Sentences with phrase «plan total emissions»

The problem was, scientists calculated at the time, under that plan total emissions would rise by 14 % in a decade.

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His estimates show that compared to the earlier targets, the new plan will avoid annual carbon emissions of more than 400 million tons, the equivalent to the total fossil emissions of Australia and New Zealand combined.

I've gone a step further and tried to assign likely nationwide greenhouse gas emissions totals for the major plans on the table right now:

When implemented, the Clean Power Plan (CPP) will reduce emissions from power plants by 32 % by 2030 from 2005 levels, accounting for about 10 % of reductions of from total US emissions in 2005.

Through both carbon sequestration and avoided emissions (because water being retained by green infrastructure isn't needing energy intensive pumping and treatment), the plan is estimated to reduce CO2 by a total of 73,000 tons per year.

Under the City's plan to reduce citywide GHG emissions 30 % by the year 2030, increasing the efficiency of its buildings is projected to reduce emissions by 12.7 million metric tons — or roughly two - thirds of the total reduction needed.

Buildings in Multnomah County contributed 44 percent of the area's total carbon emissions in 2013, according to a sector - wide greenhouse gas emissions inventory referenced in the Portland 2015 Climate Action Plan.

The report includes details of the greenhouse gas emissions of 52 UN organizations, total emissions from the UN system in 2009, and details of plans to reduce them.

The plan estimates that «every fully vegetated acre of green infrastructure would provide total annual benefits of $ 8.5 in reduced energy demand, $ 166 in reduced CO2 emissions, $ 1,044 in improved air quality, and $ 4,725 in increased property value.»

Notably, if Quad and Clinton are closed, the increased emissions will be one - third of total emissions Illinois is supposed to reduce under the Clean Power Plan.

Yet the plan will set the first national limits on carbon pollution from power plants, which account for 37 percent of total U.S. carbon emissions.

Under the deal, Xi announced targets for capping his country's carbon emissions around 2030 — earlier than currently planned — and plans to increase the use of alternative energy to account for 20 % of the country's total by 2030.

In total, Sanders» plan aims for a 40 percent reduction of U.S. emissions, which is more ambitious than his chief rival Hillary Clinton's.

5 % of total funds must be used to create a clean national transportation low emissions plan, which would establish an electric vehicle strategic deployment goal for 2020 and project the near - and long - term infrastructure and standardization needs for EVs, electricity providers, vehicle manufacturers, and electricity purchasers.

Coal's share of total U.S. electricity generation is expected to fall to 27 percent by 2030, down from 39 percent in 2014 and more than 50 percent in 2000 — the result of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan to limit carbon emissions from power plants.

In total, that means 63 % of respondents favor an energy plan that reduces carbon emissions and spurs clean energy development at an unspecified additional cost to themselves — and only 31 % oppose it.

The area under each curve is the total emissions expended under that plan.

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.