Sentence examples for offset emission from inspiring English sources

The study indicates increased emissions from oil sands will more than offset emission reductions in other areas like electricity generation.

The article concludes that although a wide-ranged universal proportional carbon tax is superior to bilateral carbon trading, the tax rate becomes extremely high and impractical, and hence, expanding the network of bilateral offset emission trading is an efficacious measure for emission trading.

Kansas City Power & Light is buying more wind power to offset emissions from a coal plant under construction.

All reader flight offers through our marketing department now offer the option to offset emissions.

Second, companies must not be allowed to offset emissions by investing in projects in developing countries.

The safeguards component is intended to prevent emissions rising elsewhere in the economy, thereby negating the offset emissions.

(This depends on projects like a company-financed reforestation effort; new trees absorb such gases and thus offset emissions).

Compared with the emissions of a power station, those produced by corporate business travel are relatively small, and efforts to offset emissions are voluntary.

Under the original plans, which have been watered down several times already, housebuilders would have been required to fund renewable energy projects to offset emissions from household appliances.

Dow estimates it will offset emissions equivalent to 360,000 metric tons of carbon-dioxide for the organizing committee, plus 160,000 metric tons for spectators and media.

Buyers of the credits include power plants that need to offset emissions that exceed European limits, countries buying offsets to comply with the Kyoto Protocol — an international environmental treaty — and some environmentally conscious companies that voluntarily offset their carbon footprint.