Sentences with phrase «emissions of carbon dioxide need»

Global emissions of carbon dioxide need to fall lest climate change will accelerate.

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To put these numbers in perspective, the amount of carbon dioxide the state would need to reduce, to make up for Indian Point's closure, is the equivalent of the annual greenhouse - gas emissions of more than 2.4 million passenger cars.

«To solve the problem, we need to eliminate net emissions of carbon dioxide entirely,» Allen says.

A new report from M.I.T. predict that the U.S. will expand its use of natural gas to produce electricity and as vehicle fuel — but will eventually need to capture its carbon dioxide emissions

A billion - dollar scheme to reduce household emissions in the Czech Republic costs five times as much per ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) as some European industries need to spend to achieve the same cuts, government data showed.

Electricity needs to be made virtually emission - free, through the mass mobilization of solar and nuclear power and the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants.

So when, in fact, we have to try while still getting all of the energy that we need, we also need to start cutting back on our carbon emissions, and we have to start doing that right away because every year that we delay we are pumping that much more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and getting closer and closer to those thresholds.

A company that needs to eliminate 1,000 tons of emissions from its ledger might pay for a project that will plant enough trees to absorb that amount of carbon dioxide.

A promising core strategy seems to be the following: Electricity needs to be made virtually emission - free, through the mass mobilization of solar and nuclear power and the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants.

When ruminants digest their feed, methane is formed as a natural by - product of the microbial process in the rumen, and since methane is a 25 times more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, there is a need to devise methods to reduce such emissions from cattle.

For electrification to lower emissions, Kennedy says that a region needs to produce its electricity at a rate below his threshold: approximately 600 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per gigawatt hour (GWh).

-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking into account a candidate substance's carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.

It has been estimated that to have at least a 50 per cent chance of keeping warming below 2 °C throughout the twenty - first century, the cumulative carbon emissions between 2011 and 2050 need to be limited to around 1,100 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (Gt CO2).

According to Hans - Otto Pörtner, co-coordinator of BIOACID, marine ecophysiologist at Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II, all countries would need to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions drastically by the middle of this century if they wish to reach the Paris climate targets.

The factory roof is covered in a substantial solar array which contributes to the power needs of the plant, reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

, makes it crystal clear, in quantified terms, that the emissions of carbon dioxide from burning coal are a major part of the problem and need to be addressed if we are to make the necessary changes to address global warming.

The move by the Obama administration is mostly doing what's possible, not what's needed given global emissions trends for carbon dioxide, but is still creditable given the lack of such a step under previous administrations.

But, we need one of these approaches to provide the right market pricing context and thus signals / motivations so that people (companies, the government, individuals, etc.) make investments and other choices within a context that limits and discourages carbon dioxide emissions.

The simple math of carbon dioxide emissions inevitably leads to the conclusion that if carbon dioxide concentrations are to be stabilized then the world will need to get 90 % + of its energy consumption from carbon - free sources.

O'Rourke always hated the bike (in print, at least), and now that it's becoming more of a needed transportation mainstay on crowded American city streets, reducing pollution and carbon dioxide emissions and improving health, O'Rourke is airing his feelings once again.

In both, he asserts that the current legislative proposals, by focusing incentives on deployment of today's wind and solar technology, could actually stifle the vital need to build the capacity for achieving deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions once the easier reductions are achieved.

Finally, we need to institute civil actions to force them to pay for pollution of the air and water, emissions of carbon dioxide, and resulting health and ecosystem damage.

She has also spoken up frequently about the need to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, both to limit climate disruption and protect sea life.

The primary challenge is the need to limit future emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).

It estimates that the processes needed to feed the world — from farming to storing, transporting and refrigerating food — accounted for 19 - 29 percent of global emissions in 2008, or the equivalent of 10,000 - 17,000 megatonnes of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere annually.

«As a society, we need to better understand the potential cost and performance of CDR strategies for the same reason that we need to better understand the cost and performance of emission mitigation strategies — they may be important parts of a portfolio of options to stabilize and reduce atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide»

The need for countries to make more ambitious emissions - reduction commitments remains self - evident — even more so, now that the world has exceeded 400 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The bill would limit emissions for plants that come online between 2009 and 2014, and new plants permitted after Jan. 1, 2015 would need to emit less than 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt - hour of output.

IPCC AR5 summarizes the scientific literature and estimates that cumulative carbon dioxide emissions related to human activities need to be limited to 1 trillion tonnes C (1000 PgC) since the beginning of the industrial revolution if we are to have a likely chance of limiting warming to 2 °C.

Coal based power plants produce 70 percent of our electricity needs and 40 percent of our total carbon dioxide emissions.

If policy makers followed the carbon law, adoption of renewables would continue its current pace of doubling energy production every 5.5 years, and carbon dioxide sequestration technologies would need to ramp up in order for the the planet to reach net - zero emissions by the middle of the century, say the researchers.

The combination of needing to limit carbon dioxide emissions and having fossil fuel companies that are valued by their proven reserves is what Carbon Tracker, a non-profit organization, is calling the «Carbon Bubble» in their new report, «Unburnable carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets.»

First, technology: When asked what needs to be done to slow carbon - dioxide emissions, one of the first answers is, «We'll use energy more efficiently.»

The Global Footprint Network (GFN) has developed the concepts of biocapacity — the amount of land available to provide for human needs, and ecological footprint — the land needed to satisfy the consumption of different nations in a sustainable manner, including the biological capacity to absorb and mitigate the carbon dioxide emissions that lead to global warming.

In order to avoid the most devastating impacts of global warming, climate scientists have warned that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases need to be cut in order to keep the increase in average global temperature to less than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius).

The EPA says the Kemper County Energy Facility offers a real - life example that it is possible to go on burning the dirtiest of fossil fuels and still make the cuts in carbon dioxide emissions needed to avoid a climate catastrophe.

With the amount of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, future emissions will need to be reduced by half to that of historical emissions to limit global average temperature rise to 2 °C.

-- A grant, contract, or other assistance provided under this subsection may be used to purchase carbon dioxide when needed to conduct tests of carbon dioxide storage sites, in the case of established projects that are storing carbon dioxide emissions, or for other purposes consistent with the purposes of this section.

-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking into account a candidate substance's carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.

When political leaders look at the need to cut carbon dioxide emissions to curb global warming, they ask the question: How much of a cut is politically feasible?

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was at the conference Monday, joined others who have complained that the plan appears to be backsliding on commitments for deep cuts in carbon - dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gasses needed to avoid tipping into a danger zone of climate - related floods and droughts.

Choice 1: How much money do we want to spend today on reducing carbon dioxide emission without having a reasonable idea of: a) how much climate will change under business as usual, b) what the impacts of those changes will be, c) the cost of those impacts, d) how much it will cost to significantly change the future, e) whether that cost will exceed the benefits of reducing climate change, f) whether we can trust the scientists charged with developing answers to these questions, who have abandoned the ethic of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, with all the doubts, caveats, ifs, ands and buts; and who instead seek lots of publicity by telling scary stories, making simplified dramatic statements and making little mention of their doubts, g) whether other countries will negate our efforts, h) the meaning of the word hubris, when we think we are wise enough to predict what society will need a half - century or more in the future?

... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which includes more than 3,000 scientists from around the world, agrees that climate change is caused by a number of factors, including excess carbon dioxide... The Government of Alberta accepts the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and recognizes the need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global warming.

«If coal is to continue as a primary component of the nation's future energy supply in a carbon - constrained world, large - scale demonstrations of carbon management technologies — especially carbon capture and sequestration — are needed to prove the commercial readiness of technologies to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal - based power plants and other energy conversion processes,» says the report.

To have a two thirds chance of staying below two degrees, total emissions from the beginning of the industrial revolution to the time we stop burning carbon would need to stay below 3,670 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, one paper in Nature Geoscience notes.

Could new air capture machines suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it underground so cheaply as to obviate the need to slow emissions?

Despite the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the burning of coal has only been accelerating.

To meet its new emissions reduction target (in terms of carbon dioxide) Japan will need to increase its proportion of carbon - free energy from 6.4 % in 2012 to 9.1 % in 2020, assuming no increase in energy consumption.

This study, identifies and assesses system approaches in order to prioritize research needs for the capture and non-atmospheric sequestering of a significant portion of the carbon dioxide (CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB--RRB- emitted from fossil fuel - fired electric power plants (US power plants presently produce about 7 % of the world «s CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- emissions).

«The most important thing for the public to understand about this is that our nation needs to curb its emissions of carbon dioxide.