Sentences with phrase «carbon debt incurred»

More precisely, atmospheric CO2 rises as long as NPP [net primary production] remains below the initial carbon debt incurred each year plus the fluxes of carbon from biomass and soils to the atmosphere.»

This means that the carbon debt incurred by building the structure has a relatively brief period of utility, before the structure is demolished and another structure built, incurring additional carbon debt.

Not exact matches

Biofuels from waste avoid the carbon and energy debts incurred by more common examples such as ethanol from corn or diesel from soy.

These forests grow back slowly, so it takes a long time to repay the initial «carbon debt» incurred by burning wood instead of coal.

The «carbon debt» incurred by the construction of power plants plays a big role in your paper, partially explaining why the carbon benefits of clean power take so long to manifest.

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.