Sentences with phrase «creates additional carbon emissions»

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

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

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.

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.

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.