Sentences with phrase «emits more greenhouse gases»

Because the extraction of bitumen from those sands is an energy - intensive process, it emits more greenhouse gases than the extraction of oil from conventional reservoirs.

He pointed to findings that corn ethanol, which plays the largest role in meeting RFS mandates, emits more greenhouse gases than gasoline, and he said it is «confusing» for the Obama administration to push corn ethanol while it seeks to lower global greenhouse gas emissions at the Paris climate summit.

-LSB-...] tar sands emits more greenhouse gases (GHGs)-- although the incremental impact of increased GHGs is not as large as environmentalists purport it to be.

Beyond the Headlines listen / download This week, we cover a Department of Energy report that shows the US is now the globe's biggest oil producer, and US transportation emits more greenhouse gases than electricity generation.

This week, Peter Dykstra shares with host Steve Curwood his insights on a Department of Energy report that shows the US is now the globe's biggest oil producer, and US transportation emits more greenhouse gases than electricity generation.

In sum: The U.S. emits more greenhouse gases from cars than most countries do from all pollution sources.

In the United States, the population President Trump represents emits more greenhouse gases per capita than almost anywhere.

The Kyoto Protocol also allows a nation to emit more greenhouse gases if it increases the earth's capacity to absorb these gases.

We've found that the top 20 meat and dairy companies emitted more greenhouse gases in 2016 than all of Germany, Europe's biggest climate polluter by far.

Three meat companies - JBS, Cargill and Tyson - emitted more greenhouse gases last year than all of France and nearly as much as some of the biggest oil companies like Exxon, BP and Shell.

As a consequence they are stuck using firewood or charcoal, which both emit more greenhouse gases and are damaging to health.

For the past month or so, Indonesia has been emitting more greenhouse gases daily than the entire United States economy.

They will emit more greenhouse gas than gasolin.

If at Bali, we make mandatory cap, this will let all countries know how cub greenhouse gas worth, they will think out many methods to escape emit more greenhouse gas, because reducng greenhouse gas like saving money.

In this respect, Pachauri's IPCC emits more Greenhouse Gas than all Brazil together.

Fifty US power plants emit more greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels than all but six nations, says a new report.

Agriculture is among the greatest contributors to global warming, emitting more greenhouse gases than all our cars, trucks, trains, and airplanes combined - largely from methane released by cattle and rice farms, nitrous oxide from fertilized fields and carbon dioxide from the cutting of rain forests to grow crops or raise livestock.

Emissions from emerging economies such as China and India have more than doubled since 1990 and developing countries now emit more greenhouse gases than developed countries.

The use of coal as a fuel has now surpassed oil and developing countries now emit more greenhouse gases than developed countries — with a quarter of their growth in emissions accounted for by increased trade with the West.

As humans emit more greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the Earth continues to warm.

GENEVA — Scientists have found that some reservoirs formed by hydroelectric dams emit more greenhouse gases than expected, potentially upsetting the climate - friendly balance of hydroelectric power.

Coal is dirty, burning it emits more greenhouse gasses than any other single source, mining it destroys mountains, streams, and rivers... but it DOES give us energy, to which I'm thankful for it.

«Several EU countries are still emitting more greenhouse gases than they did in 1990 or even increased their emissions from 2004 to 2005.

Depending on load factors, Diesel trains can emit more greenhouse gases per passenger mile than autos, and concrete - and - steel high - rise condos can emit more CO2 than wood homes.

The use of coal as a fuel has now surpassed oil and developing countries now emit more greenhouse gases than developed countries â $ «with a quarter of their growth in emissions accounted for by increased trade with the West.

In an average year, Alaska wildfires devour twice the area burned by wildfires in all of the lower 48 — and emit more greenhouse gases than all of those other wildfires combined, the USGS said.

A dry - cooled fossil - fueled power plant will generally emit more greenhouse gases than the same plant operating with a wet - cooling system, since water is a more efficient cooling fluid than air moved with fans.

All of these goods require more resources to produce and they emit more greenhouse gasses than their lower - impact counterparts — namely fruits and vegetables.»

Professor Reif wrote, «As human activities emit more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global average surface temperature will continue to rise, driving rising sea levels and extreme weather.»

Not exact matches

Coral reefs are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more acidic.

Without drastic action we will be emitting 22 percent more greenhouse gases in the target year 2008 than we did in 1990, or 29 percent more than the Kyoto target.

By following carbon emissions in more than 100 countries and 57 industrial sectors — from the extraction of the fuels to the energy inputs in creating goods and services to delivery to the final consumer — he and his colleagues uncovered a more complete story of who emits the world's greenhouse gases, and at which point in the supply chain.

The greenhouse gases emitted by corn farmers could be cut by more than half, using better farming practices

They don't need as much space as livestock, emit lower levels of greenhouse gases, and have a sky - high feed conversion rate: a single kilogram of feed yields 12 times more edible cricket protein than beef protein.

Such a system limits the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted while allowing companies to pay for releasing more or to earn credit for spewing less.

But along with the notorious polar vortex, the year also brought new evidence that human activities are altering the climate in ever more obvious ways — and that the risks of severe impacts rise with every ton of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.

She pointed to a cutoff set by EPA that limits regulated greenhouse gas polluters to those that emit 100,000 tons or more per year.

Together the dumps emit more of the greenhouse gas methane than any other human - related source.

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

The proposed system would be applicable to all countries that emit more than 2 percent of global greenhouse gases, according to a Q&A Ramesh provided.

The plant, equipped with DNA from barley, emits as little as 1 % of the methane — a powerful greenhouse gas — of a conventional variety, while also producing more rice.

But that's hard, even though we know that the likelihood of dangerous cold snaps, floods and droughts increases the more greenhouse gases we emit.

Cities are not just where 3.5 billion of us live — they are where more than half of humanity uses electricity, drives cars, and throws out garbage, among myriad other activities that emit greenhouse gases.

The next step, Wright notes, is to look at a more complete assessment of beaver meadows» carbon budget that takes into account the greenhouse gases emitted by microbes that tend to thrive in moist sediments such as natural wetlands and rice paddies.

Our homes and offices account for more than one third of all greenhouse gases emitted by human activity — the bulk of it for heating in winter and air - conditioning in summer, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Diesel engines burn their fuel more efficiently compared to their gasoline counterparts — and thus emit considerably lower quantities of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2)-- mainly because diesel engines work with excess air in so - called lean - burn mode.

They do a lot of good for the environment — from filtering contaminants out of the water to providing a critical animal habitat — and they store much more greenhouse gas than they emit.

Some, at all latitudes and longitudes, will have the opportunity to redefine their relationship with the carbon cycle, and start removing more greenhouse gases than they emit sooner than others.

Kirchhoff's law doesn't apply to gases, because the greenhouse molecules can absorb more energy that they emit.

They emit 47 % more pollution and 43 % more greenhouse gases than regular cars.