Sentences with phrase «entire transportation sector»

What's more, the animal agriculture industry is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector combined.

Fighting the destruction of the Amazon is considered crucial for reducing global warming because deforestation worldwide accounts for 15 percent of annual emissions of heat - trapping gases, more than the entire transportation sector.

Were that to happen, emissions would be as high as the entire transportation sector, which takes up 14 % of global greenhouse emissions, currently dominated by pollution from cars and trucks.

Now that we are aware that up to 25 % of carbon emissions are the result of deforestation - that's more than the entire transportation sector combined!

Fun fact: the meat industry actually causes more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector (including airplanes!)

By some calculations, livestock may contribute nearly 15 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire transportation sector.

Just to put that in some context, that equals the entire transportation sector.

The next phase extends Volvo Group's commitment to push development further across the entire transportation sector.

Meat and dairy generate more global greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector, yet reducing the consumption of animal products through institutional purchasing remains a largely untapped yet highly effective, cost - saving approach to mitigating climate change while promoting public health.

A major development was the decision at the 2007 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks in Bali, Indonesia, to recognize forest conservation as a means for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, which accounts for roughly one - fifth of emissions — more than the entire transportation sector.

Accounting for more emissions than the entire transportation sector, industrial meat production is a critical driver of climate destabilization.

To replace the entire transportation sector with electric cars you'd need to go from 18 percent renewables to something like 150 percent.

In a report released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, it states that cattle rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector.

Globally deforestation amounts to almost 30 % of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire transportation sector.

And in case you needed reminding, globally, deforestation accounts for about 20 % of total greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire transportation sector combined.

Cargo vessels tend to be some of the biggest carbon pollution sources in the entire transportation sector.