What does EE stand for?

Manufacturers can average emissions across their entire vehicle mix, aggregate the GHG pollutants into equivalent emissions and bank and trade excess emission credits between vehicle classes and manufacturers.

Byline: Mamta03 Lithuania wants to sell 50 million tonnes of emission rights from its 2008-2012 period quota, the Lithuania environment ministry said on Monday Countries comfortably below their greenhouse gas targets quotas under the Kyoto Protocol can sell excess emission rights to other countries or companies in the form of credits called Assigned Amount Units (AAUs).

An Air India ( AI) flight from Mumbai to Paris would entail that the airline shells out money in France to buy " carbon credits" for excess emissions which have taken place in Indian skies as well as other countries en route.

Rudd also praised Gorgon's environmental credentials, saying plans to pump excess emissions into rock two kilometres beneath Barrow Island would make it the world's biggest carbon dioxide geological storage project.

Or, the House bill says, companies could offset their excess emissions by paying to reduce an equal amount of carbon dioxide some other way, some other place.

An excess emissions penalty is payable for non-compliance equivalent to the amount of excess emissions (ie.

Although the changes in the optical spectrum are subtle, amounting to only a few percent of excess emission superimposed on the usual broad emission lines from the WR star, members had honed their observing and data reduction skills in the run up to the campaign and it proved possible to track the changes with good precision.

EPA estimates the 78,000 engines have contributed to excess emissions of more than 150 tons of hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides and more than 5,000 tons of carbon monoxide.