Princeton engineer Rob Socolow developed a list of available technologies to achieve these energy switches, including: increased energy efficiency, fuel switching, more renewables, nuclear power, conservation, appliance efficiency, emission control, carbon sequestration, tree planting, and international cooperation.
The Shenzhen ETS features extensive coverage consisting of three types of regulated entities and four categories of covered emissions, in order to control carbon emissions by both improving energy efficiency and restraining growing energy demand.
Meanwhile, the oil and gas industry is fighting tooth and nail against regulations -- not only those that control methane emissions but those that control carbon emissions too -- claiming the industry can and will voluntarily find and fix leaks.
The model comparison results focus on aggregate projections of economic growth, energy use, carbon emissions, fuel choice, and carbon taxes required to control carbon emissions.
To fulfill its Copenhagen pledges to control carbon emissions and mitigate climate change, China plans to establish a nationwide emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2016.
The basic idea of a cap-and-trade system is to control carbon emissions by creating a regulated marketplace in which polluters can buy and sell emissions while adhering to aggregate caps.
Emissions Trading System: A financial market created by the European Union to trade the carbon allowances issued to industries to control carbon emissions.
Following California's lead, a group of Northeastern States have created a partnership known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to control carbon emissions.
