Sentence examples for emission ceilings from inspiring English sources

To meet the reduction target set in 2007, the plan would tighten European Union emission ceilings on energy and manufacturing companies beginning in 2013.

And even if nations were to accept emission ceilings under a so-called cap-and-trade system, there is enormous disagreement over how the accounting would work.

Obama was behind the last-minute pact among a group of large nations promising to make public any progress towards meeting new emission ceilings.

The proposals, which will have to be studied by countries, included setting stricter emission ceilings by 2030 for six major pollutants, including particulate matter (PM) or the fine dust emitted by vehicles and shipping, sulphur dioxide which contributes to acid rain and soil acidification, and nitrogen oxides emitted by road vehicles.

Field data have been provided by street emission ceilings (SEC) team for use in SEC intercomparison model exercise.

However, national emission ceilings laid down in European Commission's Directive status reports are not based on actual recorded pollution but on computed theoretical modelling such as e.g. TREMOVE, TREMOD or COPERT[78].

The new national emissions ceilings rules are expected to halve the number of deaths from air pollution.

We will be guided by them," Mr Obama said, a reference to the record of the Bush White House, which queried the link drawn by scientists between climate change and human activity and resisted calls for a global regime of emissions ceilings.

The company gave each business unit the choice of bringing itself into compliance by cutting its own emissions, buying emissions credits from other units or making enough greenhouse-gas reductions to have leftover permits that could be sold to other business units that violate their emissions ceilings.

The reduction is widely viewed as a prelude to a major change expected by the end of the review period this summer: the potential tightening of emissions ceilings for electric power providers, which are currently set to reduce emissions by 10 percent by 2018.

The decline — which put the price of the benchmark futures contract dated December 2010 at $18.20 per ton — reflects the European market's deflated expectations that the meetings would lead to a treaty to lower emissions ceilings and boost the price of permits.