The phrase "reduction of emissions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase to refer to the efforts of reducing emissions of harmful substances. For example: "The company has committed to a 20% reduction of emissions by the end of the year."
Reduction of emissions by purchase of renewable energy and investment in offsetting will not count towards the 10% minimum target.
One big short-term effect of the economic situation is likely to be a reduction of emissions from the developing world.
"Any reduction of emissions contributes to the prevention of dangerous climate change and as a developed country the Netherlands should take the lead in this".
His paper reads: "… present levels of international contribution towards the reduction of emissions still led to a cumulative total of 2000 GtC by the year 2100.
Several large companies that supply the US government also are expected to announce voluntary reduction of emissions, according to the White House.
Another missed political chance came a few weeks ago, when Whitman offhandedly told a Senate hearing that she was working on a Yale-style proposal to simplify the rules involving reduction of emissions from power plants.
As well as being comprehensive and largely sensible, the ideas in the document include how to pay for the reduction of emissions and deal with climate change, an issue that will result in very hard bargaining at Copenhagen in December.
But critics say the problem of over-allocation has continued, both because of the economic downturn — which has caused a reduction of emissions of its own accord — and other EU policies, such as one to allow carbon offsetting.
So the second idea for saving forests lies in changing economic incentives by paying people not to chop down trees an idea known in the ghastly jargon of climate-change diplomacy as "reduction of emissions from deforestation and degradation" (REDD).
The Kyoto Protocol, which caps greenhouse-gas emissions in Europe and Japan up to 2012, includes market-based mechanisms to promote the reduction of emissions at the lowest cost.
Mr. Helm argues that big gains in the reduction of emissions could be achieved in the short term by replacing coal with natural gas — as the United States is doing.
