Sentences with phrase «emissions of»

Most industrialised nations now seem likely to miss the target, agreed in Rio, of stabilising emissions of carbon dioxide at 1990 levels by 2000.

While keeping the rule — which limits use of the Endangered Species Act to curb emissions of greenhouse gases — Salazar held open the possibility of adding habitat protections for the polar bear later.

At the same time, the arrangement is designed to benefit the American companies, which can do their bit to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, as required by the Climate Change Convention, at one - third of the cost of making the same cuts in the US.

According to government projections, the price cut will increase demand for electricity and push up emissions of CO2 by about half a million tonnes a year.

Much of the damage will have been done by the year 2010, it says, and the rest by 2070, when the predicted effects of global warming from emissions of greenhouse gases will have done their worst.

Canada is set to badly miss a 2020 target for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, in part because of its failure to regulate the booming oil and gas sector, Parliament's environmental watchdog said

The European Union is committed to returning emissions of CO2 to 1990 levels by the year 2000.

Thirdly, there are now formulations of diesel which have a lower sulphur content, and hence lower emissions of particulates.

And with global emissions of greenhouse gases rising ever faster, there's no end in sight to the grim trend.

The city authorities in Vienna hope this will reduce the emissions of volatile organic compounds from vehicles from 60 to 45 tonnes a day.

Ekins calculates that industrialised countries could cut emissions of CO2 by 20 per cent in 10 years «at practically no cost».

The changes will cut emissions of carbon dioxide from Bynov by 12 800 tonnes a year, or more than 65 per cent.

The event was designed to spur a new global treaty to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and stem anthropogenic climate change.

Emissions of nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, the main sources of acid rain pollution, also fell by 38 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

Deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 40 to 70 percent by mid-century will be needed to avert the worst of global warming that is already harming all continents, a draft U.N. report showed.

So to find out if plug - ins really do reduce overall emissions of CO2, researchers at NRDC and EPRI used a computer model to project the overall emissions from the cars and the power plants.

The IMO committee examining black carbon, for example, hasn't agreed on how to measure emissions of the substance.

The study, published Monday, shows that even though China decreased its coal consumption 2.9 percent in 2014, revised statistics show that coal energy consumption went down by just 0.7 percent that year, leading to a net increase in emissions of 0.5 percent.

In fact, each of those three high - emitting sectors» scope 1 and 2 emissions are more than double the combined scope 1 and 2 emissions of all other sectors covered by the index, according to CDP.

U.S. laws increasingly target emissions of hydrocarbons (HC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), which make smog.

On top of all this, Azolla has the capacity to trap an astounding amount of carbon, at maximum rates sequestering 60 tons a year of CO2 per hectare, equivalent to the emissions of almost two hours of flight by a Boeing 747.

Although there was disagreement on exactly what should be done, there appeared to be a consensus that action should be taken to avert a 2 - degree Celsius (3.6 - degree Fahrenheit) rise in average global temperatures and to cut emissions of greenhouse gases in half by 2050.

While overall emissions of greenhouse gases from CDP's «Global 500» have shrunk from 4.2 billion to 3.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent since 2009, the index's 50 largest - emitting firms have actually seen greenhouse gas emissions rise by 1.65 percent over the same period, the organization has found.

These conflicts have stalled some high - profile projects despite the fact that renewable energy sources do not produce heat - trapping emissions of carbon dioxides, the primary greenhouse gas driving global warming.

Cattle are responsible for 20 percent of U.S. emissions of methane, which traps heat in the atmosphere 20 times more effectively than carbon dioxide.

Many suspect crops in industrialized Western countries have been getting more light since the 1980s thanks to clean air regulations that brought down emissions of aerosols, which scatter and absorb solar radiation.

If these rates continue, emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide on 100 - year time scales, will increase 4 percent over the next decade.

«This is a problem because forests currently take up about 25 percent of human emissions of CO2, which is an incredible break on climate change.»

Growing emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, contribute to the thermosphere's cooling, the Southampton team points out.

But our study shows that we also have to include the active biological processes, such as animal migrations, to predict and calculate the ocean's ability to absorb anthropogenic emissions of CO2,» says Professor Katherine Richardson of the University of Copenhagen, who is also one of the authors behind the study.

Policymakers and the energy industry have been looking to natural gas in recent years as a more climate friendly fuel with half the greenhouse gas emissions of coal, but EPA research is casting doubt on that plan

Record emissions of carbon dioxide mean atmospheric concentrations have reached levels that lead to the highest temperature increases

Reducing the emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming makes the most sense in the context of planetary boundaries, and many of the other thresholds collapse into it, Blomqvist and his colleagues note.

This is exactly the kind of intense wildfire season we can expect as the climate changes thanks to our continuing emissions of greenhouse gases.

«Some people argue that extensive investments in green production and sustainable consumption can increase economic growth without increasing the emissions of greenhouse gases.

The United Nations Environment Program warns that global emissions of greenhouse gases are opening up a widening gap between reality and climate change goals

The benefits, according to Wellinghoff, range from «green» jobs to cutting by 80 percent emissions of the greenhouse gases causing climate change by 2050.

When burned, gas produces about half of the carbon emissions of coal.

On a life - cycle basis, FCVs running on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a gasoline - powered car.

Other scientists have criticized the planetary boundaries as too generous (for example, allowing too much human appropriation of freshwater flows) or employing the wrong metric (atmospheric concentrations of CO2 rather than cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases).

To investigate the impacts, Yale's Jodi Sherman, M.D. and first author Matthew Eckelman of Northeastern University first used an economic model based on federal data to calculate total emissions of different pollutants produced by the healthcare sector over a 10 - year period, drawing on national health expenditure data.

Emissions of ozone - depleting chemicals in places like China are especially damaging because of cold - air surges in East Asia that can quickly carry industrial pollution into the tropics.

Concerns over the Dreamliner kicked off over a decade ago when Boeing decided to create a civil airliner that would be both lighter than any of its previous jets and fly with leaner - burning engines to cut the plane's emissions of CO2 and nitrogen oxides.

«These effects include wasted resources, foregone revenue and outsized emissions of carbon dioxide as well as local pollutants such as sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides.

«Emissions of particulate matter pumped into the air every single day by coal - fired power plants have greater potential human health impacts than any of the other chemicals we examined.»

The climate benefits of the Montreal Protocol could be significantly offset by projected emissions of HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) used to replace ozone depleting substances.

Natural gas produces half the CO2 emissions of coal, but its extraction is harder on the environment.

In a frantic late night rush, a plan to come up with a plan for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of all countries passed muster at the U.N.'s annual climate negotiations

Imagine if the world's two largest polluters unilaterally decide to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, the ubiquitous gas responsible for the bulk of global warming.

Emissions of hydrochloric and sulfuric acids, mercury and soot take a health toll.