Sentences with phrase «report on carbon emissions»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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».

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.

The environmental audit committee's report on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) points to underperformance in the scheme so far, concluding the «record in reducing carbon emissions is far less impressivEmissions Trading Scheme (ETS) points to underperformance in the scheme so far, concluding the «record in reducing carbon emissions is far less impressivemissions is far less impressive».

The new investment in carbon offsets and RECs should match the league's total greenhouse gas emissions, estimated at 550,000 metric tons, according to a league - commissioned report from the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Green Sports Alliance, a nonprofit that works with sports leagues on environmental sustainability.

Projected carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from cars could remain level at three gigatons through 2050 despite many more personal vehicles on the road with only minor and affordable changes to existing engines, chassis and systems, according to a new report.

The Electric Power Research Institute's report on decarbonizing electricity generation said an «aggressive» push on new technologies could lower 2005 - level carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 41 percent in 2030.

Eliminating this financial risk premium makes nuclear power levelized electricity cost competitive with that of coal, and it becomes lower than that of coal when a modest price on carbon dioxide emissions is imposed,» the report says.

ScienceInsider reported this week that the U.S. Senate rejected a resolution last week that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions based on its finding that they endanger human health, among other stories.

Two Australian academics serving on a government climate panel have publicly criticized their own committee's latest report as «untrue and dangerous,» stoking a long - running debate over the country's carbon emissions reduction strategies.

In a separate report released in September, EIA analysts predicted carbon emissions for 2016 will fall to their lowest level since 1992 — three years before the United Nations held the first of its 21 global summits on climate change, called the Conference of the Parties.

Naomi Zimmerman and colleagues analyzed four scenarios based on reported black carbon emissions from both traditional port fuel injection engines and newer gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines.

Ramanathan and colleagues will deliver a complementary report detailing the «three - lever» mitigation strategy of emissions control and carbon sequestration on Sept. 18 at the United Nations.

For example, he has said in recent years that vast carbon dioxide emissions might ultimately cause a runaway greenhouse effect like on Venus that would boil the oceans and make Earth uninhabitable, the Times reported.

«More than 10,000 million metric tons of carbon emissions were reported in 2010 from conventional fossil fuels and chemicals, which has a long - term catastrophic effect on our environment.»

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — In the run - up to national elections on 21 August, the country's top science body, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), has weighed in on the climate change debate with a report backing the mainstream scientific view that human - induced climate change is real and that a business - as - usual approach to carbon emissions will lead to a «catastrophic» four - to five - degree increase in average global temperatures.

Conventional processing methods use a high - temperature blast furnace to heat the iron ore and other compounds to remove oxygen and yield a desired alloy, a method that creates a lot of carbon dioxide, according to a report last year from U.S. EPA on greenhouse gas emissions from the iron and steel sector.

Although environmental groups believe investing in renewables is a better idea, «carbon abatement» techniques such as CCS could reduce fossil fuel emissions by up to 90 per cent, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

At one such session, Qian Zhimin, deputy director of China's National Energy Administration, told his fellow CPPCC delegates that solar energy and wind power will continue to play a major role in China's economy and in the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report on CPPCC's Web site.

Earlier today, The Hill newspaper reported that the plan «would roll back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.»

In the time since the 2007 version of this report, the human effect on the climate has grown more than 40 percent stronger, thanks to continued emissions of greenhouse gases and more precision in measurements, with carbon dioxide leading the charge.

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 third of food is wasted, making it third - biggest carbon emitter, UN says ROME, Sept 11 (Reuters)-- The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday... http://www.pointcarbon.com/news/reutersnews/1.2564792

The new report focuses on a controversial measure called the social cost of carbon (SCC), an estimate in dollars of the economic consequences of CO2 emissions.

«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the world may have as little as 15 years to «keep planetary warming to a tolerable level,» through an aggressive push to bring down carbon emissions.34

The report quotes public health experts who express concerns that carbon emissions associated with coal use will contribute to climate change and add to future public health problems - on top of the serious consequences of coal burning we are already seeing today.

With reports that schools are having to find innovative ways to raise money and deal with funding cuts, energy charity Carbon Trust has found ways schools can cut back and save money on energy, as well as reduce carbon emissions

The report takes a look at the effect of the book and magazine publishing industries on both trees and carbon emissions: the U.S. book and magazine sectors accounted for the harvesting of 125 million trees in 2008, and an average book has a carbon footprint of 7.46 kilograms of CO2 over its lifetime.

They all report that the study claims tourism accounts for 8 percent of carbon emissions, but that «previous estimates of the impact of all this travel on carbon suggested that tourism accounted for 2.5 - 3 % of emissions.»

The post centers on an interview with Glen Peters, a scientist who is one of the authors of this year's Global Carbon Budget report, tracking emissions trends for carbon dioxide from energy and cement production.

Related Brad Plumer filed a nice summary of the findings of a new Dutch government report showing that business as usual on global carbon dioxide emissions is no longer what it was thought to be even a few years ago: «Global carbon emissions grew more slowly in 2012.

Using this new information as well as other independent studies on methane emissions published since 2011, and the latest information on the climate influence of methane compared to carbon dioxide from the latest synthesis report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September of this year, it is clear that natural gas is no bridge fuel.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

He reports on a new «voluntary carbon standard» intended by its developers to increase confidence that a ton of avoided climate - warming emissions is real.

After five months of reporting, John Upton and others at Climate Central have put together a compelling and infuriating package on the growing flow of wood pellets from the Southeast, many from hardwood forests, to European power plants, where the result is touted as carbon - neutral energy and helps country's meet emissions targets — at least on paper.