Sentences with phrase «carbon debt for»

At a time when we have run out of carbon budget and run up carbon debt for avoiding climate catastrophe, the oil production in this country has shot up.

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Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre called the PBO's findings «damaging» for the government, citing the impact of larger deficits, higher debt payments and a carbon tax that he says will erase at least $ 10 billion per year from the national economy by 2022.

As a renewable source of energy, biofuels have suffered ongoing criticism for their hefty carbon debt.

Like bankers do for financial debt, climate scientists assume that the greenhouse gas expense of burning biofuels will be paid back eventually as the crops that make fuel «earn» carbon through sequestering it throughout their life cycle.

And it would take centuries for us to pay off that carbon debt.

This would imply that the rest of the world owes the U.S. a debt of gratitude for locking away more carbon than it emits.

The Rapture wrt AGW is of course the sweet by and by of billions of dollars in «carbon debt» reparations, carbon trading profits, and «green» jobs for the true believers and those suffering victims of capitalism.

«[P] rojected growth in wood harvest for bioenergy would increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century because new carbon debt continuously exceeds NPP.»

That plunge in emissions is necessary because unlike most other pollutants, carbon dioxide from fuel burning stays in circulation for centuries, building in the atmosphere like unpaid credit - card debt.

For forests in the central and eastern US, which supply much of the wood used in UK power plants, the payback time for this carbon debt ranges from 44 to 104 years, depending on forest type — and assuming the land remains foreFor forests in the central and eastern US, which supply much of the wood used in UK power plants, the payback time for this carbon debt ranges from 44 to 104 years, depending on forest type — and assuming the land remains forefor this carbon debt ranges from 44 to 104 years, depending on forest type — and assuming the land remains forest.

Interestingly, beyond this, despite considerable rhetoric about moving beyond debates about carbon - pricing, the report recommends that in order to avoid adding to the Federal debt, it would be necessary to impose new taxes, including increased royalties for oil and gas extraction, a tax on imported oil, a tax on electricity sales, and a «very small carbon price» (presumably from a modest carbon tax or unambitious cap - and - trade system).

------------------------ The Cancun, Mexico, climate summit had barely begun when the topic du jour became how much «climate debt» the developed world «owes» developing countries for emitting carbon dioxide.

For a given power source, the emissions released during its construction put it into «carbon debt» and it takes a while of generating carbon - free energy for it to work itself to the break - even poiFor a given power source, the emissions released during its construction put it into «carbon debt» and it takes a while of generating carbon - free energy for it to work itself to the break - even poifor it to work itself to the break - even point.

«Clearing the natural vegetation mobilises the stocked carbon and may lead to a carbon debt, which could render the overall GHG mitigation effect of biofuels questionable for the following decades.»

And, that only gives us a reasonable chance to stay within the scientifically unacceptable level of 2 C. For high chance, we have run out of carbon budget, and if we are to have any hope of coming near the scientifically desirable level of 1 C, we have run out of carbon budget and run up carbon debt.

So, for a 1.5 C ceiling, especially for a relatively high chance, we have also run out of carbon budget, and piled up some carbon debt.

I show that for high chance of staying under 2 C (~ 90 % or more), we have run out of carbon budget, and for even coming close to the desired target of ~ 1 C, we have not only run out of carbon budget, but have accumulated substantial carbon debt.

And while civilian light water reactors do not require that kind of enrichment, new nuclear plants still start out with a huge carbon and energy debt to work off, which means it is years before they produce more energy than they consumed along the way (I have heard estimates exceeding 15 years when all the construction and fuel cycle energy use is accounted for).

S2) that if the smallest area and carbon debt from LUC are given priority, then oil palm would be the best feedstock for biodiesel by far.

But an innovative new study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) published in Ecology and Society has computed how long it would take popular biofuel crops to payoff the «carbon debt» of land conversion.

It can be argued that soybean is not the most efficient feedstock for biodiesel because it occupies large tracts of land, incurs considerable carbon debt (even without considering ILUC), and has a low annual rate of saved carbon from replacing fossil diesel.