Sentences with phrase «on emissions reduction credits»

«There is a real fear that REDD will lead to dispossession of local communities [as] governments stake their claim on emissions reduction credits,» says Chhatre.

Not exact matches

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.

«On the phone a lot» to save Kyoto The exchange took place nearly three years after U.S. negotiators helped to broker the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement that allowed wealthy countries to trade for emissions credits to cover some of their reduction responsibilities.

If the caller claims they can generate Australian carbon credit units through a carbon offset project, check if the project is listed on the Clean Energy Regulator's Emissions Reduction Fund project register.

April 21: «碳在中国的未来 (The Future of Carbon in China)» by John Romankiewicz, New Energy Finance, providing an overview on the demand projection for offsets from Chinese emissions reduction projects and look at the current outlook for CDM and disucssing the potential of domestic markets for credits (carbon and otherwise) based on China's NAMA action.

On February 14, 2002, President Bush directed the Department of Energy (DOE) to enhance the «accuracy, reliability, and verifiability» of the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program (VRGGP), established pursuant to Section 1605 (b) of the 1992 Energy Policy Act, and «to give transferable credits to companies that can show real emission reductions.»

In December, the Tyndall Centre hosted a conference on «radical emissions reductions» that offered some eye - popping suggestions: Perhaps every adult in wealthy countries could get a personal «carbon budget» tracked through an electronic credit card.

Funding will come from a two per cent levy on revenues generated by the clean development mechanism, the scheme allowing industrialised nations to pay for carbon credits produced by emission - reduction projects in the developing world and credit them against their own emissions targets.

Based on a stricter emissions reduction in the context of a satisfactory international agreement, additional access to credits could be allowed, as well as the use of additional types of project credits or other mechanisms created under the international agreement.

The provisions will seek to ensure that credits from Community projects do not result in double - counting of emission reductions nor impede other policy measures to reduce emissions not covered by the ETS, and that they are based on simple, easily administered rules.

When you offset your carbon emissions these carbon credits are retired on a public registry, and can not be used again — ensuring that your payment directly funds a known and verified carbon reduction.

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«For the purposes of decreasing the likelihood of catastrophic climate change, preserving tropical forests, building capacity to generate offset credits, and facilitating international action on global warming, the Administrator shall set aside the percentage specified in section 781 of the quantity of emission allowances established under section 721 (a) for each year, to be used to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries in accordance with part E.

Unlike the Australian Government's reliance on this severely flawed mechanism, the EU has already recognised the need to set limits on the amount of CDM credits that can be purchased by EU countries in order to meet their emission reduction targets.

In Europe, legislation forces companies / governments to adhere to emissions reductions targets which artificially supports trading and the price of credits on the European Climate Exchange.

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.

Switzerland's pledge of a 50 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions looks high compared to the EU's «at least 40 %», until you realise they plan to use international carbon credits where the EU will make all reductions on home soil.

(Sec. 752) Instructs the EPA Administrator to report to Congress on the trading of mobile source emission reduction credits for use by owners and operators of stationary source emission sources to meet emission offset requirements within a nonattainment area.

The Prime Minister's Task Group recommends a process based closely on the Clean Development Mechanism of the Protocol, which allows firms with carbon reduction obligations to generate credits by investing in emission reductions in poor countries.

Crediting future emissions reductions based on hopes and dreams has been tried before and doesn't work.

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.

Gale Klappa went on WISN 12 News where he discussed how he thought WE Energies should get credit from the EPA for prior emissions reductions.

On behalf of the Bank, First Climate carried out a purchase of the equivalent amount of emission reductions from the project and the credit retirement within the CDM registry.

Whether GHG Reductions Occur Outside Proposed U.S. Caps on GHG Emissions Since issuing offset credits for reductions that occur at capped emission sources would result in double counting, the Reserve focuses on project types affecting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are unlikely to Reductions Occur Outside Proposed U.S. Caps on GHG Emissions Since issuing offset credits for reductions that occur at capped emission sources would result in double counting, the Reserve focuses on project types affecting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are unlikely to bEmissions Since issuing offset credits for reductions that occur at capped emission sources would result in double counting, the Reserve focuses on project types affecting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are unlikely to reductions that occur at capped emission sources would result in double counting, the Reserve focuses on project types affecting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are unlikely to bemissions that are unlikely to be capped.

The regulation also cites ACR's voluntary offset methodology for Emissions Reductions in Rice Management Systems as an approved Early Action Quantification Methodology, providing an important on - ramp for rice producers in California and the Mid-South to get credit for their pioneering initiatives to reduce methane emissions through practice changes in water management, such as reduced flooding and altered drainagEmissions Reductions in Rice Management Systems as an approved Early Action Quantification Methodology, providing an important on - ramp for rice producers in California and the Mid-South to get credit for their pioneering initiatives to reduce methane emissions through practice changes in water management, such as reduced flooding and altered drainagemissions through practice changes in water management, such as reduced flooding and altered drainage timing.