Sentences with phrase «overall carbon economy»

This process costs the plant virtually nothing in terms of water, and is a small, but significant part of the overall carbon economy.

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And looking at overall metrics of consumption, such as the amount of carbon dioxide an economy pumps out, it is indeed hard to discern a consistent trend.

Based on a unique model that links China's energy system and economy, the study finds that China's coal use, a major source of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, should peak some time around the year 2020, while the country's overall CO2 emissions would peak around 2030, or perhaps sooner.

He is referring to a commitment first made by China ahead of the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks to reduce its economy's overall carbon emissions per unit of GDP to 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

It is not too late for the transition to a lower - carbon economy to be an orderly one, with fossil fuel companies steadily shrinking overall but delivering the best results for their shareholders by focusing on value rather than volume.

India hasn't yet announced its overall economy - wide goal for cutting carbon, but is rumored to be leaving the door open for more significant cuts should wealthier countries agree to fund them.

To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy infrastructures largely using fossil fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have already been doing.

Policy effectiveness also depends on external factors such as: how strongly consumers respond to the carbon price, the pace of technology innovation and cost declines, population growth, and the overall trajectory of the economy.

Using recent data on the carbon - intensity of the economy and the overall tax take, I show that this cap constrains almost any climate policy in at least some countries.

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.

While some versions of the carbon - pricing plan were found to be more efficient overall in terms of their impact on the economy, the study found that those impacts are actually quite modest — even without taking into account potential advantages such as better health due to lowered pollution levels.

Here's the thing: If a state shifts a bunch of transportation and building heat over to electricity, overall consumption of electricity could rise and average electricity - sector efficiency could fall, at least temporarily, even as economy - wide carbon emissions decline.

But a country with low carbon intensity and large economy could still emit more overall than a country with a high carbon intensity and small economy.

These include overall and national carbon budgets, economy - wide targets, common rules - based accounting, compliance and five year commitment periods.

Various organizations have published forecasts of the economic impacts of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), EPA's regulation that limits carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, with studies arriving at markedly different conclusions about the effect of the policy on electricity affordability and the overall economy.

Crucially, the country continues to lead in overall clean energy investment, having invested more than US$ 110 billion in the last year — demonstrating how finance is crucial to accelerate the transition toward a low carbon economy.

Because the proposed carbon tax is on only one sector of the economy, the overall goal of carbon reductions could fail simply because driving up the price of electricity makes the conversion to electric based residential heating and transportation more difficult.

Paradoxically, there will also be many energy - intensive business winners in an economy that is overall, less carbon intensive, more dependent on renewable and local resources, and more efficient in every way.

Hassett and colleagues suggested that such a carbon tax «shift» could improve the overall output of the economy even without considering climate benefits and thus represented a «no regrets» policy for conservatives who aren't convinced of the danger of global warming.

A carbon tax would need to increase faster than overall inflation, if it were to maintain it's effectiveness, a situation which is a positive feedback and which would be a danger both to the economy and to further tax increases.

Since 2000, the state has managed to shrink its overall carbon footprint slightly even as its population grew and economy boomed:

«The projects we fund all fall within the overall mission of the Foundation to support the development of a prosperous low - carbon economy in Europe,» Tom Brooks, managing director of the ECF told the Mail.