Sentences with phrase «direct emissions changes»

Direct emissions changes include reductions in efficiency from factors like increased drag from sensor equipment and the power consumption of required computing and communications equipment.

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Studies indicate carbon dioxide emissions from transportation in the province have declined 16 % in that time, and while it's impossible to draw a direct causal relationship between the tax and the emissions decline, it's fair to say it was a factor contributing to indisputable behavioural changes — you can't emit 16 % less CO2 by doing the same things you did before.

The CCPA is a landmark piece of legislation that would put New York at the forefront of the fight against climate change by creating individualized plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and direct energy funding to communities like the 20th state senate district that are most impacted by climate change.

Released yesterday by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the finalized guidance recommends that agencies both calculate direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions of a project and assess how climate change might affect a project (Greenwire, Aug. 2).

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

Commerce Bank's partnership with non-profit environmental protection organizations allows cardholders to have a direct impact on reducing carbon footprints and promoting reforestation efforts in Brazil, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions and fighting climate change.

While we endure the long, long wait, it might be time to consider direct citizen action to reduce climate change emissions.

But models are not tuned to the trends in surface temperature, and as Gavin noted before (at least for the GISS model), the aerosol amounts are derived from simulations using emissions data and direct effects determined by changes in concentrations.

The lawyer directed me to a statement from the group describing «high - quality emissions reductions delivering multiple benefits — climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable economic development.»

The need for a direct push on energy innovation is particularly acute given scant evidence, in Cancún treaty talks or elsewhere, that countries where nearly all of the growth in such emissions is coming in the next few decades are willing to restrain this flow for the sake of limiting long - term climate change.

This is the «Planck response» — the change in emission of radiation as a direct function of temperature.

This «drop - in» fuel is designed to be a direct replacement for gasoline and could lead to large reductions in both petroleum use and greenhouse gas emissions; it can also be introduced without major changes in fuel delivery infrastructure or vehicles.

While much of the developed world continues to debate the most effective ways of tackling global carbon emissions in closed - door summits and international forums, some countries hardest hit from changing climate patterns are beginning to take a more direct approach.

The South Australian independent senator Nick Xenophon has said he won't vote for the carbon tax repeal until the Coalition agrees to change Direct Action to incorporate the intensity - based emissions trading scheme proposed by Frontier Economics.

«If there is a global agreement that requires larger cuts in emissions — and I think that would be good if there were, but it's got to be a global agreement — then obviously Australia would play its part and the government would consider what changes or extensions or whatever to Direct Action would need to be made to achieve that,» he said then.

... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»

[3] Despite evidence and climate literature to the contrary, [4] the EPA concluded that manmade greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to human health and public welfare, not because of any direct adverse health impacts but because of their contributions to climate change.

Examples: Since leaves function more efficiently in diffuse light than in dappled bright - or - dark direct light, clearer skies will reduce carbon uptake: Mercado et al. (2009); a multi-year study of grass found carbon uptake sharply decreased in hotter summers: Arnone et al. (2008); warming kills plankton, resulting in less emission of DMS and thus less cooling clouds: Six et al. (2013); changes in Arctic rivers and coastlines could bring more carbon loss than models anticipated: Abbott et al. (2016).

This increased exposure for CDR approaches, which encompass both biological (e.g. afforestation, ecosystem restoration, land management, biochar, and bio-CCS) and chemical (e.g. direct air capture, enhanced mineral weathering) techniques — is a good thing for the climate change debate: we will likely need to have scalable, sustainable, cost - effective CDR systems as well as ways to reduce our emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Official figures acknowledge that government policy directed at climate change has reduced gross emissions by less than 1 per cent to date, and the projected reduction in 2030 is just half a per cent.

Two days later, delegates from these disparate and often contentious groups were hammering out the fine points of the two - page document, which urges Brazil's federal government to reverse its opposition to direct payments from abroad to people and entities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), and to involve more stakeholders in the process of forming climate - change policy.

We know that scope 1 & 2 will be easier for us to tackle because 1 — we have direct control and 2 — those emissions come from industrial processes which are easier to measure and change than agricultural process, so we have elected to «overdeliver» vs. the science on those emissions (by targeting -100 % in 2040 rather than -80 % in 2050).

Sen. Doug Ericksen sent a letter to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) on Thursday asking them to reverse their decision directing Washington's three investor - owned electric utilities to include carbon emissions and climate change damages in estimates of their coal - plant operation costs.

EVEN though «weather» is not climate, the daily bombardment of climate disaster - porn via the mainstream media provides more than enough evidence for the casual observer to convince them that the climate is in fact changing as a direct result of human CO2 emissions.

It has been suggested that higher GHG thresholds for direct emissions are an adequate substitute for accounting for indirect land use change emissions.

Due to reduced concentrate feed use in rumi - nant animal husbandry, organic animal agricul - ture causes less direct land use change (deforesta - tion to gain cropland for concentrate feed produc - tion) and thus also less CO2 emission from soil car - bon losses due to this change.

SCC is effectively an estimate of the direct effects of carbon emissions on the economy, and takes into consideration such factors as net agricultural productivity loss, human health effects, property damages from sea level rise, and changes in ecosystem services.

Putting the findings together from both models they were able to calculate the direct and indirect emissions associated with biofuels, and consider how the emissions change over time.

Lawmakers on April 12 could pass the package of bills, which includes S - 2313, a bill directing the Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to establish zero emission certificates (ZECs) for a nuclear plant that can demonstrate it will cease operations unless it experiences a material financial change.

Many mitigation measures that reduce emissions of climate - altering pollutants (CAPs) have important direct health benefits in addition to reducing the risk of climate change.

Land use influences the climate system in many different ways including direct emissions from land - use change, hydrological impacts, biogeophysical impacts (such as changes in albedo and surface roughness), and the size of the remaining vegetation stock (influencing CO2 removal from the atmosphere).

Hans Verolme, who directs the World Wildlife Fund's climate change program, said the compromise produced a consensus, but «in the process, we lost substance» in specifying how much developed nations must cut emissions.

The other was to cover practical methodologies to factor - out direct human - induced changes in carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions and removals from indirect human - induced and natural effects (e.g. CO2 fertilization and N deposition) and effects due to past practices in forests.

Local and state governments in the Northeast have been leaders and incubators in utilizing legal and regulatory opportunities to foster climate change policies.103 The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was the first market - based regulatory program in the U.S. aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions; it is a cooperative effort among nine northeastern states.104 Massachusetts became the first state to officially incorporate climate change impacts into its environmental review procedures by adopting legislation that directs agencies to «consider reasonably foreseeable climate change impacts, including additional greenhouse gas emissions, and effects, such as predicted sea level rise.»

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

Xenophon, a sitting senator who was re-elected on Saturday, told Guardian Australia he would not vote for the abolition of the carbon tax until the Coalition's alternative Direct Action plan had been changed to ensure it could meet Australia's emission reduction targets.

So if we are really serious about urgent climate change action we should put CPRS to the side till at least 2020 and take direct action on the big ticket emission items for which there are commercially available solutions.

Public opinion related to the consumption of coal is directed primarily to its environmental impact in light of ongoing efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and tackle global climate change.

Reducing emissions from buildings continues to be one of the most cost - effective solutions to tackling climate change, and regulation, whether at a national, regional or city level, has a direct role to play within this.

Methane is an important part of the anthropogenic radiative forcing Methane emissions have a direct GHG effect, and they effect atmospheric chemistry and stratospheric water vapour which have additional impacts natural feedbacks involving methane likely to be important in future — via wetland response to temperature / rain change, atmospheric chemistry and, yes, arctic sources There are large stores of carbon in the Arctic, some stored as hydrates, some potentially convertible to CH4 by anaerobic resporation [from wikianswers: Without oxygen.

The ONLY justification for the massive stream of subsidies filched from power consumers and directed to wind power outfits is the claim that wind power reduces CO2 emissions in the electricity sector and, therefore, provides a solution to climate change (or what used to be called «global warming»).

These numbers are vitally important, because they provide a direct evidence - based link between culpability — those responsible for the emissions driving climate change — and victimhood, those who are suffering the consequences, including losing their lives -LSB-...] The legal implications are analogous to those faced by the tobacco industry once evidence solidified about the links between smoking and cancer.

The interim results are the first time that a GHG emissions profile has been broken down into its «constituent elements of forest carbon stock change, non-CO2 emissions from biomass burning, CO2 and non-CO2 emissions from mineral soil, as well as biological oxidation and direct N2 O, dissolved organic carbon and CH4 emissions from disturbed peat, and CO2 and non-CO2 emissions from peat fire.»

The IPCC Special Report on Aviation demonstrates that the total impact of a sector is not represented by (nor scalable to) the direct emissions of primary greenhouse gases alone, but needs to consider a wide range of atmospheric changes.

Uncertainty in these projections due to potential future climate change effects on the ocean carbon cycle (mainly through changes in temperature, ocean stratification and marine biological production and re-mineralization; see Box 7.3) are small compared to the direct effect of rising atmospheric CO2 from anthropogenic emissions.

I started looking for approaches people were considering to actually fix and not just mitigate climate change and eventually found different research being done on direct air capture and other negative emissions strategies.

The substantial conclusion of that report was that «Finally, many studies have found that the most reliable and efficient way to achieve given climate - change objectives is to use direct tax or regulatory policies that create a market price for CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions».

23 Dec: ABC AM: Climate Change Authority casts doubt on emissions reduction fund's long term effectiveness SIMON SANTOW: The Federal Government's under renewed pressure over the centrepiece of its Direct Action climate policy — the $ 2.5 billion emissions reduction fund (ERF).

According to new research, a direct link exists between climate change during different seasons and cumulative carbon dioxide emissions.

may give cause for some to question the wider role of climate change and not solely global warming, that are induced by anthropogenic emissions, changes in land use, water quality etc for which there is direct empirical data in the form of images, and not in mathematical treatments of theory and simulated models.