Carbon emission contributes to global warming and climate changes affecting our water supply and quality.
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After the European Parliament's rejection, spooked investors drove the already depressed price of carbon emission permits down by nearly half.
The sulfur counteracts the carbon, allowing coal-reliant nations to maintain carbon emission levels as long as sulfur emissions keep pace.
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So, a hydrogen fuel-cell car even running ... on hydrogen derived from natural gas cuts that carbon emission by 60%.
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that when his country unveils its first targets for carbon emission cuts they would be "ambitious".
As world leaders meet in Copenhagen to consider drastic carbon emission restrictions that could require large-scale de-industrialization, experts gathered last week just outside Washington, D.
Of course, nuclear power is not the only carbon emission-free option.
In other words, a country would decide how its land-use carbon emission or absorption would be likely to change in future, and then to measure actual performance against that baseline.
"We acknowledge that there are benefits to aviation and we want to maximise those benefits while at the same time protecting our environment and meeting our carbon emission targets, " he says.
One such emerging tool is the voluntary carbon emission market, a place where corporations voluntarily buy emission credits to offset their own carbon emissions without regard for any requirement like a carbon cap.
While it's important to spend time on the biggest issues of the day, and truly understand policy proposals for health care reform or carbon emission reduction, it's also critical to keep one's legislative goals in mind.
Duncan Brack, a former member of the party's Federal Policy Committee, suggested Mr Osborne "seemed to have declared war on green energy" by seeking to revise green regulation, cut subsidies for offshore wind and carbon emission targets.
Regulations restricting use of landfills as well as the carbon emission reductions under the Kyoto Protocol have spurred further innovation and investment in Europe, particularly in the U.K., which is one of the most mature markets for renewable energy.
It also said "great uncertainty" remained over the planned transition at the end of the year from Cert (Carbon Emission Reduction Target) to the UK government's "Green Deal" - a scheme which aims to improve the energy efficiency of homes by eliminating the need for householders to pay upfront for efficiency measures.
And insurance companies themselves are investing in financial products that tap into markets for tradable carbon-emission credits.
The idea is that carbon dioxide emission reductions will result as travelers switch from automobile and airlines use.
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Supporters of nuclear power say reactors provide reliable, zero-carbon-emission energy the country needs to avoid dependency on natural gas.
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Glass--despite being cheap, easy to produce and easy to recycle--is very heavy and racks up the carbon-emission counts during transportation.
European rules restricting use of landfills and the carbon-emission reductions under the Kyoto Protocol have spurred further innovation and investment in Europe in green technologies.
Ministers are trying to make planning rules more nuclear-friendly, and hope that tighter carbon-emission limits will help nuclear energy shine by comparison with fossil-fuel plants.
Greenhouse gas (carbon) emission for these vehicles also must fall by 34 percent from the 2016 levels by 2025, according to the California Air Resources Board.
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If more countries introduce contracts for carbon-emission quotas compatible with those traded in the EU (which use a unit called the European Union Allowance), the result could be a single worldwide market one day.
"Tidal turbine technology is one of the key renewable technologies that will help the UK achieve the carbon dioxide emission reduction targets and is a clean, sustainable replacement for ever more expensive fossil fuels, " she said.
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To pay for his plans and get the deficit down to manageable levels, he would return top tax rates to where they were before George Bush cut them, extract more from the rich by capping their deductions, increase taxes on corporations and auction carbon-emission permits.
Speeding up the deployment of CCS requires a carbon market, emission standards and some early financial incentives.
Its report compares the additional costs imposed on electricity producers in six countries by anti-warming strategies, including carbon taxes, emission-trading schemes and clean-energy subsidies.
Even if the electric car is driven for 90, 000 miles and the owner stays away from coal-powered electricity, the car will cause just 24% less carbon-dioxide emission than its gas-powered cousin.
The first is that the emission of carbon dioxide is a fundamental part of today's industrial infrastructure.
More mature offerings include rich library of emission factors and carbon allowances and credits management.
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