Sentences with phrase «so emissions reduction projects»

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So companies in the developed world have an annual limit on the level of greenhouse gas emissions they can produce, and if they exceed their cap, they can purchase credits generated by the emission reduction projects or low - carbon technologies in developing countries.

A recent report by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America projects that so - called intelligent transportation systems (ITS) could achieve a 2 to 4 percent reduction in oil consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions each year over the next 10 years as these technologies percolate into the market.

The longer it takes to finalise the eligibility criteria under CORSIA, the smaller this potential supply may be; the most vulnerable of these projects are likely to cease emission reduction activities soon or may have already done so.

CO2 emissions in 2015 were 41 million tons less than the 2006 - 2008 baseline so the investments that were projected to avoid the release of 20.5 million tons of CO2 could account for no more than 50 % of the observed reduction.

The ECR trigger price will be $ 6.00 in 2021, and rise at 7 % per year, so that the ECR will only trigger if emission reduction costs are lower than projected.

Therefore emitters of carbon can finance inexpensive projects to reduce carbon emissions and apply reductions achieved by these projects against their reduction obligations and in so doing reduce ghg emissions that cause climate change.

«With some level of warming and sea level rise already in the pipeline no matter what we do, we won't see a reduction in impacts or even a sudden levelling - off — impacts are projected to increase at the same rate in all scenarios for the next couple of decades or so, and after that they merely increase more slowly in the deep emissions cuts scenarios,» Betts told Mongabay.

Finally, if only 50 % of warming were due to human activities, future warming will be about half of the warming projected elsewhere in this report, so attributing more than 50 % of warming to humans doesn't by itself demonstrate a need for emissions reductions.

That just doesn't happen at $ 3.3 per ton, so lots of companies buy low externally and then sell high internally — but that leaves another problem: most emission - reduction projects simply aren't viable at $ 3.3 per ton.

Land use is also becoming more prominent in discussions under the Clean Development Mechanism, a carbon offset tool that supports emissions - reduction projects in developing countries so that developed countries earn certified emission reduction credits — while continuing to pollute.

Cap and trade may seem like the big offer on the emission reductions table at the moment — one mention of alternatives like a straight carbon tax send many people (the average American in particular) into apoplectic fits — but Annie «The Story of Stuff» Leonard wants you to take a closer look.There are so many troubling details in how cap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other options.

«Almost two - thirds of JI credits were used in the ETS, so the poor overall quality of JI projects may have undermined the EU's emission reduction target by some 400 million tonnes of CO2, about a third of the reductions required by the ETS from 2013 to 2020,» she said.

So, if a country has a Kyoto target to reduce emissions, we won't fund projects there since there is a danger the emission reductions would be double counted both by the offset funder AND by the country.