Sentences with phrase «contributing more greenhouse gases»

As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector.

According to environmentalists, the pipeline, which stretches from Louisiana to Canada, would feature a method of extraction that would contribute more greenhouse gases to the environment than normal extraction.

The question is not just a scientific curiosity, but has real world applications because one mechanism contributes more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than the other.

The burning of Indonesia's tropical peatlands contributed more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than the vast majority of countries did from fossil fuels in 2015.

Despite the fact that livestock production contributes more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transport sector, there is an appalling unwillingness to change eating habits in order to make a difference.

Not exact matches

This requires a large amount of effort on the part of the farm, documenting all energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions and more, and documenting that Aquiares do not contribute to climate change.

Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.

Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck in the human lung and cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered in ash).

This marine methane could contribute to global warming by adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

The increasing numbers of commercialized organic operations — which still make up just 3 percent of total agricultural lands — appear to contribute to increased and more intense levels of greenhouse gases coming from each acre of farmland, reports Julius McGee, a doctoral student in the UO sociology department.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

The transportation sector has the capacity to nearly halve its CO2 emissions by 2050 and, hence, to contribute far more than previously thought to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

In all the nations surveyed, more than 73 per cent of people agreed that «Every time we use coal or oil or gas, we contribute to the greenhouse effect».

At higher temperatures, less of the gas is absorbed, and the ocean releases more carbon dioxide into the air, contributing to a runaway greenhouse effect.

In fact, they might have contributed to more global warming so far than all aircraft greenhouse gas emissions put together.

Agriculture produces more greenhouse gases than all methods of transport put together, and contributes to...

A 2017 paper published by researchers at Imperial College London in the journal Nature Climate Change found that carbon utilization is unlikely to contribute more than 1 percent of needed greenhouse gas reductions in future years, Rubin noted.

Whereas the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere will contribute to warming the planet for many decades to come, Ramanathan says, the good news about warming agents such as black carbon is that they don't linger in the atmosphere for more than a few weeks.

And that manufacturing contributes to a global greenhouse gas hit of more than 200 million tons of carbon dioxide each year — the same amount about 150 coal power plants generate annually.

However, at the increased levels seen since the Industrial Revolution (roughly 275 ppm then, 400 ppm now; Figure 2 - 1), greenhouse gases are contributing to the rapid rise of our global average temperatures by trapping more heat, often referred to as human - caused climate change.

«If California allows credits for reductions in deforestation, it would send farmers and forest communities a powerful signal that living forests can be worth more than dead ones, and contribute to keeping these greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere,» said EDF's Schwartzman.

Did you know that our insatiable appetite for animal protein contributes 50 % more greenhouse gases than our planes, trains, trucks, cars and ships?

And amid all of their huffing and puffing, someone knowledgeable please tell me: exactly how much attention was paid to the fact that LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION contributes more to greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, trains, and planes on Earth put together?

By some calculations, livestock may contribute nearly 15 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire transportation sector.

Cattle emissions contribute more to greenhouse gases and global warming than all the transportation in the world combined!

But every time it builds another branch in the suburbs with its monster parking lot and its three lane drive - through ATMs, it is contributing to the creation of more greenhouse gas, more imported oil, more urban sprawl.

Because the new precise observations agree with existing assessments of water vapor's impact, researchers are more confident than ever in model predictions that Earth's leading greenhouse gas will contribute to a temperature rise of a few degrees by the end of the century.

The EC proposes a «firm independent commitment to achieve at least a 20 % reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared to 1990», and a 30 % reduction «provided that other developed countries commit themselves to comparable emission reductions and economically more advanced developing countries commit themselves to contributing adequately according to their responsibilities and capabilities.»

If more carbon is stored in forests, then less greenhouse gas is present to contribute to ocean acidification.

While developed countries and regions have long been culprits for Earth's rising greenhouse gas emissions, Cornell researchers — balancing the role of aerosols along with carbons in the equation — now predict a time when developing countries will contribute more to climate change than advanced societies: 2030.

Microbial communities in thawing permafrost contribute a significant amount to atmospheric methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Some St. Louis County residents oppose a proposed natural gas pipeline that would run through parts of Illinois and Missouri on the grounds that it would encourage more hydraulic fracturing, which emits greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

(3) The countries most vulnerable to climate change, due both to greater exposure to harmful impacts and to lower capacity to adapt, are developing countries with very low industrial greenhouse gas emissions that have contributed less to climate change than more affluent countries.

Today, the Paris Agreement is ready to enter into force after more than 55 nations collectively contributing more than 55 percent of total global greenhouse gas emissions formally approved the agreement.

«In addition, policy choices can be found, making full use of the innovations developed to implement the Kyoto protocol, and recognising the economic realities of the energy sector, which contribute more fully to greenhouse gas emissions mitigation.»

Yet the American coal industry, which pumps 2 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year and contributes more than one - third of the nation's overall greenhouse gas emissions, is nothing if not resilient.

Over the last few decades, however, that ice has been thinning due to increasing greenhouse gases, so when it does melt in the summer, as it normally does, more of the sun's energy gets absorbed into the Arctic Ocean, which then contributes to even more melting.

Not only are such fires more likely as the climate changes but they also release vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide, contributing to climate change themselves.

The complaint cites research showing the companies» products have contributed more than 11 percent of all the greenhouse gas pollution since the Industrial Age began.

The top three greenhouse gas emitters — China, the European Union and the United States — contribute more than half of total global emissions, while the bottom 100 countries only account for 3.5 percent.1 Collectively, the top 10 emitters account for nearly three - quarters of global emissions.

Explicit endorsements were divided into non-quantified (e.g., humans are contributing to global warming without quantifying the contribution) and quantified (e.g., humans are contributing more than 50 % of global warming, consistent with the 2007 IPCC statement that most of the global warming since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations

While Steve Stoft is correct that RPS will likely not create any greenhouse gas emissions reductions beyond those imposed by a future federal cap, a federal renewable energy program will, if properly designed, create more renewable power capacity, which will have benefits beyond contributing to lowering our GHG emissions.

In March 2007, EU Ministers agreed a 2020 target to unilaterally reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent from 1990 levels; agreed that a 30 percent cut by industrialized countries is needed to avoid catastrophic climate change; and committed to reducing emissions by 30 % if other developed countries do the same and if economically more advanced developing countries contribute adequately according to their respective responsibilities and capacities: Brussels European Council, 5/9 March 2007.

«Explicit endorsements were divided into non-quantified (e.g., humans are contributing to global warming without quantifying the contribution) and quantified (e.g., humans are contributing more than 50 % of global warming, consistent with the 2007 IPCC statement that most of the global warming since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations).»

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

There are more than 3 billion light fixtures in homes across the U.S. with old, inefficient bulbs wasting Americans billions of dollars in energy costs and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.

Horses even contribute to global warming: manure releases methane, a greenhouse gas eight times more potent that carbon dioxide.

While carbon dioxide receives most of the attention in the debate over greenhouse gas emissions, climate scientists warn that methane is about 30 times more potent than CO2 in terms of contributing to a warmer climate.

The obvious ethical restrictions to releasing large amounts of methane (which contributes 25 times more greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide) into the ocean has complicated study of how seepage of natural gas at the ocean floor contributes to global warming.

The advantages of a comprehensive approach are: 1) it promotes economic efficiency by allowing emission reductions in the gases which are the least expensive to abate, or the substitution of increased sinks for reducing emissions if this is the least cost option; 2) it prevents switching form one form of activity which emits greenhouse gases to another that contributes as much, if not more, to the problem of climate change; and 3) it provides an incentive to move science and technology forward.