Sentences with phrase «even higher emissions»

EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has criticised the most recent National Allocation Plans proposed by member states for distribution of carbon permits, as they allocate even higher emissions quotas than actual emissions in the first phase of the scheme.

Not exact matches

Comparing the capital and operating costs of various forms of energy — even factoring in US$ 50 a tonne for carbon emissions (a higher rate than is currently levied by any North American state or province)-- natural gas comes out as a clear winner.

According to a recent study from Denkstatt, an Austrian environmental sustainability solutions think tank, «Even if improved packaging solutions contribute to increased CO2 emissions, the CO2 savings from reduced food waste are in most cases much higher.»

The world's food security would be ensured even with over 9 billion people in 2050, agricultural land area would not increase, greenhouse gas emissions would be lowered and the negative effects of today's intensive food systems, such as nitrogen surplus and high pesticide exposure, would be greatly reduced.

Even in a mid-sized room, the emissions from one diaper were high enough to produce asthma - like symptoms.

Finally, in so doing, both the EU and China would put further pressure on the US, which, even though it has the highest per / capita emissions rate among the world's largest economies, it is still reticent to commit to fight climate change.

Yet the analysis shows that even with higher gas prices, coal plants still fail to be economically competitive under the new greenhouse gas rule, which requires that fossil plants not exceed emission rates of 1,000 pounds of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

We will also need to look at higher gasoline taxes, carbon - emissions levies and perhaps even a national value - added tax.

The blueprint also encourages urban agriculture, rethinks sewer and wastewater management and reduces greenhouse gas emissions per capita to the lowest in the world by promoting even higher - density living with smaller multifamily homes, especially along transit corridors in Vancouver's downtown peninsula.

But worldwide markets are growing, and brokerage houses see potential despite the domestic setback: Worldwide, emissions trading was a $ 144 billion market in 2009, according to the World Bank, and 2010 figures to be even higher.

The combination of a long beam - path and high - intensity emission enhances the measurement, so even chemicals present at parts - per - billion levels can be detected.

Saunders also defended the study's use of medium - to - high emissions estimates from the IPCC, saying he expects the international body to issue even higher greenhouse gas predictions in its next five - year study, in 2012.

Even if all greenhouse emissions were to stop today, atmospheric carbon dioxide will remain high for millennia, and ocean surface temperatures will stay elevated even longer, a new study prediEven if all greenhouse emissions were to stop today, atmospheric carbon dioxide will remain high for millennia, and ocean surface temperatures will stay elevated even longer, a new study predieven longer, a new study predicts.

Increased cooling means increased consumption of electrical power and therefore higher emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, driving global warming even faster.

«Furthermore,» added Peters, «because of differentiated capabilities some countries would need even higher rates of emissions reductions.

But even when the findings were adjusted for caloric intake, the highest - impact quintile was still responsible for five times more emissions than the lowest - impact group.

And even under the best of conditions, carbon sequestration is not at levels high enough to counteract the ruminants» own emissions, the report says.

«China now emits more than the US and EU combined and has CO2 emissions per person 45 % higher than the global average, exceeding even the EU average,» said Robbie Andrew, a co-author of the studies based at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo (CICERO) in Norway.

«Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming, and we have recently shown that in the UK land spared through high - yield farming could even sequester enough greenhouse gases to mitigate the UK's agricultural emissions *,» said Balmford.

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment may face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards.A pervasive air pollutant, the fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is a mixture of emissions from diesel engines, power plants, refineries and other sources of combustion.

«The consequences of not [acting] are even higher with these results than they were before, when we could think about 1.5 degrees as being in the realm of possibility — which I think, realistically, it's not,» he said, urging more investments in research, a tax on carbon and other established paths to emissions reductions.

Even so, the IPCC estimates above indicate: 1) Total Net Atmospheric Carbon Emissions to 2100 will amount to ~ 2050 PgC (or more) on current Trends, 2) A BAU projected estimate would push CO2 to ~ 952 ppm by 2100 (or more), and 3) Global average temperature increase / anomaly would be as high as ~ 6.8 C by 2100

Experts estimate that emissions from the degradation of mangroves can be as high as 10 % of total emissions from deforestation globally, even though mangroves account for only 0.7 % of tropical forest area *.

From this latest study we see that the drop was all too ephemeral and even the limp economic recovery of 2010 has put us back on a high emissions trajectory.

And if we continue to track the highest emissions scenarios — taking us to 4C or 5C by the end of the century — the risk of potentially catastrophic impacts rises even higher, the report adds.

As the performance of road cars climbs ever higher, all - wheel drive starts to make even more sense, harnessing ever greater outputs through ever smarter means - and in recent years, those means have included hybrid 4x4 systems that negate the need for complex transmissions, bringing the added benefits of improved economy and emissions.

This helps to deliver high specific power and high torque — even at low engine speeds — and, above all, reduced fuel consumption and low emissions.

Even high - end sportscar manufacturers have to keep their fleets within ever - tightening fuel and emissions regulations, and the V8 is the first step in an overall plan that also includes an all - electric Rapide for 2019.

However, for the same sort of money a Golf 1.6 TDI Match offers more passenger space, a better ride and handling combination and a higher quality, better laid out cabin, even if it can't quite equal the Civic for equipment, boot space, CO2 emissions or fuel economy.

The first ever BMW i3s provides an even sportier interpretation of silent mobility with zero emissions and features a high output 184 hp (preliminary) electric motor that generates peak torque of 199 lb - ft (preliminary).

The fuel also has a cooling effect on the combustion that allowed the M engineers to endow the engine with a high compression ratio: yet another technical attribute that contributes to both performance and efficiency, while also reducing exhaust emissions and even having a positive effect on how the engine sounds.

A 2012 report on particulates from gasoline vehicles by the European Joint Research Commission found that gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicles consistently emit a very high number of particles, with the actual emission levels even approaching those of conventional diesels in some cases.

The first ever BMW i3s provides an even sportier interpretation of silent mobility with zero emissions and features a high output 184 hp electric motor that generates peak torque of 199 lb - ft.

More economical and lower in pollutant emissions: the high - output BMW TwinPower Turbo four - cylinder diesel engine puts an even more efficient foot forward.

However, the high end of the IPCC range (or even higher) is often waved about in order to hype the issue and draw «concern» from the general public such that they stand behind efforts to limit carbon dioxide emission.

Key Message 1: Climatic Trends Recent observations confirm that, given high rates of observed emissions, the worst - case IPCC scenario trajectories (or even worse) are being realised.

In fact, the emissions of all types from the modern, scrubbed, coal plants have an impact on Kansas that is barely detectable even in pessimistic estimates in comparison to those from a gas plant (since gas plants emit higher levels of Nitrous Oxide, another greenhouse gas.

The midcentury ratio could be much higher if emissions rose at an even greater pace, or it could be about 8 to 1 if emissions were reduced significantly, the model showed.

Scenario A, since it is exponential, must eventually be on the high side of reality in view of finite resource constraints and environmental concerns, even though the growth of emissions in scenario A (~ 1.5 % / yr) is less than the rate typical of the past century (~ 4 % / yr).

But today, even with higher temps, the ocean is absorbing more CO2 as a result of our emissions.

page 30: «Current carbon dioxide emissions are, in fact, above the highest emissions scenario developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), implying that if we stay the current course, we're heading for even larger warming than the highest projections from the IPCC.»

(2) Prudence requires us to mitigate global warming, even if we are not sure it is being caused by human emissions (and we are sure, and this new skeptical study does not reduce that high level of certainty).

Given those two factors and ignoring future emissions that will drive the temperature even higher, we are already over +2 C warming once we stop emitting short - lived coal smoke and other pollutants into the air and we give the Earth time to reach temperature equilibrium.

One thing that the public aren't widely aware of — even though emissions in China are anticipated to rise rapidly, their current plans lead to 1 gigaton [billion metric tons] of carbon less being emitted by about 2030 than under the previous high growth path.

It's a big job, but it's one that has to be done anyway, since if the whole world tries to pull itself into prosperity by burning carbon at the rate the US does, then we run out of coal even at the highest estimates by 2100, and you wind up with no fossil energy and the hellish climate you get from 5000 gigatonnes cumulative emission.

If Dr. Hansen never imagined Scenario A as being a real possibility for the next 20 years, I guess indicated by his description «Scenario A, since it is exponential, must eventually be on the high side of reality in view of finite resource constraints and environmental concerns, even though the growth of emissions in Scenario A (~ 1.5 % yr - 1) is less than the rate typical of the past century (~ 4 % yr - 1)» then his subsequent comment (PNAS, 2001) «Second, the IPCC includes CO2 growth rates that we contend are unrealistically large» seems to indicate that Dr. Hansen doesn't support some of the more extreme SRES scenarios.

OPEC may keep prices high, but we can fight back with efficiency and make them less relevant, and learn to master our CO2 emissions and make OPEC even less relevant.

Even if we can't predict what's going to happen 30 years from now, does it hurt us to be cautious, or to focus on technologies that lead to lower emissions, lower consumption, higher efficiencies?

Global emissions of heat - trapping gases are now increasing even more rapidly than the highest emissions scenario scientists have been analyzing.

Because of their very short lifetime (a few days) vs. volcanoes (a few years) for identical physico - chemical reactions, their (primary) effect is less than of volcanoes, despite the higher emission rates (secondary and tertiary effects even are far more uncertain).