Sentences with phrase «creates additional carbon»

All this creates additional carbon emissions and undermines progress towards the government's ambitious carbon emission goals.

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«The additional carbon footprint created by the longer supply chain is the enemy of food production.

That fast - spreading development is creating additional water stress while simultaneously damaging the ecosystem's ability to absorb carbon dioxide and store or «fix» it in plants, according to the research — a study led by scientists at the University of Montana and published in the journal Science.

But additional buildup of coal - to - natural - gas projects could also create an environmental nightmare because producing the gas will emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide and worsen the water crisis in China's arid western regions.

«This is because the coastal ocean is shallower than the open ocean and can quickly transfer sequestered carbon dioxide to the deep ocean; this process creates an additional and effective pathway for the ocean to take up and store anthropogenic carbon dioxide,» said Cai, the Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.

The genes introduced by the German group encode enzymes that add carbon double bonds to the precursors and tack on additional carbon atoms, creating a range of omega - 3 and other fatty acids.

Going further down at the rear you'll notice a new lower diffuser with additional vertical fins, on this car finished in a combination of grey metallic and orange metallic paint... but just about all parts of the Hamann Nervudo kit are made from carbon fiber, so they can be clear coated too which creates a totally different look naturally.

The complete rear fascia presents itself in extreme carbon fiber, and creates additional dowforce thanks to the massive wing spoiler, which adds to the strong design character of DMC's kit.

Imagine that an increase in carbon dioxide alters the cloud properties just a little — enough to either prevent that brief break in the clouds, or to create several additional breaks, one of which would be more likely to occur at the time of peak heating for the day.

By 2003, this plan had reduced annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 20 million tons and helped to create approximately 250,000 additional jobs.

Increasing the price of carbon - based fuels will further spur innovation, however, and create additional opportunities for energy entrepreneurs to offer their wares.

The forests that the industry claims are offsetting the emissions of burning biomass for energy were already growing and sequestering carbon, so creating an additional source of carbon pollution by burning trees requires creating an additional offset to take that carbon up.

This analysis also demonstrates that improving the energy efficiency provisions in ACES by including a stand - alone energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) requiring 10 % cumulative savings by 2020 (instead of the ACES Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the original bill.

Reducing the UK's carbon emissions by around 60 % by 2030 (as recommended by the CCC) would: * increase UK GDP by 1.1 % in net terms * result in at least 190,000 additional jobs being created across the UK economy * mean households are financially better off compared to a scenario where little is done to reduce emissions.

Such a release could potentially create enough additional warming to make the 4 degree world unstable, just as the carbon cycle feedbacks discussed in the previous section might render the 3 degree world unstable.

The report estimates that retrofitting the European Union's residential buildings to cut carbon emissions by 75 % could create an additional 2.6 million new jobs by 2030.

ACEEE's analysis of this legislation demonstrates that improving the energy efficiency provisions in ACESA by including a stand - alone energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) requiring 10 % cumulative savings by 2020 (instead of the ACESA Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the original bill.