Sentences with phrase «deep carbon»

For many in the electric power industry, talk of even deeper carbon cuts sounds daunting.

Transportation is the toughest sector in which to achieve deep carbon emissions reductions.

Carbonates are important constituents of marine sediments and are heavily involved in the planet's deep carbon cycle, primarily due to oceanic crust sinking into the mantle, a process called subduction.

In 2011 the City of Seattle commissioned a study of potential pathways to achieve its carbon neutrality goal, and in 2015 the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance published a framework for cities on long - term deep carbon reduction planning.

USDN and Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance Framework for Long - Term Deep Carbon Reduction Planning A core function of CNCA is to facilitate other cities» understanding of how leading - edge cities are planning for long - term deep carbon reductions, and enable cities to take a more robust, consistent, equitable and comprehensive approach to carbon neutral planning and implementation.

At the same time, the state would be able to scale up the benefits from these policies, reduce the need to invest in other states» power sectors, and achieve deeper carbon emissions reductions more cost - effectively.

This happened in two steps: First, in the Antarctic zone of the Southern Ocean, a reduction in wind - driven upwelling and vertical mixing brought less deep carbon to the surface.

That is revising a pretty large and deep carbon footprint by turning it into a tiny pinky - toe - sized dent.

In all regions, many barriers to mitigation options exist, but a wide range of opportunities are available to overcome them and give deep carbon reductions at low marginal costs in the medium to long ‐ term.

, one of the lawmakers who spoke with Obama Sunday, said in an interview the rule will make it easier for politicians to make even deeper carbon cuts a few years from now.

This Arctic halocline would have created a barrier to upwelling, which blocked deep carbon - dioxide - rich deep waters from rising to the surface.

Deep carbon science is rising. A Press release highlights publication of the Deep Carbon Observatory's midterm scientific report and participation at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, 15 - 19 December 2014 in San Francisco, USA.  Jesse Ausubel continues to advise the program and marvel at the abundance of methane and hydrogen.

«Deep carbon emissions from volcanoes.»

Last December, President Obama joined 200 other countries when he committed the U.S. to deep carbon cuts at the United Nation's climate change summit in Paris.

According to news reports, Mayor Matt Appelbaum's invitation to this event comes directly out of the city's participation in the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, a group of 17 international cities seen as «vanguard cities» for their commitment to achieving deep carbon reductions.

And we found the rate of permafrost thaw and its effect on the decomposition of deep carbon will have a much bigger impact on the carbon cycle than the availability of deep nitrogen and its ability to spark plant growth,» says Charles Koven of Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division.

A French NGO kicked off a session on the «I'm PORT TAUNTS off ASH EVing» deep carbon reductions.

When the team determined what happened to that carbon under UV light, they found that the deeper carbon was also about 40 % more susceptible to photochemical and biochemical degradation into CO2 than was carbon from the active layer.

Just as preserving forests offers a chance to sequester carbon and curb climate change, preventing the disruption of coastal habitats, which are often razed for development or aquaculture, ensures that their deep carbon deposits are not released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

Carbonates were known to exist in the upper mantle due to their role in the deep carbon cycle.

Carbonates, and in particular ferromagnesite -LRB-(Mg, Fe) CO3), are likely candidates for deep - Earth carbon storage and therefore play a key role in the deep carbon cycle.

The deep carbon freezers release gases like methane and carbon dioxide on thawing (Credit: wikimedia commons)

Deep carbon science is rising.

Probably the key question is return period for the fires, and early indications from the first big tundra fire (Anaktuvuk in 2007) is that regrowth is going very well (normally a good thing, but in this case it points to earlier reburning; that's important because repeated burning accesses deeper and deeper carbon).