Sentences with phrase «big emissions»

Many green groups and poorer countries claim that developed countries will use the credits to avoid making big emissions cuts at home.

The wide scale use of existing and — in particular — emerging innovative energy technologies can bring big emissions savings to the sector.

Using the sun to power the equipment obviously yields big emissions benefits.

But do they hold up as justification for a bill capping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that would take decades to result in big emissions reductions?

On Monday night, at a briefing organized by the South Asian Journalists Association, India's lead climate official, Jairam Ramesh, made it clear that India, while preparing to increase its efforts to cut emissions, still sees the West as needing to step up first and help pay the cost of averting big emissions from all developing countries.

The pledge to introduce a new fund for industrial energy efficiency is a similarly big deal, and while details on the level of funding are sketchy the potential for big emissions and productivity savings are obvious.

«These policies are important first steps, but much bigger emission reductions will be needed for Alberta to do its part to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius.»

Ambition refers to how big the emission cuts that nations are prepared to agree to will be.

German engineering giant becomes latest multinational to promise big emissions reductions within five years

«Really the third biggest emissions sector is the industrial sector.

And if countries trust each other, they can continue to make bigger emissions commitments, which is exactly how the Paris agreement is supposed to work.

«If previous estimates [of how the climate will warm] were true, keeping the world below 2 °C would have been almost impossible however big our emission cuts,» says Piers Forster of the University of Leeds in the UK, who contributed to the new study.

«The next big emissions target is 450 ppm,» Butler said.

You probably guessed that if the goal is to instill incentives that will bring about big emission reductions fast enough to avoid runaway global warming, the answer is B, the marathon.

Nonetheless, Brazil's reduction in deforestation represents the single biggest emissions cut in the past decade, amounting to 3.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions, equal to the savings that would have been achieved by taking all cars off American roads for three years.

Therefore, it made more sense to take a holistic approach along the entire value chain where bigger emissions take place and focus more on policy and advocacy work,» said Christopher Wellise, in charge of Global Environmental Progress at HP.

The skiing and snowboarding industries face a particularly pressing climate change Catch - 22: ski resorts are big emissions generators, and those very emissions may very well put them out of business.

As a wealthy nation with the highest per capita emissions in the industrialized world, Australia must be seen to do its fair share, otherwise other nations, no matter how big their emissions, will feel less obligation to do theirs.

A global treaty with commitments to big emissions cuts and significant penalties for noncompliance should have been recognized early on as a nonstarter.

The findings will help scientists disentangle inputs and outputs in places like the Amazon rainforest, where there are both big emissions from deforestation and big sinks from photosynthesis.

I'm not good at not reacting, so I pointed out to him that his old banger probably had bigger emissions than my car.

John Broder has written an update on the climate - treaty talks and I have a story in The Times summarizing the sixth meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, through which the Obama administration has sought to facilitate efforts to create a new global climate treaty by seeking common ground among a smaller set of countries with the biggest emissions.

I understand the logic of starting with the countries with the biggest emissions of greenhouse gases and most capacity to do something about energy choices.

Later today, I'll add answers to questions I posed to the authors as well as reactions from Robert Howarth, the Cornell environmental scientist who's been studying methane levels and pushing for an end to hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, and Steven Hamburg of the Environmental Defense Fund, which is working with a host of academic and industry partners on a big emissions study, part of which was described here recently.

And while one kWh of natural gas - fired generation emits roughly half as much CO2 as a kWh of coal - fired power, renewables emit no CO2 so each kWh of additional generation delivers a bigger emission reduction punch.

Carbon dioxide is one of the biggest emission problems, as it is released into the environment most frequently and at the highest volumes.

But even if your circumstances differ somewhat from the norm, the suggestions in the 20/20/20 challenge are still likely to identify the key areas where you can find the biggest emissions savings.

But those changes do not account for the big emissions decrease from 2007 to 2009 and do not explain the relatively flat emissions patterns afterwards.

The biggest emissions by far come from consumption at the very downstream end.

Campaigners brandished posters depicting Barroso with his Touareg, bearing the slogan «Big talk, big emissions».

But for the biggest emission on everyone's mind, greenhouse gases, natural gas also beats coal, emitting about two - thirds of the carbon - equivalent of coal, even with fugitive methane emissions.