Additional carbon emissions come from the energy and materials used to produce the products we buy.
Not exact matches
As some of the incentives for fracking
come from the lower
carbon emissions produced by gas - fired power stations, a key question is whether the extraction of shale gas has an
additional impact on greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions.
«When it
comes to life cycle greenhouse gas
emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low
carbon technologies, because they do not require
additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.
The Summary for Policymakers states that taking into account
additional warming factors, the amount of
carbon that can be released through
carbon dioxide
emissions — in total —
comes down to about 800 billion tonnes.
Frederike Böhm Department of Philosophy, Kiel University I like to follow the concept «reduce — reuse — recycle» when it
comes to consumption: borrowing, sharing or buying second - hand are often good alternatives to purchasing new things, the production of which causes
additional carbon dioxide
emissions and use resources.
Chronic water stress could potentially reduce the
carbon sink of deciduous forests in the U.S. by as much as 17 percent in
coming decades, leading to a decrease in
carbon capture that translates to an
additional one to three days of global
carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning each year, according to the paper, «Chronic water stress reduces tree growth and the
carbon sink of deciduous hardwood forests.»
The Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which regulates
carbon dioxide
emissions in the power sector, could force
additional closures in
coming years.
[7][8] The vast majority of anthropogenic
carbon dioxide
emissions (i.e.,
emissions produced by human activities)
come from combustion of fossil fuels, principally coal, oil, and natural gas, with comparatively modest
additional contributions
coming from deforestation, changes in land use, soil erosion, and agriculture.