Metric Tons. This commitment is intended to accomplish two aims: reduce CO2 emissions and demonstrate the workability of a credit-based 18 system to achieve CO2 emission reductions. In addition, this commitment provides a potential path to achieve carbon pollution reductions under 19 federal clean air laws, and Interior reserves the right to seek credit for 20 actions taken pursuant to this commitment under any federal carbon reduction program or policy to address climate change. The Interior Clean Energy Development Commitment is as described 22 in Appendix C. Interior will facilitate the development of approximately 23 26,975,000 MWh of Clean Energy, as defined by this Agreement and Appendix C. This is intended to provide Interior a reasonable path to 24 achieve 80 percent Clean Energy for the U.S. share of NGS by 2035. This Commitment will xxxxxx Clean Energy development, with particular 25 attention to doing so in a way that benefits Affected Tribes.
Metric Tons. The mortality of dolphins per metric ton of yellowfin caught decreased from 0.0091 in 2008 to 0.0067 in 2009. The above figures are based on data from trips covered by observers from all components of the On- Board Observer Program. The comparisons in the next paragraph are based on the IATTC data bases for 1986-2009 only. The decrease in the mortality per set is the result of actions by the fishermen to better manage the factors that bring about incidental mortalities of dolphins. Indicative of this effort is the number of sets in which no mortalities occurred, which has risen from 38% in 1986 to 93% in 2009, and the average number of animals left in the net after backdown, which has decreased from 6.0 in 1986 to 0.1 in 2009 (Table 5). The factors under the control of the fishermen which are likely to affect the mortality of dolphins per set include the occurrence of malfunctions, especially those which lead to net canopies and net collapses, and the time it takes to complete the backdown maneuver (Table 5). The percentage of sets with major me- chanical malfunctions has decreased from an average of approximately 11% during the late 1980s to less than 6% during 1998-2009; in the same period the percentage of sets with net collapses decreased from about 30% to less than 5% on average, and that of net canopies from about 20% to less than 5% on aver- age. Although the chance of dolphin mortality increases with the duration of the backdown maneuver, the average backdown time has changed little since 1986. Also, the mortality of dolphins per set increases with the number of animals in the encircled herd, in part because the backdown maneuver takes longer to complete when larger herds are encircled. The fishermen can reduce the mortalities per set by encircling schools of fish associated with fewer dolphins.
Metric Tons. A measure of weight equivalent to one thousand kilograms mass.
