Sentences with phrase «while declines in emissions»

While declines in emissions have previously occurred during periods of economic crisis, this would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth.

Not exact matches

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.

For example, emissions embodied in exports to North America and Western Europe declined by 20 per cent and 16 per cent, respectively, while those in exports to Latin America and the Caribbean increased by 33 per cent.

While the new report indicates U.S. emissions have slightly declined this year, Le Quéré suggested these policy shifts may actually be «very damaging» in the long term.

The new study, by IIASA researchers Zbigniew Klimont and Janusz Cofala, and Steven Smith at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the US, showed that emissions from North America and Europe declined over the entire study period, while emissions from Asia and from international shipping increased.

For example, if energy demand will quadruple in the next 70 years while emissions must decline to near zero, then we need to develop and deploy at scale energy technologies that have near zero emissions.

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.

While these and other studies give grounds to believe that very low emissions pathways are not economically prohibitive, none model a short term (e.g., 2010 - 2020) decline of CO2 emissions that is as rapid as that postulated here or in the Ackerman et al. scenarios, all of which have emissions falling by more than 50 % between now and 2020.

While those emissions have continued to decline in the West, returns, from a brightening standpoint, have diminished, just as coal combustion ramped up in Asia.

While total campus emissions were flat, emissions associated with MIT's academic buildings (comprising 94 percent of MIT's total emissions) continued to decline in 2017.

In the opposite transition to rapid warming in 1975, once again I am struck by the fact that while aerosol emissions ceased to rise, they did not disappear entirely from the atmosphere, but began a gradual decline from a high peaIn the opposite transition to rapid warming in 1975, once again I am struck by the fact that while aerosol emissions ceased to rise, they did not disappear entirely from the atmosphere, but began a gradual decline from a high peain 1975, once again I am struck by the fact that while aerosol emissions ceased to rise, they did not disappear entirely from the atmosphere, but began a gradual decline from a high peak.

While reducing global emissions will slow the pace of decline, American ski areas will still face significantly shorter seasons in the years ahead.

In 2016, emissions from electricity produced within California decreased by 19 percent, but two - thirds of that decline came from increased production from the state's hydro - electric dams, due to it being a rainier year, and thus had nothing to do with the state's energy policies, while approximately a third of the decline came from increased solar and wind.

While declining strongly in the industrialized regions as a result of sulfur control policies in Europe and North America, and because of economic reforms in Russia and Eastern Europe, emissions increase rapidly in Asia with an increase in the energy demand and coal use.

Queensland is destroying tree cover at the rate of 10 square kilometres a day, harming biodiversity while stoking doubts about federal data suggesting emissions from land clearing are in decline.

The black bars show the spread in pathways with peak rates of emissions decline less than 4 %, while the grey bars show the spread in all emission pathways.

The grey diamonds in figure 5 represent emission pathways that have a maximum rate of emissions decline of between 4 and 10 per cent per year, while the black crosses correspond to rates of decline between 0 and 4 per cent.

While atmospheric levels of ozone - depleting chemicals were rapidly increasing before the Protocol was ratified, emissions of nearly all of these chemicals have declined substantially and atmospheric levels of most of these gases have decreased in the intervening 2 decades.

While most major economies saw a rise in carbon emissions, some others experienced declines, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Japan.

While annual investment in fossil fuel extraction, transformation, and transportation and fossil ‐ fired power plants without CCS is estimated to decline by about 86 billion USD per year in 2010 2029 (i.e., by 20 %), annual investment in low ‐ emission generation technologies is expected to increase by about 147 billion USD per year (i.e., by 100 %), over the same period.

While coal - to - gas switching played a major role in reducing emissions in previous years, last year the drop was the result of higher renewables - based electricity generation and a decline in electricity demand.

While the bill and likely substitute amendment offered by Senator Boxer would initiate the first step in placing a declining cap on greenhouse gas emissions so the United States can do its part to reduce the impacts of global warming,...

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

That, it says, means productivity must be increased by reversing declines in yield growth and closing the gap between actual and attainable yields in the developing world, while also reducing agriculture's environmental impact, including the depletion of fresh water and the increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

While the energy industry cut emissions, its revenue declined by 26 percent in the same time period.

The headline story was that while emissions continued to fall last year, the pace of decline slowed from an annual average 1.3 % between 2005 and 2016 to under 1 % in 2017.

Note that while emissions intensity if falling in all the states, the very large decline is in South Australia.

In addition, China has met its 2020 emissions reductions goal three years early (noting, though, that while coal use in China is declining, Chinese companies are working to build and finance the construction of coal - fired power plants elsewhere, like this project in KenyaIn addition, China has met its 2020 emissions reductions goal three years early (noting, though, that while coal use in China is declining, Chinese companies are working to build and finance the construction of coal - fired power plants elsewhere, like this project in Kenyain China is declining, Chinese companies are working to build and finance the construction of coal - fired power plants elsewhere, like this project in Kenyain Kenya.)

The report says that draining rice paddies in mid-season and using different fertilizers can reduce methane emissions, while switching to more heat - tolerant varieties of rice can offset crop yield declines.

While the start of the Great Recession had something to do with it, new analysis from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences shows that, when it comes to reductions in emissions from electricity production, which dropped 8.76 % from 2008, cheaper natural gas prices were behind the decline, with natural gas displacing coal.

While emissions grew year on year in China and India, U.S. emissions declined 3.7 percent.

Hotelling resource price dynamics in a Ramsey growth model help explain these findings, by showing that income growth does not imply per capita emissions growth, while convergence implies declining average emissions.

While this boom creates low unemployment and increased investment options (including real estate) in many secondary and tertiary markets where drilling is prevalent, natural gas exploration is not without risk and cost, including increased carbon emissions, groundwater contamination, reduced economic activity in alternative energy sectors and the potential for boom - and - bust local economies susceptible to rapid declines in production.