Sentences with phrase «report on carbon»

Certainly investors can pressure companies to report on their carbon footprint or on how climate change could negatively impact their bottom line, but such transparency doesn't solve the core problem of stopping carbon emissions or demanding that these companies stop looking for more sources of carbon - based fuels and instead invest in renewable energy.

He was speaking at the launch in Berlin of a report on carbon pricing.

A new report on carbon market reform has kicked off debate on the issue in the European Parliament.

In 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a report on carbon dioxide capture and storage that was enthusiastic about the possibilities of such technology, but downbeat on prospects for adoption given the cost.

Then Klaus branched into climate research, including contributing to a report on carbon capture and storage for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

As promising as it sounds, there are many uncertainties about whether solidifying carbon dioxide emissions could be a viable part of a climate strategy, said Bert Metz, a fellow at the European Climate Foundation who is unaffiliated with the study and was the lead author of a 2005 IPCC special report on carbon capture.

A 2005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on carbon capture and storage, which guided Shaffer's modeling, said it was «very likely» that 99 percent of stored C02 would stay in place over the first 100 years and «likely» that the same percentage would stay in place over 1,000 years.

The Liberal Democrat energy and climate change secretary faces opposition after the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) published its report on carbon budgets for the years 2023 to 2027 yesterday.

We report on carbon emissions per 100,000 orders, and we focus on reducing our carbon intensity through operational efficiency.

Franklin Templeton participates in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), annually measuring and reporting on carbon emissions, as well as risks and opportunities for our business due to the effects of climate change.

More specifically, the association aims to encourage brands to improve their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting on carbon emissions, environmental record and labour conditions.

Emissions also are reported on a carbon equivalent or carbon dioxide equivalent basis.

Internationally, emissions are reported on a carbon basis.

By utilizing Mint.com's software, the Oroeco app can easily analyze the climate impact of your behaviors and provide you with monthly reports on your carbon footprint.

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In addition, countries will have to track their efforts in cutting carbon emissions and report on their progress every five years.

As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

The agreement aims to hold global warming to «well below» two degrees Celsius from the levels of the Industrial Revolution, and puts in place a system for tracking efforts to cut carbon emissions and report on progress every five years.

With the exception of implicit prices on carbon on some emissions in Sweden, Japan, and Germany (see this recent OECD report for details), no carbon pricing policy in place today comes close to that type of stringency.

But on Wednesday, one day after the phone call, reports began to emerge from the White House that Trump had decided to withdraw from the 2015 agreement, in which nearly all countries pledged to reduce carbon emissions.

According to a recent Reuters report, depending on who takes a Senate seat from several of these battle ground states and who wins certain gubernatorial races could mean which of the energy topics — EPA carbon regulations, the Keystone Pipeline XL's approval, relaxing crude oil export rules, developing clean energy technology — will take priority.

How much GST is raised by taxing the carbon tax really depends on what businesses choose to pass on to consumers, the report notes.

Shell's Lorraine Mitchelmore is reported as saying Canada «will need a carbon price» (President Of Royal Dutch Shell Canadian Division Urges Carbon Pricing — Report on Business, Sept. 11).

Her 2014 landmark negotiation with Exxon Mobil led to the company's first public report on global warming and carbon asset risk.

On Easter Monday, Suncor Energy Inc. quietly released a 15 - page report that laid out several plausible climate futures and how it plans to stay «climate resilient» in a low - carbon economy.

In a new report released today for Sustainable Prosperity (a new research institute), Jack Mintz and Nancy Olewiler pitch a federal carbon tax constructed by broadening the base of the federal excise tax (which currently raises over $ 5 billion per year based on a tax of 10 cents per litre of gas and 4 cents -LSB-...]

I should also mention this is $ / tonne of carbon, while the IPCC report you linked to (which is itself based in part on runs from (an older version of) this same model) mostly quotes $ / tonne of CO2.

As noted in The Price of Climate Change, my colleagues and I believe these trends will not only encourage significant growth in clean technologies, energy efficiency and renewable infrastructure, but also greater transparency and reporting on sustainability and the carbon footprints of corporations around the globe.

Together with our preceding report, How To Adopt a Winning Carbon Price, which focused on British Columbia's carbon tax, we've now offered a look «under the hood» of the two major approaches to carbon pricing, and the important lessons offered by each.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

A 2015 report by Canada's EcoFiscal Commission sheds light on the issue of energy intensive trade exposed business sectors, and the need to consider competiveness implications in shaping and implementing carbon pricing mechanisms.

Dave Sawyer, one of the authors of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy report, and blogger at EnviroEconomics.ca, makes some pertinent insider comments on the efficacy of a carbon tax in reducing emissions from personal transportation, a major source of emissions: While the carbon tax will â $ œdriveâ $ some reductions in vehicle kilometers traveled, -LSB-...]

Duke Energy published a climate report on March 22 outlining its plans to change its fuel mix to sharply reduce carbon emissions.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

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Commenting on the report, Professor Tim Benton of the University of Leeds said: «The biggest intervention people could make towards reducing their carbon footprints would not be to abandon cars, but to eat significantly less red meat.»

The initiative follows on he heels of another report by Oxford academics, which last year found that levying a tax on animal products — pricing them to reflect more accurately their harmful impact — could reduce meat eating to the extent that 1 billion tonnes of carbon a year would be saved... and 500,000 lives.

Detailed information on our carbon intensity reduction initiatives is available in the Environment section of our Corporate Responsibility report.

The U.S. and Canadian NGO ForestEthics reports that «Canada's boreal forest (alone) stores 23 percent of the planet's terrestrial carbon - more carbon per acre than any other ecosystem on earth, including tropical forests.

Within their progress report of the 4th carbon budget, the CCC illustrates that spending on domestic energy efficiency for low income households is currently less than half the required investment to meet statutory targets.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats want the bill to include annual targets for cutting carbon emissions, an annual report to parliament on the progress being made on these targets, and the creation of independent body to assess the science.

-LRB-... The level of the most important heat - trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long - feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.

WBFO's Chris Caya reports on the state's plan to cover the cost of reducing carbon emissions and help the nuclear industry.

Noon update: The Mail on Sunday reports that the cost of a family saloon car could rise by as much as # 2000 under plans to tax high carbon cars.

This will be based on a new system of «carbon budgets» set at least fifteen years ahead, and with progress reported annually to parliament.

Adair Turner's committee on climate change publishes its final report today, marking out how UK will set its carbon budget for the next 15 years.

The UK has massively overstated its reduction in carbon emission, say two new reports which casts a harsh light on Britain's environmental policy.

The report accepts minister's efforts to include aviation in the EU emissions trading scheme, where firms would be given a certain allocation of carbon credits to buy and sell on the open market, but warns this is still «years away».

Less commented on, but of equal importance, were the conclusions of an environmental audit committee report on personal carbon credits.

The report called on councils to take on responsibility for cutting household carbon emissions, pointing to lagging, insulating, re-glazing and modernising as opportunities to improve energy efficiency.