Sentences with phrase «creating less emissions»

They have the added benefit of creating less emissions than standard cars.

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We are living in an enormous fabric of life, where anti-poverty measures may create new pressures caused by excess consumption; where methane emissions increase if we eat more beef or throw food waste in a landfill; where drought leads to forest fires and more carbon; where marginalizing women makes communities less resilient.

Its conclusion — that drive - thrus create fewer emissions than parking lots — is based on a finding that when parkers turn off their cars, the catalytic converter cools and is less efficient at reducing emissions.

By investing in solar energy, for example, Walmart has contributed to less greenhouse gas emissions, and helped create thousands of jobs for American solar companies.

Moreover, PET plastic bottles use less energy, generate less solid waste and create fewer greenhouse gas emissions than glass bottles or aluminum cans.

Impossible Foods is an example of a firm that has gained consumer support and investments from the likes of Bill Gates by marketing its products on the premise of sustainability, claiming that one of its burgers creates 87 % less greenhouse gas emissions compared to a beef burger.

Organic agriculture generally creates less soil and water pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions, and is more energy efficient.

However, four people travelling 250 miles in an average sized petrol car towing a medium sized caravan would only create 38 kgs of CO2 emissions per person - and even less in a diesel car - resulting in significant savings.

WMG is analysing the suitability for micro / mild hybridisation (MMH)-- a feasible solution that represents a simple, low - cost implementation to create high fuel efficiency with less energy use and fewer emissions.

According to Graf's model, Toba's massive sulphur emissions created large sulphate particles that were less able to reflect light, reducing the cooling effect (Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/cpk3fm).

According to Graf's model, the vast sulphur emissions created sulphate particles that grew large and so reflected less light, reducing the cooling effect (Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/cpk3fm).

Organic agriculture also creates less soil and water pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Tuning upgrades are popular; «We've done 70 Abarths so far,» says Bennett, «and because we don't have to worry about worldwide emissions standards like the manufacturers do, we can create a more linear torque delivery and make the engine less peaky.»

A study of greenhouse gas - emissions by the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California at Irvine shows fuel - cell vehicles running on hydrogen derived from natural gas ultimately create far less GHG emissions than BEVs running off the U.S. grid, which is powered mostly by coal and natural gas.

The direct injection engines in the LaCrosse create more power with less fuel and reduce vehicle emissions through greater combustion control — particularly cold - start emissions that are reduced by up to 25 percent.

It's not only more powerful than the previous 2.5 - liter, it also posts better fuel economy, lower emissions, and creates less noise so passengers enjoy a quieter cabin.

But a specially type of infrared photography has created a breakthrough in efforts to cut pollution from the expanding oil and gas industry, resulting in reduced greenhouse gas emissions, less local air pollution and less wasted natural gas.

Whether you choose actions to curb emissions, save water, spend more time outdoors, generate less waste — or you create your own challenge — you'll be making a world of difference by participating in the EcoChallenge.

The average operating heat rate for gas - fired power plants is about 21 % lower than coal - fired electric generation facilities, creating less CO2 emissions.

«The evidence of history is that the sizes of the targets are less damaging than the plans required to achieve them... These emission reduction plans will lay down blueprints for achieving sector targets and such plans create winners and losers.

The Energy Plan 1.0 outlines actions that will change city - wide systems so our city wastes less energy and produces fewer emissions - and creates jobs in the process.

An argument then could be made that it is always best to recycle paper since making new paper would create 25 percent to 70 percent less emissions than if the paper were from virgin materials.

Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to fight both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 per day.

In addition, the commercialization of the efficient cookstoves has contributed to create a much healthier cooking environment since the cleaner burning stoves cause significantly less smoke and fewer carbon monoxide emissions.

Even if natural gas combustion creates approaching 50 percent less CO2 equivalent per unit of energy produced, an amount which is well beyond best case on ghg emission reductions, it will not create the much greater emissions reductions necessary in the next 30 years to give any hope of limiting warming from exceeding levels that will cause catastrophic impacts.

To top that off, not only would you be reducing emissions from transport, but you would also be creating a new market for farmers and making cars less dependent on foreign oil imports (enhancing national energy security).

While the current impasse of air credits focuses on PM - 10, there are plans to create a separate and distinct particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in size (PM - 2.5) standard, which would likely be the focus of emission compliance issues for power plants.

(IEA, 2012) Even if natural gas combustion creates a 50 percent less CO2 per unit of energy produced, an amount which is beyond best case on ghg emission reductions, it will not produce the greater emissions reductions necessary in the next 30 years necessary to give any hope of restricting warming to potentially catastrophic levels.

Without grazing, grasses grow less, dry up faster, and create a greater risk of fire, a serious source of carbon emissions.

To illustrate the potential for stabilizing climate change at less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, Climate Interactive has created a scenario of greenhouse gas emissions reductions that only results in an expected warming of 1.8 °C.

The Washington Post reported, «[EDF] has reached out to Ingersoll and others in the commercial space business to create a device that will be able to measure methane emissions on a 125 - mile wide swath with pixel resolution of less than five - eighths of a mile.»

Compared to cows, the Impossible Burger uses 95 % less land, 74 % less water, and creates 87 % less greenhouse gas emissions.

The requirement that regulated businesses hold enough allowances to cover their emissions ensures the cap is met and creates demand for the allowances.1 If it is less costly for a company to reduce emissions than to buy allowances, the company will reduce its own emissions.

Double - paned windows are a boon to the environment as well, because when you burn less fossil fuel, you create fewer greenhouse gas emissions.