Sentences with phrase «abating carbon»

Energy efficiency has been a consistent part of America's energy security policies and increasingly become an essential framework for abating carbon emissions.

Indeed, there is progress in developing biofuels for the airline industry, so to abate carbon monoxide emissions and lead - based hazards; however, if the Ranch planes are not currently using biofuels exclusively, it is difficult to accept the integrity of Tracey's platform.

The Garnaut report showed that Australia's CO2 emissions were 28 tonnes per person in 2006, so the TasWind project will abate the carbon dioxide emissions of some 70 000 Australians.

In this framework, adding the alleged benefits of abated carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide emissions increases the benefits in the agency's cost - benefit analyses.

Not exact matches

Food boxes that reeked of ammonia would be repeatedly fumigated with sulfur and carbon dioxide until the aroma abated, the letter said.

Food boxes that smelled of ammonia would be repeatedly fumigated with sulfur and carbon dioxide until the aroma abated.

If the UNFCCC is happy with the project, it issues us with a certificate for a number of carbon credits (1 tonne of carbon, or the equivalent, abated equals 1 carbon credit) which can then be sold to companies who need to reduce their net emissions.

No one could say what it meant for the carbon market as a whole if it is indeed determined that one third of the whole volume of CERs don't represent any actually abated or avoided greenhouse gas emissions.

But he jumped at a chance to swat down a Republican senator who declared carbon constraints a threat to the U.S. economy, and he defended the need to abate climate change as a jobs and security imperative.

Within a few decades it will be one year in two, then, late in the century, nearly every year will be a new record hottest year, if carbon emissions have not abated.»

These transmission lines can help abate pollution and reduce carbon emissions by making it easier to integrate renewable sources into the electric grid.

In their conservative calculations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that approximately 25 % of deforestation emissions can be abated at a cost of less than $ 20 per metric ton of carbon dioxide (tCO2).

Cost of carbon abated.

However, the analysis does suggest that while Bio-SNG does offer significant carbon savings for the transport sector, on a cost per tonne abated of # 400 / te CO2e, the heating sector is a preferable end market, the report suggests.

In 2009 Girl Scouts in San Francisco gave away 5000 CFL light bulbs to raise awareness about energy conservation and to encourage people to reduce their carbon footprint in order to abate global warming.

(The Ceres wind farm, if built, will generate nearly two million megawatt - hours of electricity each year, which will abate something around two million tonnes of greenhouse carbon dioxide annually.)

Climate change will be infinitely more damaging to Yorke Peninsula than the Ceres wind farm, and the wind farm will abate a couple million tonnes of greenhouse carbon dioxide each year.

The project will provide enough energy to power 4,500 Long Island home and abate 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide as well as sulfur and nitrogen dioxide emis

Then, at the minimum 5 % market inter-temporal discount rate, the cost of trying to abate this decade's predicted warming of 0.15 Cº by typical CO2 - mitigation schemes as cost - ineffective as Australia's carbon tax would be 48 times greater than the cost of later adaptation.

Under those scenarios, the technology would abate 213 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 and 4.7 billion metric tons by 2050.

As these SRM techniques are also largely unproven, require a mostly peaceful world to be deployed in, require the bending of judiciary systems, may backfire climatologically and do «nothing» [considering ocean temperature feedbacks they actually do do something] to abate ocean acidification — the simple notion that it is cheap [again, policy thinking] makes geoengineering so dangerous, possibly undermining cooperation behind the world's mitigation attempts, under the UNFCCC, the hard route that we need to go anyway * [as CDR geoengineering lacks the potential to get carbon concentrations back to safe levels, also for marine life — and isn't much cheaper / is costlier anyway].

Therefore, the cost of abating all of the 0.15 C ° of warming that the IPCC predicted would occur between 2011 and 2020 by using measures as cost - effective as Australia's carbon dioxide tax would be $ 309 trillion, 57.4 % of global GDP to 2020, or $ 44,000 per head of the world's population.

So, although emissions have not abated, the amount of man - made carbon remaining in the atmosphere has declined.

A single 2MW wind turbine in Australia will abate between 3000 and 6000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.

Snowtown Wind Farm is abating around 345 000 tonnes of greenhouse carbon dioxide each year.

to reach and encourage a critical mass of young people to teach their parents and schools how to reduce their carbon emissions in order to galvanize the US public — adults and kids alike — and create a paradigm shift in the way that society views, and acts to abate, global warming.

350.org has the goal of reducing emissions of carbon dioxide to abate the rate of global warming.

Black - carbon emissions rose significantly after the mid-19th century, and didn't abate until well into the 20th century.

An alternate way to estimate reductions is to look at the incremental cost of a particular carbon - abating technology, e.g. building an IGCC coal plant and sequestering instead of building a pulverized coal plant.

The short rotation plantations will never have the capacity to absorb enough carbon to abate the emissions.

For example, much of the output of the Indigenous arts industry, a market activity that generates much tourist interest, is produced on country and uses sustainably harvested natural resource inputs; wildlife habitats on Aboriginal lands (which are the breeding grounds for many migratory species) are maintained; and customary fire regimes assist biodiversity maintenance and can abate atmospheric carbon and smoke.