Sentences with phrase «program achieved emission reductions»

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So, as far as I can see, essentially the same outcome as the double - credits achieves, both in terms of revenue for Shell and cost to the CCEMF could have been achieved with a $ 15 per - ton - sequestered payment from the CCEMC without sacrificing the integrity of emissions reduction accounting within the offset program.

House Democrats said that by 2020, the program would achieve additional emission reductions equivalent to 10 percent of U.S. emissions in 2005.

If you select an annual 1.5 % energy savings target, building codes (high), combined heat and power (medium), ESCO programs, and utility - scale solar PV (high), the results show that those policies together can achieve a 20 % reduction in 2012 emissions, at a lower cost than many other compliance options.

To achieve the verification of carbon credits, the program team completed all the data collection with participating farmers and quantified greenhouse gas emission reductions in accordance with the ACR methodology.

Fairmont Hotels and Resorts achieve global CO2 reduction target Fairmont Hotels & Resorts today announced that it has achieved WWF Climate Savers program targets, reducing its operational CO2 emissions by 20 per cent below 2006 levels.

Requires the EPA Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing a program to use emission allowances set aside to reduce GHG emissions from deforestation in developing countries, with the objectives to: (1) achieve 720 million tons of reductions in 2020 and a cumulative emission reduction of 6 billion tons by 2025, (2) build institutional capacities in developing nations; and (3) preserve intact, native forests.

Requires the EPA Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing a program for the issuance of offset credits that: (1) ensure that such offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increases in sequestration; (2) ensure that offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that are permanent; and (3) include as reductions in GHGs reductions achieved through the destruction of methane and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) or other ozone depleting substances.

(2) work with foreign governments towards a global agreement that reconciles foreign carbon emissions reduction programs to minimize duplicative requirements and avoids unnecessary complication for the aviation industry, while still achieving the environmental goals.

SGS Carbon Neutral: Indicates a significant reduction has been achieved and that remaining emissions have been offset through programs such as renewable energy credit purchase systems run by certified third - party organizations.

«(2) demonstrates the cost - effectiveness of, and the energy savings and greenhouse gas emissions reductions achieved by, energy efficiency programs supported under this section; and

The approach builds upon existing state programs by identifying cost - effective actions to increase clean energy in the electric system and to leverage that clean electricity in the transportation and building sectors to achieve needed emissions reductions.

When you inject capital from a program like the GreenON Industries program, it allows companies to achieve the emission reduction targets stipulated by the legislative requirements as well as allowing them to invest their capital into a project that might not otherwise have a reasonable return on investment (ROI).

And with greens and establishment Democrats fully lost in the magical idea that we can achieve massive emissions reductions through conservation, efficiency, and existing renewable technologies, there was scarcely any constituency inside the Beltway for the kind of big energy - technology program that Chu had hoped to launch.

The United Nations Environment program issued a report before Cancun analyzing whether the emissions reductions commitments submitted pursuant to the Copenhagen Accord would achieve the 2 °C.

Subtitle G: Diesel Emissions Reduction -(Sec. 792) Instructs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to use: (1) 70 % of certain allocated funds to provide grants and low - cost revolving loans on a competitive basis to eligible entities to achieve prescribed reductions in diesel emissions; and (2) 30 % of certain allocated funds to support grant and loan programs administered by states that are designed to achieve similar diesel emission reEmissions Reduction -(Sec. 792) Instructs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to use: (1) 70 % of certain allocated funds to provide grants and low - cost revolving loans on a competitive basis to eligible entities to achieve prescribed reductions in diesel emissions; and (2) 30 % of certain allocated funds to support grant and loan programs administered by states that are designed to achieve similar diesel emission reemissions; and (2) 30 % of certain allocated funds to support grant and loan programs administered by states that are designed to achieve similar diesel emission reductions.

Climate investment programs help finance reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and thus contribute to achieving the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement.

(WRI, 2012) US ghg emissions reductions have been achieved in the United States due largely significant fuel switching in the electricity sector from coal to natural gas, an economic slowdown that began in 2008, and some federal and US state regulatory programs designed to reduce ghg emissions.

The GBCs committed to align their ZNC definitions and programs to achieve a common carbon goal, one that will drive significant momentum in shifting industry and regulation towards substantial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions.

The modeling projects that the vast majority of emission reductions achieved by these industries under a cap - and - trade program will be from reductions in the emission - intensity of their production (e.g., increased energy efficiency, or shifts to lower - emission production methods), rather than from declines in production associated with increased imports from unregulated countries.

The program aims to achieve a 10 percent reduction in emissions from power plants by 2018.

While the states» 2005 Memorandum of Understanding committed to achieve a 10 percent cut in power plant carbon pollution by 2018, the region has already achieved a 40 percent reduction under the program, with emissions continuing to fall in 2017.

The report also found that a strong economy - wide emissions reduction program along with the full use of energy efficiency measures is the best way to achieve these reductions at low overall costs.

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM): A Kyoto Protocol program that enables industrialized countries to finance emissions - avoiding projects in developing countries and receive credit for reductions achieved against their own emissions limitation targets.

He also reiterated the federal government's longstanding view that international funding for programs that slow deforestation («REDD +») should be performance - based, but not offset - based — meaning that foreign governments can fund REDD initiatives within Brazil, but they can not use emission - reductions achieved to offset their own emissions.

Goffman said the goal with the acid rain program was to achieve the greatest emissions reductions at the lowest cost.

«The goal of the CGGF program is to engage individuals and communities in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, which helps Ontario achieve its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets (six per cent below 1990 levels by 2014),» says Robert Musgrove, program evaluation / business review co-ordinator at the Ministry of Environment.