Sentences with phrase «affect overall emissions»

I think it is the strategy of the carmakers to fit engines that are within the new emission quotas to their best selling models as this greatly affects the overall emission quotas they are required to meet.

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Regulations that affect proposed new coal plants in the U.S. are therefore likely to have a larger overall impact on GHG emissions than Canadian regulations.

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

Researchers have found evidence that near - ground biogenic emissions of organics suppress cloud formation in cool - temperate forests in autumn, providing clues to how global warming will affect cloud formation and the overall climate.

such as coal for electricity production is a primary leading factor to human - induced emissions affecting the health, livelihoods, food productivity, water availability, and overall security of millions of African people.

This combination allowed the team to do a much more detailed assessment of the way different policies would affect decisions by the power producers and distributors — a key point, since the electricity sector has the most immediate potential for changes that could reduce emissions, and is the biggest contributor to emissions overall.

The result of each test of data set quality or of observation - simulation agreement was expressed as a numerical score, and then these scores were merged into an overall measure of confidence in the hypothesis that human - generated emissions have affected the regional climate, ranging from «none» to «very high».