Sentences with phrase «declines in emissions of»

This surprising «decoupling» of emissions from economic activity was led by the two largest emitters, China and the U.S., which both registered declines in emissions of about 1.5 percent.

«This is one of the first studies to show that soils are beginning to respond positively to declines in emissions of SO2 and NOx,» says Chris E. Johnson, an environmental geochemist at Syracuse University.

Systematic national programs of these sorts would lead to a steady and substantial decline in the emission of greenhouse gases and greatly increase our ability to lead the family of nations into international agreements on the environment.

Just a quick note to those seeking a rapid decline in emissions of greenhouse gases (and other pollution) from coal combustion: The challenge, in a world with rising populations and energy appetites, is getting harder by the day.

Not exact matches

«Economic decline... doesn't lead to as big a decline in emissions as a comparable amount of economic growth leads to growth in emissions,» York told Reuters.

But emissions fell just 0.43 percent for every percent decline in GDP per capita, he added, based on a review of World Bank statistics of more than 150 nations from 1960 to 2008.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

«This would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth,» the researchers said, noting that a portion of India's new energy consumption must be from «low - carbon» resources in order for global emissions to peak and then swiftly decline.

In 2008, they drew on data covering 1980 to 2006 to argue that there had been «declining intensities of impact, from energy use and carbon emission to food consumption and fertiliser use, globally and in countries ranging from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774In 2008, they drew on data covering 1980 to 2006 to argue that there had been «declining intensities of impact, from energy use and carbon emission to food consumption and fertiliser use, globally and in countries ranging from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774in countries ranging from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774).

Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.

That said, whereas CO2 emissions from coal - fired power plants in the U.S. have declined, greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands have doubled since the turn of the century and look set to double again by the end of this decade — the primary source of emissions growth for the entire country of Canada.

«The net emission flows from western regions to eastern regions in China may further decline because of the faster economic growth in the western regions.

The good news is if combustion emissions decline in coming decades, as most projections say, fine - particle pollution will go down even if fertilizer use doubles as expected, according to the new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Under the strictest pathway (RCP 2.6), which assumes an early peak of greenhouse gas emissions which then decline substantially, the potential net increases in mortality rates at the end of the century be minimal (between -0.4 % and +0.6 %) in all the regions included in this study, highlighting the benefits of the implementation of mitigation policies.

The biggest driver of lower carbon dioxide emissions has been declining natural gas prices, which has allowed the industry to replace coal - fired power plants economically with cleaner natural gas power plants — and without a costly regulatory mandate,» said Jeffrey J. Anderson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

Stricter emissions requirements on coal - fired power plants, together with low natural gas prices, have contributed to a recent decline in the use of coal for electricity generation in the United States, she said.

This has led to a large decrease in sulfur emissions, and less atmospheric deposition of sulfate to agricultural fields, and consequently, declining sulfate concentrations in rivers.

(Reuters)- Carbon emissions and electricity demand in Australia have risen in the two months since the government repealed a tax on emissions, bucking a nearly six - year long trend of decline, an energy consultancy said on Thursday.

This time, no return to cooler period Tim Barnett, a climatologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the new results appear to agree with his earlier work that used climate models to show humans» greenhouse gas emissions have contributed to declining snowpack in the western United States.

This protective layer began a precipitous decline in the 1980s due to emissions of several gases, including CFCs, which were widely used in refrigerators and spray products.

Simulating natural and humanmade climate drivers, scientists showed that the decline in rainfall is primarily a response to humanmade increases in greenhouse gases as well as a thinning of the ozone caused by humanmade aerosol emissions.

And an analysis published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that any decline in emissions in Europe has simply been outsourced to China.

The result is an overall emissions decline with the lowest overall economic impact, at least in theory, though some economists and other experts argue that such trade in greenhouse gases amounts to «voodoo economics» — the benefits of the trading never trickle down to the actual pollution control.

A rapid decline in annual emissions would be needed to prevent warming from blowing past the ambitious temperature goals of the Paris agreement.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

Harmful greenhouse gas emissions should continue to fall in industrialized countries and recent signs of decline in China should continue, but emissions are set to rise in India, southeast Asia and Africa as energy demand growth dwarfs efforts to improve air quality.

The Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's most sweeping climate policy aiming to cut emissions from power plants that burn fossil fuels, is another factor in the decline of the coal industry.

The Edison Electric Institute, which represents electric companies in all 50 states, declined to comment directly on the EPI's findings, but said the industry had already reduced emissions of the gases blamed for causing climate change.

-- In applying the portion of the formula in clause (i)(III) of this subparagraph, for calendar years for which a percentage is not listed in section 703 (a), the Administrator shall use a uniform annual decline in the amount of emissions between the years that are specifieIn applying the portion of the formula in clause (i)(III) of this subparagraph, for calendar years for which a percentage is not listed in section 703 (a), the Administrator shall use a uniform annual decline in the amount of emissions between the years that are specifiein clause (i)(III) of this subparagraph, for calendar years for which a percentage is not listed in section 703 (a), the Administrator shall use a uniform annual decline in the amount of emissions between the years that are specifiein section 703 (a), the Administrator shall use a uniform annual decline in the amount of emissions between the years that are specifiein the amount of emissions between the years that are specified.

Global rates of temperature change in high and declining greenhouse gas emission scenarios.

While declines in emissions have previously occurred during periods of economic crisis, this would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth.

Pütz and his colleagues found that declining microclimate at these forest edges is leading to more than 68 million metric tons of carbon emissions in 10 years.

Because of this relationship, astronomers know that a dip in a star's X-ray emission would mirror a decline in its magnetic activity, as the two are intrinsically linked.

Mass bleaching and mortality are identified as the current crisis to corals, and based on the current rate of increase in global CO2 emissions (now exceeding 3 % per year), most reefs world - wide are committed to an irreversible decline.

A long - term experiment revealed that growth declined and individual branches were damaged when the water was undersaturated with aragonite (Ω < 1)-- a condition that could be achieved in 2100, according to model calculations of the IPCC in case emissions continue to develop at current rates.

The new study, published last week in the journal Environmental Research Letters, showed that emissions of sulfur dioxide, a common air pollutant released during coal and fossil fuel combustion, increased from 2000 to 2006, after which they started to decline.

The operationalization of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) led to targeting earlier symptomatic cases of the illness and treatment strategies based less on pathology and more on a chance to halt or slow decline than there would be earlier in the disease.1 With the development of amyloid imaging, MCI due to AD diagnosis was refined, 2 and early - stage AD was extended further to include preclinical AD, 3 wherein a positive amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scan or diagnostic low levels of cerebrospinal fluid β - amyloid (Aβ) indicated the presence of pathology in people who were cognitively normal.

The record year for renewables, coupled with a second year of declines for coal, saw global CO2 emissions remain flat for the third year in a row, the BP figures show, increasing by just 0.1 %.

A 6 % / year decrease of fossil fuel emissions beginning in 2013, with 100 GtC reforestation, achieves a CO2 decline to 350 ppm near the end of this century (Fig. 5A).

The US is expected to see slower decline in its carbon emissions, from an annual 1.2 % drop over the past 10 years to a decrease of 0.4 % this year, with a return to growth in coal use, as president Donald Trump promised to rescue the coal industry.

A dramatic decline in the ability of the Earth to soak up man - made emissions of carbon dioxide, and a corresponding acceleration in the rate of increase of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, have been detected for the first time by scientists.

I remember when high - level clowns in the Bush administration were pointing to the decline in carbon emissions in the mid-2000s, but of course not taking credit (or blame) for the higher oil and gas prices that most agreed lay behind those declines.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

«In a scenario of zeroed CO2 and sulfate aerosol emissions, whether the warming induced by specified constant concentrations of non-CO2 greenhouse gases could slow the CO2 decline following zero emissions or even reverse this trend and cause CO2 to increase over time is assessed.

The area of near - surface permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere is projected to decline by 20 % relative to today's area by 2040, and could be reduced by as much as two - thirds by 2080 under a scenario of high greenhouse gas emissions.

James Murdoch, the young scion of the giant News Corporation media empire, has an op - ed article for The Washington Post aimed at «conservation - minded conservatives,» spelling out the many reasons to propel an energy transformation in the United States through a declining cap on carbon dioxide emissions, despite the uncertainties in climate science.

And the reason those 21st century emissions fail to make much of an impression on global temperature is because the atmospheric levels of GHG begin to decline when our emissions are cut (the cut required depending on the gas in question).

In general, so long as there is some solar heating beneath some level, there must be a net LW + convective heat flux upward at that level to balance it in equilibrium; convection tends to require some nonzero temperature decline with height, and a net upward LW flux requires either that the temperature declines with height on the scale of photon paths (from emission to absorption), or else requires at least a partial «veiw» of space, which can be blocked by increasing optical thickness above that leveIn general, so long as there is some solar heating beneath some level, there must be a net LW + convective heat flux upward at that level to balance it in equilibrium; convection tends to require some nonzero temperature decline with height, and a net upward LW flux requires either that the temperature declines with height on the scale of photon paths (from emission to absorption), or else requires at least a partial «veiw» of space, which can be blocked by increasing optical thickness above that levein equilibrium; convection tends to require some nonzero temperature decline with height, and a net upward LW flux requires either that the temperature declines with height on the scale of photon paths (from emission to absorption), or else requires at least a partial «veiw» of space, which can be blocked by increasing optical thickness above that level.

Trump, the Right and the immense power of business will not even consider managed decline — it is fundamental heresy — but those that stymied effective emission reduction over the past three decades have left no option in economic and governmental BAU.

Now, as skeptics noted on my previous stories about the UK's decline in emissions, we shouldn't forget that a large amount of the country's heavy industry has now been outsourced to foreign shores.