Sentences with phrase «emissions decrease using»

The authors projected the emissions decrease using energy consumption from China, the United States, India, the European Union and the United Kingdom.

Not exact matches

The company's eco-friendly production strategy has minimized its environmental footprint by decreasing waste by 40 percent, using 30 percent less energy and producing 20 percent fewer emissions.

Life cycle analyses of diapers done by Franklin Associates in the U.S. and the UK's Environment Agency found that using cloth diapers instead of disposables would decrease landfill waste but increase water use and greenhouse gas emissions.

A single, small, retrospective case - control study examined the use of newborn transient evoked otoacoustic emission hearing screening tests as a tool for identifying infants at subsequent risk of SIDS.343 Infants who subsequently died from SIDS did not fail their hearing tests but, compared with controls, showed a decreased signal - to - noise ratio score in the right ear only (at frequencies of 2000, 3000, and 4000 Hz).

«Reduced emissions have been due to increased use of natural gas, and the decreased use of coal.

The scrubbers are a commonly used method for decreasing carbon emissions from industries such as coal - fired power plants, which produce more than 14 billion metric tons of carbon each year.

Identifying more energy - conscious manufacturers, for example, could reduce emissions for retailers more dramatically than simply decreasing electricity use in stores.

The new study suggests that some of these current uses will be affected over this century, depending on how much fossil fuel emissions increase or decrease.

«(ii) decrease the percentage of emissions that can be offset through the use of domestic offset credits by the same amount.

Using holistic regenerative farming practices make for healthier soil, increased biodiversity, and help to decrease carbon emissions.

Environmental Impact and Energy Efficiency: Schools have made efforts to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, improve water quality and conservation, decrease hazardous waste production, and expand use of alternative transportation.

This lets the engine efficiently use exhaust scavenging techniques, which decreases exhaust gas temperatures and NOx emissions, improves turbine efficiency, and reduces turbo lag evident at low engine speeds.

Using two catalytic converters in this way provides significantly better light - off of the catalysts for decreased emissions.

It also uses a variable valve overlap theory to improve cold - start drivability and decrease cool engine exhaust emissions.

Using two catalytic converters in this way provides significantly better «light - off» for decreased emissions.

We want to use all the available technologies to reduce emissions by 3 percent each year, which means approximately a 20 percent decrease by 2021,» Dini told Automotive News Europe.

Plug - in vehicles use an electric battery for short distances to help decrease the amount of fuel a vehicle is using, thus decreasing overall vehicle emissions.

The US is expected to see slower decline in its carbon emissions, from an annual 1.2 % drop over the past 10 years to a decrease of 0.4 % this year, with a return to growth in coal use, as president Donald Trump promised to rescue the coal industry.

In other words — by 2014 we'd used more of the carbon budget than any of the RCPs had anticipated and if we are not confident that the real world is cooler than the models at this level of cumulative emissions, this means that available emissions for 1.5 degrees should decrease proportionately.

Still, Denmark has in fact used its wind capacity to decrease coal use and carbon emissions.

Carbon pricing continues to reveal itself as an effective, efficient means to lower emissions; new data shows that UK's carbon price has greatly reduced local coal consumption, and may result in decreasing fracked gas use too.

2: Our Changing Climate, Key Message 5).2 Regional climate models (RCMs) using the same emissions scenario also project increased spring precipitation (9 % in 2041 - 2062 relative to 1979 - 2000) and decreased summer precipitation (by an average of about 8 % in 2041 - 2062 relative to 1979 - 2000) particularly in the southern portions of the Midwest.12 Increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation are projected across the entire region in both GCM and RCM simulations (Figure 18.6), and these increases are generally larger than the projected changes in average precipitation.12, 2

And it's done so while also decreasing both its energy use through ambitious conservation measures and its carbon emissions.

The United States Energy Information Administration reported that energy - related carbon dioxide emissions decreased in nearly every state from 2005 to 2013, even as U.S. natural gas production and use grew substantially.

Total CO2 emissions decreased by about 2 % between 2015 and 2016, driven entirely by lower land - use emissions.

This means that total CO2 emissions are likely to be similar as in 2015, with the increase in fossil fuel emissions being offset by the decrease in land - use emissions.

Regulated emissions from coal - based electric generation have decreased by 40 percent since the 1970s, the NMA says, even as coal use has tripled during that time.

«For the purposes of decreasing the likelihood of catastrophic climate change, preserving tropical forests, building capacity to generate offset credits, and facilitating international action on global warming, the Administrator shall set aside the percentage specified in section 781 of the quantity of emission allowances established under section 721 (a) for each year, to be used to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries in accordance with part E.

The Times articles address how SB 32 emissions goals will have dramatic impacts mandating increased housing density and significantly decreased motor vehicle use in California requiring many tens of billions of dollars in expenditures across the state to accomplish.

GM has decreased its manufacturing emissions by 60 percent since 1990, recycles 90 percent of its manufacturing waste, has made reductions in water and fossil fuel use, and invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build fuel - efficient vehicles like the Chevy Volt.

However, according to James «coal death train» Hansen, the airborne fraction [AF] of CO2 man - made emissions has sharply decreased post-2000, due to «a surge of fossil fuel use, mainly coal»!

Researchers from UCLA found that there are health benefits from using recycled water because it supports the maintenance of green spaces, can decrease air pollution and can lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Fifth, implementing emission reduction mandates and targets under each New England state's global warming solutions laws will likely cause economy - wide natural gas use to decrease by 20 percent by 2030, despite recent policies and trends that incentivize fuel - switching to natural gas.

Beyond the US, the fracking that has led to much of the US decrease has not yet expanded rapidly, but given that the technology exists (and is getting further refined every day) the rest of the world will also enjoy reduced CO2 emissions by using nat gas instead of coal.

DelAgua will generate verified carbon credits following an ACR - approved methodology to quantify the emissions reductions from the decreased fuelwood use from more efficient cookstoves and water filters.

It identified results of decreased emissions from land use, deforestation, forest degradation and improved management of land and forest areas.

Moreover, using the average emission scenario (IS92a) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we predict that the calcification rate of scleractinian - dominated communities may decrease by 21 % between the pre-industrial period (year 1880) and the time at which pCO2 will double (year 2065).

One can not use a single half life or decay time to describe the decrease in CO2 mixing ratio if emissions cease because their are multiple processes at work.

Indirect commercial - sector CO2 emissions from the use of electricity purchased from the electric power sector decreased by 3.7 % (25 MMmt) in 2016, which was nearly 84 % of the sector's total decrease.

CO2 emissions from power generation are projected to decrease by as much as 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, based on the continued increased use of natural gas for power generation.

While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.

Will natural gas demand in California decrease due to the carbon emission concerns associated with natural gas use for electricity generation?

Although energy efficiency can be used to displace generation and reduce emissions, the AEO 2016 Reference case models achieving Clean Power Plan compliance with only a 3 percent decrease in sales compared to the future with no Clean Power Plan (see Figure 2).

Two days earlier EPA announced final regulations (which I call the Skyrocketing Rates Power Plan or SRPP, but which EPA calls the «Clean Power Plan» or CPP for obvious reasons) requiring states to decrease CO2 emissions from electricity production and use primarily by increasing the capacity of non-hydro «remewable» (wind and solar) sources of electric power from 4 percent to 28 percent by 2030.

Sharp decreases in emissions in the short term could help nations avoid the use of costly negative emissions technologies.

This drastic change in how the city produces and uses energy has resulted in greatly reduced dependence on fossil fuels and a significant decrease in carbon emissions.

Absolute emissions are always reduced if the emissions scenario used has a decreasing trend.

And BTW Dr. Spencer also says «I would remind folks that the NASA AIRS instrument on the Aqua satellite has actually measured the small decrease in IR emission in the infrared bands affected by CO2 absorption, which they use to «retrieve» CO2 concentration from the data.

From 2010 to 2011, CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion decreased by 2.5 % due to: (1) a decrease in coal consumption, with increased natural gas consumption and a significant increase in hydropower used; (2) a decrease in transportation - related energy consumption due to higher fuel costs, improvements in fuel efficiency, and a reduction in miles travelled; and (3) relatively mild winter conditions resulting in an overall decrease in energy demand in most sectors.

When biofuel crops are grown in appropriate places and under sustainable conditions, they offer a host of benefits: reduced fossil fuel use; diversified fuel supplies; increased employment; decreased greenhouse gas emissions; enhanced habitat for wildlife; improved soil and water quality; and more stable global land use, thereby reducing pressure to clear new land.