Sentences with phrase «taking significant amounts of carbon»

«Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels,» Brown said.

Not exact matches

Young trees don't actually start to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxidefor 20 years, he says, and it takes a tree 100 years to remove a measly 3,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — assuming the tree survives drought, fire, flood, disease, and other afflictions.

Why It Matters: The traditional view of the mineralization process involves some very slow chemical reactions between carbonic acid and the host reservoir rock that take centuries or even millennia to convert a significant amount of injected carbon dioxide into carbonates.

Take, for instance, large - scale bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a geoengineering technology that generates power by growing significant amounts of biomass, burning it, and then storing the carbon underground.

All I am asking is that we do the same for carbon, and not let our emotional response dictate an ill - founded carbon policy here which would amount to us falling on a sword for no significant benefit here or abroad, and that the actions we take make the most out of the sacrifices we ask of our population.

The fact that organic agriculture systems also absorb and retain significant amounts of carbon in the soil has implications for global warming, Pimentel said, pointing out that soil carbon in the organic systems increased by 15 to 28 percent, the equivalent of taking about 3,500 pounds of carbon dioxide per hectare out of the air.

With Rob being in the UK, had he travelled to the conference this trip would have involved a significant amount of carbon emissions and squandered fuel, something that the Transition Town folks do not take lightly.