Sentences with phrase «far less emissions»

At the same time, cycling — which is the most efficient form of transportation — and energy efficiency, are by far the cheapest means of addressing a wide range of issues, from climate change, to congestion to high energy prices.Cycling is an Overlooked Solution In fact, even compared to mass transit, cycling requires less road maintenance (and hence taxpayer money), takes up less space, and results in far less emissions and noise.

The big emitters in Durban, so the BBC tells me, aren't even thinking of a DEAL before 2015, far less emissions peaking.

Not exact matches

The noxiousness of diesel has led to a paradoxical debate where far - from - benign gasoline emissions have gained the perverse position of being perceived as the lesser of two evils.

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

The environmental audit committee's report on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) points to underperformance in the scheme so far, concluding the «record in reducing carbon emissions is far less impressivEmissions Trading Scheme (ETS) points to underperformance in the scheme so far, concluding the «record in reducing carbon emissions is far less impressivemissions is far less impressive».

A 30 percent cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030 is a big number — less than environmental groups want but far more than the president can get via Congress, where climate change skeptics rule the House and the Democratic Senate so far avoiding bringing a climate change bill to the floor during Obama's presidency.

Such so - called in situ production requires less water but far more energy to get the bitumen flowing, resulting in greenhouse gas emissions some 2.5 times higher than those from mining.

«When taking into account that production of the far smaller batteries of plug - in hybrids is associated with less carbon dioxide emissions than production of the larger batteries of electric vehicles, their carbon dioxide balance is even better,» says Patrick Jochem of KIT's Institute for Industrial Production.

Basically, the source of pollution is transferred: «It is far less expensive to capture emissions at the smokestack than the tailpipe,» Pratt adds.

Not every system collects CO2 emissions data, but so far researchers have found that for nearly all bike - share systems, the switch from cars to bikes is less than 20 percent, Buehler said.

The operationalization of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) led to targeting earlier symptomatic cases of the illness and treatment strategies based less on pathology and more on a chance to halt or slow decline than there would be earlier in the disease.1 With the development of amyloid imaging, MCI due to AD diagnosis was refined, 2 and early - stage AD was extended further to include preclinical AD, 3 wherein a positive amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scan or diagnostic low levels of cerebrospinal fluid β - amyloid (Aβ) indicated the presence of pathology in people who were cognitively normal.

The model found that long - term, less easily reversed behavioral changes, such as insulating homes or purchasing hybrid cars, had by far the most impact in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and thus reducing climate change, versus more short - term adjustments, such as adjusting thermostats or driving fewer miles.

Crucially, the warmer the world becomes, the more difficult it could be to prevent further warming, as our CO2 emissions could have proportionally larger impacts, and natural carbon sinks could become less effective.

Tuning upgrades are popular; «We've done 70 Abarths so far,» says Bennett, «and because we don't have to worry about worldwide emissions standards like the manufacturers do, we can create a more linear torque delivery and make the engine less peaky.»

A study of greenhouse gas - emissions by the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California at Irvine shows fuel - cell vehicles running on hydrogen derived from natural gas ultimately create far less GHG emissions than BEVs running off the U.S. grid, which is powered mostly by coal and natural gas.

It means a cut of around # 3.5 k over the previous, V8 - endowed S4 which had less torque, slower accelaration and was far heavier on emissions and fuel consumption.

The T6, incidentally, still produces 225 kW and 400 Nm, but the CO2 emission drops to a class leading 149 g / km — identical to the far less powerful BMW 328i.

According to Ford, recycled aluminum cuts out up to 95 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions that come with primary aluminum production, using far less energy — and water.

Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are 11 per cent lower than the old Gallardo's — the LP610 - 4 Coupe claims 22.6 mpg and 290g / km — but with such immense performance at your disposal, you can expect to achieve far less than that in the real world.

... Based on these results, further warming and drying of tropical forests is expected to result in less uptake and more release of carbon on land, unfortunately amplifying the effect of fossil fuel emissions warming the climate.

Compared to sending goods long distances by truck or airplane is far less efficient than sending them by ship, and on the level of an individual product the emissions not that great, in the aggregate shipping is a major source of emissions — about 3 % of global emissions in fact.

And remember, energy is far from the dominant component of the economy, and phasing in a 50 or 75 % reduction in carbon emissions doesn't mean a 50 to 75 % reduction in energy usage — still less a 50 to 75 % reduction in productive use of energy, given likely efficiency gains.

Compared to sending goods long distances by truck or airplane is far less efficient than sending them by ship, and on the level of an individual product the emissions not that great, in the

To the contrary: if nothing is done to cut emissions, and soon, the climate our children and grandchildren will face will almost certainly be far less hospitable, and there will be no turning back.

If EPA had, beginning in 1990, exercised the authority it got under the Clean Air Act to regulate mobile sources (vehicles) of the emission of highly carcinogenic aromatics (benzene, toluene, xylene) then OPEC's founding a decade earlier would have had far less consequence.

Moving on to assess the influence of fossil fuel emissions during this same period, it's important to stress that literally all investigators acknowledge that both the level of AGW and the rate of increase were far less at that time than what we see in the latter part of the century.

Avoiding emissions now will be far less expensive than capturing carbon dioxide from air in the future.

2) don't even attempt to address the mathematically indisputable (as far as I can see) fact that grassland sequestration can not come close to offsetting the current levels of carbon emissions, much less reduce the excess carbon already in the atmosphere (at least not while said emissions continue).

They will cost less to operate, have healthy indoor air and provide a platform for «smart» technologies that will propel the state even further down the road to a low emissions future.

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).

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.

This is, by far, much less than «prophesized» by the IPCC's «global warming» hypothesis for the recorded period, that was characterized by massive CO2 emissions to the atmosphere.

They further question the claims that a pre-industrial or «below 350 ppm [carbon dioxide]» climate is necessarily more benign or less affected by extreme weather, and they warn that «unachievable» CO2 emissions reduction policies are at risk of being classified as «ill advised, ineffective, and disingenuous» if and / or when the public eventually recognizes how flimsy the evidence is upon which these policies are based.

Since that honeymoon, closer scrutiny of bioenergy's lifecycle emissions has been revealing a complicated and far less promising picture.

Further, increased human - caused CO2 emissions mean more energy use, which results in more human productivity since humans generally use fossil fuel energy to increase their productivity and reduce their dependency on other less reliable and higher cost energy sources.

It focuses instead exclusively on the costs of reducing emissions, which are likely to be far less over time than the costly consequences of inaction.

Plimer was by far not the first to show that (but he should know that volcanoes emit less than 1 % of human emissions).

In the short term gas - fired power stations could be used to «fill the gaps» when renewable energy was not available (gas has about half the greenhouse emissions of coal, and produces far less other air pollution); in the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricity.

This type of biodiesel produces far less toxic and global warming emissions compared to conventional diesel fuel, and is sourced, produced, and sold locally.

But when the emissions associated with imported goods are factored in, that decline is far less impressive.

In his view, a broad - based technology push would turn into a pork - barrel program and be far less efficient than the technology that would develop in response to a requirement to reduce emissions.

«It is undeniably true that global temperature increases have been far, far less than doomsday computer models predicted — about three times smaller, and there are good reasons to suspect the increases from further human CO2 emissions would be smaller still, without imposing draconian regulations.

This commonsense reform would recognize that the hourly rates of emissions — a hallmark measure of efficiency improvement — is the relevant NSR test, as opposed to the annual emissions total that is far less relevant to the technological performance of the equipment.

«If the proposal is approved by the state's Public Utilities Commission,» I wrote, «California's carbon dioxide emissions will either increase or decline far less than if Diablo Canyon's two reactors, which generated about 9 percent of the state's electricity last year, remained in operation.

Then again, to the extent that natural gas substitutes for coal in electricity generation (and fugitive methane emissions are low) and electric vehicles powered by relatively clean electricity substitute for gasoline and diesel, CO2 emissions over the next two decades could be far less than expected 10 years ago.

Natural gas is a fossil fuel whose emissions contribute to global warming, making it a far less attractive climate solution than lower - and zero - carbon alternatives such as energy efficiency and renewable energy.

The nations of the world agreed in Paris last December to try to reduce emissions and hold global warming to significantly less than 2 °C altogether, but there is evidence that national plans tabled so far may not be enough.

The commentary, published in the British scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, estimated the impact of consuming the fuel from oilsands deposits â $» without factoring in greenhouse gas emissions associated with extraction and production â $» would be far less harmful to the planet's atmosphere than consuming all of the world's coal resources.

100 percent PCR PET materials use significantly less energy and water to produce than virgin plastic and generates far fewer greenhouse gas emissions and solid waste.

I suspect that the amount of fuel saved (and therefore of emissions avoided) is far less than 50 %.