And insurance companies themselves are investing in financial products that tap into markets for tradable carbon-emission credits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Of course, nuclear power is not the only carbon emission-free option.
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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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.
Moreover, backing carbon-efficient building is one way to meet emission-reduction targets by 2020, as the government is committed to doing.
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Its lead in hybrid technology is under threat as other big carmakers scramble to bring low- and zero-emission vehicles to market before low-carbon legislation bites.
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.
His ministry's calculations, which predate China's announcement, allegedly show that such emission-curbing steps could reduce the carbon intensity of India's economy by around 25% by 2020 compared with 2005 levels.
Long-term regulations were needed to phase out carbon emissions in key areas - by reducing vehicle emissions and work towards "a zero-emission vehicle standard across Europe".
At the annual meeting of the Carbon Disclosure Project--a non-profit investor organization devoted to greater transparency in greenhouse gas emission statistics--Sun released a set of open-source software tools that companies can use to track carbon emissions.
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.
So, a hydrogen fuel-cell car even running ... on hydrogen derived from natural gas cuts that carbon emission by 60%.
In his speech, the Arizona senator proposed capping carbon emissions incrementally, with the goal of returning to 1990 emission levels by the year 2020 using a cap-and-trade program.
In his speech Monday, the presumed GOP nominee proposed capping carbon emissions incrementally, with the goal of returning to 1990 emission levels by the year 2020 using a cap-and-trade program.
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