Sentences with phrase «sector emissions trend»
A shift away from burning coal to cleaner natural gas and renewable sources has seen power sector emissions trend downwards since 2007.
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If current trends persist, the transportation sector will overtake power sector as the largest source of U.S. emissions.
In fact, absent new measures Environment Canada's 2014 emissions trends report projected that oil sands emissions would drive increased emissions from the oil and gas sector of 45 Mt CO2e (to a total of 204 MtCO2e) between 2005 and 2020, offsetting the emission reductions made in other sectors.
The annual event will feature expert speakers and panelists that will discuss and share the latest trends, technologies, and opportunities related to the zero - emission heavy - duty vehicle sector.
Researchers at Stanford University who closely track China's power sector, coal use, and carbon dioxide emissions have done an initial rough projection and foresee China possibly emitting somewhere between 1.9 and 2.6 billion tons less carbon dioxide from 2008 to 2010 than it would have under «business as usual» if current bearish trends for the global economy hold up.
They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»
The «Synapse Electricity Snapshot 2016» (available here) highlights several major trends in 2015 electric - sector capacity, generation, and CO2 emissions.
Waste and agriculture sector emissions were forecasted outside of the LEAP model based on historical trends.
The research looked at growth trends in the aviation industry and calculated that emissions from the sector would rise rapidly between now and 2050, assuming these trends continued.
A structural decomposition analysis decomposes the emission trends into key factors causing changes at the sector level.
In language that even George Orwell would not have imagined possible, Federal Environment Minister Leona Agglukaq has described the Environment Canada report as showing «significant progress», even as the projected emissions trend moves in further way from the 2020 target as a direct consequence of government policy of encouraging growth in the energy sector in Western Canada.