Sentences with phrase «cent less emissions»

But vegans can feel the most superior, pumping out 25 per cent less emissions than vegetarians, who still eat eggs and dairy.

Not exact matches

New Democrats have repeatedly pointed out that it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.

The two meals were a meat free and a non meat free dish, whose ingredients were respectively 30 and 15 per cent less costly in terms of harmful emissions than those of an average meal.

The report — Less Is More: Greenpeace vision of the meat and dairy system towards 2050 — claims that unless the way we farm for food changes radically, then agriculture will soon be responsible for pumping out 52 per cent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

On the environment, Europe's target under the Kyoto protocol is to cut carbon emission by eight per cent by 2012, but Mr Cameron will warn that with just six years to go, emissions are down less than one per cent on 1990 levels.

Finally, with the UK responsible for less than two per cent of global emissions, action at home is not enough.

That was less than 4 per cent of the increase in national emissions during that time, which was overwhelmingly from cities and industry.

Emissions from China's cement production were 45 per cent less that recent estimates.

Emissions of nitrogen oxides, one of the biggest problems for lean - burn engines, were reduced to 0.09 grams per kilometre — 25 per cent less than the US standard proposed for 2004.

The figure is also about 10 per cent less than the estimate given for China in the most recent publication of the Global Carbon Project, which updates annually the global carbon emissions and their implications for future trends.

Reducing our carbon emissions by 80 per cent isn't going to mean we just do or have 80 per cent less stuff — we need to focus on doing things differently, or doing different things.

The school will use up to 80 per cent less energy than a conventionally built equivalent facility, reducing carbon emissions by 60 per cent without the use of renewable energy.

The beauty of the system — apart from improvements in economy and emissions — is that it's very light compared to a full hybrid — just 46 kg — and costs 75 per cent less than a full hybrid system to install.

The most powerful 2.0 - litre diesel MultiJet II with 168bhp will do less to the gallon, and predicted emissions of 148g / km of CO2 suggests a Benefit - in - Kind tax band of 31 per cent.

But because the new XF weighs up to 190 kg less than before (just 1555 kg in 20d form, despite being a claimed 28 per cent stiffer torsionally), official combined fuel consumption is as low as 4.3 L / 100 km and CO2 emissions 114g / km, making it best in class for efficiency.

Granted, following an upgrade to meet Euro 6 emissions standards — which also brings a quoted «three to four per cent» improvement in fuel economy — it makes slightly less power and torque -LRB--3 kW / -4 Nm).

Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are 11 per cent lower than the old Gallardo's — the LP610 - 4 Coupe claims 22.6 mpg and 290g / km — but with such immense performance at your disposal, you can expect to achieve far less than that in the real world.

Benefits of using the Boeing 787 family includes less fuel consumption as compared to similar aircraft, and reducing environmental impact and CO2 emission by 20 per cent.

According to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global GHG emissions in 2050 need to be reduced by no less than 41 to 72 per cent compared to the emissions in 2010.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

Cities are major contributors to climate change: although they cover less than 2 per cent of the earth's surface, cities consume 78 per cent of the world's energy and produce more than 60 % of all carbon dioxide and significant amounts of other greenhouse gas emissions, mainly through energy generation, vehicles, industry, and biomass use.

Official figures acknowledge that government policy directed at climate change has reduced gross emissions by less than 1 per cent to date, and the projected reduction in 2030 is just half a per cent.

Black bars consider only the pathways represented by black crosses with «rate of emissions decline» less than 4 per cent.

We choose the parameters so that the majority of emission pathways have a maximum rate of emissions decline of less than 4 per cent per year, but we also consider a smaller number of pathways that decrease by up to 10 per cent per year.

This limited range of pathways all have a rate of warming less than 0.2 °C per decade, which initially suggests that a cumulative emissions target could be used to constrain rates of warming, assuming that rates of decline are kept at less than 4 per cent per year.

Less than a year after it was adopted, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change came into force on 4 November 2016, following ratification by 55 countries whose economies account for 55 per cent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

This market would allow Ontario businesses and residents to access surplus clean power at the wholesale market price of less than two cents per kilowatt - hour (KWh), which could displace the use of fossil fuels by using things like dual fuel (gas and electric) water heaters, and by producing emission - free hydrogen fuel.

«[Fifteen] per cent of the UK's carbon dioxide emissions come from cars, and a quarter of our car journeys are less than two miles long», states Brenda Boardman of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (6).

Carbon dioxide emissions savings from wind turbines were 20 per cent less than claimed, leading to the overpayment of renewable energy certificates worth about $ 70 million last year, according to an international analysis of Australia's national electricity market.

«the emissions related to the manufacture, construction and operation of the wind farm are likely to be equal to less than two per cent of the emission reductions that arise as a result of the displacement of fossil fuel - based electricity generation.»

They have developed a new way of producing ammonia which reduces nitrogen oxide emissions by 87 per cent, sulphur dioxide by 95 per cent and carbon dioxide by 60 per cent — and it uses less resources.

The new advanced technology wood stoves, fireplaces and furnaces that are certified low emission by the US Environmental Protection Agency can burn with no visible smoke and ninety per cent less pollution than appliances of thirty years ago.

And a survey by the US General Services Administration found that the first dozen LEED buildings in its portfolio consumed 26 per cent less energy and produced 33 per cent lower carbon dioxide emissions than comparable government - owned buildings.

Damages from mercury emissions are less than 1 cents per kWh, so are not included here.

Senator Alan Ferguson used a variant of this argument when arguing in Parliament against the adoption of the Rudd Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme; he said that Australia is «responsible for less than 1 1/2 per cent of the world's emissions» and implied that since our contribution was so small there was no point in risking our economic well - being by reducing our greenhouse gas production.