Sentences with phrase «overall carbon emissions by»

«The carbon fee program has helped Microsoft reduce our overall carbon emissions by more than 9.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

By Otto's logic, that means countries should already have cut their overall carbon emissions by 10 percent in that time, an ambition that outstrips the Clean Power Plan's goal of six percent in 15 years.

In Brussels, the European Union's Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has announced the opening of the first tranche of # 3.4 billion worth of green energy funding, to be made available with the aim of helping the bloc as a whole make use of the technology to help realise the goal of cutting overall carbon emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 when compared to 1990 levels.

Not exact matches

Although its strong economic growth means overall emissions are still increasing, China has reached its 2020 «carbon intensity» targets ahead of time by implementing serious environmental policies and technological innovation.

A TD - Pembina - Suzuki study released seven weeks ago projected that cutting Canadaâ $ ™ s carbon emissions by 20 % below 2006 levels, or even 25 % below 1990 levels, would only modestly reduce overall Canadian GDP.

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.

But this transition should not be burdensome; by establishing production metrics for monitoring waste, as well as electricity consumption, gas consumption, waste water intensity and overall carbon emissions, your sites can identify ongoing efficiencies and potential cost savings for your company to support your bottom line.

Overall, the new measures would lower global anthropogenic emissions of methane by 50 % and of black carbon aerosols, also known as soot, by 80 %.

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.

While overall emissions of greenhouse gases from CDP's «Global 500» have shrunk from 4.2 billion to 3.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent since 2009, the index's 50 largest - emitting firms have actually seen greenhouse gas emissions rise by 1.65 percent over the same period, the organization has found.

They have found that both overall costs and carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced by more than half by exploiting an integrated cloud computing solution while retaining the benefits of integrated business processes and services at the cross-organisational level that would normallybe available only to a company with its own hardware and software in place.

While the 2030 target is explicit that carbon dioxide absorbed by forests will count towards its overall emissions reductions, it is unclear whether they are permitted in its 2020 target.

Burning gasoline will never get cleaner, but the overall carbon emissions of electric cars can be reduced by eliminating fossil fuels from the grid.

The graph above, from the Dutch report, shows clearly how relentless overall emissions growth in countries climbing out of poverty (as electrification, manufacturing and mobility expand fossil fuel demand) was not blunted by the recession and is sending them and the rich world (which is getting ever more efficient and exporting manufacturing) toward some kind of carbon common ground.

Computer modeling of the NRDC plan, which used the same model used by the EPA, suggests that if the EPA does follow this approach, the US could see a 26 percent cut in power plant emissions — and an overall reduction in the US carbon footprint of 10 percent by 2020 — the largest share of achieving the 17 percent reduction the president has called for.

While the 2030 target is explicit that carbon dioxide absorbed by forests will count towards its overall emissions reductions, it is unclear whether they are permitted in its 2020 target.

For example, nine states in the Northeast, as part of a regional cap - and - trade program that sets overall limits on carbon and then allows states to trade permits to pollute, have committed to cut emissions by 45 percent during the next year and by another 2.5 percent a year after that until 2020.

By 2025 they should have accelerated these efforts in order to reach globally aggregated zero carbon dioxide emissions by mid-century, and zero greenhouse gas emissions overall roughly in the 2060By 2025 they should have accelerated these efforts in order to reach globally aggregated zero carbon dioxide emissions by mid-century, and zero greenhouse gas emissions overall roughly in the 2060by mid-century, and zero greenhouse gas emissions overall roughly in the 2060s.

With global carbon emissions expected to rise by 31 % between 2011 and 2030, the Energy Institute's analysis found that EPA regulations would reduce this overall emissions level by just 1.8 percentage points.

In the case of the US, president Barack Obama has vowed that by 2025, its overall carbon emissions will be at least 26 per cent lower than in 2005.

«Now we are beginning to realize that our growing green infrastructure is a valuable tool in reducing the amount of harmful carbon in our atmosphere not only by helping to reduce overall carbon emissions, but also by capturing existing carbon already produced.»

Overall, the carbon dioxide emissions generated by exported goods and services from developing countries rose by 46 percent between 2004 and 2011, and emissions generated by South - South trade grew more quickly than emissions generated by exports to developed countries.

In other words, while low - or zero - carbon sources would make up a greater portion of India's energy supply, overall carbon emissions would nearly double: from around 2.1 billion tons in 2014 to more than four billion tons by 2040, according to the International Energy Agency.

«Overall we believe that halving global CO2 emissions by 2050 is possible, before moving towards a net - zero, and then carbon - negative, world by the end of the century.

Because non-carbon generation (the second factor) has a zero - carbon factor for direct emissions, the overall reduction in total carbon intensity was applied to total generation, i.e., multiplying total generation by the 2005 value of 0.608 mt / MWh.

By targeting petroleum - derived gasoline and diesel and promoting low - carbon alternative energy forms such as electricity, hydrogen, natural gas and next generation biofuels, LCFS programs are intended to reduce overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on a «well - to - wheels» basis.»

Truly only one negative feedback in the planet's overall carbon cycle can act with sufficient speed and strength to avert catastrophic climate impacts: The dominant carbon - based life form on this planet will have to respond to the already painfully clear impacts of our carbon emissions by slashing those emissions sharply and eventually running the planet on carbon - negative power.

Canadians should measure proposal like Redford's «40:40» — referring to a 40 per cent cut in the carbon - emission limit and a $ 40 - per - ton tax on production above that limit — by whether overall emissions will actually stop growing.

Voluntary carbon markets provide a way for companies to reduce their overall emissions by, say, saving endangered forests, or planting trees, or financing the construction of wind farms.

Additionally, we show that the adoption of RPS reduced overall US carbon emissions by 4 percent by 2010.

The report found that the U.K.'s overall carbon emissions dropped by 6 % in 2016, thanks to «cleaner electricity production.»

By contrast, under a «mass - based system,» states would have to meet an overall target for greenhouse - gas emissions and ensure that power plants either make those reductions at their facilities or finance efforts to achieve them in other ways, such as by reducing consumer demand or investing in carbon - free electricity generatioBy contrast, under a «mass - based system,» states would have to meet an overall target for greenhouse - gas emissions and ensure that power plants either make those reductions at their facilities or finance efforts to achieve them in other ways, such as by reducing consumer demand or investing in carbon - free electricity generatioby reducing consumer demand or investing in carbon - free electricity generation.

If the United States phased out the twenty - three nuclear power plants with the same design as Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex by 2030, carbon dioxide emissions in the United States would increase overall by at least 1 percent.

A landmark report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies in 2013 described the system of UK taxes of recent years as «complex and incoherent and less effective than it could be at reducing carbon emissions at the lowest overall cost».

The new mileage standard mandated by Congress is aimed at reducing gasoline consumption, which will reduce vehicles» overall «carbon footprint,» but California's rules would target total greenhouse gas emissions, including those that stem from auto air conditioning units.

Overall, although natural gas is a non-renewable fossil fuel that emits carbon dioxide, the cumulative emissions saved by fuel switching over the next decade from coal to natural gas are likely to prove far cheaper than the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in future decades.

The city's overall goal is to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions coming from homes by 94,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2012.

WWF summarizes Canada's poor performance by saying that the nation has very high emissions per capita compared to other industrial nations, despite the aforementioned large use of hydropower; its per capita emissions are still increasing; its expanding development of the carbon - intensive tar sands and has no significant policy to reduce overall emissions.

What matters for climate change is not reducing carbon on a unit by unit basis, but reducing emissions overall.

The plant would generate 36.8 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, increasiny emissions from South Africa's energy sector by nearly 13 percent and the country's overall emissions by 9.7 %.

Science News fills us in: Capturing Carbon Does Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Though a coal power plant equipped to sequester carbon requires about 30 % more coal to provide the power to compress the captured CO2 and pump it underground, the overall carbon emissions still are reduced by 71 - 78 % compared with an average coal plant for every usable unit of electricity Emissions Though a coal power plant equipped to sequester carbon requires about 30 % more coal to provide the power to compress the captured CO2 and pump it underground, the overall carbon emissions still are reduced by 71 - 78 % compared with an average coal plant for every usable unit of electricity emissions still are reduced by 71 - 78 % compared with an average coal plant for every usable unit of electricity produced.

Many «carbon offset» companies such as TerraPass or DriveNeutral do this by buying emissions rights on behalf of their customers, then retiring those rights - therefore the overall cap gets lowered by an amount equivalent to the emissions of a driver's yearly car use.

Patterns of urban consumption, and the carbon footprint created by such lifestyles, are undermining China's attempts to cut back on overall greenhouse gas emissions.

According to the Kyoto Protocol, which the United States did not ratify, countries were told to reduce their overall emissions, which they can achieve by controlling carbon dioxide, methane or any of the other greenhouse gases.

For example, a facility that met its compliance target of 12 per cent reduction in carbon intensity could still see overall emissions rise 76 per cent by doubling its oil output.

The European Commission has come up with something similar in its new 2050 Roadmap, which aims to get to virtually carbon free electricity, and an overall cut in emissions of 80 - 95 %, by 2050.

Unless Germany brought an additional 40 billion kWh of generation from its older, more carbon - intensive coal - fired power plants offline, this planned uptick in fossil fuel generation would cause the country's overall carbon emissions to rise by as much as 14 % of the country's 2008 total carbon emissions (33 million tons of CO2), illustrated in Figure 1 below.