Sentences with phrase «emissions profiles»

Based on the carbon emissions profile for 2011, these sectors are power and water, manufacturing, road transportation, and waste.

There should be coordinated global action to support developing and emerging economies already choosing to use coal to do so with the lowest possible emissions profile.

Well, it is worth it to consider limiting emissions profiles so we can understand what we are working with.

«It becomes more of a problem as emissions profiles of relative contributors of the convention changes and as economies change.»

As an industry, we are committed to supporting countries, in particular developing countries that choose to use coal - fired power generation to do so in the most efficient manner and at the lowest emissions profile possible.

The SDS has the same emissions profile as the IEA's Copenhagen - era 450 Scenario (450S), which gives only a 50 percent chance of keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius (Figure ES - 3).

For obvious reasons, those are not easy political conversations — and the vastly different emission profiles of Canada's provinces make them even trickier.

The Evergreen State has a relatively small emissions profile by national standards.

My supposition is that S & C used the theoretical emissions profiles for their three UAH v6 channels to calculate some optimal combination with the intend of removing the stratospheric contamination from T2, the result being the three channel weights in their equation.

DRAQ5's excitation and emission profiles overlap those of Alexa Fluor 647.

In one scenario, presuming no adaptation to heat and more people migrating to the city, the low - emissions profile projected 1,552 heat - related deaths per year in the 2080s, while the high - emissions model showed 3,331 deaths from heat, more than double.

These stars also have large Halpha equivalent widths, and either centrally peaked, lumpy Halpha emission profiles or profiles with blue - shifted absorption dips associated with disk or stellar winds.

Image recording was performed with an excitation wavelength of 633 nm to scan the respective emission profiles and recording the emission in 10 nm windows from 660 to 780 nm.

Assuming that both projects could provide equal amounts of baseload power at roughly the same cost and carbon emission profile today, the PUC might prefer to build wind plant because it requires less land, has a less environmentally damaging supply chain, etc..

... since the largest efficiency improvement in the oil sands operations has occurred in the processing and upgrading processes, the shift toward increased capabilities of refineries to handle oil sands bitumen, as well as the increasing share of in situ production, suggest that upgrading will be less relevant to future emissions profiles.

The interim results are the first time that a GHG emissions profile has been broken down into its «constituent elements of forest carbon stock change, non-CO2 emissions from biomass burning, CO2 and non-CO2 emissions from mineral soil, as well as biological oxidation and direct N2 O, dissolved organic carbon and CH4 emissions from disturbed peat, and CO2 and non-CO2 emissions from peat fire.»

I also tried to implement their function as a lag that finishes quick for small changes in forcing but drags for larger changes, but the functional form made that delay a long time to get any temperature rise at all with a BAU type emissions profile.

It also stresses the importance of comprehensive lifecycle analyses (LCAs) to take into account the entire emissions profile of alternative fuels.

However, the actual emissions profile of the diversified giant, with its oil and gas, chemicals, cattle, forestry, and synthetics holdings, is unknown, because of the lack of mandatory carbon reporting in the United States.

There is also ample room for improvement in our global emissions profile as we move toward the next UNFCCC meeting, which begins at the end of November in Cancun, Mexico.

You can see how the two countries» emissions profile compare in the graphs below.

As a result, these «peak» emission data were inappropriately used to calculate a normal emissions profile by the EPA in its most recent Greenhouse Gas Inventory.

In the left pane are graphs mostly related to emissions profiles of the different gasses — inputs, more or less.

Home to oil giants like BP PLC, Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Exxon Mobil Corp., Jurong Island's refineries contribute heavily to Singapore's greenhouse gas emissions profile.

Automakers are developing vehicles that offer lower emissions profiles.

A study of the US paper industry found that «an increase in the rate of capital turnover is the most important factor in permanently changing carbon emission profiles and energy efficiency» (Davidsdottir and Ruth, 2004).

(Click for a super Times graphic laying out the different emissions profiles and demands of important countries.)

That said, the emissions profile of the oilsands is less of an issue for the industry than the high cost of extracting oil from the gooey, tar - like sludge found in northern Alberta.

Alberta's oil sands figure so prominently in the country's emissions profile that Harper can't match Obama's new policies on carbon without upsetting his vision for the country's economic apple cart.

When operational with CO2 capture, the coal plant will have an emissions profile similar to that of natural gas, a first in power generation.

The similar trend also appears in Singapore's emissions profile.

Neither will the confusion over the country's emissions profile.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tires deliver 25 percent more energy than coal, with an emission profile of greenhouse gases and other pollutants that is about the same, making them acceptable as an industrial fuel.

For Wigley, the proper course of action is not yet clear, since he can not determine if the change in the emissions profile between coal and natural gas is worth the expenditure.

«In its simplest form, once we know the emission profile of those secondary electrons we don't want, we can design around them,» Fowlkes said.

Because they are full of old, dimming stars instead of bright, young, bluish ones, their emission profile skews red.

Having just read the speech, I see your point as the tone is long on lecture without much appreciation for the unique circumstances of Indonesia, which is so totally different from the United States in terms of its emissions profile and the structure of its economy.

The Way Forward As China seeks a cleaner, softer path of development, renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal are attractive not only because of their lower carbon emissions profiles, but because they use far less water than their fossil fuel counterparts.

Enhanced deployment of cleaner coal technology will reduce the emissions profile, whilst ensuring affordable energy for economic development and poverty reduction.

Depending on the location and emissions profile, a company may be subject to participation in an emissions trading system (ETS) or a carbon tax, but may also benefit from public subsidies for emissions reduction measures.

Not all carbon - intensive assets are created equal, and it is reasonable to assume that in carbon - constrained scenarios the projects with the highest break - even costs and emissions profile (e.g., tar sands and coal) will be stranded first.

We do seem to be adopting real green credentials at every level now and it may take only small combined efforts to maintain our low emissions profile and gradually improve the technology that creates the problem.