Sentences with phrase «uses aviation emissions»

The agreement uses aviation emissions levels in 2020 as a benchmark and aims to reduce growth above that level by 80 % until 2035.

Not exact matches

Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

Alternatives for aviation industry and the military pose issues related to land use, clearing peatland, fertilizer use, costs and more emissions

They appear to be related to differences in interpretation of INDCs, assumptions about other countries, level of disaggregation for small countries, choice of global warming potentials to compute carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, treatment of emissions related to land use, and treatment of international aviation and maritime shipping.

Emissions from aviation and marine bunker fuels used in international transport do not enter into any national undertakings.

Emissions from aviation are extensively studied, with data from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) used to ensure alignment with other solution models.

Yet, according to ICAO's 2013 projections, shown in the graph below, emissions from the aviation industry are set to grow 200 % -360 % on current levels by 2050, including the maximum use of lower - carbon alternative fuels.

Emissions from fuel used for international aviation and maritime transport.

Information relevant to emissions from fuel used for international aviation and maritime transport.

Growth in aviation emissions alone offset more than one third of the emissions decline from falling coal use in the electric power sector.

Even in a best - case scenario — where aviation companies choose to buy only UNFCCC credits, and the UNFCCC chooses not to include forest and land use credits — there's still another way that airlines could be offsetting emissions on paper and increasing emissions in practice: double counting.

In Mueller's words, «it would not seem too farfetched to think that in California, at least, there could be sufficient political will to earmark some share of, say, California's aviation revenue as a solidarity charge for the poorest and most vulnerable countries,» or that «California could decide to use part of the revenue from auctioning allowances for its emission trading scheme.»