Sentences with phrase «reduce total emissions»

«More Efficient Coke Delivery, More Quietude According to the press release, the new trucks will improve fuel efficiency by 32 percent and reduce total emissions by 37 percent.

Likewise, unless clean energy supplies come online in large measures, slowing demand growth will not reduce total emissions to needed levels.

In accordance with California's Global Warming Solutions Act's (AB32) guidance, the ROW recommends that California allow states or countries that reduce their total emissions from deforestation below an historical average to generate compliance credit in California.

Essentially, EPA wants to give credit to existing NGCCs for upping their capacity factors since that helps to displace higher - emitting fossil generators, thereby reducing total emissions from the electric sector.

Do we compensate electricity suppliers if, rather than reducing the total emissions target, we increase the number of indusries that need to obtain permits?

Not exact matches

He points out that: «Total has set ambitious goals for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, notably by ending continuous flaring and using the associated gas locally.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

«We are committed under the Copenhagen Accord to reduce our total greenhouse gas emissions to 17 % below 2005 levels by 2020.

The new boiler will produce energy out of biomass, reducing CO ₂ emissions at the Nettingsdorf mill by 40,000 tonnes, which represents a 1.5 % reduction in Smurfit Kappa Group's total CO ₂ emissions.

When composted, single serve coffee from compostable pods will reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by 140,000 tonnes worldwide compared to the same amount of coffee from non-compostable pods that are almost always sent to landfill.

The company has a climate strategy objective that aims to reduce the total CO2 emissions by 25 % before 2020.

Arla Foods invested approximately $ 25m in 2013 to reduce the total CO2 emissions from its plants by 2 %.

Reducing food waste also impacts climate change as 20 percent of total U.S. methane emissions come from landfills.

Dell Round Rock, TX Information Technology 554 million green kWh, 158 % of total power used In August 2008 managers declared Dell's headquarters «carbon - neutral» after buying energy credits, increasing efficiency and reducing emissions.

The U.S. pledged to reduce its total CO2 emissions about 26 - 28 percent by 2025, in comparison to 2005 levels.

Of that total, 21 billion gallons must come from sources that reduce greenhouse - gas emissions by 50 percent or more — a goal that algae neatly achieve.

The optimal combination of trips would have reduced total travel time by 40 percent, with corresponding reductions in operational costs and carbon dioxide emissions.

It's expected to reduce emissions 240 million metric tons in 2025 — nearly half the total cuts contained in current or proposed regulations.

At Xcel Energy, the utility firm with the highest total wind capacity in the United States, the number of forecasting errors has dropped since 2009, saving customers some US$ 60 million and reducing annual CO2 emissions from fossil - reserve power generation by more than a quarter of a million tonnes per year, says Drake Bartlett, a renewable - energy analyst with the firm who is based in Denver, Colorado.

The team's results show that foreign GHG mitigation — i.e. other countries implementing policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (such as the 2015 Paris Agreement)-- contributed 15 per cent of the total PM2.5 - related and 62 per cent of the total O3 - related deaths avoided.

Regardless of past totals, the focus should be on reducing emissions, says Wang Yi, director - general of the Institute of Policy and Management at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, who was not involved in the study.

Its plain wording about reducing «the vast part» of emissions means, on any straightforward reading, that the total emissions are now vastly smaller than they were before.

To allay concerns regarding pollution, the U.S. cement industry has voluntarily pledged by 2020 to reduce total carbon dioxide emissions from its plants to 10 percent below 1990 levels by upgrading manufacturing equipment and changing the ingredients in the finished product.

The absolutely essential first step in reducing the atmospheric concentration to 350 ppm is a total global cessation of anthropogenic carbon emissions.

By adopting a new fitting method based on the total brightness, we have succeeded in reducing the residual levels after subtraction of the zodiacal emission from the AKARI data and thus in improving the modeling of the zodiacal emission.

Activities / Accomplishments: DOT has implemented several strategies in order to reduce Scope 3 GHG Emissions, and some of these strategies include: 1) reducing employee business air travel through technologies such as web conferencing; 2) increasing telework rates through making more employees eligible for telework and / or allowing an increase in total number of days teleworked; and 3) using an employee commuting survey to identify opportunities and strategies for reducing commuter eEmissions, and some of these strategies include: 1) reducing employee business air travel through technologies such as web conferencing; 2) increasing telework rates through making more employees eligible for telework and / or allowing an increase in total number of days teleworked; and 3) using an employee commuting survey to identify opportunities and strategies for reducing commuter emissionsemissions.

The car's performance is thus enhanced thanks to a better power - to - weight ratio and reduced total mass, which means that CO2 emissions are also lower.

If we do that we'll reduce total world emissions through natural market forces, whatever we end up doing in our own country.

Making Hydrogen in these ways, and using it to run an automobile has to be less efficient than the direct use of hydrocarbon fuels and electricity to run a car, and can't reduce the total amount of CO2 emissions.

And this will change over time — CO2 emissions should keep getting lower just from reducing fossil fuel usage in proportion to total energy use.

The thing though with these low - sulfur fuels, the study also found, is that while they do reduce total particle emissions, the particles that do remain tend to remain in the air longer... Which is where they post a threat to human health and affect climate.

This is the low - hanging fruit for reducing the total greenhouse gas emissions from the United States.

Finally, the Saturday draft also noted the need to reduce total global emissions by 50 % by the year 2050.

Thus, the concept of an emissions budget is very useful to get the message across that the amount of CO2 that we can still emit in total (not per year) is limited if we want to stabilise global temperature at a given level, so any delay in reducing emissions can be detrimental — especially if we cross tipping points in the climate system, e.g trigger the complete loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Total CO2 emissions in the US have steadily increased ever since we began measuring them — and all the current administration is willing to do is say their should be voluntary programs to reduce CO2 per dollar of GDP (not per capita, not total emissiTotal CO2 emissions in the US have steadily increased ever since we began measuring them — and all the current administration is willing to do is say their should be voluntary programs to reduce CO2 per dollar of GDP (not per capita, not total emissitotal emissions).

Using the wind industry's own claims, 2700 MW of installed wind capacity in Maine could in the best - case theoretical conditions only reduce total U.S. CO2 emissions by less than four - one - hundredths of one percent (0.04 %.)

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.

«We show that, despite international efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, total remaining commitments in the global power sector have not declined in a single year since 1950 and are in fact growing rapidly,» their paper says.

It is estimated that the landfill gas supports approximately 2MW of installed capacity and that a total of 701,347 tCO2eq of greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced within the first crediting period.

In total, the Iowa Farms Wind Project will reduce approximately 92,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

Save the average American family nearly $ 85 on their annual energy bill in 2030, reducing enough energy to power 30 million homes, and save consumers a total of $ 155 billion from 2020 - 2030; Give a head start to wind and solar deployment and prioritize the deployment of energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.»

Comparing those with estimates of the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions, they found that each additional metric ton of carbon dioxide sent into the atmosphere reduced the amount of sea ice by three square meters, or about 11 square feet.

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.

When spring thaw emissions were combined with growing season emissions, the conventional tillage system actually had higher total nitrous oxide emissions than the zero till system.We suggest that this type of experiment (full year emission measurements) be repeated with deep banding of N fertilizer, which would be expected to further reduce emissions from zero till systems.

To make our targets in 2010, the federal government should declare a long - term goal to reduce Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions by 50 % by 2030.

General Motors achieved its initial goal by reducing total North American greenhouse gas emissions by 23 percent from 2000 to 2005.

Viet Nam has agreed to reduce 8 % of its GHG emissions (adding up to about 25 % if international support is to be received), and to increase forest cover to an overall level of 45 % of the total land area.

Exelon Corporation, which operates electricity generating utilities, achieved its initial goal by reducing total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 38 percent from 2001 to 2008.

For policy - makers, the speed of climate change over the coming decades matters as much as the total long - term change, since this rate of change will determine whether human societies and natural ecosystems will be able to adapt fast enough to survive.New results indicate a warming rate of about 2.5 C per century over the coming decades (assuming no attempt is made to reduce GHG emissions).

The company has pledged to reduce total global greenhouse gas emissions by three percent from 2006 to 2015.