Sentences with phrase «emissions technologies like»

Jeff Tollefson in Nature points to the 2C scenarios in the fifth IPCC report as a source of hope for policymakers, yet their unreasonable reliance upon negative emissions technologies like BECCS — a systemic bias, as Chris Mooney in the Washington Post reports — suggest there's limited or distorted hope in models.

Meanwhile, global temperatures continue to rise and zero - emissions technologies like wind, solar, and nuclear power exist in the real world today.

The report confirms what I have said many times, negative emissions technologies like forests, carbon friendly agriculture, beccs etc are slow to scale up, and land areas are limited, etcetera, and so will have limited impact on the 50 year Paris goals.

Not exact matches

Getting to an emission - free future will require a real commitment to research and development, technology development, and support for technologies as they enter the market — like ARPA - E, but at an even larger scale.

Proponents of the private buses say the buses cut emission levels and congestion, while critics and activists say they are just another example of the technology industry forcing San Francisco to offer up overly generous policies (including large tax breaks for companies like Zynga and Twitter).

That means setting standards that encourage the new technologies, such as a promised renewable fuels standard, aimed at encouraging ways to ensure fuel consumers like cars and furnaces produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

The electricity sector can reduce emissions relatively easily by adopting renewables like solar and wind, while cars and trucks can't harness these zero - emissions energy sources without sophisticated and expensive energy storage technologies.

This growth suggests that the rickshaw could also play a similar emissions - cutting role elsewhere with better engine and communications technologies like Global Positioning System and cell - phones.

Existing technology like combined cycle generation could be used to meet EPA's stricter CO2 emissions limits

The technology — dubbed «photon enhanced thermionic emission,» or PETE, for short — would work best in solar concentrators like parabolic dishes that can reach 800 degrees Celsius.

General Motors» midsize pickup trucks both gain the option of a 2.8 - liter Duramax four - cylinder turbodiesel for 2016, which uses technologies like a cooled exhaust gas recirculation system, a particulate filter, and a selective catalyst reduction system to meet EPA emissions regulations.

With advanced technology like rechargeable lithium batteries and electric motors providing power to the wheels, modern battery electric vehicles allow for all - electric driving while producing zero tailpipe emissions.

Given that the 928's engine was choked down by early emissions technology to a mere 219 hp and 245 lb - ft of torque, while the Panamera's sends a thundering 550 hp and 567 lb - ft of torque to all four of its wheels via a lightning - quick eight - speed dual - clutch automatic, the difference feels like it should be even greater.

Besides the standard telematic features like emergency crash notification, hands - free calling, and roadside assistance made popular by services like GM's OnStar and Ford's SYNC, the Hughes technology equipped on the Jeep show car at the Consumer Electronics Show included recall notification, red light camera alerts, remote emissions reporting, vehicle tracking, and real - time traffic.

New engines are being introduced — like the innovative MultiAir technology on petrol engines, making them capable of guaranteeing up to 10 percent lower CO2 emissions, and the new generation of Common Rail MultiJet diesel engines that will make their debut on the Punto Evo and that will be gradually adopted on all of our Group's cars.

The EV300 is the new all - electric variant of BYD's hugely popular Qin plug - in hybrid, and like the Model 3, it hopes to offer long - range, emissions - free transportation, a good deal of technology, and a price tag that's relatively affordable.

The vehicles were judged on things like tailpipe emissions, fuel consumption, and use of a major advanced powerplant technology.

A comprehensive array of consumption and emission - reducing technologies means that all variants of the new BMW 1 Series will continue to embody the concept of fuel - efficiency like no other premium car.

The cars were judged on things like tailpipe emissions, fuel consumption, and use of a major powerplant technology.

Both Veloster and Veloster Turbo models feature cutting - edge powertrain technologies like direct injection, optimizing their appeal to youthful customers by combining excellent fuel economy, spirited performance and low emissions without compromise.

Like the S 560 e (combined fuel consumption 2.1 l / 100 km (112 mpg US), combined CO2 emissions 49 g / km)(earlier post), the C - and E-Class plug - in diesel hybrids will use third - generation hybrid technology.

Beginning in 2008, Volkswagen and Audi — and many other manufacturers like Mercedes - Benz, Jeep and BMW — were required to comply with much more strict emissions requirements for their diesel - powered cars and trucks, as the United States adopted Clean Diesel technology and ultra-low diesel fuel.

The implementation of BS VI fuels will enable the use of emission control technologies like diesel particulate filters (DPF) and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems thanks to the low sulphur content.

Featuring technologies like a Drive - by - Wire ™ throttle system, Computer - Controlled Programmed Fuel Injection (PGM - FI), Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control (VTEC ®) on intake valves and a sport - tuned exhaust system with dual tips, the 3.5 - liter engine is targeted to meet California's stringent CARB LEV II ULEV emissions certification, and is projected to return 18 mpg in city driving and 26 mpg on the highway.

Beginning in 2008, Volkswagen and Audi — and many other manufacturers like Mercedes - Benz, Jeep and BMW — needed to comply with much more strict emissions requirements for their diesel - powered cars and trucks, as the United States adopted Clean Diesel technology and ultra-low diesel fuel.

HYBRID ELECTRIC UNIT FOR SEMI TRUCKS New regulations say that big tractor - trailers need to reduce fuel consumption and emissions 20 % by 2018, and while that may seem like a lot, there's new technology that can achieve those goals today.

Like many other countries, America's national plan will be a comprehensive blend of market incentives and regulations to reduce emissions by encouraging clean and efficient energy technologies.

Among those who are seeking a new direction on energy and emissions, the discussion appears to remain locked where it's been for years — over the balance between treating global warming like a 20th - century pollution problem and a 21st - century technology challenge.

There are enormous assumptions in most calculations, including the assumption that «carbon negative» technologies, like capturing CO2 from power plants burning biomass, can be done at a scale remotely relevant to the climate problem (to be relevant one needs to be talking in gigatons of avoided CO2 emissions per year — each a billion tons).

And there is no way we can ramp up even the best alternative energy technology to replace oil or coal in anything like the time needed to have an impact on CO2 emissions.

As we know here, on this blog, until technology allows for carbon dioxide to be removed from the emissions of coal - fired power plants, the term «clean coal» is a bit like the term «healthy smoking.»

Fugitive emissions like methane challenge pollution control experts, because they do not come from a more easily controllable «point source», like a smokestack or process pipe, which could be fitted with technology to capture or clean up the gas.

The «moral hazard» argument against CDR goes something like this: CDR could be a «Trojan horse» that fossil fuel interests will use to delay rapid decarbonization of the economy, as these fossil interests could use the prospect of cost - effective, proven, scaleable CDR technologies as an excuse for continuing to burn fossil fuels today (on the grounds that at some point in the future we'll have the CDR techniques to remove these present - day emissions).

Weather - dependent technologies like wind and solar have little or no part to play in supplying cheap low - emissions electricity.

We can reach that goal through immediate and sustained action to reduce our heat - trapping emissions like adopting technologies that increase energy efficiency, expanding our use of renewable energy, and slowing deforestation (among other solutions).

In our operations, we are improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions through behavioral or management changes, technology improvements and increasing our use of low - carbon, renewable energy, like solar and wind power.

The remaining automotive grade reliability, emissions, and control issues look more like engineering developments than further technology breakthroughs.

The later deadline offers developing countries like China the flexibility to create the right technologies and incentives to cut their emissions.

Indeed, his core objection appears to be with technology fixes in general, or the conviction that any bit of technological derring - do — be it a high - efficiency photovoltaic cell or a low - emissions vehicle — will be sufficient to nudge the planet from unpleasant trajectories like global warming.

The opportunity, Navarro Llanos said, was that since countries like hers had done almost nothing to send emissions soaring, they were in a position to declare themselves «climate creditors,» owed money and technology support from the large emitters to defray the hefty costs of coping with more climate - related disasters, as well as to help them develop on a green energy path.

Other areas also hold significant promise for the industry, like technologies to capture carbon dioxide emissions and store them underground, and energy - efficiency programs, especially in the transportation sector.

Rich, industrialised countries like the EU and US have a legal obligation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC — which the talks fall under) to take the lead in cutting their emissions while providing the finance and technology to poorer countries to adapt to climate impacts and avoid the same fossil - fuel intensive development pathways they did.

A ► tax credit is a reduction of tax in order to stimulate purchasing of or investment in a certain product, like heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emission reducing technologies.

And detailed analyses by organizations like the IEA have explicitly discussed the need for significant technology development to reach deep emission reductions.

And I think the literature is pretty clear that under highly idealized circumstances — like all countries begin cooperating pretty much immediately even though they haven't done that so far, all technologies are available globally pretty much immediately, markets work perfectly efficiently — under those kinds of assumptions it still might be possible to cut emissions and stop warming at 2 degrees.

Leading emerging economies like India and China say access to cheaper clean energy technologies is essential if they are to slow emissions growth and allow their growing populations access to power.

Technology promotion, just like emissions cuts, requires dividing a pie.

We don't currently focus on technologies to capture carbon emissions from the likes of power stations, as carbon capture is undergoing major R&D investment and testing to prove its economics and show that it is environmentally safe.

But in a lot of cases when you think about reducing emissions through things like renewable energy or energy efficiency methods, there's certainly a role for technology in that context also.

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.