Sentences with phrase «real carbon reductions»

A project should be independently certified to a standard to ensure permanence and other criteria for real carbon reductions are met.

An auctioned cap or a tax with 100 % return of the proceeds to the people is the most practical policy for several reasons: (a) it would begin real carbon reductions quickly; (b) it would be an honest and transparent way of treating the American people; (c) it would attract the broadest attainable political coalition across party lines; (d) it would be administratively simple for both the government and the private sector (with the tax or auctioned permits collected at the first point of sale or import of the carbon - containing fuel); (e) it would be a non-regressive way of introducing the carbon price into the economy; and (f) it would avoid a fiasco such as the special interest feeding frenzy that surrounded the recently failed Boxer - Lieberman - Warner bill in Congress.

RECs can be associated with real carbon reductions if there is a carbon cap in place.

In 2016, Baxter became the first commercial cooking manufacturer to produce an ENERGY STAR ® certified rotating rack oven, while Foster was the first commercial refrigeration manufacturer to attain the Carbon Trust Standard — awarded to organizations for real carbon reduction.

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There are a lot of reasons to believe that there is a real reduction in man - made sources of carbon monoxide, such as vehicle emissions and tropical forest burning, that should persist.»

Talking of wet, the first time the carbon - ceramic brakes take on any real water, the reduction in braking performance is marked and — depending on your approach speed when you go for the pedal — potentially alarming.

Widespread public awareness — making carbon reduction part of daily life — is the first true step in providing our great grandchildren with a real Christmas present: this planet in some semblance of the condition in which we received it.

The Code gives consumers confidence that companies are operating to robust procedures and that implemented carbon strategies are credible and emissions reductions are real, measureable, permanent, and independently verified — a step to the goal of reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

And we've developed some of the most robust reporting and monitoring systems that ensure carbon credits represent real, measurable and additional emissions reductions,» said Simon Henry, program director at the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA), which funded the research for this article.

It is a source of real, significant and sustainable greenhouse gas reductions, accelerating the shift to a low - carbon economy.

«It will be a win - win if we can demonstrate through our pilot projects that the carbon market can provide alternate revenue streams to help local farmers and landowners adopt practices that will improve water quality in addition to achieving real greenhouse gas emission reduction benefits.»

Potentially real world results modelled along with falling costs for renewables and estimated benefits from carbon reduction could drive the further expansion of renewables.

All offset projects achieved high quality standards and represent real and permanent carbon reductions.

Carbon dioxide emissions have been eliminated by direct intervention on the production cycle and through compensatory real emission reductions in the form of carbon offsets.

carbon offset methodology is the first of its kind and provides real opportunities for achieving a meaningful level of emissions reductions in the agriculture sector.

Newly approved by the American Carbon Registry (ACR) and co-authored by project partners DU, TCT, The Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense Fund and Terra Global Capital, the Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands (ACoGS) carbon offset methodology is the first of its kind and provides real opportunities for achieving a meaningful level of emissions reductions in the agriculture sector.

I'm not sure if you are convinced than carbon - o - geddon is really looming or if you have other financial interests or whatever, but enough people know that we face no real threat and we're not going to let you bamboozle the public into disastrous changes to the world's energy infrastructure or let you impose draconian «carbon reduction» schemes that would cripple the world's industrial economies, reduce our standard of living and condemn the people in developing countries to perpetual low energy poverty.

They called for justice and real solutions to the climate crisis, including steep and immediate reductions in carbon emissions, stopping fossil fuels and deforestation, building renewable community - owned energy solutions, and transforming our food systems, all in the context of respect for human rights.

The Government would therefore like to enshrine the commitments in the Energy White Paper 2003 to reduce CO2 emissions by 60 % on 1990 levels by 2050; and to achieve «real progress» by 2020 (which would equate to reductions of 26 - 32 %) towards the long - term goal within a new legal carbon management framework (outlined in Section 5).

President Obama finally came out with a plan to use the power of the administration to address climate disruption and to start making the real reductions in carbon emissions that we need to stave off the very worst impacts of climate change.

In July, printer manufacturer Kyocera released a survey showing 47 percent of the United Kingdom's large companies view carbon trading as a confusing scheme that lacks any real value in pursuing carbon emission reductions.

They include criteria to ensure carbon credits (also known as Verified Emission Reductions — VERs) sold meet criteria to ensure they are Real, Measurable, Unique, Independently verified, Permanent and Additional.

It provides independent confirmation of your reported emissions reductions and guarantees that your carbon offsets are real and permanent.

We hope that the upcoming United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen will follow this example and focus as much on bottom - up technological strategies for achieving real reductions in emissions as it will on top - down targets for carbon caps.

By tying climate action into its products as standard, Co-Op Insurance is showing real ambition on climate change, and driving carbon emissions reductions at scale.

Experience with the voluntary carbon market shows REDD projects can lead to real reductions, if only a portion of avoided emissions is tradable, it factors in the total deforestation in a jurisdiction and creates a buffer for uncertainty.

Cap and trade may seem like the big offer on the emission reductions table at the moment — one mention of alternatives like a straight carbon tax send many people (the average American in particular) into apoplectic fits — but Annie «The Story of Stuff» Leonard wants you to take a closer look.There are so many troubling details in how cap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other options.

Simulated * Conducted Tolerance Stack - up Analysis and launched Six Sigma experimentation for 80 single strip wheels and analyzed current sigma level * Identified root causes of variation of key variables and resulted in annual cost reduction of $ 200,000 real world scenarios in bi-level programming model and concluded the sensitivity analysis of carbon emissions cost impact on company profit * Organized a survey among heads...

Schindler has a dedicated website (http://adema.kiosk-view.com/schindler) and a lobby kiosk that provides real - time data on the energy - savings, carbon reduction and environmental impact of the building's new solar roof.