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change of the heat supply systems structure, including rational combination of system and element redundancy, equipment with automatic devices and measuring instruments in the frames of automated systems of dispatching control over normal and emergency regimes of operation thereof, transition to the independent pattern of heat loading connection (ventilation and air conditioning) and closed system of hot water supply:  combined operation of heat sources for mutual heat supply networks with optimization of their operation regimes;  reconstruction of combined heat-and-power plants, boiler rooms, heat supply networks and heat sources, thermal hydraulic regimes adjustment, enhancement of construction-and-assembly and repair works quality, timely performance of scheduled measures, equipment of consumers with stationary and mobile heat supply units as reserve and (or) emergency heat supply sources;  development of legislative base providing efficient interaction between heat producers, organizations transportation and distribution, as well as consumers under market conditions. performing its Prospected structure, as well as volumes of heat production and consumption for the stated period are aimed at maximal satisfac- tion of Russia's economy demands. They also take into account de- urbanization processes, which has already started, including shift of industrial production beyond the boundaries of urban areas and active development of individual low-rise housing, the share of which is planned to amount to 52-55% of all residential proper- ties to be commissioned. Low-rise housing, as a rule, will be pro- vided with individual heat generators, while high-rise buildings - with centralized (partly with decentralized) heat sources. The main increment of heat output in the centralized heat supply systems will be provided by thermal power plants, the share of which in the total volume of heat production in the centralized heat supply systems will grow from 44 to 49-50% by the end of the third phase of the Strategy implementation. Besides, the use of waste-heat utilization units and renewable heat sources on the basis of geothermal and solar energy and biomass will be increased. As a result, the share of boiler rooms in heat output in the centralized heat supply sys- tems will be reduced from 49 to 40% by the end of the third phase of the Strategy implementation. Nuclear power plants with module high-temperature gas
Proceedings U.K. 17 U.K. The Committee may regulate- (a) its own procedure (including quorum), and (b) the procedure of any sub-committee (including quorum). 18 U.K. The validity of anything done by the Committee or any sub-committee is not affected by- (a) any vacancy in the membership of the Committee or sub-committee, or (b) any defect in the appointment of any member of the Committee or sub-committee. 19 U.K. The Committee must publish the minutes of its meetings in such manner as it considers appropriate.
needs to be developed at an international level to be effective. The UK Government has already put a discussion paper to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) on emissions trading and the possibilities of extending it to the shipping sector. We will continue to work with the IMO and other relevant international organisations to progress discussions on options for incentivising carbon emissions reductions in the shipping sector. We will also work within the EU Framework Programme and domestically to examine the case for additional R,D&D into technologies for lower carbon shipping. Key conclusions and next steps Our strategy for stimulating new lower carbon transport technologies has highlighted the important role that Government can play at all stages of the innovation cycle from basic research through to product commercialisation. Consistent with the conclusions of the recent Stern Review, we are adopting an approach which combines the use of carbon pricing mechanisms and supporting regulation in the transport sector with additional Government support for research, development and demonstration projects (R,D&D). In particular we are significantly expanding our support for low carbon R,D&D through the creation of the Energy Technologies Institute, a new Innovation Platform for UK automotive R&D and a new programme of support for public procurement of lower carbon vehicles. At a European level support for relevant R,D&D is also being increased through Framework Programme 7 and we will work to ensure that UK companies and academic groups are active participants in international collaborative projects in these areas.
27 (1) The regulations may make provision for monitoring compliance with the requirements of a trading scheme. U.K. (2) The regulations may, in particular, make provision about- (a) the keeping of records by the participants, (b) the provision of information by the participants and others, (c) the audit and verification of that information, and (d) the inspection of premises. (3) If the regulations confer functions on the administrator of the scheme for the purposes of this paragraph, they may provide for the administrator to delegate the performance of any of those functions.
Knowledge: identification, planning, research, knowledge transfer, integration and implementation. To attain the objective of climate neutrality, Slovenia will direct earmarked investments in a suitable and timely manner. Such an objective cannot be attained solely by means of the existing measures. The NECP sets the foundation for the Strategy by 2030. The key emphasis is on the implementation of measures whose continuity must be ensured by 2050 and onwards. It will further strive to ensure financial incentives for the renovation of architectural heritage and advocate the advantage of renovation before new construction. It will promote measures for maintaining the settlement pattern, ratios between developed and undeveloped areas, preservation of use or reuse of buildings, improvement of fire and seismic safety, and energy efficiency.
The most prominent of the indirect measures is the one aimed at increasing the share of electricity from renewable sources in the electricity mix and that is related and contributes to the implementation of the national target with regard to the share of renewable energy in the gross final energy consumption by 2020. The investments required for this measure are estimated at 4183 mln. BGN.
These Regulations prescribe the form and content of a statement of community involvement (SCI) as provided for by section 4 of the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011. The SCI shall be prepared by district councils and shall be as prescribed by these Regulations and approved by the Department of the Environment. The SCI shall set out principles of how the council will involve the community in exercising its local development plan functions under Part 2 of the 2011 Act.
Launching the 120 million Future Nuclear Enabling Fund in April, first announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review. Setting up the Great British Nuclear Vehicle this year, tasked with helping projects through every stage of the development process and developing a resilient pipeline of new builds. We will work with industry to scope the functions of this entity starting straightaway - building on UK industrial strengths and expertise. Backing Great British Nuclear with funding to support projects to get investment ready and through the construction phase. We expect to initiate the selection process in 2023 for further UK projects, with the intention that government will enter negotiations with the most credible projects to enable a potential government award of support as soon as possible, including (but not limited to) the Wylfa site. As part of this, HMG will consider the role UK government financing can play in supporting new projects. Final contracts and construction would commence when any outstanding conditions are satisfied and projects are sufficiently mature. Any projects would be subject to a value for money assessment, all relevant approvals and future spending reviews. The UK has eight designated nuclear sites: Hinkley, Sizewell, Heysham, Hartlepool, Bradwell, Wylfa, Oldbury and Moorside. To facilitate our ambitious deployment plans we will also develop an overall siting strategy for the long term. Without impacting the robust safety, security and environmental protections offered by UK regulatory regime, Government will work with the regulators to understand the potential for any streamlining or removing of duplication from the consenting and licensing of new nuclear power stations, including possibly new harmonisation on international regulation. We will also collaborate with other countries to accelerate work on advanced nuclear technologies, including both Small Modular Reactors and Advanced Modular Reactors (AMRS). We have virtually no low-carbon hydrogen in our system today - but technology is making this a near-term reality with vast potential applications. By investing in the North Sea, renewables and nuclear through this Plan, the UK is well-placed to exploit all forms of low carbon hydrogen production. Our drive on renewables makes green hydrogen especially valuable for flexibility and as a storage solution. Excess renewable electricity used to produce hydrogen can be stored over time and used to power the grid when needed. We will double our UK ambition for hydrogen production to up to 10GW by 2030, with at least half of this from electroly
With its climate policy, Switzerland aims to reduce its national greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent as compared with 1990 levels by 2020. The Confederation, cantons and the private sector are implementing numerous measures. The most important area of activity is the reduction of emissions from fossil thermal and motor fuels.
Energy sector, and more specifically actions on the electricity sector, mobility and construction. In this sense, it is expected to reduce energy intensity by a minimum of 20%, with an increase in national electricity production (which will be more than 75% from renewable sources) of 33% of electricity demand. More specifically in the subsector of fuel combustion activities, for road transport the reduction set is 50% of the GHG emissions produced by internal transport. To this end, among some of the planned actions, Law 21/2018, of September 13, promoting the energy transition and climate change, establishes the reduction of GHG emissions by increasing the percentage of vehicles with electric propulsion of the national car park of passenger cars up to 20% by the year 2030. Regarding the building sector, any new construction is designed and executed to achieve a building with almost zero energy consumption, as is also regulated per the aforementioned Law.
Several measures aim to strengthen the resilience of territories in the face of risks linked to climate change and environmental degradation. This is the issue of support for players in the forest-wood sector, or even increased support for sectors that improve the resilience of buildings, for example the earthquake-resistant reinforcement of buildings in the West Indies, and the rehabilitation of infrastructure, such as installations purification and depollution systems as well as water distribution networks. These measures also include an economic objective since companies in these sectors actively contribute to creating local jobs, and a quality of life objective since these activities contribute to meeting the needs for access to nature and improvement of the living environment. populations. The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from industry will not only contribute to the objective of carbon neutrality by 2050 set by the Government, but also to increase competitiveness by improving the energy efficiency of industrial processes. and therefore reducing costs. The measures devoted to the development of the circular economy of the recovery plan aim to avoid the production of waste and the consumption of resources, in particular:
(+++ § 51: For application see § 100 paragraph 1 sentence 4 +++) (+++ § 27 to 51: For non-application see § 32 paragraph 1 GEEV +++) Section 52 Reduction of the payment claim in the event of breaches of duty (1) The value to be applied is reduced to zero,
2023 Green Finance Strategy 26. It is vital that investor confidence is upheld in the ambition, additionality and comparability of the transition pathways that underpin transition finance instruments. There is a growing range of transition guidance and definitions available in the market. The UK government will continue to support and promote market development of high integrity and innovative new transition finance instruments that are consistent with a pathway to net zero and the Paris temperature goal. 31. The Review will be led by an external expert, who will be supported by a panel of advisors, and a small secretariat. The review will leverage and align with ongoing Transition Plan Taskforce work (see section 2.2.2). It should look at international comparisons, and prioritise international coherence and interoperability (consistent with our goals in section 2.6.1). This Review will have regard to the UK Listing Review led by Lord Hill and its recommendations on how to encourage more high-quality UK equity listings and public offers, along with the Government's response. We are acting on Lord Hill's recommendations, for instance in our consultation on reforms to the UK's prospectus regime to make regulation more agile and effective, and facilitate wider participation in the ownership of public companies.
Transport for London’s July 2015 ULEV Delivery Plan committed to deliver 300 rapid charge points by 2020, with 150 by 2018, to meet the expected demand from taxis and commercial fleets. The government is supporting this ambition with a total of £12.6m of funding. Many chargepoints will be introduced by Local Authorities and the private market in England or London in the coming years.
improvement of fuel quality with regard to the permitted sulfur content, - energy efficiency, - use of renewable energy sources, - application of the best available techniques (BRT) with regard to reducing SO2 emissions in industrial plants that use solid fuels (coal), and which are prescribed by the conclusions of the NRT for a particular type of plant. The implementation of these measures is based on the following regulations: Regulation on the quality of liquid petroleum fuels, Regulation on limit values of air pollutant emissions from stationary sources, Law on efficient use of energy in direct consumption, Regulation on the minimum share of electricity produced from renewable energy sources and cogeneration, the production of which is encouraged, the Regulation on the use of renewable energy sources and cogeneration, the Regulation on the quality of biofuels and the Regulation on the procedure for establishing unified environmental protection conditions. The improvement of fuel quality, with regard to the permitted sulfur content, is prescribed by the Regulation on the quality of liquid petroleum fuels (Official Gazette No. 113/2013). Decisions on determining the annual amount of liquid petroleum fuels that may be put into circulation on the domestic market, which do not comply with the limit values and other characteristics of the quality of liquid petroleum fuels, which the Government of the Republic of Croatia adopts annually, are also significant for this reduction technique. It can be determined that in the period from 2008 to 2011, the amount of gas oil, for which a deviation of the amount of total sulfur is allowed, at most: 0.5 % m/m, was reduced by 33%, the amount of fuel oil, for which a deviation of the amount is allowed of total sulphur, maximum: 2% m/m, reduced by 100% (i.e. in the period until the end of 2012, it is not allowed to use fuel oil with a permitted deviation of the amount of total sulphur, maximum: 2% m/m) and the amount of fuel oil, which is allowed to deviate from the amount of total sulfur, maximum: 3% m/m, reduced by 39%. This measure is also an intersectoral measure, the implementation of which, in addition to fuel quality improvement, also depends on and results from the implementation of measures to encourage the growth of energy efficiency (Chapter 12.1) and the use of
These Regulations amend section 78YB of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 by substituting a new subsection (1A) into that provision. This new subsection sets out the circumstances in which a remediation notice under Part IIA of that Act (contaminated land) may not be served where the Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 ("Regulations")apply. A remediation notice shall not be served if and to the extent that it appears to the enforcing authority that— (a) the significant harm (if any) and the significant pollution of the water environment (if any), by reason of which the contaminated land in question is such land, is as a result of an activity to which the Regulations apply; and b) one or more of the following conditions apply— (i) the activity is authorised under the Regulations; (ii) the Scottish Environment Protection Agency has served, or has advised the enforcing authority that it intends to serve, a notice under regulation 32(2) of the Regulations requiring steps to be taken to prevent, mitigate or remedy the harm or pollution in question; or (iii) the Scottish Environment Protection Agency has taken, is taking, or has advised the enforcing authority that it intends to take, steps to prevent, mitigate or remedy the harm or pollution in question under regulation 33(1).
The main energy policy objectives in the field are as follows:  Increasing the use of renewable energy sources in the final energy use to at least 15% in 2020 and further increase in the following years;  Increasing the share of biofuels in the market of transport fuels to 10% by 2020, and increasing the use of second generation biofuels;. Protecting forests against overexploitation in order to obtain biomass, and balanced use of agricultural areas for production of renewable energy sources, including biofuels, so as not to allow competition between renewable energy production and agriculture and to preserve biodiversity;  Using the existing weirs owned by the State Treasury for power generation;  Increasing the diversification of supply sources and the creation of optimal conditions for distributed power generation based on locally available resources. 5.2. Measures to increase the use of renewable energy sources
reducing emissions, especially of greenhouse gases; e) reduction and optimization of thermal energy consumption for final consumers; f) diversification of energy sources for hot water preparation, heating and cooling of rooms; g) improving the indoor climate; h) promoting new technologies and efficient equipment intended to contribute to the reduction of thermal energy consumption. Industry sector: Industry sector: a) stimulation of investments in the industrial sector aimed at the reuse of technological installations with low efficiency; b) the use of equipment, machines and technologies with lower energy consumption. Construction sector: a) rational use of natural resources, oil products, natural gas and solid fuels; b) reduction of carbon dioxide emissions; c) management of energy demand in buildings; d) improving the security of energy supplies in the medium and long term; e) the development of the administrative, legal and financial potential, which allows the large-scale implementation of a complex of energy efficiency measures in the housing stock; f) stimulation of the public and private sector to make investments in the field of energy efficiency of housing. Transport sector: a) promoting biofuels as a mixture component for traditional fuels, which will contribute to the gradual reduction of CO2 emissions, as well as the dependence on imported energy;
These Regulations implement Community Instruments that make provision for EU-funded support for measures in Member States through the framework of rural development programmes. They, among other things: regulate the making of applications for grants; make provision for the enforcement and recovery of grants payable under these Regulations and for offences; require a beneficiary to retain appropriate information and records in relation to matters being funded by payments of grant under these Regulations. A beneficiary must give the appropriate body such written undertaking in respect of such period or periods as the appropriate body considers appropriate for the purposes of these Regulations.
The 2021 Budget, announced by the UK Treasury in March 2021, contained a number of references to net zero targets. Through the budget, the UK's Net Zero target has been made part of the UK Government's "overall economic policy objective" and as a result is to be incorporated into the remit of the Bank of England. The budget also includes plans for a new National Infrastructure Bank with £22 billion of financing and for the issuance of the UK's first green government bond or gilt.
Strategic principles of the Long-Term Climate Strategy The Long-Term Climate Strategy outlines how the net-zero target can be achieved by 2050. Building on the progress achieved by the complete revision of the CO₂ Act, the climate strategy shows emissions developments, targets and the related challenges, going beyond the year 2030 and for the various sec- tors. The relevant future legal framework conditions can be defined on this basis. 22 According to the Federal Statistical Office, just under two-thirds of Switzerland's total greenhouse gas footprint is generated abroad, see https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/territory-environment/environmental-accounting/air-emissions.html. The FOEN uses a slightly different method in its estimations, but includes a similar Switzerland/abroad ratio.
maximum degree of caution and with maximum possible protection of human health, consumer interests and preservation of the environment and natural assets. Strict GMO regulations governing the procedures of using GMOs for research purposes must be followed. With increasing awareness on the importance of ecological efficiency as a prerequisite the standard HRN EN ISO 14001 for Environmental Management Systems (EMS),
Lithuania has set a target of increasing energy efficiency by 1.5% each year by 2020 and reach 740 thousand, final energy savings by 2020. The total amount of energy savings by 2020 will be 3932.5 GWh, which is 33.7% from 11.67 TWh required to save energy. The Plan sets energy efficiency targets for public buildings and multi-apartment buildings. For multi-apartment buildings the main goal is to reduce the cost of thermal energy (fuel) in multi-apartment buildings constructed in 1993 by at least 20 % by the end of 2020, that is, the estimated annual cost of thermal energy in these houses up to 2020 to reduce at least 1 000 GWh/year, carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere - at least 230 thousand. tons per year compared to 2005. The 2020 target set in this plan is to renovate area of 700 000 m of the public buildings by saving 60 GWh of the annual primary energy. In the plan the ongoing measures covering household, services, industry, energy and transport sectors as well as horizontal measures to enhance energy efficiency are prescribed.
These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) Regulations 2008 to provide for the implementation of the provisions of Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973, as amended by the Protocols of 1978 and 1997 as they relate to the requirements for ships to be issued with an international energy efficiency certificate (“IEE Certificate”) and a statement of compliance relating to fuel oil consumption. They impose a requirement for ships of more than 400 gross tonnage to be issued with an IEE Certificate.