Sentences with phrase «if emission reports»

If your emissions report has NOx readings this may help to confirm / rule out this possibility.

Not exact matches

Canadian liquefied natural gas can lower global greenhouse gas emissions if it displaces dirtier sources of power abroad, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report.

The UK could cut the carbon emissions from passenger cars in half if the population went meat - free or vegan, according to a new report from Lancaster University.

Widespread adoption of a meat free diet could see emissions drop by 63 per cent, the report says, or 70 per cent if veganism were taken up.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that if compost were applied over 5 % of the state's grazing lands, the soil could capture a year's worth of greenhouse gas emissions from California's farm and forestry industries, or the equivalent of removing 6 million cars from the road.

The government could come under pressure to give out extra credits if people found it too hard to reduce their emissions, the report said, and it would also be an expensive option compared to other ways of cutting emissions, like carbon taxation.

Last week New Scientist reported that US emissions could be cut by more than 7 per cent if people changed their ways at home.

«Significant» reductions needed The U.N. Environment Programme's «Emissions Gap 2012» report cautions that even if nations meet their strictest pledges, the world will not be able to cut its output of greenhouse gases in time to prevent runaway global warming (ClimateWire, Nov. 21).

If diesel vehicles account for 30 per cent of the PM10 emissions from all sources (as suggested by a recent report for the Department of the Environment), then the adviser's estimate makes some sense.

But this latest report suggests that if the U.S. reduces its emissions, we're in a better position to influence others, such as China, to do the same.

In a report last year, the Global CCS Institute found that technologies reusing captured CO2 could play a role in controlling emissions in some markets, even if their global potential for controlling the greenhouse gas is small.

According to a report from Imperial College London, we are going to have to halve our carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 if we want avoid dangerous levels of climate change.

At least two studies published since 2010 — one report from the United Nations Environment Programme in 2011 and a follow - up published in Science last year — suggested that significantly reducing the emissions of soot and methane could trim human - caused warming by at least 0.5 °C (0.9 ° F) by 2050, compared with an increase of about 1 °C if those emissions continued unabated.

The numerous rules will address issues such as how countries will track and report their emissions and have them verified, all in a transparent way; how countries will be required to communicate their future emissions - reduction plans as well as their pledges for funding adaptation efforts; and if and how market mechanisms, such as emissions trading between countries, will be applied to national targets.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its first report in 1990 predicted that temperatures would warm by 0.5 degree Fahrenheit (0.3 degree Celsius) per decade if no efforts were made to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

A new report published today by researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Sheffield shows that global carbon emissions could be cut by one gigatonne per year (3 % of global emissions) in less than five years if other countries followed the same strategy.

«If, as in the past, the ambition of these sectors continues to fall behind efforts in other sectors and if action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report saiIf, as in the past, the ambition of these sectors continues to fall behind efforts in other sectors and if action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report saiif action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report said.

It could happen as soon as 2050 if emissions aren't curtailed, the report found.

That temperature rise could nearly double by the end of this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren't curbed, according to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

According to the recent Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic report, if we reduce emissions roughly in line with the Paris Agreement, we would see an additional 54 centimeters of global sea level rise by 2100.

The media speak of Algae oil, several recent articles in the media, or grasses that increase existing ethanol yields by up to 250 % (recently reported again in the UK media), of CCS trials in Australia, of CCS ready power stations (hillarious to be fair) and of wind and solar farms portrayed as if they will solve our carbon emissions issues.

And if we continue to track the highest emissions scenarios — taking us to 4C or 5C by the end of the century — the risk of potentially catastrophic impacts rises even higher, the report adds.

There's a fantastic paper by the authors of the Beyond Zero Emissions Land Use Report explaining how there's an opportunity to reduce land sector emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 5Emissions Land Use Report explaining how there's an opportunity to reduce land sector emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 5emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 50 % even.

The U.N. released a report that says the worst effects of climate change can still be avoided if we act quickly to reduce the effects of greenhouse - gas emissions.

And if you're wondering if a vending machine book costs less than the real deal (OK, OK, I should put my snark in check; the machines are really nifty - looking, supposedly they cut down on CO2 emissions, plus it would be great to gain access to out - of - print books)... The Associated Press reported recently that EBM books will have a «recommended sales price of $ 8 per copy, although the final decision will be left to each retailer.»

According to the recent McKinsey report regarding the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, if I remember it correctly, although these cars are initially more expensive (in terms of purchase price), their greater fuel efficiency results in the fact that owners will actually SAVE money over a time period that makes the whole thing a very GOOD investment.

Reports of falling emissions are great, but even if they are accurate, the reductions are not on the scale needed to address the problem.

If you look at my original comments regarding stopping the increase in GHG emissions within five years, to be followed by steep reductions to near zero emissions within ten years, you will see that I have in fact cited, and quoted, sources — beginning with the IEA's recent report.

The International Energy Agency today released a helpful report that charts four climate-wise (if fairly familiar) actions countries can pursue to make a difference in greenhouse - gas emissions by 2020.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

And if you buy the IPCC's reports (figuratively speaking) the world is only about eight years away from the «deadline» the IPCC has identified for allowing emissions to peak and begin their descent if the world is to stand a 50 - 50 chance of holding global warming to about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit by century's end.

[ANDY REVKIN notes: I also encourage you, if you haven't seen it already, to read today's report by James Kanter and Jad Mouawad showing deep flaws in Europe's system for capping (and trading) emissions of greenhouse gases.

In the report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's top scientists warned that global warming is unequivocally man - made and will become irreversible if we do not act now to reduce the amount of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere.

And, with the latest McKinsey report, it becomes even more clear that, if we want to substantially reduce emissions, we will either need a carbon tax, a cap - and - trade approach, or a whole bunch of specific individual regulations aimed at encouraging and prompting the many individual emission reduction opportunities.

Paul Williams, a meteorologist at the University of Reading in the UK, reports in the Advances in Atmospheric Sciences journal that he used supercomputer simulations to test the rise in rough rides and scary moments at altitudes of 9,000 metres across the Atlantic if carbon dioxide ratios in the atmosphere double − as they could this century, unless drastic action is taken to reduce emissions.

If the ROW recommendations are acted upon, then the Chiapas program will have to have a robust reference level and monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) guidelines in addition to a strategy to reduce emissions, Janson - Smith says.

According to the report, if Canada had adopted some key provincial policies in 2008, emissions would be 77 - million tonnes lower by 2020, bringing us close (within 5.6 per cent) to the international emissions target.

Canada can be a world leader in emissions reductions and renewable energy use, but only if its federal government decides to take climate change seriously, according to a new report.

Every report I'd seen is that the major western countries» emissions have all gone up, except for the US in 2006 (if the data is to be believed).

Indeed, the IPCC report went on to say that climate change will continue for many centuries even if carbon dioxide emissions are stopped.

Your report acknowledges that «our energy must come from lower emission sources» if we are to meet the ambitious and essential targets that lie before us.

And, according to the report, California is already on the way to the massive emissions reductions: «California can achieve emissions roughly 60 percent below 1990 levels with technology we largely know about today if such technology is rapidly deployed at rates that are aggressive but feasible.»

LONDON, NEW YORK March 8 — Fossil fuel companies risk wasting $ 1.6 trillion of expenditure by 2025 if they base their business on emissions policies already announced by governments instead of international climate goals, Carbon Tracker warns in a report released today, that models the IEA's 1.75 C scenario for the first time.

It is more likely that most, if not all, of the main elements of the Kyoto architecture and its institutional infrastructure (the reporting, emission monitoring and verification system) will remain in place in any new regime, or at least serve as the basis for developing new proposals.

The report, The Critical Decade: Extreme Weather, suggests worsening weather exacerbated by global warming is inevitable in coming decades, even if action is taken immediately to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

If its $ 37 - billion annual subsidy were phased out, the World Bank reports that Iran's carbon emissions would drop by a staggering 49 percent.

That threshold is likely to be reached even if we begin to cut global greenhouse gas emissions, which so far has not happened, according to the report.

«If CO2 emissions were declining rapidly, I don't think there would be that much impetus behind dong a report like this.

LONDON, April 26 — EU carbon prices are set to double by 2021 and could quadruple to $ 55 a tonne by 2030 if the European Commission ultimately legislates to align the bloc's current emissions targets with the Paris climate agreement, finds a new report by Carbon Tracker released today.

Until now, it's been difficult for many cities to measure and report their emissions, said Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the environmental group World Resources Institute: «If we want to turn the tide against climate change, cities will need to lead the way.»