Sentences with phrase «atmospheric emissions»

The particular focus is on innovations in «environmental technologies» whose sole purpose is to reduce atmospheric emissions.

It also discusses ways to monitor atmospheric emissions, currently the weak link in the nitrogen - control picture.

The study, published in Nature Communications by Samantha Joye and colleagues, describes how high rates of anaerobic methane oxidation, a process once considered insignificant in these environments, substantially reduce atmospheric emissions of methane from freshwater wetlands.

ACR's objective in developing this methodology was to create an accounting framework that offers both credibility and integrity for reducing atmospheric emissions from agricultural applications.

ExxonMobil believes all economic energy sources will be necessary to meet growing global demand, and the evolution of the energy system toward lower atmospheric emissions will take many decades due to the energy system's enormous scale, capital intensity, and complexity.

Recall that even if we keep atmospheric emissions below 450ppm, we still have only lowered the chance of catastrophic climate change to below 50 % — not eliminated it (Source: IPCC Fourth Assessment).

[The paper was] the first proper computation of global warming and stratospheric cooling from enhanced greenhouse gas concentrations, including atmospheric emission and water - vapour feedback.

Increased generation from Victoria's brown coal plants with their relatively low thermal efficiencies has also lowered the average national thermal efficiency of power generation, leading to a corresponding rise in atmospheric emissions.

Located near Metro Center at 1200 New York Avenue, N.W., with a primary entrance at 12th and H Streets, N.W., the AAAS building was originally designed to help reduce environmentally harmful atmospheric emissions, increase energy efficiency, and promote good health and comfort for employees.

The model also considered how reducing soot could impact other atmospheric emissions, including sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide and organic carbon.

With mechanisms that were previously known but never incorporated in a model like this before, added to their ice - sheet model to consider the effects of surface melt water on the break - up of ice shelves and the collapse of vertical ice cliffs, the authors find that Antarctica has the potential to contribute greater than 1 meter (39 inches) of sea - level rise by the year 2100, and greater than 15 meters (49 feet) by 2500 if atmospheric emissions continue unabated.

Can you relate that to works like «Effect of CO2 line width on 15 μm atmospheric emission», B. Kivel et al. (1976), which use the emission from CO2 to explore the Troposphere temperature?

Nations collectively to begin to reduce sharply global atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases and absorbing aerosols, with the goal of urgently halting their accumulation in the atmosphere and holding atmospheric levels at their lowest practicable value;

Any loss of permafrost would increase atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and methane, fuelling further warming.

This month, thousands of people from all over the world, including many heads of state, will gather in Copenhagen to try to forge an agreement to drastically cut atmospheric emissions of an invisible, odorless gas: carbon dioxide.

Most of the sampling periods used to generate the N2O emissions from fertilizers in Canada were less than one year; therefore, the estimate of total annual atmospheric emissions might be low.

We hypothesize that anomalous Hg levels may be attributed to the significant natural atmospheric emissions caused by catastrophic Siberian Traps volcanic eruptions.

But the average atmospheric emission absorbed by the surface is not emitted from the bottom millimeter, or the bottom meter.

Gas associated with oil production in this area can also be used to supply the EST plant and enrich the heavy oil, while achieving the goal of reducing atmospheric emissions under the Kyoto protocol.

They reduce power consumption and have lower atmospheric emissions and wastes than the conventional breweries.

In other words, the bottom graph (b) of surface looking up, can reasonably be presumed to be downward radiation from the atmosphere, including atmospheric emissions, reflections, or scatterings.

«The electric utility industry is aggressively pursuing several paths which are designed to meet the nation's energy needs while reducing atmospheric emissions,» McCollum nonetheless pledged.

One source of contamination of the finished products is tentatively attributed to atmospheric emissions of leaded gasoline, which is still being used in Nigeria»

He writes, «Disposables consume more raw materials and produce more solid waste... but cloth diaper production and use consume more water and energy and produce more... atmospheric emissions and waste water effluent.»

There's so much CO2 in the oceans that, unless some kind of tipping point is triggered, atmospheric emissions shouldn't affect that (very) long term equilibrium anywhere as much as they affect the atmosphere in the short run.

In this area you can find information on how the coal industry invests in the protection of precious resources such as land and water and tackles the challenge of reducing atmospheric emissions.

The processes of carbon release are intertwined with multiple factors, including microbial community composition, stability of old carbon, physical soil structure, and relative fraction of leaching to atmospheric emission.

Despite EEI's 1989 pledge to reduce atmospheric emissions, annual CO2 emissions from the electricity sector remained higher in 2016 than they were when McCollum testified in 1989, due in large part to ongoing efforts by some in the industry to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on CO2 emissions from power plants.

Despite EEI's 1989 pledge to reduce atmospheric emissions, annual CO2 emissions from the electricity sector

Our current understanding of the atmospheric emissions for the feedstock of the CFCs, CCl4, does not allow us to predict its concentration in the atmosphere.

The UN protocol requires every nation on earth to reduce their atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gas to 94.8 % of 1990 levels to «prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.»

Examples include our partnership with Bloom Energy to build fuel cell projects at 75 commercial facilities and our investment in NET Power, which is building a demonstration power plant using a new natural gas power system that produces zero atmospheric emissions.

In this area you can find information on how the coal industry invests in the protection of precious resources such as land and water and tackles the challenge of reducing atmospheric emissions.

«Engineers Australia believes that Australia must act swiftly and proactively in line with global expectations to address climate change as an economic, social and environmental risk... We believe that addressing the costs of atmospheric emissions will lead to increasing our competitive advantage by minimising risks and creating new economic opportunities.

A life cycle inventory (LCI) is an environmental profile that expresses environmental burdens from the perspective of energy consumption, solid waste generation, atmospheric emissions, and waterborne emissions.