Sentences with phrase «on emissions reporting»

One caution on the emission report numbers: I agree with your estimate of 75 % reliable, but the atmospheric and ocean accumulation of CO2 are only partly driven by the emissions covered in the reports.

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Canada and the U.S. have also committed to work together to improve methane data collection and reporting, and collaborate on ways to reduce methane emissions.

As well as its decision on upstream oil and gas, the World Bank Group said on Tuesday that it would, among other things, report the greenhouse gas emissions arising from investment projects it finances in «key emissions - producing sectors» from 2018.

Even as Piëch maneuvered, there's a sign that VW engineers were considering the use of software that would let the company cheat on its emissions testing, according to a recent article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which attributed the information to a preliminary report from VW's internal investigation.

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

Reports emerged on Thursday that the U.S. Justice Department is poised to file a civil lawsuit against the firm for selling over 100,000 vehicles that emit excess diesel emissions.

They'll also vote on a proposal requiring it to report on its efforts to restrict emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

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.

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.

Generally speaking, the U.S. and international press seemed to think the report, which finds the pipeline would have minimal effects on greenhouse gas emissions, bodes well for TransCanada's long - delayed project to connect the oilsands to Gulf of Mexico refineries.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accused the carmaker of illegally using hidden software to allow excess diesel emissions on Thursday but CEO Sergio Marchionne said the news would not affect the company's financial targets, according to reports in Italy.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia will require industrial facilities generating 50,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions per year to report emissions under its proposed cap and trade regime, although key details such as the actual caps and their effect on consumers are yet to be released.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

But on Wednesday, one day after the phone call, reports began to emerge from the White House that Trump had decided to withdraw from the 2015 agreement, in which nearly all countries pledged to reduce carbon emissions.

Toyota Motor (tm) reported a drop in first - half vehicle sales on Thursday following a series of production stoppages, falling behind Volkswagen (vlkay), which became the world's top - selling carmaker in the first six months of 2016 despite its emissions scandal.

CNBC's Nancy Hulgrave reports the latest details on VW's emission scandal and the potential leadership fallout.

Volkswagen on Friday reported heavy losses for 2015 as the fallout from the emissions scandal which has engulfed the carmaker took its toll.

As the Climate Science Special Report states, the magnitude of future climate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a statement.

Probably the most discussed aspect of the NGP Report (see this excellent discussion on CBC's The 180 beginning at around the seven minute mark) is the JRP's treatment (or lack thereof) of «upstream» greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and specifically the apparent asymmetry between the JRP's decision to consider the need to open markets for projected increases in oil production — the vast majority of which would uncontrovertibly be from the oil sands — but not the GHGs associated with this projected growth.

RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

Today, with great praise from industry, a new report, commissioned by the Alberta Government, on oilsands GHG emissions was released.

«This is a critical moment to develop a viable energy strategy, based on science and evidence, to address our future energy needs and emissions - reduction targets,» Mr. Hughes argues in the report.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

Report Modelling the Impact of the Climate Leadership Plan & Federal Carbon Price on British Columbia's Greenhouse Gas Emissions (December 2016)

The report, hinged on the implications of climate change, came at a time when energy experts were insisting that unless countries drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions by moving away from fossil fuels, climate change would remain inevitable.

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-...]

The report considers alternative investments of $ 5 billion, particularly in green economic development that would also reduce our GHG emissions and our reliance on fossil fuels.

Duke Energy published a climate report on March 22 outlining its plans to change its fuel mix to sharply reduce carbon emissions.

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Smurfit Kappa recently announced in its 2016 Sustainability Development Report that it has already cut CO ₂ emissions by 23 %, well on the way to meeting its 2020 target of 25 %.

A report on the Northern Ireland dairy industry relating to greenhouse gas emissions has been released by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).

Europe is already in the vanguard of climate change action: a European Environment Agency report published last month said within five years emissions on the continent may have been slashed by a quarter on 1990 levels, «meeting and overachieving» its 2020 target of 20 per cent.

The report's authors — scientists from Switzerland, the Netherlands and Norway — suggest a few ways that meat - eating could be curbed to lower the harmful emissions associated with the meat industry, but all rely on individuals choosing to make a change.

We report on carbon emissions per 100,000 orders, and we focus on reducing our carbon intensity through operational efficiency.

Reports over China's reluctance to agree on specific emissions targets or worries over enforcement in developing countries may be vital, but how does it affect «me» in the UK?

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats want the bill to include annual targets for cutting carbon emissions, an annual report to parliament on the progress being made on these targets, and the creation of independent body to assess the science.

WBFO's Chris Caya reports on the state's plan to cover the cost of reducing carbon emissions and help the nuclear industry.

A climate - change report being released on Wednesday by the mainline Democratic conference in the Senate calls for a 100 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by the middle part of this century.

The conclusions, in a report by the UK Energy Research Centre, are based on modelling the likely shape of the energy sector in 2050 when greenhouse emissions will need to have fallen by 80 % on 1990's level.

Publishing an interim report by Professor Julia King, which shows by choosing the most efficient cars on the market today drivers can cut emissions and their fuel bills by up to quarter.

The UK has massively overstated its reduction in carbon emission, say two new reports which casts a harsh light on Britain's environmental policy.

The report accepts minister's efforts to include aviation in the EU emissions trading scheme, where firms would be given a certain allocation of carbon credits to buy and sell on the open market, but warns this is still «years away».

The report called on councils to take on responsibility for cutting household carbon emissions, pointing to lagging, insulating, re-glazing and modernising as opportunities to improve energy efficiency.

The environmental audit committee's report on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) points to underperformance in the scheme so far, concluding the «record in reducing carbon emissions is far less impressivEmissions Trading Scheme (ETS) points to underperformance in the scheme so far, concluding the «record in reducing carbon emissions is far less impressivemissions is far less impressive».

«While we continue to work internationally to seek a global agreement on reducing aviation emissions, each country must take action domestically,» the chancellor said in his pre-Budget report (PBR) statement today.

Over the course of the experiment, emissions of planet - warming methane from the dung of antibiotic - dosed cows were, on average, 80 % higher than those from the manure of untreated cattle, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

China leans toward cap and trade In a separate effort published yesterday, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report concluded that climate policy researchers who work in China would prefer an emissions trading market that puts the highest burden on energy - intensive regions and cities in eastern China and, as the market moves west, becomes less costly.

Tebaldi and co-author Pierre Friedlingstein, of the University of Exeter, analyzed when scientists would be able to detect the difference between a scenario known as RCP 2.6, where greenhouse gas emissions are curbed quickly, versus two other scenarios outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.

The new investment in carbon offsets and RECs should match the league's total greenhouse gas emissions, estimated at 550,000 metric tons, according to a league - commissioned report from the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Green Sports Alliance, a nonprofit that works with sports leagues on environmental sustainability.