Sentences with phrase «additional carbon dioxide emitted»

In this scenario the difference — call it the Trump effect — comes to 11 billion tons of additional carbon dioxide emitted between 2016 and 2030.

Not exact matches

SCC dollar values are sometimes characterized as representing the marginal damage of an additional tonne of carbon dioxide emitted.

While some experts think these solutions are impractical for wide - scale use, others say there is a need for additional tests capturing carbon dioxide from cement, one of the highest - emitting industries.

But additional buildup of coal - to - natural - gas projects could also create an environmental nightmare because producing the gas will emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide and worsen the water crisis in China's arid western regions.

In the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion people, emitting less than one ton of carbon dioxide per person per year (compared to the 20 tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissions.

Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine and Robert Socolow of Princeton University in the US report in the journal Environmental Research Letters that existing power plants will emit 300 billion tonnes of additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during their lifetimes.

When ethanol diverts the already - growing maize to biofuels to run the automobiles, those maize fields do not absorb any additional carbon, and the automobiles still emit roughly the same quantity of carbon dioxide.

Note that this argument applies to all levels of the atmosphere, including the upper levels where carbon dioxide is relatively less abundant, and that the line of reasoning also becomes more potent (in the sense that less additional warming is forced) the more carbon dioxide that either humans or nature emit.

Subtitle C: Additional Greenhouse Gas Standards -(Sec. 331) Amends the CAA to require the EPA Administrator to promulgate New Source Performance Standards (NSPSs) under such Act for specified categories of stationary sources that: (1) have uncapped GHG emissions greater than 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent and are responsible for emitting at least 20 % of the uncapped GHG gas emission annually; or (2) are responsible for at least 10 % of the uncapped methane emissions.

If that is the case, the additional carbon dioxide being emitted by China, India and other developing countries could bring a major additional benefit: helping to protect wildlife habitats, enhance oceanic biota and preserve crop yields under sub-optimal climatic conditions.»

While it may remain profitable to build renewable energy installations, incentives against cutting carbon emissions were not strong enough: Prices for allowances to emit carbon dioxide have dropped and cheap gas in the United States is pushing an additional supply of hard coal on the market, reducing coal prices to their lowest in four years and incentivising utilities to sell more power from brown - and hard coal - fired power stations.