Sentences with phrase «emissions at another source»

Environmental justice advocates, who have long criticized cap and trade for its propensity to allow businesses to avoid reducing emissions at the source, praised the lack of an immediate link to international deforestation programs.

Many environmentalists still oppose such techno - fixes as either bound to produce unintended consequences or a cop - out that could reduce pressure to stop emissions at the source.

If offset companies really can engage with their customers, help them to reduce emissions at source as much as possible, and then offset the rest while they seek even larger reductions, then they are probably providing a valuable service.

Bioenergy systems in BECCS are paired with a carbon capture method, facilitating the capture of carbon dioxide emissions at the source of combustion.

It allows those reducing heat - trapping (greenhouse gas) emissions below their emission cap to use or trade the excess reductions to offset emissions at another source inside or outside the country.

-- We can't be certain that atmospheric CO2 is really going to cause any substantial harm, but we can be reasonably sure that anything that raises the price of energy (e.g. mitigation, that is reducing emissions at the source) will impact improvements in lifestyle that most of the world wants.

The «direct» tax proposals under consideration — taxing emissions at the source, a gas tax, etc. — have a certain logic and efficiency to them and avoid the muddle of derivatives (the dangers of which we can all now see only too well).

Mitigation is the in - word still, but instead of stopping the emissions at source, some scientists are intent on adaptive planning (or «adaptation».)

«Wind might sporadically replace the electricity from other sources, but it does not necessarily reduce fuel use or emissions at those sources to anywhere near the same degree.

First, the idea has to actually work, second, the side effects need to be minimal, and third, it has to be able to keep up with an increasing forcing from ever higher greenhouse gas levels, and fourth, it has to be cheaper than the simply reducing emissions at source.

But Lyft's multi-million dollar a year commitment to investing in emissions reductions will certainly help to reduce net emissions, and as the company itself points out, also serves to establish an incentive to reducing emissions at source too:

Here's a good example of how not to do carbon offsets, as well as the potential danger in relying on sub-national REDD offset programs rather than reducing emissions at the source: Greenpeace USA has just released a new report highlight the failures of the Noel Kempff Climate Action Project in Bolivia, sponsored by American Electric Power, BP, and PacifiCorp.

Even with the most determined efforts to cut emissions at source, we are all still responsible for some carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere, so causing global climate change.

Not exact matches

Depending on the source, electricity can be renewable and emissions - free, in addition to which the company claims its process may be the most cost - effective out there, coming in at about $ 10 a barrel in operating costs and $ 10,000 per flowing barrel in capital costs.

While cities and states can certainly reduce their emissions from existing sources, energy technology innovation is a critical part of combating climate change, said Akshaya Jha, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in energy and environmental economics.

In the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Dave Sawyer, one of the authors of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy report, and blogger at EnviroEconomics.ca, makes some pertinent insider comments on the efficacy of a carbon tax in reducing emissions from personal transportation, a major source of emissions: While the carbon tax will â $ œdriveâ $ some reductions in vehicle kilometers traveled, -LSB-...]

Independently verified at every stage, the voluntary program sees food manufacturers develop a plan that defines clear targets in key areas of sustainability, such as raw material sourcing, emissions, energy, waste, water, biodiversity and social sustainability.

Because methane emissions from a cow's manure are typically lower than those released from its belching, future studies should look at the effect of antibiotics on that source of the greenhouse gas, too, the researchers suggest.

«I think states recognize transportation emissions are a leading source of emissions that need to be tackled,» said Luke Tonachel, director of the clean vehicles and fuels project at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

«Multiple analyses from many institutions around the Earth confirm that average CO2 is above 400 ppm,» he said, adding that that fact remains true «even at the South Pole,» thousands of miles from significant carbon emission sources.

Instead, with the imposition of a cap - and - trade program, O'Connor said, people looked at the sources of coal and realized they could obtain it from different parts of the country with lower sulfur, cutting emissions at less cost.

A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and environmental testing firm URS reports that a small subset of natural gas wells are responsible for the majority of methane emissions from two major sources — liquid unloadings and pneumatic controller equipment — at natural gas production sites.

That makes nuclear fission look a bit more competitive, at least until the price comes down on solar, wind, biomass, fuel cell, and other, less controversial emissions - free energy sources.

Using a new satellite - based method, scientists at NASA, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and two universities have located 39 unreported and major human - made sources of toxic sulfur dioxide emissions.

«If we use the storage as the means to foster the adoption of significantly more renewables that offset the dirtiest sources, then storage — done the right way and installed at large - scale — can have beneficial impacts on the grid's emissions overall,» Webber said.

«There is the potential for the U.S. and other countries to continue to rely on coal as a source of energy while at the same time protecting the climate from the massive greenhouse gas emissions associated with coal,» says Steve Caldwell, coordinator for regional climate change policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, an Arlington, Va., think tank.

But another 19 % comes from industrial sources, like concrete plants, whose CO2 emissions are not monitored at all.

«It is very important to know the sources of carbon dioxide in running waters as well as the processes controlling respiration and emissions if we are to understand what happens when the environment changes,» says Erin Hotchkiss, researcher at Umeå University.

The groups used different statistical approaches to subtract out the gamma - ray emission from normal astrophysical sources such as pulsars and supernovae to hunt for a dark matter signal, and each arrived at the same conclusion — that any gamma - ray light coming from dark matter must be generated by a relatively heavy particle.

In the United States, transportation has surpassed the electricity sector as the top source of greenhouse gas emissions, at around 30 percent.

«We are using emissions from gas - fired generation as our CO2 source at the pilot plant where we are making up to 10 tons a day,» he says.

Transportation is the second - largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, at nearly 30 percent of the total output.

Houston, it turned out, had focused on controlling the wrong emissions from the wrong sources to lower its ozone levels, says Daniel Cohan, an associate professor of environmental engineering at Rice University.

«Power plant emissions verified remotely at Four Corners sites, largest point source pollution in U.S..»

And the birth of small, modular nuclear reactors — which can be built at lower cost and produce no greenhouse gas emissions — could play a significant role in helping to balance energy outflows from renewable sources.

Placing carbon capture at these industrial facilities is significantly cheaper than general air capture and reduces emissions from the single largest sources of CO2.

We can not look at one part in isolation because both emissions often come from the same source, namely fossil fuels, say the researchers.

Storing CO2 Under the Sea North Sea, 150 Miles off the Norway Coast — The latest, greatest hope for reducing greenhouse emissions is to capture carbon dioxide at the source and bury it underground.

This has enabled astronomers to trace the radio emissions to a very small region at the heart of the quasars, and helped to solve a 50 - year - old puzzle about their source.

Natural sources of emissions such as volcanoes can been seen from space and it seems obvious that there output has been neglected in determining the amount of carbon going into the air at an given time.

«If we want natural gas to be the cleanest fossil fuel source, methane emissions have to be reduced,» says Gabrielle Pétron, an atmospheric scientist at NOAA and at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and first author on the study, currently in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research.

Basically, the source of pollution is transferred: «It is far less expensive to capture emissions at the smokestack than the tailpipe,» Pratt adds.

«Tailpipe emissions are the main source of greenhouse gases from cars that use fossil fuels,» explained Anthony Shaw, a transport program specialist at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, a nonprofit research organization.

While environmental groups fighting for action on climate change don't like to include those options, Wheeler said he felt it was important to look simply at what sources produce low or zero emissions.

Those that reduce emissions below the cap can sell their excess permits to those sources that fail to meet the targets — the trade part of the market — resulting in an overall reduction of pollution at the lowest economic cost, in theory.

Lower rates of asthma and other health problems are frequently cited as benefits of policies aimed at cutting carbon emissions from sources like power plants and vehicles, because these policies also lead to reductions in other harmful types of air pollution.

«The overall significance is that although we already know that reducing methane emissions can bring great societal benefits via decreased near - term warming and improved air quality, and that many of the sources can be controlled at low or even negative cost, we still need better data on emissions from particular sources,» Duke University climate sciences professor Drew Shindell said.

The analysis found that at its peak, the blowout doubled the rate of methane emissions from the entire Los Angeles basin and temporarily created the largest known human - caused point source of methane in the United States, twice as large as the next - largest source, an Alabama coal mine.

Even where methane increases are observed at the ocean surface, scientists need better data to determine whether emissions come from hydrates or other seafloor sources.