Sentences with phrase «emissions by planting trees»

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They also use compostable packaging and offset carbon emissions by planting thousands of trees within their supply chains.

Munchkin Step Diaper Pail has explained that they are so committed to reducing gas emissions that they want to promote it both inside and out of nurseries by promising to plant one tree for every Munchkin diaper pail sold.

The findings highlight the urgent need for policy - makers worldwide to re-think the issue as many decision - makers, national and internationally, assume that fossil fuel emissions can be offset through sequestering carbon by planting trees and other land management practices.

The prestigious EARTH University in Siquirres, Costa Rica, verified the tree planting and will ensure that the level of carbon compensation accurately offsets the carbon emissions generated by travel to the ATWS.

I've written quite a bit about whether markets in carbon credits earned by cutting, avoiding or absorbing such emissions — whether from avoided deforestation, tree planting, or leaving oil in the ground — are credible, sensible or doable.

«A tree planted on the west side of a house can reduce net carbon emissions from summertime electricity use by 30 percent over a 100 - year period.»

Each tree planted helps to offset your environmental impact by «breathing» in CO2 emissions as it grows.

Together, replacing fossil fuels in electricity generation with renewable sources of energy, switching to plug - in hybrid cars, going to all - electric railways, banning deforestation, and sequestering carbon by planting trees and improving soil management will drop carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 more than 80 percent below today's levels.

Inspired by Wangari Maathai, who planted 30 million trees in Africa in 30 years, Felix formulated his vision: Children could plant one million trees in every country on earth and thereby offset CO2 emissions all on their own, while adults are still talking about doing it.

The reduction of heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions is stimulated by lowering existing subsidies that have the effect of raising emissions (such as subsidies to fossil fuel use) or by providing subsidies for practices that reduce emissions or enhance sinks (e.g. for insulation of buildings or for planting trees).

By reducing carbon emissions through renewable fuel sources, we can reduce environmental degradation; by planting campuses with native trees, shrubs, groundcover, and grasses, we can reduce the use of fertilizers and pesticides that pollute our streams and watershedBy reducing carbon emissions through renewable fuel sources, we can reduce environmental degradation; by planting campuses with native trees, shrubs, groundcover, and grasses, we can reduce the use of fertilizers and pesticides that pollute our streams and watershedby planting campuses with native trees, shrubs, groundcover, and grasses, we can reduce the use of fertilizers and pesticides that pollute our streams and watersheds.

Reducing CO2 Emissions • Drive a fuel - efficient car, walk, bike, carpool, and use mass transit • Use energy - efficient windows • Use energy - efficient appliances and lights • Heavily insulate your house and seal all drafts • Reduce garbage by recycling and reuse • Insulate your hot water heater • Use compact fluorescent bulbs • Plant trees to shade your house during summer • Set water heater no higher than 49 °C (120 °F) Figure 20.16 Individuals matter: ways to reduce your annual emissionEmissions • Drive a fuel - efficient car, walk, bike, carpool, and use mass transit • Use energy - efficient windows • Use energy - efficient appliances and lights • Heavily insulate your house and seal all drafts • Reduce garbage by recycling and reuse • Insulate your hot water heater • Use compact fluorescent bulbs • Plant trees to shade your house during summer • Set water heater no higher than 49 °C (120 °F) Figure 20.16 Individuals matter: ways to reduce your annual emissionsemissions of CO2.

36 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Solutions Global Warming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this century.

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

Reporter, Paul Merrion appeared to find some comfort that while CCX will cease all trading of new emission allowances at the end of the year, «it will continue trading carbon offsets generated by projects that consume greenhouse gases, such as planting trees.»

To offset the 415 tones of carbon emissions produced by the Canada Day event, the NCC decided to invest in a variety of Canada - based carbon offset projects, such as energy efficiency, methane gas recovery and tree planting projects.

«They've convinced certain legislators in Congress to vote for legislation written by biomass industry lobbyists that would force EPA to treat tree - burning power plants as if they have zero carbon emissions, claiming that as long as US forest stocks are stable or growing by any amount, this offsets the carbon pollution pouring from the smokestacks of wood - burning power plants.»

The tree planting projects in Kenya and UK as the emissions reductions are guaranteed by the Tree Buddying approach, where for every tree planted 1t of carbon from a VCS project is also retitree planting projects in Kenya and UK as the emissions reductions are guaranteed by the Tree Buddying approach, where for every tree planted 1t of carbon from a VCS project is also retiTree Buddying approach, where for every tree planted 1t of carbon from a VCS project is also retitree planted 1t of carbon from a VCS project is also retired.

Climate neutrality means net zero emissions, or that any emissions from burning fossil fuels are offset by measures such as planting trees that soak up carbon dioxide as they grow.

Voluntary carbon markets provide a way for companies to reduce their overall emissions by, say, saving endangered forests, or planting trees, or financing the construction of wind farms.

44 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Solutions Global Warming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this century.

Specifically, the study found that planting more trees and stopping deforestation, improving agricultural land and livestock management, and protecting and restoring wetlands could collectively deliver 11.3 billion tonnes of CO2 - equivalent emissions reductions per year by 2030.

This has resulted in 34 new schools under construction that will benefit more than 40,000 students and teachers, save 21,695,238 gallons of water, 164,357,593 KwH of electricity and reduce CO2 emissions by more than 94,000 tons every year — the equivalant of planting 282,000 trees or eliminating more than 15,000 cars from the road every year.

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Global warming emissions from burning coal could be reduced by planting trees and using technology still in development to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks, he said in the report.

Activities in LULUCF provide a method of offsetting emissions, either by increasing the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere (i.e. by planting trees or managing forests), or by reducing emissions (i.e. by curbing deforestation and the associated burning of wood).

Smart Cara boasts to reduce leftovers to just 10 % of their original volume and decrease annual carbon emissions by 425 kg per household — the environmental equivalent of plant three trees.