Sentences with phrase «sequestration activities»

U.S. forests sequester 10 percent of all annual domestic carbon emissions, a figure that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates could be doubled if forest owners engaged in more carbon sequestration activities.

Although this is an intuitively appealing approach, the benefits of the sequestration activities have not been compared with the opportunity cost of preserving the forest.

Right now, the only possibility of large - scale removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is through plant photosynthesis and related land - based carbon sequestration activities.

Requires the EPA Administrator to study and report on how the environmental statutes for which the EPA has responsibility would apply to carbon dioxide injection and geologic sequestration activities.

Carbon credits are tradable units that often relate to emissions reduction or sequestration activities, such as tree planting, improving energy efficiency or capturing methane from landfill.

These projects usually involve a project promoter (an aggregator) who oversees individual emissions reductions or sequestration activities as part of a single, umbrella project (an aggregation) that shares in the revenue from carbon credit sales.

President Trump's FY 2018 budget would also reduce funding for geologic carbon sequestration activities and eliminate biological carbon sequestration projects that inventory and track carbon stored in ecosystems across the United States.

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Within these sections, the review is further organized into sub-sections dealing with irrigation practices and farm equipment, fertilizer use, above - and below - ground net primary productivity, and C sequestration to illustrate how these activities influence GHG emissions in vineyards.

[3] See also Kerry's February 11, 2013 letter to Barbara Mikulski, Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee in which he describes in devastating detail the full scale of the impact of sequestration on state department activities.

Another emerging area is the ecological impact of activities related to the energy industry such as fracking or carbon sequestration.

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-- Activities that receive support under this subtitle shall not be issued offset credits for the greenhouse gas emissions reductions or avoidance, or greenhouse gas sequestration, produced by such aActivities that receive support under this subtitle shall not be issued offset credits for the greenhouse gas emissions reductions or avoidance, or greenhouse gas sequestration, produced by such activitiesactivities.

-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, may issue, in accordance with this section, international offset credits based on activities that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or increase sequestration of greenhouse gases, in a developing country.

Carbon sequestration is a promising strategy for mitigating carbon dioxide emissions resulting from human activity.

Students compare the carbon sequestration potential for land - use types in their state, compare this to the amount of carbon released by human activities, and then discuss forests» ability to sequester atmospheric carbon.

They are typically relatively small fluxes of CO2, as are the sequestration of C from those reservoirs to gelogic reservoirs either as organic C or inorganic C (carbonate minerals)-- an exception being the result of recent human activity.

Adding phosphorous to the ocean via existing activities may have greater long - term carbon sequestration potential than iron or nitrogen fertilization schemes.

Authorizes the EPA Administrator to issue international offset credits based on activities that reduce or avoid GHG emissions, or increase sequestration of GHGs, in a developing country if: (1) the United States is a party to a bilateral or multilateral agreement that includes the nation hosting the offset project; and (2) the host nation is a developing country.

This activity report describes the FAO's integrated approach to sustainable forest management and outlines the ways forest management can help tackle climate change, including through carbon sequestration, strengthening adaptive capacity of trees, forests and forest - dependent communities, and conserving forest carbon stocks.

Starting January 1, 2016, the Administrator shall issue no offset credit pursuant to this subsection if the activity generating the greenhouse gas emissions reductions or avoidance, or greenhouse gas sequestration, occurs in a country and sector identified by the Administrator under subsection (c).

-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, may issue, in accordance with this section, international offset credits based on activities that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or increase sequestration of greenhouse gases, in a developing country.

Only substantial emission prices have the potential to address the worst case scenarios, because only when the market is enabled to value carbon sequestration will that activity grow to the needed scale.

Large - scale CCS projects in the power sector are now a reality, demonstrated by: * The world's first large - scale power sector CCS project — the Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end of 2016.

The allocated resources are spent on subsidizing costly technologies — for example, deep underground sequestration of carbon dioxide produced in power stations — that reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, or placing a tax on activities that produce carbon emissions.

Scientists are increasingly able to trace the source of earthquakes to human activities, including reservoirs, natural gas production through hydraulic fracturing, geothermal energy production, carbon sequestration, mining and water irrigation.

Project activities can include but are not limited to: transportation; combined heat and power; energy; livestock and agricultural; waste and wastewater; industrial sector; sequestration, including wood product substitution; and other activities on a technology - neutral basis.

Leakage also refers to GHG - related effects of GHG - emission reduction or CO2 - sequestration project activities that occur outside the project boundaries and that are measurable and attributable to the activity.

We've even seen an uptick in activity around activity to assess potential of carbon sequestration in the mining sector.

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'' Organization of field - wield advocacy activities — like 2013's hugely successful Empty Seats campaign, which demonstrated on a national scale the harmful effects of sequestration.