Sentences with phrase «carbon emission patterns»

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Lead author Dr Zhifu Mi, until recently at UEA's School of International Development, now at University College London, said: «The patterns of emissions embodied in China's domestic and foreign trade have changed since the economic recession but the interregional carbon emission flows in China and internationally in the post-financial crisis era have not been analysed thoroughly.

Consumption patterns, together with aging and urbanization in some countries, have bigger implications for health and the reduction of carbon emissions than the total number of people in the world.

Those emissions can be traced and accounted for in the carbon accounts of the economic unit, and specific patterns and relationships can be identified amongst the myriad of self - organising economic units and subsystems.

Using these patterns, we estimated the resulting gross vegetation carbon emissions [2, 5] and species losses over time [6].

ABSTRACT: Tropical deforestation has caused a significant share of carbon emissions and species losses, but historical patterns have rarely been explicitly considered when estimating these impacts [1].

Although climate patterns in the future may not exactly mimic those conditions, the period of warming allowed Petrenko to reveal an important piece of the climate puzzle: natural methane emissions from ancient carbon reservoirs are smaller than researchers previously thought.

Given the number of ways that things can go wrong with continued CO2 emissions (from ocean acidfication and sea level rise to simple warming, shifting precipitation patterns, release of buried carbon in perma - frost, and the possibility of higher climate sensitivities — which seem to be needed to account for glacial / inter-glacial transitions), crossing our fingers and carrying on with BAU seems nothing short of crazy to me.

With the world on the verge of another food crisis (corn, wheat, and soybean prices are soaring again), extreme weather patterns becoming more pronounced, carbon emissions on the rise, loss of biodiversity accelerating, we desperately need some «win - win» strategies in our quest to make the world more sustainable.

A decade ago, some energy analysts and environmental groups were quick to conclude that an apparent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from coal burning proved China was capable of avoiding the western pattern of rising emissions in a growing economy.

There are alternatives I don't think I convinced either of my two audiences that fossil fuels are going to disappear overnight, but once I drew their attention to recent declines in Chinese coal production and a stall in global carbon emissions they did appear to concede that basing future investment decisions simply on past patterns of consumption might not be the wisest of strategies.

While much of the developed world continues to debate the most effective ways of tackling global carbon emissions in closed - door summits and international forums, some countries hardest hit from changing climate patterns are beginning to take a more direct approach.

Indeed, cutting emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) today won't eliminate a climate change - induced pattern favoring more severe storms and extreme weather.

Indeed, even if carbon emissions ended today, there'd still be substantial detrimental impacts — in the form of massive submersion of highly populated coastal regions due to continuing sea - level rise, and famine - inducing droughts in interior regions due to shifting weather patterns.

A shift to plug - in cars could also help the development of renewable power, all the more important since a proliferation of electric cars would alter the national pattern of carbon emissions — the utility sector would take on the emissions that once belonged oil - based transport.

I frequently see the words, «deforestation» and «land use patterns» side - by - side the words, «emissions» and «carbon dioxide».

The real concern lies with increase of both carbon dioxide emissions and temperature that can not be predicted using the models of past climate fluctuations and patterns.

That framing costs as a foregone - gain increased the amount people were prepared to reduce emissions is noteworthy because public messages about climate policy impacts typically frame the costs of reducing emissions as a loss [13]-- a pattern confirmed by our analysis of newspaper communications regarding the future costs of Australia's carbon pricing scheme.

The region locks up more than 100 billion tons of carbon — more than 11 years» worth of total greenhouse gas emissions from human activities; plays an important role in global weather circulation patterns, including delivering rainfall to Central America, the United States, and southern South America; supports perhaps a third of terrestrial biodiversity; and is home to the bulk of the world's remaining indigenous people still living in traditional ways.

Global emission growth patterns are already changing — reflecting the more widespread use of energy - efficient technologies and less carbon - intensive energy sources.

Carbon pricing regulation is on the rise with China's emissions trading scheme (ETS) likely is to be most disruptive to demand patterns of commodities — Chile introduced carbon pricing this year with Canada and South Africa coming on stream in 2018.

He also asserts that the US approach for reducing carbon emissions may be different from the EU's because the US «aviation systems have widely varying traffic patterns.»

Its main message — largely missing from news reports and blogs alike — is that carbon emissions interact with a wide range of other factors, from volcanic activity to El Niño weather patterns, in determining the trajectory of global temperatures.

While most people have likely never heard of the AMOC, it plays a critical role in both global climate patterns and sea level rise along the Eastern Seaboard of the US - and it is being changed for the worse due to our carbon dioxide emissions.

As in other countries, social choices and the potential carbon lock - in in life styles and behavior patterns will have significant impacts on future emissions.

Instead of reevaluating the way in which every one of us lives our lives (in terms of material consumption, housing patterns, transportation patterns, dietary norms) to build societies which are radically lower in carbon emissions than they are currently, just spend a lot on money trying to tinker with global ecosystems to correct for global problems which were caused by us in the first place.

The critical question is whether carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are significantly affecting climate patterns.

Patterns of urban consumption, and the carbon footprint created by such lifestyles, are undermining China's attempts to cut back on overall greenhouse gas emissions.