Sentences with phrase «real emissions»

The availability of verified emissions data has allowed the Commission to ensure that the cap on national allocations under the second phase is set at a level that results in real emission reductions.

Instead they want more markets for not doing real emission cuts domestically with their already weak ambition.

A new level of decisive action is required now to achieve real emissions reductions.

There are serious doubts about many of these credits, as they might not lead to real emissions reductions, and could even risk human rights violations in the offset project host countries.

And the way to fix the accounting error is to count the very real emissions from using bioenergy and then provide a credit to that bioenergy which results from a source that really is «additional» carbon.

Reliable programs now provide a high level of confidence that the offsets deliver real emissions reductions over an extended period of time.

On February 14, 2002, President Bush directed the Department of Energy (DOE) to enhance the «accuracy, reliability, and verifiability» of the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program (VRGGP), established pursuant to Section 1605 (b) of the 1992 Energy Policy Act, and «to give transferable credits to companies that can show real emission reductions.»

Fuzzy wording and big exemptions inserted to buy off industry support for a bill could delay real emission reductions for years or decades.

Rigorous requirements and safeguards, local stakeholder engagement, and the use of independent, third - party auditors guarantee that funders are supporting real emissions reductions and verified SDG impacts, protecting businesses against accusations of «green - washing».

Destruction of HFC - 23 paid on a CO2 equivalent tonne basis does not represent real emission reductions.

US Needs a Strong, Binding Climate Bill for Success A key factor in achieving a measure of success, according to Kahn — and this is frankly something which most people in the green community have been saying for, well, years — is that a legally binding emission reduction commitment has to be enacted in the United States, and one with real emission cuts.

In short, the challenge is not to simply pay lip service to the TCFDs, but — much like a GCSE student sticking doggedly to their revision timetable to boost chances of future success — move from disclosing risks to embedding the response to those risks into corporate culture from top to bottom, setting real emission reduction and energy targets as a result.

Friends of the Earth Europe calls on the European Union to show leadership at these negotiations, ensuring a robust framework for the future that delivers real emission cuts in order avoid the more catastrophic effects of climate change.

We need much better centralization and organization of the many disparate elements of the federal government that can be brought to bear on these problems — that is, how to achieve real emissions reductions on the ground, with or without a federal cap - and - trade law, and critical measures to cope with and adapt to impacts such as prolonged droughts, more frequent flooding and storms, heat waves, public health threats, and so on.

Independent analysis of the cap - and - trade program by Near Zero, a research organization at the Carnegie Institute for Science at Stanford University, shows that real emissions from the refinery sector in California are actually increasing, even as petrochemical facilities successfully comply with the legal requirements of the market - based mechanism.

Today, I am pleased to announce another important building block in our Climate Change plan — designed to help us achieve our targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to generate real emission reduction opportunities across the economy.

But right now 95 percent of the hydrogen available in the U.S. is either extracted from fossil fuels or made using electrolytic processes powered by fossil fuels, thus negating any real emissions savings or reduction in fossil fuel usage.

These modules will enable project developers to estimate the real emission reductions of projects that reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation («REDD»).

As the generation of electricity continues to diversify from non-renewable sources, the real emissions generated by an electric - car - friendly infrastructure will drop.

With out other illegal cheats you won't pass a real emissions test.

We see many problems with the current market systems under the convention, volatile credit prices, lack of real emissions reduction, rampant lack of additionality, lack of environmental integrity and human rights violations.

«Estimation of real emissions reduction caused by wind generators» [PDF], O. Liik et al., International Energy Workshop, June 24 - 26, 2003, Laxenburg, Austria

If so: they have already failed, as the current temperatures are below the predicted ones for the real emissions scenario.

Actually, the figuring out part has been done and real emissions reductions have been realized in the United States — without the heavy hand of government, without one - size - fits - all frameworks, without economy - hamstringing interventions.

But it is important to keep in mind that even if legislation had passed the US Congress and negotiations at Copenhagen ended less rancorously, the old framework would have been unlikely to deliver real emissions reductions much below business - as - usual, for all of the reasons delineated above.

In particular, both the UK and EU appear to have slipped through a large loophole in order to «disappear» real emissions from their carbon accounting, as one source told me, thus undermining the Paris Agreement's critically important carbon - mitigation strategies.

My guess is that we won't see a real emissions downturn before 2020.

I do not believe these numbers take the real emission cost of nat gas into consideration (leakage, water transport, mining).