Indeed, virtually every existing low carbon technology was developed by the public, not the private sector.
These states will have the largest burden when it comes to reducing carbon from existing power plants.
One thing Obama didn't mention Tuesday night was new regulations on carbon emissions for existing power plants a senior administration official said.
Drawing on global best practice policies, we undertake to remove barriers, establish incentives, enhance capacity-building, and implement appropriate measures to aggressively accelerate deployment and transfer of key existing and new low-carbon technologies, in accordance with national circumstances.
The system costs less to install and maintain than the existing furnaces, it virtually eliminates carbon dioxide emissions and it enables the use of higher-quality, solvent-based paints.
Effective carbon policies can break the existing economic barriers and deployment should bring significant cost reductions.
Similarly, Ohio-based American Electric Power (nyse: AEP - news - people ) last month announced plans to place carbon capturing technologies on two existing coal plants by 2011.
He said the development of carbon capture should be restricted to existing coal-fired stations.
This typically means utilizing existing EPA Clean Air Act authority to regulate carbon emissions from electricity generation plants.
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He said that to ensure the future of blue carbon economies, they need to be incorporated into existing voluntary markets and included in future mitigation activities.
Colin Masson, worldwide director for ERP and supply chain, Microsoft: Beyond the direct energy and carbon footprint benefits that can be attained by migrating existing IT to the cloud, it is also a key enabler of sustainable supply chains.
The cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide is modeled, generally, after an existing one to cut sulfur dioxide one that was enacted in 1990 as part of the Clean Air Act with the approval of the elder President Bush.
We've also taken the lead on advancing carbon-capture technology to commercial scale for new and existing plants.
Existing ultracapacitors get their extra surface area by using electrodes coated with carbon and etched to produce holes, rather like a sponge.
And here's an astonishing fact: four-fifths of the allowable carbon dioxide emissions by 2035 are already locked in by existing power plants, factories and buildings.
But should he proceed with regulations to control pollution from existing coal-fired power plants, the single largest source of carbon pollution, those regulations probably will contribute to shuttering facilities already struggling to compete with cheap natural gas.
The government has made real progress on climate change with its pledge that new homes will be "zero carbon" by 2016, the report said, but needs to offset carbon from now until then by drastically reducing emissions from existing homes.
CCS, where carbon is removed from the flue gases, could be retrofitted to many existing plants.
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On coal, the new government has promised to continue existing support for four new "clean-coal" power stations, which bury carbon dioxide underground.
Until the day when the world can supply its colossal energy needs with 100% renewable energy, we need to decarbonise existing fossil-fuel power production, and CCS is a vital part of the carbon abatement strategy.
And absent a price on carbon, biomass-based chemicals and fuels need to be less expensive than existing products, not at price parity.
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The working group will gather scientific evidence to determine the role of coastal vegetated ecosystems in carbon storage and sequestration, encourage the inclusion of these systems in national carbon accounting, and consider their conservation and restoration as a viable mitigation strategy under existing climate regulation policies.
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