Sentences with phrase «larger emissions of greenhouse gases»

Larger emissions of greenhouse gases lead to higher concentrations in the atmosphere.

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Dozens of the world's largest companies have joined a White House initiative to curb greenhouse gas emissions and invest in clean energy.

The government will also give LNG Canada and other large emitters a break on carbon taxes, if they can meet strict new benchmarks for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and will aggressively pursue electrification of natural gas fields.

CDP's website is the largest repository of corporate greenhouse gas emissions data in the world.

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

This requires a large amount of effort on the part of the farm, documenting all energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions and more, and documenting that Aquiares do not contribute to climate change.

This comprises the single largest component of municipal solid waste9 — generating a large portion of U.S. methane emissions (a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide.)

Food waste today is responsible for around 8pc of global greenhouse gas emissions — if it were a country, food waste would be the world's third - largest emitter, after China and the USA.

The infant formula industry is a part of the problems caused by large - scale dairy farming: deforestation, environmental degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is requesting that some of the nation's largest companies reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address financial risks associated with climate change.

In his email, Martens mentions everything from lowering the cap on greenhouse gas emissions and securing funding for long - neglected flood control structures and coastal erosion projects to banning the sale and importation of elephant and rhinoceros ivory and undertaking «one of the largest additions to the forest preserve in the state's history.»

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul also spoke in support of Cuomo's initiative, saying in the release that the transportation sector is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

A project of the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative, the Ithaca 2030 District is part of a larger effort in Tompkins County to reduce our regional greenhouse gas emissions 80 % by 2050.

Yet environmentalists argued that none of the New England states has put forward a comprehensive plan for tackling transportation emissions, the largest source of greenhouse gases in all six states.

Rather, the world's largest oil company maintained that all sources of energy, including fossil fuels, will be necessary to meet the future global demand and that the best path toward managing greenhouse gas emissions is through technology advancement and adoption of energy efficiency programs.

To take effect, the deal requires 55 countries totaling 55 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions to join, and the two largest emitters will ensure that nearly 40 percent of the world's emissions are covered.

Large - scale organic farming operations, based on a review of almost a decade of data from 49 states, are not reducing greenhouse gas emissions, says a University of Oregon researcher.

For example, soil is second only to oceans as the planet's largest carbon sink, while agriculture and land use changes represent the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

These failings take a special toll on the challenges of sustainable development because there is no quick fix, for example, for the challenge of large - scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Under the worst - case scenario (RCP 8.5), which assumes that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century, the authors show the potential for extremely large net increases in temperature - related mortality in the warmer regions of the world.

«This means that the possibly large cooling potential of climate engineering should not be used as a reason to postpone unavoidable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions,» summarises Hannele Korhonen.

«The change in administration doesn't change the fact that the U.S. and China are the largest emitters of greenhouse gas emissions,» Sutley says.

The leaders of the world's two largest greenhouse - gas - emitting nations touted two previous joint emissions deals, gave nearly back - to - back speeches on the urgency of tackling the climate threat and together issued a statement of support for an ambitious global accord.

While overall emissions of greenhouse gases from CDP's «Global 500» have shrunk from 4.2 billion to 3.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent since 2009, the index's 50 largest - emitting firms have actually seen greenhouse gas emissions rise by 1.65 percent over the same period, the organization has found.

Estimates of China's greenhouse gas emissions are based in large part on official Chinese reports on the amount of coal it burns — data that China's government routinely revises over time, affecting scientists» estimates of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

The reason using existing cropland for biofuels tends not to show up as yielding large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is simply because those croplands are already absorbing large quantities of carbon.

• BIOTECHNOLOGY The livestock business accounts for about 18 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions — an even larger contribution than the global transportation sector, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.

Transportation is the second - largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, at nearly 30 percent of the total output.

Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from two coal - fired power plants in the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico, the largest point source of pollution in America, were measured remotely by a Los Alamos National Laboratory team.

Continuing widespread use of coal and low - grade diesel fuel, which also produce fine particles of soot, leaves China's record as the world's largest single source of man - made greenhouse gas emissions unchallenged.

Given the country's status of being the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, Greenpeace says, a tiny drop in China's carbon emissions could translate into a big change in the international stage.

General Electric (GE), a world leader in industrial power generation technology and the world's largest supplier of gas turbines, considers gas - fired power generation a key growth sector of its business and a practical step toward reducing global greenhouse gas 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.

Tiny ponds play a disproportionately large role in global greenhouse gas emissions from inland waters, according to a new study by Yale's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

The food system contributes about 30 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, with the largest proportion coming from animal - based food.

Land - use change and agriculture are by far the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil, as forests and savannas are cut down for cattle pastures and cropland.

That surge was fueled, in large part, because of a growing economy, falling coal prices and a cold winter, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday in its annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory.

Last Friday, the Obama administration ended another round of the Major Economies Forum with environmental ministers from 17 countries that have the world's largest volume of greenhouse gas emissions.

Methane is a greenhouse gas up to 35 times as potent as carbon dioxide as a driver of climate change over the span of a century, and landfills are the United States» third largest source of methane emissions, according to the EPA.

«If what your concern is the greenhouse gas emissions or energy or water use of the entire system, I don't think you should leave out large chunks of it,» Fischbeck said.

They are the single largest source of greenhouse gases, accounting for 26 per cent of our emissions.

«(2) deforestation is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries, amounting to roughly 20 percent of overall emissions globally;

We ran two very large «ensembles» of weather simulations, one representing conditions and «possible weather» in the winter we have just had, and one representing the weather in a «world that might have been» if we had not changed the composition of the atmosphere through greenhouse gas emissions.

From his own research in chemical oceanography, along with data from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.»

Next month's University of California report warns that unless China radically changes its energy policies, its increases in greenhouse gases will be several times larger than the cuts in emissions being made by rich nations under the Kyoto Protocol.

For example, the report summarizes recent research underpinning the scientific rationale for large and rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, in order to reduce the likelihood of dangerous human - induced climate change.

In Earth's past the trigger for these greenhouse gas emissions was often unusually massive volcanic eruptions known as «Large Igneous Provinces,» with knock - on effects that included huge releases of CO2 and methane from organic - rich sediments.

The EPA estimates that methane accounts for about 9 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Landfills are the third - largest source of methane emitted by humans in the U.S. behind oil and gas production, and livestock.

But the annual amount of human - caused global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, is now about 50 percent larger than in 1992.

The statement also said that China will cut its carbon intensity, or greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP, by 60 - 65 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, a large increase from its 40 - 45 percent goal for 2020.