Sentences with phrase «begins with the emission»

It begins with the emission or reflection of light by objects in the external world.

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Volkswagen has set aside 6.7 billion euros ($ 7.3 billion) to make its cars comply with emissions rules — but the sum doesn't begin to take into account the fines, compensation, restitution, and attorneys» fees the company will eventually have to fork over.

And with many questioning the sustainability of importing so much food from so far away, we are beginning to ask if switching to a vegetarian diet to cut emissions caused by meat production is as sustainable as one might think.

This would begin in 2020 with certain vehicle types, such as non-zero emission taxis, being banned from a «small number of streets.»

Probably the most discussed aspect of the NGP Report (see this excellent discussion on CBC's The 180 beginning at around the seven minute mark) is the JRP's treatment (or lack thereof) of «upstream» greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and specifically the apparent asymmetry between the JRP's decision to consider the need to open markets for projected increases in oil production — the vast majority of which would uncontrovertibly be from the oil sands — but not the GHGs associated with this projected growth.

Paul McCartney's visit to the European Parliament last Thursday was a resounding success, with a raft of experts agreeing that adopting a Meat Free Monday is one of the best and most efficient ways to begin reducing the harmful emissions produced by the livestock industry.

The row began when Mr Pearson, in an interview with the Guardian, said government plans to cut carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050 are being put under threat by low - cost airlines.

From the beginning, the low emission zone of Leipzig only allowed vehicles in the city with a green sticker, which significantly accelerated the modernization and thus very quickly reduced the particulate emissions of the vehicles.

In the beginning, I spent most of my time registering the projects with the UNFCCC and working out how to calculate the emission reductions.

Clearly, humans have something to do with it, and we ought to begin reducing our CO2 emissions.

(Reuters)- Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions scientists blame for rising sea levels, intense storms, drought and crop failures.

The long lag before astronomers began to pick up radio and x-ray emissions supports that picture, says Raffaella Margutti, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who studied the event with NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The researchers also were tasked with designing a long - term plan to collect data on the drilling once it began, tracing how emissions affected residents.

Discussions have begun with the energy division of South Pacific Forum about projects to reduce emissions from small island states.

Restrictions set for SO2 emissions by the European Community and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution will begin to take effect early in the next century, and may limit coal to conventional stations fitted with flue - gas desulphurisation (FGD) equipment, which removes SO2 from exhaust gases, or to any purpose - built clean coal stations that will have been built.

In the study, we were concerned with the quantity of sulphur dioxide emissions, with numbers that are equally astonishing: In the beginning, the eruption emitted about eight times more sulphur dioxide per day than is emitted from all human - made sources in Europe per day.»

As a result of this annual cycle, together with the continual emissions from fossil fuel burning (particularly over China, Europe, and the southeast United States), carbon levels reach a maximum in the Northern Hemisphere in April, just before terrestrial plants begin to soak up more carbon.

«Since the transition away from fossil fuels is likely to take a very long time, we foresee a long - term need to deal with coal - based emissions and, therefore, the sooner we begin to develop [carbon capture and storage] technology, the better,» Austin - based energy policy specialist Scott Anderson of Environmental Defense told a Senate panel earlier this year during a hearing on CCS technology.

With Earth's temperature climbing in concert with rising emissions of carbon dioxide (and eight of the hottest years on record occurring in the last decade), we appear to have begun a vast, unplanned experiment with our planetary hWith Earth's temperature climbing in concert with rising emissions of carbon dioxide (and eight of the hottest years on record occurring in the last decade), we appear to have begun a vast, unplanned experiment with our planetary hwith rising emissions of carbon dioxide (and eight of the hottest years on record occurring in the last decade), we appear to have begun a vast, unplanned experiment with our planetary hwith our planetary home.

Beginning about 1850, industrial emissions resulted in a sevenfold increase in ice - core BC concentrations, with most change occurring in winter.

«I'm hopeful this is the beginning of a trend,» he said, referring to emissions in the U.S. «The fact that countries like Germany have so dramatically lowered their carbon emissions with mechanisms like feed - in tariffs that incentivize non-fossil-fuel energy, and the fact that the West Coast and Northeast states here in the U.S. are investing more in renewable energy means that we ought to be seeing a decrease in emissions.

The scenario began with 2005 conditions of greenhouse gas emissions, land use and technologies, and then allowed the model to simulate greenhouse gas emissions and land use changes until 2100.

A 6 % / year decrease of fossil fuel emissions beginning in 2013, with 100 GtC reforestation, achieves a CO2 decline to 350 ppm near the end of this century (Fig. 5A).

It was not until he embraced the movement to combat global warming with new controls on carbon emissions that voters began to identify him as an environmentalist Republican.

Beginning January 1, 2006, street motorcycles and motor - driven cycles year model 2006 and newer, with engines less than 50 cc displacement, require an emission label certifying them to meet U.S. Environmental Protection Agency emission regulations, and may be registered regardless of mileage.

In addition to the new engine, Mazda has also announced that it will begin electrifying its cars in 2019 but focus on markets it calls «regions that use a high ratio of clean energy for power generation or restrict certain vehicles to reduce air pollution» (read: markets with extremely strict emissions standards).

The investigation began when the California Air Resources Board (CARB) «was engaged in dialogue with our European counterparts concerning high in use emissions from light duty diesels,» CARB, which has its own testing lab, said in a letter to VW Group of America's legal counsel.

Their experimentation began with the Cosmo Sport in May, 1967 and ended, in production terms at least, when the final RX - 8 left the production line in 2012, as the characterful power unit finally succumbed to the demands of emissions regulations and fuel economy targets.

CALSTART is eager to begin working with cities and transit properties that not only want to take full advantage of the advances in zero emission bus technology, but also wanted to become part of a larger global effort to prevent climate change,» said CALSTART President and CEO, John Boesel.

Horsepower ratings continued to drop, not only due to lower compression and tighter emissions controls but, beginning with the 1972 model year, a switch from gross (on dynamometer) to net ratings based on an engine in an actual vehicle with all accessories installed.

[4] Although it began its run with a number of high - performance configurations, as the 1970s progressed, the Camaro grew less powerful, succumbing, like many production cars of the era, to the pressures of tightening emissions regulations and a fuel crisis.

The Splash, which began sales last year, has CO2 emissions of 119 g / km with a 1 - liter gasoline engine and 120 g / km with a 1.3 - liter DDiS diesel engine.

Beginning in 2008, Volkswagen and Audi — and many other manufacturers like Mercedes - Benz, Jeep and BMW — were required to comply with much more strict emissions requirements for their diesel - powered cars and trucks, as the United States adopted Clean Diesel technology and ultra-low diesel fuel.

Beginning in 2008, Volkswagen and Audi — and many other manufacturers like Mercedes - Benz, Jeep and BMW — needed to comply with much more strict emissions requirements for their diesel - powered cars and trucks, as the United States adopted Clean Diesel technology and ultra-low diesel fuel.

Subaru, whose U.S. sales were up 20 percent through August compared with the same eight months last year, needs more efficient drivetrain technologies to help it meet tougher U.S. fuel economy and emissions rules that begin in the 2016 model year.

I once worked out an emissions schedule for keeping CO2 concentration fixed, initial reductions had to be steep, roughly 50 % so that instantaneously sinks equal emissions, but as the sinks with short time constants are saturated quickly, the slower sinks begin to dominate.

CO2 emissions have been steadily rising, with the greatest rise beginning in the 1950's, yet we see a significant period from the 1940's through the late 1970's where temperatures became mostly cooler.

I think that if we are serious about the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions we'd show it by drastically cutting air and highway travel beginning with a freeze on all non-essential travel by air.

I do believe that research has shown that sequestration of CO2 in soils and biomass through organic agriculture (including the use of biochar) and reforestation (which must of course begin with ending deforestation) can draw down the already dangerous anthropogenic excess of CO2 and I think it is urgent that we start doing that — it's as urgent as ending CO2 emissions as rapidly as possible.

If you look at my original comments regarding stopping the increase in GHG emissions within five years, to be followed by steep reductions to near zero emissions within ten years, you will see that I have in fact cited, and quoted, sources — beginning with the IEA's recent report.

Total anthropogenic emissions of one trillion tonnes of carbon (3.67 trillion tonnes of CO2), about half of which has already been emitted since industrialization began, results in a most likely peak carbon - dioxide induced warming of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures, with a 5 — 95 % confidence interval of 1.3 — 3.9 degrees Celsius.

How do his views comport with the problem, especially the urgency to stop increasing greenhouse gas emissions by no later than 2015 — 2020 and begin a steep annual decline afterward?

The Little Ice Age that began in the 14th century reduced the temperature of at least the northern hemisphere by about one degree centigrade in a couple of hundred years, and CO-2 emissions had nothing to do with it.

An economy - wide cap on carbon emissions that would begin in 2012, with a target of reducing carbon pollution 17 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050.

And, since worry by itself accomplishes exactly nothing, aren't the policy actions mostly the same — ie., mitigating all anthropogenic GHG emissions, beginning with the most amenable and working toward the more obdurate?

Remember the earlier deal with China where they agreed to begin controlling CO 2 emissions in 2030 while the US would meanwhile reduce CO 2 emissions by 32 %.

The trend in the southern hemisphere shows a clearer warming trend beginning around the turn of the century, but it is still very uneven.The size of the observed warming is compatible with what climate models suggest should have resulted from past GHG emissions.

To provide a context for the requirements and procedures for accounting of emissions and assigned amount, this manual begins in chapter II with a brief introduction to the Kyoto Protocol, with particular emphasis on the requirements and systems that are critical to this accounting.

«An even smaller number of scenarios meet the 1.5 C target with at least a 50 per cent chance and have least - cost emissions pathways beginning in 2020 — and therefore, have higher emissions up to 2020.»

We came up with a program to accomplish something audacious: stopping once and for all the centuries - long rise in global greenhouse gas emissions and seeing them peak, level off and begin to decline within the next five years.