Sentences with phrase «additional emissions»

Demand - side solutions avoid emissions from land clearing for agriculture and provide additional emissions reductions as well.

According to the study's results, climate engineering would allow very little additional emissions during the coming decades.

If only additional emissions were counted with reference to a stay - home scenario, air travel may well come out as the dominant emissions component.

From mid 2008, a series of scientific papers provided evidence that the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb additional emissions safely was far less than previously thought.

If we look at the marginal effect of the new supply, we should, according to conventional practice, count only the net additional emissions.

During a transition, energy is used both to create new infrastructure and to satisfy other energy demands, resulting in additional emissions.

This is a tall order on its own, and it does not take into account additional emissions from permafrost thawing.

This is all part of the EPA's initiative to impose additional emissions test to catch software like the «defeat devices» installed in 11 million Volkswagen four - cylinder diesel vehicles worldwide.

These have the potential to deliver additional emission reductions by 2020, but it's difficult to estimate just how much they would impact Massachusetts incremental to state programs.

Cheaper natural gas has pushed out older, less - efficient coal and oil generation; however, the region's increasing overreliance on natural gas will provide few additional emissions benefits and increases risks of price volatility or supply disruption.

This shift initially reduced greenhouse gas emissions by pushing out less - efficient coal plants, but the region's increasing overreliance on natural gas will provide the region with few additional emissions benefits and increases risks of price volatility and supply disruption.

If the current submissions under the Copenhagen Accord were final for a new climate agreement then it would be difficult if not impossible to improve the ambition for additional emission reductions as we move forward.

EPA determined it was appropriate to review the guidelines to reduce additional emissions, including methane, by lowering the emissions threshold at which a landfill must install controls.

Since this case emerged, Hagens Berman has been on the forefront of this highly specialized realm of law, relying on our legal team's steadfast and intensive investigative skills to unearth additional emissions - cheating schemes by other automakers, staying one step ahead of government regulators in our pursuit of car manufacturers that have violated emissions standards, regulations and consumer confidence.

Nearby, large stars erupt in cataclysmic supernova explosions, sparking additional emissions from gas heated to millions of degrees.

We might consider a compromise with the Chinese that grandfathered and excused greenhouse emissions before Kyoto in return to a pledge to share technology and research, but that required nations to make additional cuts (or purchase additional emissions credits) to compensate for emissions since then.

But perhaps most importantly, one can argue for an even smaller budget and additional emissions constraints because non-CO2 gases are not included in 1 trillion tonne C figure.

States will withhold allowances from circulation to secure additional emissions reductions if prices fall below established trigger prices.

If humans cause warming in the 21st century through additional emissions (and that is the expectation), then further global mean sea level rise is also expected.

Offsets are only considered to be an option for companies wanting to contribute to finance additional emission reductions beyond their science - based target / net - zero.

That decline is even sharper than in the EU which does have economy - wide climate policy, and where CO2 emissions in the first half of 2012 are down 11 % from 2005 levels (though the EU has an international offset program that yields additional emission reductions).

Projections in 2099 for additional emissions pathways are indicated by the bars to the right of each panel.

A CAT country could, if it wished, introduce procedures whereby additional emission permits could be issued if the trading price of permits exceeded the agreed carbon charge by a significant amount for a significant period of time.

«We do know many members of Congress are concerned about the economic impact of these rules, and more time will help mitigate the economic impact of making additional emission reductions,» a spokeswoman from the utility American Electric Power told the Wall Street Journal.

These cumulative additional emissions savings would not only be a meaningful contribution toward a global effort to help limit some of the worst consequences of climate change; it can be done cost - effectively.

Burke EJ, Chadburn SE, Huntingford C, Jones CD (2018) CO2 loss by permafrost thawing implies additional emissions reductions to limit warming to 1.5 or 2 °C.

Smith adds that methane emissions are another important case for study, especially to determine if there will be positive feedbacks in which warming will stimulate additional emissions from wetlands and arctic tundra.

Some policy advisors have suggested that additional emissions linked to KXL could be subject to carbon offsetting, as the price of US State Department approval for the pipeline.

An effective way for CORSIA, and other schemes, to incentivise emission reductions beyond those that are likely to occur anyway would be to ensure that demand is targeted at projects that are at risk of discontinuing abatement activities and to encourage the development of new projects that deliver additional emission reductions.

It is not that approval of Keystone can lead to a slippery slope of additional emissions, it's that we are already on Mr. McKibben's slippery slope.

Conventional stockless arable farms depend on the input of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, while stockpiled manure and slurry on livestock farms create additional emissions and other environmen - tal problems.

to review the guidelines to reduce additional emissions, including methane, by lowering the emissions threshold at which a landfill must install controls.

«Every tonne of greenhouse gas that we emit leads to additional emissions from natural sources such as methane bubbles,» says Kosten.

Selin cautions that after a certain point, most of the health benefits have already been reaped, and additional emissions reductions won't translate into greater improvements.

First, Alberta will adopt an oil sands specific emission performance standard with a $ 30 / tonne carbon price applied to any additional emissions.

Additional emissions every year cause further warming and climate change.»

This is made responsible for the rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations over recent years, and it is estimated that the removal of the additional emissions from the atmosphere will take a few hundred thousand years.

If subsequent emissions decrease 6 % / year, additional emissions are ∼ 130 GtC, for a total ∼ 500 GtC fossil fuel emissions.

The Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon diesel models were supposed to go on sale by the fourth quarter of this year, but the on - sale date may now be pushed back due to the additional emissions testing.

Despite the additional emission - reducing gear, power is said to go up from 370 hp to 400 hp in the Carrera, and from 430 hp to 450 hp in the S.

3) If countries like China and India follow the American pattern in transportation, ballooning demand for oil is bound to be a disruptive influence on world affairs with or without the climate impact of all those additional emissions of greenhouse gases.