Sentence examples for offset system from inspiring English sources

The United Nations hopes eventually to apply the offset system to all meetings, "as well as individual travel," he said.

Two members of the European Parliament have demanded an inquiry by the European Commission into the "gross misuse of European consumers' money" in the UN-administered offset system.

A Heathrow spokesperson said: "Heathrow supports the international aviation industry's commitment to carbon-neutral growth from 2020 and the UN's international civil aviation organisation, which plans to introduce a mandatory carbon offset system to achieve this goal".

As a typical case, the mid-chord offset system (MCO-system) is selected in this paper to study the error propagation of chord-based systems.

"Right now what we understand is a sort of C.D.M.-like offset system because we know the private sector has been involved in the C.D.M.," said Mr. Bosquet, referring to the Clean Development Mechanism.

Exchange trading in the allowances the system generated, known as Carbon Financial Instruments (CFIs), to meet emission reduction commitments ends, as well, although CFI generation will continue as a strictly voluntary greenhouse gas emissions offset system.

If the references to "carbon credits" were intended to refer only to offset systems (such as the Clean Development Mechanism) and not to cap-and-trade systems, then I would be much less concerned about the Pope's complaints.

Those countries have been strongly opposed to any market-based approaches to climate change, including carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, and offset systems, as well as any approaches that would allow — through appropriate linkage — the financing by one country of emissions reductions in another country (see my previous essay at this blog on A Key Element for the Forthcoming Paris Climate Agreement).

The proposals are not based on sufficient evidence, which have been properly tested and evaluated, to set up a reliable biodiversity offsetting system.

A mandatory, rather than voluntary, offsetting system would encourage a market to develop, which would in turn allow more environmentally and economically viable offset projects to be brought forward.

Any offsetting system must emphasise the continuing primacy of the 'mitigation hierarchy', where offsetting is only considered after alternative development sites or a means of mitigating the environmental loss in situ have been exhausted.