Sentences with phrase «co2 emissions footprint»

The CO2 emissions footprint of wood is similar to that of concrete, because when you log a forest only 15 - 20 % of the carbon is sequestered in the lumber that ends up in the house.

Not exact matches

International nonprofit GRAIN has revealed that the world's top 10 dairy companies emitted roughly 231Mt (million tons) of CO2 in 2016, the equivalent of half of France's total GHG footprint and a quarter of the emissions emitted by Germany.

Considered, until now, a source of greenhouse gas emissions, capturing the CO2 fixed by the tropical forest through the soils of the watershed to release it into the atmosphere, the Amazon River actually has a balanced carbon footprint.

«Sydney Harbor emissions equivalent to 200 cars on the roads: Journal publishes 1st CO2 footprint of growing megacity icon on World Environment Day.»

Greenhouse impact In 2011 U.S. ammonia - producing facilities released 25 million tons of greenhouse gases (nearly all of it CO2)-- just under 14 percent of the chemical - manufacturing sector's total carbon footprint (and about 0.1 percent of total U.S. emissions).

Cities have a giant greenhouse gas footprint and are responsible for 70 percent of all global CO2 emissions, according to NASA.

Each system also has residual benefits that could reduce CO2 emissions that may not be factored into calculating bike - sharing's carbon footprint.

Despite the demise of the Building Schools for the Future programme, the use of heat pumps in schools offer a number of advantages: • a simple and cost effective installation compared to some alternative technologies • ongoing schools building programmes can benefit from heat pump systems that improve the environmental footprint and reduce running and operational costs • a low carbon technology that helps to reduce CO2 emissions • a renewable heat technology to satisfy the UK's renewable obligation.

The Evoque breaks new ground by being the first Range Rover to offer the option of front - wheel - drive for customers who do not require the brand's legendary all - terrain capability, but who wish to minimise their carbon footprint through further reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

If anything, it punches above its weight, returning a greener footprint with a reduction in CO2 emissions — 133g / km.

The report takes a look at the effect of the book and magazine publishing industries on both trees and carbon emissions: the U.S. book and magazine sectors accounted for the harvesting of 125 million trees in 2008, and an average book has a carbon footprint of 7.46 kilograms of CO2 over its lifetime.

The neo brings significant environmental and operational benefits — up to 15 per cent savings in fuel burn and CO2 emissions, and a reduced noise footprint of 50 per cent on take - off and landing phase.

Tourism is also responsible for 5 % of the world's CO2 emissions, out of which hotels and other types of accommodation account for 2 % - a comparatively small, yet important, footprint that the tourism sector has assumed as a priority to be addressed.

Where HRG clients are also using the UK Rail facility within HRG Online, the results page will display a CO2 emissions average which compares the carbon footprint of both an air and a rail route.

Renewable energy in the home and garden If you are concerned about CO2 emissions and your household's carbon footprint, then one of the most effective ways of reducing this pollution is by installing some renewable energy sources in your garden and home.

If you are concerned about CO2 emissions and your household's carbon footprint, then one of the most effective ways of reducing this pollution is by installing some renewable energy sources in your garden and home.

Bernard touched on several things Microsoft is doing to reduce its carbon footprint, including using shipping containers as data center facilities.According to Bernard, the data center industry is responsible for 880 million tons of CO2 emissions annually.

It is informative to calculate volcanic analogs that elucidate the size of humanity's carbon footprint by scaling up volcanism to the hypothetical intensity required to generate CO2 emissions at anthropogenic levels.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

The authors say: «Without accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from land use change, the carbon footprint of food produced and not eaten is estimated at 3.3 Gigatonnes [billion tonnes] of CO2 equivalent: as such, food wastage ranks as the third top emitter after the USA and China.

We have attended the same conferences that you attend, we have read the same reports and white papers, we have analyzed the same types of CO2 emissions data, and we agree: a large percentage of your corporate emissions — and therefore large opportunities to reduce your footprint — reside in your supply chain.

It found that between 2009 and 2013, that footprint grew from about 3.5 to 4.5 billion metric tons of CO2 annually, accounting for about eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, or more than triple the annual carbon emissions of Brazil.

It has a number of attractive features, including a limited land footprint, the ability to site units near to CO2 storage sites and a clarity around how much CO2 it sequesters, in contrast to negative emissions that use biomass.

In 10 years, without sacrificing their way of life, the Jones family eliminates the CO2 emissions that their home and transportation used to create — the bulk of their carbon footprint.

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, 12 California, 7, 68, 102, 128, 169 - 170, 187, 196, 232 - 234, 245 California Energy Commission, 232 Cambridge Media Environment Programme (CMEP), 167 - 168 Cambridge University, 102 Cameron, David, 11, 24, 218 Cameroon, 25 Campbell, Philip, 165 Canada, 22, 32, 64, 111, 115, 130, 134, 137, 156 - 157, 166, 169, 177, 211, 222, 224 - 226, 230, 236, 243 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), 15 Cap - and - trade, 20, 28, 40 - 41, 44, 170, 175 allowances (permits), 41 - 42, 176, 243 Capitalism, 34 - 35, 45 Capps, Lois, 135 Car (see vehicle) Carbon, 98, 130 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), 192 Carbon Capture and Storage Association, 164 Carbon credits (offsets), 28 - 29, 42 - 43, 45 Carbon Cycle, 80 - 82 Carbon dioxide (CO2), 9, 18, 23, 49 - 51, 53, 55, 66 - 67, 72 - 89, 91, 98 - 99, 110, 112, 115, 118, 128 - 132, 137, 139, 141 - 144, 152, 240 emissions, 12, 18 - 25, 28 - 30, 32 - 33, 36 - 38, 41 - 44, 47, 49, 53, 55, 71 - 72, 74, 77 - 78, 81 - 82, 108 - 109, 115, 132, 139, 169, 186, 199 - 201, 203 - 204, 209 - 211, 214, 217, 219, 224, 230 - 231, 238, 241, 243 - 244 Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center, 19 Carbon Expo, 42 Carbon, footprint, 3, 13, 29, 35, 41, 45, 110, 132 tax, 20, 44, 170 trading, 13, 20, 40, 43, 44, 176, 182 Carbon monoxide (CO), 120 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), 44 Carlin, George, 17 Carter, Bob, 63 Carter, Jimmy, 186, 188 Cato Institute, 179 CBS, 141, 146 Center for Disease Control, 174 Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 62, 139 Centre for Policy Studies, 219 CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 96 Chavez, Hugo, 34 Chicago Tribune, 146 China, 29, 32 - 33, 60 - 62, 120, 169, 176, 187 - 188, 211, 216, 225 - 226, 242 - 243 China's National Population and Planning Commission, 33 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60 Chirac, Jacques, 36 Chlorofluorocarbons, 42 - 43, 50 Choi, Yong - Sang, 88 Christy, John, 105 Churchill, Winston, 214, 220 Chu, Steven, 187 Citibank (Citigroup), 40, 176 Clean Air Act, 85, 128 - 129 Clean Development Mechanism, 42 Climate Action Partnership, 14 Climate alarm, 4, 13, 21, 32, 35, 38, 56, 102 - 103, 115 - 117, 120, 137, 156, 168, 173, 182 Climate Audit, 66 Climate change, adaptation, 39, 110, 112 mitigation, 16, 39, 110 Climate Change and the Failure of Democracy, 34 Climate Change: Picturing the Science, 121 Climate Change Reconsidered, 242 Climate conference, 38 Cancun, 18, 29, 36 - 37, 124 - 125, 242 Copenhagen, 33, 36, 109, 125, 156, 158, 175, 241 - 242 Durban, 13, 36 - 37, 166, 242 - 243 Climategate, 2, 67, 152, 158 - 170, 180, 182, 242 Climate Protection Agreement, 12 Climate Research Unit (CRU), 48, 67, 120, 147, 152 - 153, 158 - 160, 162 - 163, 165 - 167, 169 Climate Science Register, 142 Climatism, definition, 2, 7 Clinton, Bill, 176, 178 Clinton Global Initiative, 176 CLOUD project, 96 Club of Rome, 21, 186 CO2Science, 59, 61 - 62, 66, 131 Coal, 19 - 20, 39 - 41, 80, 126, 128 - 129, 175, 185 - 186, 188 - 190, 192 - 196, 199 - 201, 209, 214, 217, 219, 222, 229 Coase, Ronald, 145 Coca - Cola, 138 Cogley, Graham, 156 Cohen, David, 220 Colorado State University, 117, 181 Columbia University, 7 Columbus, Christopher, 58 Computer models, 16, 51 - 53, 56, 67, 72, 74,77 - 79, 82, 87, 89 - 91, 94, 105, 110 - 111, 120, 124, 138 - 140, 168, 171,173, 181, 238, 240, 246 Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, 15 Consensus, scientific, 12 Copenhagen Business School, 134 Coral, 53 Corporate Average Fuel Economy, 22 - 23 Cosmic Rays, 72, 93 - 99, 180 Credit Suisse, 176 Crow, Cheryl, 30 Crowley, Tom, 167 Cuadrilla Resources, 224 - 225 Curry, Judith, 164, 167 Cycles, natural, 3, 16, 57, 62 - 63, 66 - 69, 72, 80, 99, 103, 138, 238, 240 Milankovich, 62, 67, 80 Cyprus, 134 Czech Republic, 12, 37

So far, the conventional response to such revelations has been to call for radical cuts to CO2 - emissions by shutting down industries with the greatest carbon footprint, often accompanied by an attempt to replace fossil fuels with renewables.

We have attended the same conferences that you attend, we have read the same reports and white papers, we have analyzed the same types of CO2 emissions data, and we agree: a large percentage of your corporate emissions — and therefore large opportunities to reduce your footprint — are in your supply chain.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) believes CCS technology can dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions when implemented at dirty fossil fuel power plants and other industrial facilities that enlarge the world's CO2 footprint.

Few studies have placed reservoir GHG emissions into such a context, but those that have find that reservoirs result in a net carbon footprint that exceeds that of the preflooded landscape and that they are net emitters of CO2 equivalents (Jacinthe et al. 2012, Teodoru et al. 2012, Faria et al. 2015).

So help me understand: if Germany produces more CO2 emissions year on year, but EXPORTS the some of the electricity thus generated to other countries, then it gets a «free pass» on the increasing CO2 footprint?

if Germany produces more CO2 emissions year on year, but EXPORTS the some of the electricity thus generated to other countries, then it gets a «free pass» on the increasing CO2 footprint?

The average American carbon footprint (from driving, home energy use, and flying) is approximately 18 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, but you can of course offset less or more than that if you like.

The rapid growth of carbon footprints in wealthy countries led to concerns about carbon leakage — where climate mitigation policies in one country lead to increases in CO2 emissions elsewhere — and industrial competitiveness, because international mitigation targets were slated to apply to developed countries and not the Global South.

In the 2000s, production - based CO2 emissions in developed countries declined while their carbon footprints grew.

The combination of all these forces — consumption, deforestation, agriculture and food, emissions — underscores more than ever the value of a comprehensive measure like the Ecological Footprint that takes into account all competing demands on the biosphere, including CO2 emissions and the capacity of our forests and oceans to absorb carbon.

But despite doing «pretty much [what] everyone's always told me to do,» when he plugged his lifestyle into a carbon footprint calculator, he found that his CO2 emissions were still double that of the average American.

We have attended the same conferences that you attend, read the same reports and white papers, analyzed the same types of CO2 emissions data, and we agree: a large percentage of your corporate emissions — and therefore large opportunities to reduce your footprint — reside in your supply chain.

In Britain, CO2 emissions from the housing sector have risen by 5 % in the last ten years alone, so that our homes now account for 27 % of the UK's carbon footprint.

The terms after «Annual Anthropogenic Emissions of CO2» are the «footprint intensity of carbon» and equal roughly 0.25.

Reducing CO2 emissions would (by definition) reduce ecological footprint, while improving health would likely increase life satisfaction.

Thanks to improved efficiency, the economic crisis and the fracking - fueled boom of natural gas, which has a smaller carbon footprint than coal, the United States has already seen a 15 percent reduction in electricity sector - generated CO2 emissions since 2005.

A carbon footprint means the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated by someone's lifestyle, primarily through the burning of fossil fuels.

A single bicycler riding 5 miles to and from work four days a week, can save on average 100 gallons of gasoline, 2,000 lbs of CO2 emissions, and reduce their carbon footprint on this earth by as much as 5 percent.

Diogenes, if you want to sell it look for framing ideas at the other post i posted above, a fee and dividend CO2 tax is maybe the best instrument to reduce emissions, since the savings go back to the consumer and people who actively participate in carbon footprint optimisation win even more.

While it is accepted knowledge among enviro - types that eating less meat is a clear way to reduce carbon footprint and CO2 emissions, Swedes (and all of Europe) seem to have left it out of its top 10 ideas for reducing emissions, concentrating efforts instead on transport - still a worthy endeavor to be sure.