As
with national emissions, this list would look different if all greenhouse gases were included.
Not exact matches
The EPA
with cooperation from the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and California Air Resources Board established in 2010 a single national program of greenhouse gas emissions standards for model year 2012 - 2025 v
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and California Air Resources Board established in 2010 a single
national program of greenhouse gas emissions standards for model year 2012 - 2025 v
national program of greenhouse gas
emissions standards for model year 2012 - 2025 vehicles.
A peer - reviewed study performed at the Energy Department's Argonne
National Laboratory in 2012 found that biofuels made
with corn residue were 95 per cent better than gasoline in greenhouse gas
emissions.
It's great to see a net - zero building code, a
national zero -
emission vehicle strategy, and plans to make Canada's clean power go further
with new transmission lines.
First, Trudeau had to work
with the NDP government in Alberta to twin his plan for a
national price on carbon
with its provincial plan and
with its idea to put an
emission cap on the oil sands.
There targets will be achieved through government laws imposed on industries, as well as
national caps for industrial
emissions commonly associated
with smog and acid rain.
«Greenhouse gas
emissions are going to go through the roof
with a project of this kind,» said Wilderness Committee
National Campaign Director Joe Foy «From escaped methane at the drill sites to the massive carbon
emissions required to cool the gas, to more escaped methane on the long trip across the ocean to Asia and then the
emissions from burning the gas.
Oral Questions - UK's balance of trade
with the EU Oral Questions - Office for
National Statistics review of the methodology of calculating changes in prices Oral Questions - How the draft Energy Bill will deliver reductions in greenhouse gas
emissions Legislation - Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
«Our hope is that all countries will come forward
with their
national goals and [collectively cut
emissions] 40 percent by 2025,» said A.K. Abdul Momen, permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations.
The
National Hockey League will significantly reduce its carbon footprint — as well as the greenhouse gas
emissions of its 30 franchise teams — through improved energy conservation, detailed efficiency analyses and the purchase of renewable energy certificates (RECs) under a newly signed agreement
with Constellation Energy Group, the league announced yesterday.
Together
with Ron Ekers of the Australia Telescope
National Facility, he found that the modelled transformation matched the distinctive winged
emissions of some X-shaped galaxies.
«You might expect air quality would decline if ammonia
emissions go up, but this shows it won't happen, provided the
emissions from combustion go down,» said Fabien Paulot, an atmospheric chemist
with Princeton University and the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who was not involved in the study.
The «pan-Canadian framework» on climate change is not fully fleshed out but does call for a
national meeting
with provinces within 90 days of the Paris climate conference in December to establish new
national emissions targets and «targeted funding» to provinces to meet those targets.
Speaking at the
National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., Clinton proposed an international «
emissions trading system» that would allow companies in developing countries to buy the right to pollute from companies
with cleaner technologies.
Instead, the Administration's plans for energy conservation and using energy sources
with less CO2
emission will help in the short - term, he said; down the road, a new
National Climate Change Technology Initiative will help develop cutting - edge technologies such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration, Bush said.
If CO2
emissions reductions are moderately reduced in line
with current
national pledges under the Paris Climate Agreement, biomass plantations implemented by mid-century to extract remaining excess CO2 from the air still would have to be enormous.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — In the run - up to
national elections on 21 August, the country's top science body, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), has weighed in on the climate change debate
with a report backing the mainstream scientific view that human - induced climate change is real and that a business - as - usual approach to carbon
emissions will lead to a «catastrophic» four - to five - degree increase in average global temperatures.
Coupled
with an
emissions growth rate of 3.3 percent — triple the growth rate of the 1990s — the atmospheric burden is now rising by nearly two parts per million of CO2 a year, the fastest growth rate since 1850, the international team of researchers reports in Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences USA.
Lackner and colleagues argued in a paper published last July in Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences that air capture may prove the only way to deal
with greenhouse gas
emissions from transportation, all those tailpipes and engine exhausts on the world's millions of cars, airplanes and other vehicles.
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.»
Indonesia's
national plan to cut
emissions, officially called an intended nationally determined contribution, or INDC, committed the country to reduce
emissions 29 percent by 2030 compared
with business - as - usual projected
emissions and a conditional 41 percent reduction
with international support.
Last June, the weekend before EPA posted its draft proposal for the Clean Power Plan (CPP) to regulate
emissions from the country's power sector, the president spoke at the Children's
National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., after visiting children
with asthma.
The satellite data is being combined
with that collected by the
National Lightning Detection Network and from a network of sensors that measure low - frequency electromagnetic
emissions, or «sferics,» and changes in the direction of the electric field.
They found that, broadly speaking, higher
national investment in these environmentally - friendly incentive schemes over a five - year period correlated
with increased levels of bird biodiversity and lower rates of gas
emissions from farming.
Using publicly available data from NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, independent scientists at the Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Chicago have developed new maps showing that the galactic center produces more high - energy gamma rays than can be explained by known sources and that this excess
emission is consistent
with some forms of dark matter.
«(B) except as provided in paragraph (5) or (6), the quantity of the international offset credits is determined by comparing the
national emissions from deforestation relative to a
national deforestation baseline for that country established, in accordance
with an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A), pursuant to paragraph (4);
A group of summer students making a long - shot astronomical gamble
with the
National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Large Array (VLA) have found the first radio
emission ever detected from a brown dwarf, an enigmatic object that is neither a star nor a planet, but something in between.
With a sustained
national commitment, the United States could obtain substantial energy - efficiency improvements, new sources of energy, and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through the accelerated deployment of existing and emerging energy technologies, according to the prepublication copy of the capstone report of the America's Energy Future project of the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engi
national commitment, the United States could obtain substantial energy - efficiency improvements, new sources of energy, and reductions in greenhouse gas
emissions through the accelerated deployment of existing and emerging energy technologies, according to the prepublication copy of the capstone report of the America's Energy Future project of the
National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engi
National Research Council, the operating arm of the
National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engi
National Academy of Sciences and
National Academy of Engi
National Academy of Engineering.
Frail, an astronomer at the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico, along
with Shri Kulkarni and Josh Bloom, astronomers at Caltech, discovered radio
emission coming from a strange object 15,000 light - years away in our own Milky Way Galaxy.
«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of
national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term
emissions reductions... coupled
with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them
with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.
Mitigation — reducing
emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal
with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their
emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit
national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.
The
National Highway Traffic Safety Admin., the Environmental Protection Agency and the state of California, along
with a heavy dose of input from auto makers, will release a proposal by Sept. 1 outlining the new round of fuel - economy and
emissions regulations for the 2017 - 2025 timeframe.
The Government of Canada is moving forward
with provincial and territorial partners, industry and stakeholders, to develop a
national strategy to increase the number of zero -
emission vehicles (ZEVS)-- battery electric, plug - in hybrid, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles — on Canadian roads by 2018.
With respect to these vehicles, for vehicle - related taxes or other duties based (at least inter alia) on CO2
emissions, the CO2 values may differ to the values stated here (depending on
national legislation).
Channel Islands Region Incentive - Based Vessel Speed Reduction Programs 2014 and 2016 In 2014, in partnership
with local agencies and non-government organizations, Channel Islands
National Marine Sanctuary launched a trial incentive program to slow ships down in the Santa Barbara Channel to reduce air
emissions and reduce the likelihood of fatality from a ship strike to endangered whales in the region.
In 2014, in partnership
with local agencies and non-government organizations, Channel Islands
National Marine Sanctuary launched a trial incentive program to slow ships down in the Santa Barbara Channel to reduce air
emissions and reduce the likelihood of fatality from a ship strike to endangered whales in the region.
So in connection
with the major economies process we launched, we're urging each country to develop its own
national goals and plans to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions.
One of the interesting results by Tony and others working on the NY and similar
national studies was that even the majority of those who expressed apocalyptic connotations
with global warming far beyond anything supported by the science were unwilling to pay more at the pump for gas to reduce carbon
emissions.
The
National Academies, fulfilling a congressional request, have issued a trio of invaluable reports affirming the scientific case for a growing and largely harmful human influence on climate; proposing a path and strategies for curbing American
emissions of heat - trapping gases; and urging the country to work to cut risks attending life
with no new «normal» climate patterns or coastlines.
For a long time now, California has always been allowed to set fuel economy and
emissions standards that exceed the
national standards, and auto makers simply have had to deal (usually by making all of their cars comply
with the California standard).
A sobering new analysis of HFC
emission trends, published Monday in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, forecasts that by midcentury,
emissions of these chemicals could be heating the atmosphere
with the same punch as 7 or 8 billion tons a year of carbon dioxide.
I had a recent phone chat
with Susan Solomon of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration about the CO2 challenge in the face of
emissions trajectories like those in the oil companies» reports.
The study, «Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane
emissions from shale gas development,» was published in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences and undertaken by Dana R. Caulton and Paul B. Shepson of Purdue and a host of co-authors, including Anthony Ingraffea and Robert Howarth, Cornell scientists who are prominent foes of fracking, along
with Renee Santoro of Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy, a nonprofit group that has been critical of fracking * (Ingraffea is affiliated
with the group, as well).
If the U.S. electric grid operated as it did in the 2000s
with coal as king then annual
national emissions would be 475 million metric tons of CO2 higher.
Now consider this: to deal
with greenhouse gas
emissions, international agreements and
national government policies and regulations are being proposed and enacted (at least in Europe and Canada).
We will need to wait until the 16 academic - lead studies are completed to compare them
with the
national top - down
emissions rate reported by Miller et al. for fossil fuel related
emissions, including end uses and natural leakage, neither of which is being measured in these studies.
Third, any
national program must be designed
with an eye for the private sector incentives to cut
emissions not just at home but also overseas.
It is by this lack of specific demands on govt that CoP21 in Paris is on track to discuss merely short - term voluntary «pledges»,
with the US refusing to discuss the requisite framework for the equitable and efficient allocation of tradable
national emission rights under a declining global carbon budget.
In a world where countries adopt different
national emission control strategies one of the chief tasks of government is to manage those
national programs at the «seams» — where they interact
with the rest of the world economy.
Coal pollution combined
with emissions from China's burgeoning industries and the exhaust of a fast - growing
national vehicle fleet are plenty enough to impair breathing and jeopardize health.