It is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the amount of emissions that something produces or usually releases. For example: "The new factory is expected to have higher emissions intensity than the existing one."
It says the government should consider creating an emissions intensity standard to govern the regulated closure of highly emissions intensive power stations and legislate a market mechanism that would allow a rational sequence of closures, where the dirtiest power stations close first.
Business and Australia's energy sector has been calling on the government to deliver policy certainty in order to allow an orderly transition in the electricity sector from emissions intensive sources of power generation to low emissions technologies.
The groups say certainty about the outlook for emissions reduction is critical if Australia's energy sector is to make an orderly transition, and they warn that policy intervention could be required to help low-income households, displaced workers and emissions intensive trade exposed industries adjust to a low-emissions future.
"We know that shale gas is a lot more emissions intensive than the use of conventional gas, for example.
"While the industry has taken steps to reduce emissions, the shift from mining to in-situ production, which is almost three times as emissions intensive as mining, is resulting in a continued acceleration of emissions from this sector".
One issue to tackle is the provision of incentives so citizens can change their consumption behaviour away from emissions intensive luxury goods.
On the other hand, in countries of Types V to VIII, industrial structure change contributes to global warming and therefore these countries need to take warming countermeasures that focus on reducing emissions from emissions-intensive industries.
The Queensland minister said he would need more detail across a range of fronts before making a decision about whether to sign on – including how the proposed electricity target of 26% could be reviewed and scaled up in the future, whether energy companies would be allowed to buy offsets to reduce their emissions, and the treatment of emissions-intensive electricity generators.
"On the authority's figuring, achievement of the recommended target of a 30% reduction in emissions by 2025 would still have Australia with a more emissions-intensive economy (and higher per person emissions) than any major developed country other than Canada".
A report from the UCS released in April 2012 found that even in the U.S. region with the most emissions-intensive electricity grid, greenhouse-gas emissions attributable to electric vehicles are equivalent to those produced by gasoline cars that get 31 40 miles per gallon.
If the United States adopted a tradable permit system that treated emissions from domestic producers identically to emissions associated with imported goods, then products that are more emissions-intensive, whether domestic or imported, would require more permits and thus be more expensive.
