Sentences with phrase «emission control strategies»

Unless there's a plan to control global emissions (i.e. you can force the chinese and indians and such to comply) then emission control strategies are indistinguishable from penalising the western economic sphere with no gain possible.

Since short - lived species can significantly influence climate, regional air quality emission control strategies for short - lived pollutants will thus substantially impact climate over large scales, such as the Northern Hemisphere.

In a world where countries adopt different national emission control strategies one of the chief tasks of government is to manage those national programs at the «seams» — where they interact with the rest of the world economy.

Single - point failures of natural gas infrastructure can hamper methane emission control strategies designed to mitigate climate change.

This suggests that storing carbon in forests, agricultural areas, and other ecosystems is an important and cost - effective part of a bigger carbon dioxide emissions control strategy that includes dramatic changes to the global energy system.

The emission control strategy of the new CGI engine is based both on in - engine measures to deliver low engine - out emissions and on effective exhaust gas aftertreatment by a total of four catalytic converters.

As a result, the government has not actively designed or implemented an emissions control strategy.

Not exact matches

When Alberta announced its latest strategy to control industrial greenhouse gas emissions several years ago, it anticipated carbon capture and storage (CCS) would deliver 70 % of planned reductions.

• A cleaner, greener environment: Governor Cuomo will create the «NY Cleaner, Greener Communities Program» to provide competitive grants that will encourage communities to develop regional sustainable growth strategies in housing, transportation, emissions control, and energy efficiency.

A cleaner, greener environment: Governor Cuomo will create the «NY Cleaner, Greener Communities Program» to provide competitive grants that will encourage communities to develop regional sustainable growth strategies in housing, transportation, emissions control, energy efficiency.

Scientists do not typically suggest geoengineering the climate as an alternative to emissions control, but rather an accompanying strategy.

Ramanathan and colleagues will deliver a complementary report detailing the «three - lever» mitigation strategy of emissions control and carbon sequestration on Sept. 18 at the United Nations.

The city had been using emission inventories to guide its ozone - control strategy.

As the technology improves and the costs come down, Matter thinks sequestering carbon dioxide in basalt could become a viable strategy for controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

This strategy will be cheaper than installing the extra pollution - control equipment that will be needed when emission standards become more stringent in 2000, says James Davis, the company's senior vice-president for fossil fuel generation.

«To mitigate the effects of climate change, we can talk about two types of options: to attack it at its origin, by eliminating or reducing the human factors that contribute to it (such as, reducing emissions, controlling pollution, etc.) or developing strategies that allow for its effects to be reduced, such as, in the case that concerns us, increasing green areas in cities, using, for example, the tops of buildings as green roofs,» states the University of Seville researcher, Luis Pérez Urrestarazu.

ref A key strategy to address ocean acidification is reinforcing existing environmental laws (e.g., U.S. Clean Water Act) to: limit runoff and associated pollutants, control coastal erosion, and enforce emission limits for pollutants such as nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide.

The project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

These engines reportedly have a warmup strategy that makes emissions controls heat up faster, which is in itself not a violation, but may prove so if the system only activates during emissions test cycles instead of real - world driving.

Optimum valve control strategies during engine warm - up and internal Exhaust Gas Recirculation, realized by reopening the intake valves during the exhaust stroke, result in emissions reduction ranging from 40 % for HC / CO to 60 % for NOx; and

Exhaust emissions are further lowered through a new glow plug control strategy and improvements to the construction and coating of the DPF.

The rationale for adopting a «troika» strategy of Emissions Control + Carbon Recovery + Albedo Restoration has become rather more cogent since my last attempt to discuss it on RC.

«My operative assumption is that enough uncertainties remain regarding timing and rate of warming, possible implementation of greenhouse emission controls, and specific effects of warming in particular regions, as to make any specific adaptation strategies beyond the list subjects that I have time for.»

But many climate scientists, seeing unabated emissions, say exploration of such options is a must, at least as a backstop strategy if things really get out of control.

Each wedge, then, could represent one strategy for controlling carbon emissions over the 50 year period.

The Clean Power Plan, however, defines the «best system of emission reduction» more broadly, by taking advantage of flexible, cost - effective strategies that power companies already use to produce the most electricity at the least cost, and to meet current air pollution control requirements.

The project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

The most economical (or least uneconomical) CCS power plants — those generating revenue from EOR operations — would be counter-productive as an emission - control strategy.

(B) effective and cost - effective control technologies, operations, and strategies for additional domestic and international black carbon emissions reductions, such as diesel retrofit technologies on existing on - road, non-road, and stationary engines and programs to address residential cookstoves, and forest and agriculture - based burning;

Given that this is only one of the seven major interactive feedbacks, and that it is evidently accelerating apace, I'm forced to the unwelcome conclusion that both Carbon Recovery and Albedo Restoration modes of geoengineering are now inevitably required alongside stringent Emissions Control in a Troika mitigation strategy.

Moreover, the EPA promulgated a final agency action last summer that threatens another 36 state programs with Clean Air Act federal takeovers, if States do not radically alter their air quality strategies to control emissions due to malfunctions and other uncontrollable events.

Straightforward acknowledgement of the growing body of climate research and assessment suggesting likely adverse consequences could potentially lead to stronger public support for controls on emissions and could be used to criticize the Administration for not embracing a stronger climate change response strategy.

The report also found wide disparities in emission rates — the amount of pollution generated for every kilowatt of electricity produced — reflecting differences in management strategies, fuel mix and pollution control technologies.

Sessions will cover top strategies for controlling emissions and costs from manufacturing, transportation, facilities, infrastructure and supply chain.

As far as I understand it, the central message of the feedbacks» acceleration is that a strategy of mitigation via emissions control alone is not remotely commensurate with the scope of the problem we face.

The Network published a book this year arguing that «humanity has until at least 2035 to determine whether or not mitigation will also be a necessary part of our strategy to address climate change... attempting to control it through global regulation of emissions would be counterproductive».

To meet this goal, plant owners can implement one of or a combination of three main strategies: use lower sulfur coal in their boilers, retire plants without emissions controls, or install emissions control equipment — primarily flue gas desulfurization (FGD) scrubbers.

Because CH4 emissions from landfill gas are a major source of CH4 emissions in the United States, emission controls that capture landfill CH4 are an effective reduction strategy.

Global Climate Change Control: Is There a Better Strategy than Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions?