbon in these states would add to pre-existing ones in California and British Columbia — in effect pricing carbon emissions between Alaska and the Mexican border.

Shell internally sets a hypothetical price of $ 40 a ton on carbon in making its business decisions, Voser said.

To achieve this, The Nature Conservancy is investing $ 3 million to help chart a viable path forward: helping unite a coalition behind a winning statewide climate policy — via the Legislature or a ballot initiative — that puts a price on carbon in order to reduce carbon emissions, support clean energy, help industries in transition, and generate revenue which can be used to reduce the fire risk, flooding and drought.

In fact, we have included a proxy price on carbon in our business planning since 2007 to enable an analysis of its effect on investment opportunities.

The campaign to put a price on carbon in DC is winnable, concrete and would allow us to make a substantive contribution toward moving our society away from fossil fuels.

I - 732, on the ballot on November 8, would be the first revenue - neutral price on carbon in the United States.

Ted Shuur (http://www.biology.ufl.edu/ecosystemdynamics/Schuur.html) is one of the leading researchers on carbon in permafrost.

The Blue Carbon Initiative currently focuses on carbon in coastal ecosystems - mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrasses.

«We have to put a price on carbon in the marketplace and we have to put a price on denial in the political system,» Gore argued.

If we place controls on carbon in the future, we will have to score each fuel based on specific variables and assumptions that might make or break entire industries.

The company also began including a price on carbon in its internal business planning in 2007, which has ranged from $ 60 to $ 80 per ton, according to Yale Environment 360.

Because of that, they haven't allowed an accurate assessment of the effects of climate change on carbon in the region.

And if the American government had decided to pursue cap - and - trade, a price on carbon in Canada might have already been established by now.

A national price on carbon in exchange for the twinning of the Kinder Morgan pipeline.

Not exact matches

The price of crude is on the rise, but in Canada, new carbon taxes, regulations and pipeline hurdles may take the industry permanently out of contention

Trump went on: «In fact,» he said, «14 days of carbon emissions from China alone would wipe out the gains from America — and this is an incredible statistic — would totally wipe out the gains from America's expected reductions in the year 2030.&raquIn fact,» he said, «14 days of carbon emissions from China alone would wipe out the gains from America — and this is an incredible statistic — would totally wipe out the gains from America's expected reductions in the year 2030.&raquin the year 2030.»

Just the sheer scale of it is also challenging, because you've got ta lay out the carbon fiber in exactly the right way on a huge mold, and you've got ta cure that mold at temperature, and then it's... just really hard to make large carbon - fiber structures that can do all of those things and carry incredible loads.

While on the stump, Obama promised to establish a cap and trade program to reign in the carbon emissions responsible for global warming.

For several hours each day, unbeknownst to those employees, the researchers raised and lowered the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, and then tested everyone on nine different kinds of cognitive ability, like responding to a crisis, strategic thinking and applying their knowledge to a practical task.

With the scope and reach of a political platform, the company publicly declared goals for itself on practically every major social issue it touches, from local sourcing and carbon emissions to ethical recruiting and the treatment of workers in its suppliers» factories.

A joint statement from the National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society in Britain said «human - induced increases in CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentrations have been the dominant influence on the long - term global surface temperature increase.»

Baccini went on to say that forests were the only carbon capture and storage «technology» we had in our grasp that was «safe, proven, inexpensive, immediately available at scale, and capable of providing beneficial ripple effects.»

Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

Utley's firm just received FDA clearance for an over-the-counter carbon monoxide breathalyzer — a device that smokers using the company's new Pivot cessation program would use to see the effect that smoking has on the carbon monoxide level in their blood streams.

In addition, countries will have to track their efforts in cutting carbon emissions and report on their progress every five yearIn addition, countries will have to track their efforts in cutting carbon emissions and report on their progress every five yearin cutting carbon emissions and report on their progress every five years.

Nuclear explosions produce radioactive substances that are rare in nature — like carbon - 14, a radioactive form of the carbon atom that forms the chemical basis of all life on earth.

«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz told Fortune in an interview on Wednesday that getting China to commit to far - reaching carbon - emission cuts was crucial to the administration's strategy.

On Friday afternoon, he posted a striking photo on Instagram of a 2008 red Tesla Roadster sitting in the carbon - fiber fairing of a Falcon Heavy rocket — just as he had promiseOn Friday afternoon, he posted a striking photo on Instagram of a 2008 red Tesla Roadster sitting in the carbon - fiber fairing of a Falcon Heavy rocket — just as he had promiseon Instagram of a 2008 red Tesla Roadster sitting in the carbon - fiber fairing of a Falcon Heavy rocket — just as he had promised.

As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).

In fact, the irony is that there is a broad consensus in favor of a carbon tax everywhere but on Capitol Hill, where the «T» word is anathema.&raquIn fact, the irony is that there is a broad consensus in favor of a carbon tax everywhere but on Capitol Hill, where the «T» word is anathema.&raquin favor of a carbon tax everywhere but on Capitol Hill, where the «T» word is anathema.»

«Breathing the air in this parking garage can expose you to chemicals including carbon monoxide and gasoline or diesel engine exhaust,» California says on its parking lot warning.

In 2010, for example, he worked with Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on a climate change bill that would have reined in carbon emissions by businesseIn 2010, for example, he worked with Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on a climate change bill that would have reined in carbon emissions by businessein carbon emissions by businesses.

In Weyburn, Jane and Cameron Kerr went public on Jan. 11, insisting that carbon dioxide was bubbling up in a pond on their land, causing algae blooms, explosions and animal deathIn Weyburn, Jane and Cameron Kerr went public on Jan. 11, insisting that carbon dioxide was bubbling up in a pond on their land, causing algae blooms, explosions and animal deathin a pond on their land, causing algae blooms, explosions and animal deaths.

But in a letter to Kerry and other State Department officials, Kristin Delkus, TransCanada's general counsel, pointed to new policies on carbon emissions in Canada, specifically a federal rule issued in May to cut emissions down to 70 percent of their 2005 levels within 15 years.

Environmental groups are employing the same strategy, in a less direct way, on the oilpatch, by raising public opposition to pipelines and low - carbon fuel standards for refineries in California and Europe.

It is certainly possible that Musk could see a «deal» to be made here: Trump supports a carbon tax in exchange for Musk dumping his views on global warming.

The agreement aims to hold global warming to «well below» two degrees Celsius from the levels of the Industrial Revolution, and puts in place a system for tracking efforts to cut carbon emissions and report on progress every five years.

But Trump isn't going to support a carbon tax — and if he did, he'd have a revolt in a Republican - controlled Congress on his hands.

A group of scientists from Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany recently found that they were able to identify what kind of films a group of subjects viewed — whether it was funny, sad or suspenseful — based on the different combinations of chemicals, or peaks of one in particular, such as carbon dioxide, that were found in the air in the theater.

With the exception of implicit prices on carbon on some emissions in Sweden, Japan, and Germany (see this recent OECD report for details), no carbon pricing policy in place today comes close to that type of stringency.