Sentences with phrase «target emission rate»

Then, the agency would set a target emission rate for each state for 2020, based on the state's baseline share of coal and gas generation.

Not exact matches

«All home buyers will be able to benefit from energy efficiency advice, with those receiving low green ratings of «F» and «G» especially targeted for support and grants to make improvements to cut their costs and carbon emissions.»

That target has been «applauded by the international community given China's emissions have been growing at rates of 5 % to 8 % over the past decade and a half,» says Canadell, who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, an international consortium of scientists studying the global carbon cycle.

Added Supekar, «The year - on - year emission reduction rate in such dramatic technology turnovers will exceed 5 percent after about 2020, which makes the 70 - percent target infeasible for all practical purposes.»

But a new study suggests that targeting such emissions in the next couple of decades may not help reduce rates of global warming as much as we thought.

The Kia Niro will combine a stylish SUV design with greater fuel economy than its rivals, with a target CO2 emissions rating of under 90 g / km (combined, based on the New European Driving Cycle).

But a carbon tax that increases over time at a persistent and predictable rate would minimize the expected economic cost of achieving any climate target (targets that depend, given the way the climate system works, on cumulative emissions over many decades).

Both find that the most directly relevant quantity is the total amount of CO2 ultimately released, rather than a target atmospheric CO2 concentration or emission rate.

But if we fail to reduce at the required rate — and the inadequate emissions targets indicate this is the intention — then we will be left with no option but to scrub the excess CO2 back out of the atmosphere in future.

The graph above shows the difference in 111 (d) emission rate from 2012 initial to 2030 target, measured in pounds of CO2 per megawatt - hour, for each state and for the United States as a whole.

The CPP specifies intensity rate targets for existing fossil fuel - fired electric generating units operating or under construction as of early 2014, with the stated aim of reducing carbon emissions in the power sector by 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030.

This is weaker than the EU's target of a 40 % reduction in emissions by 2030 on 1990 levels, and the US target of a 26 - 28 % reduction in emissions by 2025 on 2005 levels — although Jonathan Grant, head of sustainability and climate change at PwC, suggests Japan does need to decarbonise at a slightly faster rate than the EU and the US to hit its target.

In order to avoid high rates of decarbonization, milestones along an emissions pathway (e.g. 2020, 2030, 2050 targets) can be very helpful, especially for the investment community.

Emissions reductions larger than about 80 %, relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3Emissions reductions larger than about 80 %, relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3).»

Hence, the Stern Review» sown preferred scenario, as indicated, is a 550 ppm target that would see global greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2015, with the emission cuts that followed at a rate of 1 percent per year.

And yet, despite some encouraging developments in renewable energy and some breakthroughs in international leadership, carbon emissions continue to rise at a steady rate, and for their pains the scientists themselves — the cruelest blow of all — have been the targets of an unrelenting and well - organized attack that includes death threats, summonses from a hostile Congress, attempts to get them fired, legal harassment, and intrusive discovery demands so severe they had to start their own legal - defense fund, all amplified by a relentless propaganda campaign nakedly financed by the fossil - fuel companies.

This chart uses historical GHG emissions data and the targets and timetables in submitted pre-2020 pledges (for 2020 reductions) and INDCs to estimate the average annual change in emissions (decarbonization rate) from 2020 - 2030.

Energy efficiency plays a unique role as building block # 4 in the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) proposed Clean Power Plan, which sets carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rate targets for existing power plants by state.

• Reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) by 10 % from scopes 1 & 2 (direct emissions and indirect emissions from the consumption of electricity and heat) • Reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) by 50 % from scope 3 (indirect emissions and value chain emissions) • Target an overall rate of 80 % recycled aluminum for its products.

The target that resulted in the lowest emission levels was used in the calculation of the aggregate emissions (Whenever necessary, multiple initial growth rates were used.

INDC Scenario 1 shows the level of emissions consistent with meeting the INDC targets if independent GDP growth rate projections from the IMF and OECD are used for the intensity target calculations (see footnote 10 for more information).

Inclusion of short - term forcing agents within a rate - of - change target is a natural extension of this approach, and could provide a framework for including both emissions rates, or «flows», as well as cumulative emissions, or «stocks», into a set of climate targets that are better informed by current climate science than emissions rates in a given year or long - term concentrations.

This means that only two emission targets — the peak rate and cumulative carbon emissions — are needed to constrain two key indicators of CO2 - induced climate change (peak warming and peak warming rate), as evidenced by the maximum - likelihood estimation method used above.

May 10 (UPI)-- A new model tracks oil and gas extraction rates and how they impact the ability of major fossil fuel producers to meet global emission reduction targets.

«For our Kyoto targets Australia has had to do very little in reducing emissions in our energy sector, transport and elsewhere, simply because we've been able to bring down land - clearing rates,» he said.

This limited range of pathways all have a rate of warming less than 0.2 °C per decade, which initially suggests that a cumulative emissions target could be used to constrain rates of warming, assuming that rates of decline are kept at less than 4 per cent per year.

Our findings relating to the rates of warming also show that only two emission targets (peak emission rate and cumulative carbon emissions to 2200) are needed to constrain two key indicators of CO2 - induced climate change: peak warming and maximum rate of warming.

Some states such as Montana, which has the highest rate of emissions per megawatt - hour of power nationwide, will have higher targets than any of the seven that rely most on coal.

According to Reuters, «The plan gives states multiple options to achieve their emission targets, such as improving power plant heat rates; using more natural gas plants to replace coal plants; ramping up zero - carbon energy, such as solar or nuclear; and increasing energy efficiency.

In developing and emerging economies, slowing the rate of growth of using conventional transport modes with relatively high ‐ carbon emissions for passenger and freight transport by providing affordable, lowcarbon options could play an important role in achieving global mitigation targets.

A target of 25 % below 1990 emissions proposed by the opposition party (which subsequently formed a government following elections in August 2009) implies a rate of decarbonization of 4.6 % annually to 2020.

Both approaches indicate that the Japanese economy would have to achieve rates of decarbonization of 2.6 % to meet a 2020 target of reducing emissions by 15 % below 2005 levels, and 5.0 % to meet a 2050 target of an 80 % reduction below 2005 levels.

The actual amount of emissions reductions that are needed between now and 2020 is somewhat of a moving target depending on the level of uncertainty that society is willing to accept that a dangerous warming limit will be exceeded, the most recent increases in ghg emissions rates, and assumptions about when global ghg emissions peak before beginning rapid reduction rates.

Taiyong Zhong, vice Mayor of Guiyang Municipal People's Government, People's Republic of China presented the city's ambitions to turn climate change into an opportunity for the green economy with strong targets such as increasing the recycling rate of wastewater to 95 % amd reducing GHG emissions by 45 % by 2030.

In 2011, the College set five five - year sustainability targets: to cut paper consumption by half, achieve a 65 percent diversion rate for waste (achieved in 2012), achieve a 10 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and a five percent reduction in water use.

Specifically, we want to know the annual percentage rate at which emissions must be reduced to reach this target, and the dependence of this rate upon the date at which reductions are initiated.

On August 3rd, EPA released the final Clean Power Plan (CPP), a rule that sets performance rates and individual state targets for carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

To achieve long - term emissions reductions consistent with the 2 - degree temperature target in the Paris Agreement, an even faster rate of decarbonization is required.

But they have not been doing so at a rate consistent with keeping cumulative carbon emissions low enough to reliably stay below the international target of less than 2 degrees Centigrade of global warming.

If current rates of deforestation continue in Brazil and Indonesia, that would cancel out 80 percent of the cuts in emissions made by countries that meet their targets under the Kyoto climate treaty, according to Robert Glasser, the secretary general of CARE International, an aid organization.

Emission reductions larger than about 80 % relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level.»

global CO2 emissions continue to increase at higher than expected rates and a growing realization of the infeasibility of meeting emissions targets

Anderson is adamant that the familiar targets almost all politicians and many scientists use in public — e.g., «80 percent reduction in the rate of emissions by 2050» — are deeply misleading.

IMO it's misleading, because the US administration is still insisting (a) on only discussing emissions intensity targets (for reducing, not total emissions, but only the rate of growth of US emissions), and US emissions intensity will reduce even under business as usual; and (b) the US administration is still insisting on only considering voluntary targets, despite the fact that even many major US corporations are calling for mandatory caps and despite the fact that there is no evidence that their existing voluntary targets have made any difference.