Sentences with phrase «transportation sector by»

Portland, OR, is proposing to meet all electricity demand with renewables by 2035, and to phase out fossil fuels from the transportation sector by 2050.

Project Get Ready is an initiative that helps cities across the continent make the shift away from fossil fuels in the transportation sector by implementing a network of plug ‐ in charging stations.

No matter which specific approach Lyft takes, by combining clean cars and clean energy with self - driving technology, the company expects to cut CO2 emissions for the US transportation sector by «at least 5 million tons per year by 2025,» at which point it estimates that it will be providing at least 1 billion rides each year with its autonomous EVs.

He also suggests that air capture could contribute to de-carbonizing the transportation sector by permitting us to combine hydrogen produced by water electrolysis with captured carbon dioxide to produce liquid fuels.

Increasing energy savings in the transportation sector by targeting Highway Trust Funds and Transportation Investment grants in APA so that they achieve greenhouse gas reductions.

A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

Make Burlington a «net zero energy city» across electric, thermal, and ground transportation sectors by managing demand, realizing efficiency gains, and expanding local renewable generation, while increasing system resilience.

Not exact matches

The global smart transportation sector is expected to grow to US$ 138 billion by 2020, up from US$ 46 billion this year, at a compound annual growth rate of 24 %, according to analysis firm Markets and Markets.

The reality, however, is that these on - demand platforms are doing a great job at supplying needed work to the unskilled workforce (i.e., delivery, transportation, etc.), however for skilled small business owners («SMBs»)-- like in the home services sector — the jobs are low paying and the clients are «owned» by the platforms themselves.

HOW TO BUILD A SMARTER CITY IoT Track hosted by Flex We assemble experts from energy, transportation, government, finance, and other sectors to discuss the challenges and successes of connecting our urban areas.

The iShares Transportation Average ETF (CBOE: IYT), the largest exchange - traded fund dedicated to transportation stocks, is lower by almost 3 percent this year, but some analysts believe the sectoTransportation Average ETF (CBOE: IYT), the largest exchange - traded fund dedicated to transportation stocks, is lower by almost 3 percent this year, but some analysts believe the sectotransportation stocks, is lower by almost 3 percent this year, but some analysts believe the sector can rebound.

That said, the oldest Boomers are past their «peak consumption years», meaning less spending on key categories like transportation, housing and apparel, with the windfall more than picked up by their children, netting out to about an average 0.77 % demographic driven annual growth rate across sectors through 2060.12

If one breaks down employment by sector, the statistics show that employment in manufacturing and other sectors that classical economists called «productive» — primary production in agriculture and mining, secondary production in industry, power production and transportation — has not risen since 1929.

In late October, I noted a condition that we characterize as a Whipsaw Trap - which essentially involves a breakdown in a broad set of market internals, followed by a recovery driven by some of the more volatile components (sectors such as financials and transportation stocks are good examples).

Meanwhile, Fidelity Transportation avoids riskier stocks in the sector by allocating only 24 % of capital to Dangerous - or - worse rated stocks.

The global dairy sector contributes 4 % to global GHG emissions with an estimated 2.7 % coming from global milk production, processing, and transportation, according to a report conducted by the FAO in 2007.

Inflation, which remains still high at 19.2 percent in March 2016, is being affected by the increase in utility tariffs, energy sector levies and transportation costs, but core inflation has started to decline in recent months.»

Innovators in transportation will be better able to solve the pressing challenges facing the sector following the launch of a comprehensive new data facility by the Transport Systems Catapult.

More must be done by the highways and transportation sector to promote itself as an exciting place to forge a career

I think it should therefore be a livable streets mantra that transportation - related expenses should be met by revenues specifically generated from within the transportation sector.

Bracknell, UK, 24 July 2012 — Diversified technology company 3M addresses vandalism and graffiti issues in the transportation sector with two new overlaminates designed to protect train graphics and surfaces from damage caused by spray painting, felt tip markers and other methods.

He promised the audience that although the change desired by Nigerians could not possibly happen in just one year, they would soon start to see an improvement in the transportation sector, as a lot of work going on in the background.

CIHT is encouraging its members help inspre a new generation of transportation professionals by becoming STEM ambassadors and sharing their experiences of the sector in local schools, colleges and universities.

The transportation sector has the capacity to nearly halve its CO2 emissions by 2050 and, hence, to contribute far more than previously thought to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

reported in the journal «Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.

In the transportation sector, the new CAFÉ standards for model years 2017 - 2025 are expected to decrease greenhouse by 2 billion metric tons.

Were that to happen, emissions would be as high as the entire transportation sector, which takes up 14 % of global greenhouse emissions, currently dominated by pollution from cars and trucks.

Alongside electricity generation, the transportation sector is the largest emitter of pollutants produced by the burning of fossil fuels.

It's more than the total global transportation sector that's produced by the livestock industry.

For the 55 percent of its total emissions produced by the building, transportation and other dispersed sectors that are difficult to monitor, the E.U. and its member states have extended a wide array of existing policies.

Trump, who has called climate change a «hoax,» has re-committed the U.S. to coal energy, which was the largest single source of climate pollution in the U.S. until being eclipsed by the transportation sector last year.

For instance, if the transportation sector one day shifts to a smaller fleet of self - driving vehicles and if builders are able to reduce steel demand by using alternate materials — like, say, wood - framed buildings — it could drastically reduce the overall metal footprint.

The Act struck a compromise between allowing the Obama Administration to proceed with its plan to turn crew transportation to low Earth orbit (LEO) over to the private sector and Congress's desire to keep NASA in the human spaceflight business by building «beyond LEO» systems — SLS and Orion — to take astronauts further into space.

According to an assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, «the contribution of the livestock sector to global greenhouse gas emissions exceeds that of transportation,» and a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimated the impact of a global move to a plant - based diet could reduce global mortality by 6 to 10 percent and reduce food - related greenhouse gas emissions by 29 to 70 percent.

This office is the preeminent source of objective, credible, and timely transportation statistics that are the basis for critical policy and investment decision making by governments at every level, the private sector, and the general public.

BELGRADE, June 28 (Reuters)- Serbia's gross domestic product rose by 2.1 percent in the first quarter of 2013, the Statistics Office said on Friday, driven mainly by the information and communications, mining, and transportation sectors.

The CMV Safety Belt Partnership is a collaboration among the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, other government agencies, and industry specific private - sector organizations designed to encourage safety belt use by commercial motor vehicle drivers.

The DOT believes that open data initiatives improve the effectiveness of transportation decisions by making DOT's extensive data available and usable to all levels of government, the private sector, and the general public.

The TIFIA program seeks to advance critical transportation infrastructure nationwide by leveraging federal, state, local, and private sector funding sources.

The term intelligent transportation infrastructure means fully integrated public sector intelligent transportation system components, as defined by the Secretary.

methods to encourage cooperation and interoperability of transportation data collected by the Bureau, the operating administrations of the Department, States, local governments, metropolitan planning organizations, and private sector entities.

MLP investment opportunities tend to be in the energy sector because 90 % of the income generated by an MLP must come from exploration, mining, extraction, refining of oil and gas and the transportation of alternative fuels like biodiesel.

By some calculations, livestock may contribute nearly 15 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire transportation sector.

According to the researchers» calculations, New York's 2030 power demand for all sectors (electricity, transportation, heating / cooling, industry) could be met by:

To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving would simply have to increase, according to a report released Thursday by researchers at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Climate change responses employed by other sectors (for example, energy, agriculture, transportation) are creating new ecosystem stresses, but also can incorporate ecosystembased approaches to improve their efficacy.

The Compendium concludes that moving towards carbon - free electricity is possible by 2050, while achieving a carbon - free future in the transportation sector will take considerably longer.

Emissions within the transportation sector are primarily from fuel used by on - road vehicles, such as passenger cars and trucks.

The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Clean Power Plan already calls for existing power plants to trim emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, and the administration is looking to use the EPA to force further improvements in fuel efficiency in the transportation sector, among other measures.

So far increases in industrial and transportation emissions have been roughly balanced out by shrinking agricultural sector emissions.