Sentences with phrase «time national carbon emissions»

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Managing transport demand on both the interurban and urban networks involves an increasingly important set of tools to meet the major national objectives of improving journey time reliability and reducing carbon emissions.

It also stirred confusion about the governor's legal authority and what will happen to the carbon trading program, which caps utility carbon dioxide emissions in 10 Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, at a time when national climate legislation appears dead on Capitol Hill.

Mike Hightower, a senior researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, cautions that reducing carbon emissions, while crucial, is just one part of the energy equation: Virtually every time you lower the carbon footprint in industrial energy production, he says, «you end up with a bigger water footprint.»

California, which leads the «union» states in carbon - reducing policies, cut emissions by 1.5 million metric tons in 2013 (compared with 2012); at the same time, its economy grew at a faster pace than the national average.

On her watch, EPA is writing first - time national carbon - pollution standards for power plants, the biggest source of unregulated greenhouse - gas emissions.

The letter, organised by Australian National University climatologist Andrew Glikson, calls on the federal government to make «meaningful reductions of Australia's peak carbon emissions and coal exports, while there is still time».

During her time at Urban Green, she worked with the New York City Mayor's Office to green the city's building codes, launched a national green training program for professionals in the construction industry, and published research on how to reduce the city's carbon emissions by 2050.

Though probably an unintended consequence, ratifying the Kyoto Protocol and fast - tracking a national emissions trading scheme are making it crunch time for the voluntary carbon market too.»