Sentences with phrase «overall carbon emissions in»

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«The framework announced today will allow the ongoing innovation technology, investment and growth in the oil and gas industry at the same time we are looking to reduce overall carbon emissions,» said Murray Edward of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd..

Overall, CDP said 89 % of companies in a wider survey of more than 1,000 companies had some form of carbon emissions targets, up from 85 % in 2016.

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.

Despite the rise in carbon dioxide emissions, the main «basket» of greenhouse gases are down overall, with the «big six» 15 per cent below the base year.

It is worth noting that while the DEC reports an overall decrease in emissions and health consequences, there are still pockets of New York where residents are suffering the effects of carbon emissions and other toxins.

But Suh's analysis finds that the service sector, which accounts for more than 60 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, pumps out 37.6 percent of overall greenhouse gas emissions in the country, or nearly 1.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

While burning algae - derived fuel in an engine or factory generates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions just like fossil fuels do, the algae itself requires CO2 to photosynthesize — so overall no new CO2 is added to the atmosphere.

Though the overall impact of tourism on climate change is difficult to assess, the United Nation's World Tourism Organization says our vacations contribute about 5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, which reached 8.47 billion metric tons in 2007.

The sector's carbon footprint is second only to the power sector, contributing around 27 percent of overall emissions in the United States in 2013, according to U.S. EPA.

The European Commission, meanwhile, says that despite the dash for coal in Germany, the carbon trading scheme remains successful overall, with a fall in CO2 emissions in 2009 of 11 per cent across the EU compared with 2008.

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.

Overall, respondents were equally interested in reducing their carbon emissions and saving money, the researchers found.

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.

As a completely electric vehicle, with no gasoline engine as a range extender (as is found in cars like the Chevrolet Volt), there are no direct emissions, although its overall carbon imprint will depend on how the electricity's generated at its source.

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.

He cites studies concluding that various provisions would allow expanded coal use in coming decades despite an overall cap on emissions of carbon dioxide.

In a passage that will likely hearten those seeing the climate change fight as a fight over capitalism, leaked version includes the pope's rejection of markets in carbon credits as a solution, warning (this is The Guardian translation) that this «could give rise to a new form of speculation and would not help to reduce the overall emission of polluting gases.&raquIn a passage that will likely hearten those seeing the climate change fight as a fight over capitalism, leaked version includes the pope's rejection of markets in carbon credits as a solution, warning (this is The Guardian translation) that this «could give rise to a new form of speculation and would not help to reduce the overall emission of polluting gases.&raquin carbon credits as a solution, warning (this is The Guardian translation) that this «could give rise to a new form of speculation and would not help to reduce the overall emission of polluting gases.»

Russia and Japan are two industrial countries that did not see an overall decline in carbon emissions over the past five years.

A breakdown of the costs revealed that whereas carbon emission reduction policies contributed 16 % of the overall rise in prices, 84 % was due to VAT (an additional # 20), the price of gas (# 290) and the expenses involved in delivering it to homes.

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.

In their paper, Kirtland Turner and Ridgwell modeled the carbon isotope signal from 10 short emission pulses spread over 1,000 years and compared that with the signal from the same overall carbon release spread evenly over 1,000 years.

Overall the UK's carbon emissions are 38 percent lower today than they were in 1990.

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.

Probably the greatest argument for a carbon tax is the pressing need for taxation reform overall, coupled with the need for bipartisanship in tackling CO2 emissions and I'll address the latter point first although they're inextricably linked, the moment carbon taxing is mooted as a bipartisan option.

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 2060s.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

Although recent models predict that a small net accumulation of carbon will occur in Arctic tundra during the present century (low confidence), higher methane emissions responding to the thawing of permafrost and an overall increase in wetlands will enhance radiative forcing (medium confidence).

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 200In 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 200in 2005.

In the United States, the Bush administration's «Clear Skies» proposal requires a decline in carbon emissions per unit of economic output (known as carbon intensity), but not overall carbon emissionIn the United States, the Bush administration's «Clear Skies» proposal requires a decline in carbon emissions per unit of economic output (known as carbon intensity), but not overall carbon emissionin carbon emissions per unit of economic output (known as carbon intensity), but not overall carbon emissions.

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.

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.

«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.»

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 AgencIn 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 Agencin 2014 to more than four billion tons by 2040, according to the International Energy Agency.

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.

The overall development goal of the Programme is to reduce forest emissions and enhance carbon stocks in forests while contributing to national sustainable development.

The decline in coal CO2 emissions has contributed to a lower overall carbon intensity of U.S. energy consumption and kept emissions below pre-recession levels.

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.

Nicola Stuber, first author of the study, to be published in tomorrow's edition of the journal Nature, suggests that contrails» overall impact on climate change is similar in scope to that of aircrafts» carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions over a hundred - year period.

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.

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.

There are two primary externalities that result from our emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — 1) an enhancement of the greenhouse effect, which results in an alteration of the energy flow in the earth's climate and a general tendency to warm the global average surface temperature, and 2) an enhancement of the rate of photosynthesis in plants and a general tendency to result in more efficient growth and an overall healthier condition of vegetation (including crops).

In the quest to realize the benefits of gender diversity, integrating social equity is of great importance to driving investments in renewable energy, cutting carbon dioxide emissions and supporting environmental protection overalIn the quest to realize the benefits of gender diversity, integrating social equity is of great importance to driving investments in renewable energy, cutting carbon dioxide emissions and supporting environmental protection overalin renewable energy, cutting carbon dioxide emissions and supporting environmental protection overall.

And then they set off the cost of the experiment against the notional overall rewards to the planet in not felling the forests, in terms of delayed carbon emissions — an estimated 3,000 metric tons of CO2 — and found they had backed a winner: the payback for humanity was 2.4 times the actual cash cost of protection.

And then they set off the cost of the experiment against the notional overall rewards to the planet in not felling the forests, in terms of delayed carbon emissions — an estimated 3,000 metric tons of CO

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

It reckons that, overall, converting its power plant from coal to wood saves 12 million tons of CO2 emissions a year, making Drax «the largest carbon - saving project in Europe,» according to its CEO Andy Koss.

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 generation.

In other words, if it continues, the recent trend in sea ice loss may triple overall Arctic warming, causing large emissions in carbon dioxide and methane from the tundra this century (for a review of recent literature on the tundra, see «Science stunner: Vast East Siberian Arctic Shelf methane stores destabilizing and venting; NSF issues world a wake - up call: «Release of even a fraction of the methane stored in the shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming»In other words, if it continues, the recent trend in sea ice loss may triple overall Arctic warming, causing large emissions in carbon dioxide and methane from the tundra this century (for a review of recent literature on the tundra, see «Science stunner: Vast East Siberian Arctic Shelf methane stores destabilizing and venting; NSF issues world a wake - up call: «Release of even a fraction of the methane stored in the shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming»in sea ice loss may triple overall Arctic warming, causing large emissions in carbon dioxide and methane from the tundra this century (for a review of recent literature on the tundra, see «Science stunner: Vast East Siberian Arctic Shelf methane stores destabilizing and venting; NSF issues world a wake - up call: «Release of even a fraction of the methane stored in the shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming»in carbon dioxide and methane from the tundra this century (for a review of recent literature on the tundra, see «Science stunner: Vast East Siberian Arctic Shelf methane stores destabilizing and venting; NSF issues world a wake - up call: «Release of even a fraction of the methane stored in the shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming»in the shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming»).

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.