Sentences with phrase «verified emissions reporting»
The best programs start with third - party verified emissions reporting and tracking systems from the outset.
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The numerous rules will address issues such as how countries will track and report their emissions and have them verified, all in a transparent way; how countries will be required to communicate their future emissions - reduction plans as well as their pledges for funding adaptation efforts; and if and how market mechanisms, such as emissions trading between countries, will be applied to national targets.
How to establish a system for use by developing countries to monitor, report and verify their emission cuts has emerged as the most contentious issue in the talks and the main sticking point between America and China.
«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;
This workshop will discuss key environmental considerations in the development of a REDD offset program including the establishment of reference levels against which emissions reductions should be measured, systems to monitor, report and verify avoided deforestation and degradation, and ways to ensure that programmatic emissions reductions are in addition to those that would have otherwise taken place.
The site includes a number of protocols developed to assist members and verifiers in the process of calculating, reporting, and verifying an emissions inventory.
Its independently - verified Sustainability Report provides a range of information that spans from major stakeholder engagement activities to safety and environmental performance, such as emissions, waste and water discharged.
One of the goals of the four - year study is helping developing countries to develop robust monitoring, reporting and verifying (MRV) systems in order to accurately measure their effectiveness in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
U.S. negotiators are trying to at least get developing countries to agree to an international scheme for monitoring, reporting, and verifying (known as MRV in UN-speak) their emissions and how climate change aid is spent before agreeing to the climate fund.
The system covers the following sectors and gases with the focus on emissions that can be measured, reported and verified with a high level of accuracy:
News from Bangkok on Thursday was of a continuing rift between rich and poor over how mitigation efforts (emissions reduction targets) will be structured, financed, reported, and verified.
A top performer in the July 2009 David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute report on Purchasing Carbon Offsets: A Guide for Canadian Consumers, Businesses, and Organizations, Carbonzero has led the way in setting the industry standards for measurable and verified emissions reduction offsets in Canada.
The decisions govern, among other things, modalities for monitoring national forests, addressing the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, and measuring, reporting and verifying activities designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress by July 1, 2013, and every four years thereafter, on an analysis of: (1) key findings based on the latest scientific information relevant to global climate change; (2) capabilities to monitor and verify GHG reductions on a worldwide basis; and (3) the status of worldwide efforts for reducing GHG emission, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.
«(E) improve the accuracy and reliability of capabilities to monitor, report, and verify greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts.
«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;
But China is backtracking on its willingness to agree to measures would allow pledged emissions reductions to be reported and independently verified, according to the US delegation.
The Cancun agreements outline a phased approach to strengthening efforts by developing countries to reduce emissions from deforestation and other forestry - related activities, starting with the development of national strategies and «evolving into results - based actions that should be fully measured, reported, and verified.»
The Agreement has strong legally binding provisions on how to measure, report and verify emissions reduction commitments.
How do you measure, report and verify emission reductions from forests?
A top performer in the 2009 David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute report on Carbon Offsetting, Carbonzero has led the way in setting the leading industry standards for measurable, verified emissions reduction offsets in Canada.
The bottom line is that emissions reporting, verifying, and certification, followed by tax collection, is not going to be easy, especially in China, where rule by law is still only developing.
Verified emissions have reduced from a high of 22.43 million metric tonnes in 2005 to the 20.38 million metric tonnes reported for 2008.
The impasse — reported to be between Brazil (a potential beneficiary of REDD +) and Norway (the largest funder of tropical forest conservation)-- revolved around language governing the standards by which deforestation - related emissions would be verified.
13 December 2009 COPENHAGEN CIFOR's third annual Forest Day has wrapped up at COP 15 in Copenhagen, where new technologies are making it easier and more cost - effective than ever to measure, report, and verify the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).
Develop modalities for measuring, reporting and verifying emissions by sources, removals by sinks, forest carbon stocks, and forest area changes
The Paris Agreement has increased the incentive to verify reported anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions with independent Earth system observations.
Forget Carbon Emissions: How Do We Measure, Report and Verify This Agreement?
By reporting its verified greenhouse gas emissions, it shows that it gets the new spirit of transparency and environmental accountability that we need in creating a greener economic recovery.
-- A package of details on how to monitor, report and verify emissions reductions by developed countries and climate protection actions taken by poorer ones, or MRV in UN jargon.
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