Sentences with phrase «additional carbon in»

Noting that rock star farmer Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms has built up 6.5 % of additional carbon in his soils, Bane argued that truly maximizing soil carbon sequestration across all the world's agricultural soils could literally soak up more carbon than we release each year.

3b) Analysis of carbon - isotope ratios shows that the additional carbon in the atmosphere is fossil carbon.

Not exact matches

The floor price, which begins this year at C$ 10 per tonne and increases to $ 50 by 2022, will cost the country's economy about $ 2 billion, or 0.1 % — before factoring in «the prospect of additional growth that could result from clean technology investments spurred on by a higher price on carbon,» The Canadian Press notes.

NANTERO SECURES MORE THAN $ 21M IN ADDITIONAL FUNDING New Round Signals Nantero's Continued Strong Customer Support WOBURN, MA — DECEMBER 8, 2016 — Nantero Inc., the nanotechnology company developing next - generation memory using carbon nanotubes, today announced the closing of an over $ 21 million financing round.

Between 2010 and 2014, carbon pollution in British Columbia increased by two million tonnes — roughly the same as adding half a million additional vehicles to the roads.

I would very much like to see, as I gather is the push in Australia, for a strong carbon price with some further enabling funding for additional CCS technology.

In his year - end interviews, and in the final days of the fall sitting of the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it would be crazy to impose additional costs on Canada's oil and gas sector in a time of low prices if the U.S. was not enacting similar carbon emission policieIn his year - end interviews, and in the final days of the fall sitting of the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it would be crazy to impose additional costs on Canada's oil and gas sector in a time of low prices if the U.S. was not enacting similar carbon emission policiein the final days of the fall sitting of the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it would be crazy to impose additional costs on Canada's oil and gas sector in a time of low prices if the U.S. was not enacting similar carbon emission policiein a time of low prices if the U.S. was not enacting similar carbon emission policies.

With savings of 7,792 kg CO2 per year in carbon savings, the homeowner could realize an additional $ 25.50 to $ 85.80 per year in carbon credit income just by living in a hempcrete home.

The EPA claims that the extraction, transport, refining and use of the oilsands crude that would be transported daily through the pipeline would result in «an additional 1.3 to 27.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year» compared to lighter crudes.

Carrefour published its Sourcing Policy on Sustainable Palm Oil in 2014 which includes the RSPO standard and additional criteria such as protection of peat lands and high carbon stock areas.

In response to the upcoming implementation of the carbon tax, Australians will find an additional tax on their household energy bills — but the exact figure will not be itimised, The Daily...

[19] The study concludes, «Additional investments in soil organic carbon (SOC) research is needed to better understand the agricultural management practices that are most likely to sequester SOC or at least retain more net SOC stocks.»

These risks require additional due diligence in sourcing, education and training to ensure the palm oil in our supply chain is not associated with deforestation, child or forced labor, or plantation expansion on carbon - rich peatlands.

The ability to buy additional glass inserts adds convenience and affordability and reduces the carbon footprint in the environment because you use less plastic (our 4oz starter set demonstrates this feature).

However, in May 2010, the new Coalition government announced that, as part of a programme of measures to tackle climate change and promote a low carbon economy, the third runway would now be cancelled and permission also refused for additional runways at Gatwick and Stansted.

«The strategy to encourage charging at home during the night is entirely consistent with the campaign to reduce carbon emissions and, by providing additional night time load on the grid, will make it more attractive to invest in renewable energy technologies.

«While there are no immediate plans to divest our energy holdings, I welcome the opportunity to partner with Governor Cuomo and with the proposed advisory council to identify additional ways to continue our progress in achieving investment returns, while contributing to the emerging low - carbon economy,» DiNapoli said in a statement.

She says she's pleased about the additional funding for the new rail and bus center here in downtown Rochester, «I think the more we can get people out of their privately owned vehicles and the more we can depend on mass transportation is better for the ecology and for the economy and any lowering of the carbon footprint, quote unquote is a good thing.»

He was recently re-elected to the Town Board in Livingston, and worked to pass progressive policies including a ban on hydrofracking, a reduction in the town's carbon footprint and additional investments in green space.

That's 500 additional years of locked - away carbon released back into the atmosphere in a matter of weeks.

It had three alternating carbon double bonds, called conjugations, that he had seen in some potent steroids, as well as an additional carbon atom that he recognized would give it extra strength.

«Importantly, the observed response lends weight to the hypothesis that any additional soil water in the root zone is then available to facilitate vegetation growth and greening under enhanced carbon dioxide,» Wang said.

The release of that carbon can, in turn, cause additional warming and the release of more carbon, something scientists call a positive feedback loop.

If the bulbs were adopted worldwide, that single measure could meet 70 percent of the additional carbon reductions promised by industrialized nations in the Kyoto Protocol, according to Paul Waide, a senior policy analyst at the International Energy Agency.

Global simulations conducted by the team found that microbial responses to enhanced root activity under rising CO2, while depending on plant species, climate and soil mineralogy, led to a loss of global soil carbon stocks that counteracted the additional carbon storage resulting from increased plant growth in many regions of the world.

Using technology developed at Cornell University, Novomer gets additional funding to develop a plastic - manufacturing process that requires less oil by folding in carbon dioxide

The team determined that there are opportunities to establish additional protected areas in some lowland Amazonian regions of Peru, where they found very high carbon densities, as well as in the so - called sub-montane region, which exists between the lowland Amazonian and Andean highland regions.

And since 2004 oil giant BP and its partners (including Statoil) in the In Salah gas field in Algeria have been stripping the nine billion cubic meters of natural gas produced there annually of the 10 percent carbon dioxide it contains and pumping a million metric tons of liquid CO2 back into the underlying saline aquifer through three additional wellin the In Salah gas field in Algeria have been stripping the nine billion cubic meters of natural gas produced there annually of the 10 percent carbon dioxide it contains and pumping a million metric tons of liquid CO2 back into the underlying saline aquifer through three additional wellIn Salah gas field in Algeria have been stripping the nine billion cubic meters of natural gas produced there annually of the 10 percent carbon dioxide it contains and pumping a million metric tons of liquid CO2 back into the underlying saline aquifer through three additional wellin Algeria have been stripping the nine billion cubic meters of natural gas produced there annually of the 10 percent carbon dioxide it contains and pumping a million metric tons of liquid CO2 back into the underlying saline aquifer through three additional wells.

In the past, some people have argued that the increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air would be partially offset by an increase in plant growth, caused by that additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growtIn the past, some people have argued that the increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air would be partially offset by an increase in plant growth, caused by that additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growtin carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air would be partially offset by an increase in plant growth, caused by that additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growtin the air would be partially offset by an increase in plant growth, caused by that additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growtin plant growth, caused by that additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growtin the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growth.

They implicitly assume that it all results from additional plant growth when in fact it often occurs by displacing stored carbon, such as forests.

So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).

However, this approach requires precision engineering of nano - features (in a detection chip), complex optical setups, novel nano - probes (such as graphene oxide, carbon nanotubes, and gold nanorods) or additional amplification steps such as aggregation of nanoparticles to achieve sensitive detection of biomarkers.

This results in defects in the lattice structure: some few carbon atoms — fewer than 1 % — separate from the lattice and are replaced with nitrogen atoms, which bring along additional electrons.

As the ocean mass moves north, it absorbs additional carbon dioxide from decomposing organic matter in the water and sediments, increasing acidity.

That fast - spreading development is creating additional water stress while simultaneously damaging the ecosystem's ability to absorb carbon dioxide and store or «fix» it in plants, according to the research — a study led by scientists at the University of Montana and published in the journal Science.

David Fahey, an atmospheric scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado, said that the researchers will need to do additional analyses to reduce the «significant uncertainties associated with the role of black carbon in the climate.»

In fact food scientists can tell or could tell if allegedly pure maple syrup had been doctored with additional sweeteners by measuring the carbon - isotope ratios, but what's now an environmentally changed isotope ratio could make it harder to see if maple syrup or other foods are being altered before being sold.

Even when additional reduction measures are implemented against black carbon, or soot, which is released when fossil fuels are burned, they do little to slow down global warming in a 2 degrees scenario.

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.

«This is because the coastal ocean is shallower than the open ocean and can quickly transfer sequestered carbon dioxide to the deep ocean; this process creates an additional and effective pathway for the ocean to take up and store anthropogenic carbon dioxide,» said Cai, the Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.

By 2030, the figure could grow to 14 percent of capacity, a level that would be met with «minimal» additional investments in power transmission and storage, while significantly cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, the draft asserted.

Over the course of four years, she has charted the carbon content of the grasslands, and when the first phase of the project concludes this August, philanthropist Rhonda Willson will pay the ranchers for every additional ton of carbon tucked away in their soils.

To earn credits, a project should owe its existence to the prospective earnings from carbon credits: the emissions reductions from the project should be additional to what would have happened in the absence of the CDM.

To achieve the 70 - percent reduction target for carbon dioxide emissions used in the study, additional steps would be needed — and before 2023.

«At the very least, determining the additional carbon storage value gained with species richness should be taken into account in comparing different land use management options,» the researchers wrote.

Much of it would be burned in carbon - spewing power plants to generate an additional 103 gigawatts of capacity.

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

«The additional removal of carbon by the ash - stimulated phytoplankton was therefore only 15 percent to 20 percent higher than in other years, making for a significant but short - lived change to the biogeochemistry of the Iceland Basin.»

-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking into account a candidate substance's carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.

The paper joins other academic research focused on the social cost of carbon, a measure used in climate regulations that estimates the total cost of future damage from additional carbon emissions.