Sentences with phrase «overall national emissions»

For example, reducing overall national emissions could make the climate impact of an additional child up to 17 times lower than current projections, the study found.

In Peru, the transport sector is thus responsible for 40 per cent of GHG emissions from the energy sector, and for 11 per cent of the overall national emissions.

Not exact matches

«These [voluntary] activities have led to significant reductions in emissions from some companies and some industries, but overall have not had a significant effect on emissions at the national or regional level,» Bernstein says.

Their findings, published March 9 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that groundwater from the seasonal thawing of the «active layer» of soil above the permafrost adds significantly to the overall concentration of methane in the lake and thus influences the emission of this powerful greenhouse gas to the atmosphere.

A 2011 study by the National Research Council found that ethanol use could boost overall CO2 emissions.

In 2006, the European Union (EU), which consists of 27 members, committed to reducing its global warming emissions by at least 20 percent of 1990 levels by 2020, to consuming 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, and to reducing its primary energy use by 20 percent from projected levels through increased energy efficiency.1 The EU has also committed to spending $ 375 billion a year to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 compared to 1990 levels.2 The EU is meeting these goals through binding national commitments which vary depending on the unique situation of a given country but which average out to the overall targets.

The energy trends envisioned in the New Policies Scenario imply that national commitments to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions, while expected to have some impact, are collectively inadequate to meet the Copenhagen Accord's overall goal of holding the global temperature increase to below 2 °C.

At last week's Africa Carbon Forum (ACF), delegates called for stronger emphasis on results - based climate finance for both mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and they reiterated their support for market - based mechanisms like the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows emissions - reducing projects to earn certified emissions reduction (CERs) that can be traded to meet overall national reduction goals.

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

These shortcomings have drastically lowered the ETS's overall effectiveness, and resulted in Germany failing to meet its national goal of reducing emissions by 40 percent by 2020.

If we add up all of these costs, which we did in a study published in 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we find thousands of dollars of damages per vehicle (gasoline or electric) that are paid by the overall population rather than only by those releasing the emissions and consuming the oil.