Sentences with phrase «develop less carbon»

For example, we will need to dramatically reduce the number of miles we drive as well as develop less carbon intensive vehicles.

And I'm not worried about that because I believe that in the meanwhile, we have that time to develop less carbon intensive forms of energy production, to walk away from the rising sea levels, and to build further inland, develop sea defences, etc, etc..

Not exact matches

Less developed nations, which lack robust and power - hungry infrastructure, rank among the lowest contributors to carbon dioxide emissions.

As with carbon dioxide emission rankings, less developed nations tend to score better on electricity consumption because access to electrical power is not as widely available.

«The goal of our work was to develop an alternative approach to making ammonia, but the insights that have come from this collaboration between our research groups can be applied to other difficult chemical processes, such as converting carbon dioxide into a less harmful and more useful product.

Using technology developed at Cornell University, Novomer gets additional funding to develop a plastic - manufacturing process that requires less oil by folding in carbon dioxide

Instead, the Administration's plans for energy conservation and using energy sources with less CO2 emission will help in the short - term, he said; down the road, a new National Climate Change Technology Initiative will help develop cutting - edge technologies such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration, Bush said.

The authors aren't yet sure why the organic carbon from the more developed watersheds is less vulnerable to breakdown by sunlight in rivers and streams, but suggest that it might be because it has already been exposed to appreciable sunlight in the less shady urban and agricultural environment.

In automobiles, researchers have struggled to develop a system that seamlessly and easily converts pollutants like nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide to less harmful nitrogen and carbon dioxide — without using a lot of energy.

The engine was developed as part of the «Limo - Green» project funded by the U.K.'s Technology Strategy Board to produce a large sedan with an emissions rating of less than 120 g / km of carbon dioxide.

Rural India and Africa require huge amounts of development and that development has bog all to do with developed world attempts to move to less carbon - intensive energy sources.

[12] In fact, using the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change developed by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, even if all carbon dioxide emissions in the United States were effectively eliminated, there would be less than two - tenths of a degree Celsius reduction in global temperatures.

NGOs that ideologically support equity defend the right of developing countries to increase their emissions for two to three more decades at least, while advocating limits to an increase in temperature (1.5 °C) and carbon concentrations (to levels of 350 parts per million or less).

Also, support toward less carbon - intensive energy sources that could be developed domestically — such as biogas — could facilitate a less coal - intensive future.

We haven't even come close to defining what will be required in storage, what are the legal liabilities and what are the permitting requirements, much less the infrastructure needed to develop that storage and move the carbon, the C02, into that storage, pipelines or trucks or whatever that is.

We would have to develop new technologies that use energy more efficiently, emit less carbon per unit of energy, remove carbon from the atmosphere, and / or reduce the harm done by carbon dioxide.

Fuel Substitution: The oil and natural gas industry has spent nearly $ 25 billion developing substitute and less carbon intensive fuels, such as liquefied natural gas and reducing fugitive gas emissions.

The «precautionary principle» ignores real negative effects of carbon rationing, particularly in lesser developed countries.

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.

Carol Browner worked with Vice President Gore and others to develop paths for moving forward toward a less carbon intensive economy.

The study found that while the carbon dioxide emissions of Chinese exports had either slowed their increase or decreased, the carbon dioxide emissions of exports from less developed countries had only increased.

In order to ensure that lesser - developed countries have the capability to develop without relying on high - carbon technologies, the G8 nations and other industrialized countries led by the United States should seek to transfer to poorer countries the tools to drive their development along an alternative, clean energy path.

Economic growth provides resources for solving problems — conserving and restoring ecosystems, better sanitation and safer water, better health and education, updating the diesel fleet and other productive assets to emit less black carbon, developing better and cheaper ways of producing electricity, replacing cooking fires with better ways of preparing food thus avoiding millions of deaths annually, etc..

Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) specializes in connecting your carbon footprint with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 per day.

While there is continued emphasis on developing «Carbon Capture and Sequestration» to ensure a continued life for Somewhat Less Dirty Coal (euphemistically called «Clean Coal «-RRB-, there are win - win - win options for geoengineering and carbon capture, like biochar, that merit far greater attention and active pursuit.

While the framework established that developing nations would have the right to develop, it also envisioned that development in places like China and India might take a fundamentally different, and less carbon - intensive path than that taken by rich nations.

They have developed a new way of producing ammonia which reduces nitrogen oxide emissions by 87 per cent, sulphur dioxide by 95 per cent and carbon dioxide by 60 per cent — and it uses less resources.

GDP fall could mean carbon fall Before the stimulus package, China's slowed economy emits less carbon than developed economies going through a recession.

Our carbon supply cost curves research is a response to demand from investors to understand which projects are less likely to be developed in a world where global warming is limited to 2 °C.

Switching out cook - stoves in the developing world may seem much easier and less contentious, from the comfortable vantage point of Washington D.C., than swaying Congress on carbon emissions.

As the developed nations already have a financial set of problems, it should be relatively easy to manipulate some progress towards less carbon dioxide production without trying to squeeze out false economic arguments.

Constructed from carbon fibre, and with a single driver's seat made from materials apparently developed by NASA (new car companies always make claims like this), it is none the less the interior the really stands out.