Sentences with phrase «about greenhouse gas emissions from»

I can count myself as one of those after my article about the greenhouse gas emissions from producing and transporting one bottle of Fiji water

Much of what one often hears about greenhouse gas emissions from dams being minimal is based on the world's existing dams with measurements of emissions.

I can count myself as one of those after my article about the greenhouse gas emissions from producing and transporting one bottle of Fiji water all the way from the South Pacific to the US (do a Google search for «Fiji water» and my article is still one of the top links to appear).

I am talking about greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

Greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry currently total about as much as those of Germany, not a small amount, and experts say that sum will grow as the world becomes even more mobile.

But the livestock sector is responsible for about 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, through cows producing methane and production processes - comparable to all the direct emissions from cars, planes, ships and other transport.

The digester has significantly reduced methane emissions by over 1,600 metric tons of CO2e each year — equivalent to eliminating the annual greenhouse gas emissions from about 350 passenger cars.

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

«The modernisation of Kitimat will transform its performance, moving it from the third quartile to the first decile of the industry cost curve, and cut greenhouse gas emissions by about half,» said Jacynthe Côté, chief executive of Rio Tinto Alcan.

Green groups have lobbied Stefanik to help retain the funding for the program, and have fretted about the Trump administration's rollbacks on environmental policies, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and Pruitt's decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era policy designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants.

The findings are the first to note increased greenhouse gas emissions due to antibiotic use in cattle; a recent study suggests that methane emissions from cud - chewing livestock worldwide, including cows, account for about 4 % of the greenhouse gas emissions related to human activity.

Even stepping up from the Volvo V70 to a car that gets an extra two miles a gallon avoids about a ton of greenhouse - gas emissions annually.

About 30 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from the electric power sector.

The new estimates, which are based on an integrated modeling framework that combines information about population, economics, and land use and land productivity, show that Europe could potentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land use by more than 60 % by 2050.

A researcher is about to test a technology that he says could be a breakthrough for curbing greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, natural gas generators and other industrial facilities.

From an op - ed McCain wrote for The Financial Times March 19, 2008: «Americans and Europeans need to get serious about substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years or we will hand over a much - diminished world to our grandchildren.

Currently accounting for about 25 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, emissions from food and agriculture need to be cut by about three - quarters by 2050 to meet the targets.

If only modest action is taken to reign in greenhouse gas emissions, the model predicts that pikas will disappear from about 75 percent of sites by 2070 (51 to 88 percent, depending on the global climate model used).

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

About one - fifth of the emissions reductions needed to cut the global output of greenhouse gases 50 percent by 2050 would have to come from CCS technology at coal - fired power plants, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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

7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate of the cost of the impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust of his books chapter on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has swiftly complied with a request from GOP leaders in oil - and - gas - producing states to scrap an Obama - era request for industry information about reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

For example, Holmstead referenced a section in the draft that estimates that about 1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the U.S. transportation sector.

The earth's natural thermostat can be tapped from just about anywhere and offers energy savings of 30 to 35 percent relative to gas, oil, or electric heat, with similar reductions in greenhouse - gas emissions.

«Our work shows that almost 70 % of king penguins - about 1.1 million breeding pairs - will have to relocate or disappear before the end of the century because of greenhouse gas emissions,» said Dr Céline Le Bohec from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Strasbourg.

It's not totally about how much infrared from the surface that is blocked (currently about 90 % of surface emissions is absorbed by greenhouse gases), its also about the height within the atmosphere from which radiation escapes.

«If we assume an optimistic scenario for greenhouse gas emissions — the RCP 2.6 scenario, [see Fact Box] which would result in a warming of about two degrees Celsius — then we can expect an increase in sea level similar to what we see in this video,» says climate modeller Martin Stendel from the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen.

And bringing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero in the second half of the century, as envisioned in the Paris Agreement, yields a likely rise of about 0.4 to 0.8 meters (1.2 to 2.6 feet) under the new projections, little changed from the IPCC - consistent projections.

They are talking about «zombie emissions» — a new class of greenhouse gas commitments, this time coming from tropical forests that are already cut down.

The most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, released last week, show that as the number of such facilities have increased in the U.S. between 2011 and 2014, total greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas operations have risen by about 6.2 percent.

Aviation accounts for about 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from transportation in the U.S., or about 2.7 percent of total national greenhouse gas emissions.

This investment is not just about improving the way people move from point A to point B; it's also about providing access and mobility for the poor and improving road safety, not to mention reducing transport - related greenhouse gas emissions.

A host of surveys show that most Americans remain doubtful, disengaged, or confused about the basic science pointing to centuries - long changes in climate patterns and coastlines if greenhouse gas emissions from burning fuels and forests are not reduced.

Of course, if you're serious about stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, achieving the American goal in 2020 is just step one in what would have to be a centurylong 12 - step (or more) program to completely decouple global energy use from processes that generate heat - trapping emissions.

Based on results from large ensemble simulations with the Community Earth System Model, we show that internal variability alone leads to a prediction uncertainty of about two decades, while scenario uncertainty between the strong (Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5) and medium (RCP4.5) forcing scenarios [possible paths for greenhouse gas emissions] adds at least another 5 years.

Other approaches to safeguarding the bears, like the push by some environmental groups to restrict emissions of greenhouse gases under the Endangered Species Act, are likely to be about as effective as trying to stop a bus from rolling down a hill by suing the manufacturer over faulty brakes.

From the Wall Street Journal A new poll out today on Americansâ $ ™ attitudes about climate change presents sobering findings for those that favor aggressive action to curb U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases.

If you want to talk about equity, look at the cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and going into the oceans and acidifying it, and the vast majority comes from the industrializied countries, the US and so forth — and the per capita emissions are much higher.

The ABC again reported on the wind farm on 28th July 2008 saying that it had been opened, its total cost was Au $ 5m ($ 2m of which came from the Commonwealth Government), and that it was expected to «meet a third of Kalbarri's power needs and offset about 5 000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year.»

They account for about 6 percent of an average home's energy use, so if a home's electricity comes from fossil fuels, they add to greenhouse gas emissions.

The electric utility industry is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for one - third of total US greenhouse gas emissions and about 40 percent of all carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning.

Greenhouse gases can be attributed to about 0.9 °C of this warming, but it has been partially offset by about 0.3 °C cooling from human aerosol emissions.

We agree, because the scientific debate has moved on from the fundamentals — there is no scientific debate about the fact that the globe is warming from human greenhouse gas emissions.

Look no further than Sound Transit's own statements about the virtually insignificant expected future impacts on regional greenhouse gas emissions from ST3 investments.

The nation's current energy portfolio has raised concerns about the adverse environmental effects of energy generation — particularly greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired and oil - fired power plants and the long - term storage of spent nuclear fuel.

On February 9th Ms Jackson submitted to her first interrogation, about one of the Republican Partyâ $ ™ s pet peeves: the EPAâ $ ™ s plan to restrict emissions of greenhouse gases from cars and factories by decree.

On the other hand, 42 papers or about 62 % of scientific papers of this same period predicted the earth would warm from human greenhouse gas emissions.

It found that between 2009 and 2013, that footprint grew from about 3.5 to 4.5 billion metric tons of CO2 annually, accounting for about eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, or more than triple the annual carbon emissions of Brazil.