Sentences with phrase «carbon transportation sector»

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A realistic energy plan must also address the sectors of transportation and building heating and cooling, each of which account for one - third of the state's carbon footprint, as well as agriculture, which accounts for 10 %.

The transportation sector emits at least twice as much carbon as power plants in states like California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Washington.

EPA's greenhouse gas inventory released yesterday shows that the transportation and electricity sectors now supply about the same amount of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions.

And it continues to pursue research into alternative fuels and technologies that can further reduce the carbon intensity of energy applications across a variety of sectors, including electricity production and transportation.

Growing the electrical sector — and potentially merging it with the transportation sector through the adoption of electric cars — will be a climate win if that growth comes from low - carbon sources like nuclear and renewables.

The transportation sector makes up approximately 23 percent of all global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions, of which road transport is the largest and fastest - growing portion.

The auto industry and researchers say this utopian view of transportation is on the horizon, and it could cut nearly all of the carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

Aviation accounted for 11 percent of energy - related carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation sector in 2010 in the United States, according to the International Council on Clean Ttransportation sector in 2010 in the United States, according to the International Council on Clean TransportationTransportation.

In 2010, urban transportation accounted for almost a quarter of all carbon emissions produced across all parts of the transportation sector.

Of course, one prototype plant won't save the planet, but the facility is attracting global attention because it may prove especially useful for solving a key piece of the world's carbon conundrum: the heavy - transportation sector.

Coal - to - liquid fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15 — 20 % of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (2 — 3 million barrels per day; the lower estimate holds if coal is also used to produce coal - and - biomass - to - liquid fuels) and would have lifecycle CO2 emissions similar to petroleum - based fuels.

While other transportation modes, such as the maritime industry, are also discussing ways to limit emissions, the world's attention is centered on aviation - a sector that would be the world's seventh - largest carbon emitter if it were a country.

A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

Robert Cruickshank, a longtime critic of P3 approaches, comments that «the key is that whatever the private sector's role is, it has to be subordinate to the effective operation of the system, including maximizing ridership so that the system can play as large a role as possible in meeting the state's transportation and carbon reduction needs.

This structural accounting model for transportation energy use generates mid-term forecasts of the transportation sector's energy use in order to evaluate the effect of changes in fuel economy on carbon emissions.

Now that we are aware that up to 25 % of carbon emissions are the result of deforestation - that's more than the entire transportation sector combined!

-- Climate impacts: global temperatures, ice cap melting, ocean currents, ENSO, volcanic impacts, tipping points, severe weather events — Environment impacts: ecosystem changes, disease vectors, coastal flooding, marine ecosystem, agricultural system — Government actions: US political views, world - wide political views, carbon tax / cap - and - trade restrictions, state and city efforts — Reducing GHGs: + electric power systems: fossil fuel use, conservation, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, tidal, other + transportation sector: conservation, mass transit, high speed rail, air travel, auto / truck (mileage issues, PHEVs, EVs, biofuels, hydrogen) + architectural structure design: home / office energy use, home / office conservation, passive solar, other

«In the transportation sector, electrification and expansion of both passenger and freight rail and conversion of on - road vehicles to electric drive, hybrids, and turbo diesels, coupled with the recently enacted CAFÉ standards, will allow total residual carbon emissions to drop well below 10 percent of today's levels.

To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving would simply have to increase, according to a report released Thursday by researchers at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Preliminary research shows that carbon sequestration could be a game changer for the agriculture industry, much in the way that EVs were expected to be for the transportation sector.

He said, however, that liquid biofuels can and should play a central role in reducing the transportation sector's petroleum dependence, alongside programs to reduce vehicle sizes, charge for carbon emissions, and encourage lifestyles requiring less personal mobility.

The Compendium concludes that moving towards carbon - free electricity is possible by 2050, while achieving a carbon - free future in the transportation sector will take considerably longer.

The top buyer sectors energy, agriculture / forestry and transportation depend on forests» ecosystem services (e.g. clean water) for their business, and some view investments forest carbon investments as a kind of insurance against direct exposure to climate risks.

The transportation sector has eclipsed power plants as the biggest source of US carbon emissions, and EPA calculated in 2010 that the tougher fuel - efficiency standards would prevent more than one year's worth of total US carbon emissions over the lifetime of new vehicles sold from 2012 through 2025.

In Missouri, 27 percent of carbon emissions are caused by the transportation sector, according to a national report.

In the words of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, achieving carbon neutrality «requires transformative rather than incremental approaches,» with a roadmap for long - term and deep reductions in the building, energy, and transportation sectors.

A price on carbon will create an economic incentive to reduce emissions from the electricity, heating, and transportation sectors, and will also create a revenue stream that can be used to fund programs needed to implement the Clean Energy DC Plan.

The transportation sector is a major contributor to black carbon emissions and was responsible for 19 % of global black carbon emissions in 2000, contributing to 3.2 million deaths per year.

A carbon price will complement and expand upon the RPS's electricity sector emissions reductions, while create new incentives to reduce emissions from the heating and transportation sectors.

Other areas also hold significant promise for the industry, like technologies to capture carbon dioxide emissions and store them underground, and energy - efficiency programs, especially in the transportation sector.

While diesels are the workhorses of the transport sector and relatively energy efficient (as compared to gasoline vehicles or jet aircrafts), their combined contribution to transportation - related climate warming greenhouse gases and other short - lived climate pollutants, particularly black carbon, is significant.

The CEM Electric Vehicle Initiative (EVI) recognizes the importance of reducing carbon emissions in the transportation sector, which account for almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and is one of the fastest - growing energy end use sectors.

Added up over the course of a year, international shipping emits more than 800 million tons of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases — 11 percent of the total emissions from the transportation sector.

«We urge the State Department to do a better job in analyzing the effect that Keystone XL would have on the development of the Canadian tar sands and the additional carbon pollution that would result, as well as the effect that Keystone XL would have on the quantity of carbon pollution produced by the U.S. transportation sector.

Yet despite this innovation, the transportation sector — and specifically, oil — still produces more than a third of Oregon's fossil - fuel carbon pollution.

Electricity and transportation are the more advanced sectors that have contributed towards the low - carbon transition and have offered the most opportunities to date.

The top buyer sectors energy, agriculture / forestry, and transportation depend on forests» ecosystem services (e.g., clean water) for their business, and some view forest carbon investments as a kind of insurance against direct exposure to climate risks.

The transportation sector accounts for roughly one - third of U.S. carbon emissions, of which more than half (about 60 percent) come from the use of gasoline in our cars, pickups, SUVs, and minivans.

In the transportation sector, the state enjoys one of the country's highest rates of electric vehicle (EV) ownership, while researchers and startups are developing low - carbon biofuels and advanced vehicle technologies.

The transportation sector accounts for 40 percent of the fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in New York State.

Here's the thing: If a state shifts a bunch of transportation and building heat over to electricity, overall consumption of electricity could rise and average electricity - sector efficiency could fall, at least temporarily, even as economy - wide carbon emissions decline.

«A striking implication of very large wildfires is that a severe fire season lasting only one or two months can release as much carbon as the annual emissions from the entire transportation or energy sector of an individual state,» they write in a paper in Carbon Balance and Management.

In fact, the RGGI states have made so much progress in the power sector that transportation is now by far the region's largest source of carbon pollution.

The November 8 election also saw the defeat of an initiative in Washington State that would have imposed the nation's first revenue - neutral carbon tax, assessing a $ 25 - per - ton fee on carbon dioxide emitted in the electricity, transportation, and other sectors and then using that revenue to reduce the state sales tax.

There are two options: one is to expand the reach of cap - and - trade to sectors such as transportation and the other is to introduce a fixed carbon price as a fee on emissions.

Focused on the power, manufacturing, and aviation sectors, the ETS only covers 45 percent of the total amount of carbon emissions in Europe, while leaving out some of the main culprits such as road transportation and agriculture.

According to the Department of Energy, if the transportation sector switched to natural gas, it would cut the nation's carbon - monoxide emissions by at least 90 percent, carbon - dioxide emissions by 25 and nitrogen - oxide emissions by up to 60.

Three, it can expand beyond the power sector to cover other big carbon sources — the biggest targets being fossil fuels used in transportation and heating.

It's time we do our fair share to cut carbon from the transportation sector.

He also suggests that air capture could contribute to de-carbonizing the transportation sector by permitting us to combine hydrogen produced by water electrolysis with captured carbon dioxide to produce liquid fuels.