Sentences with phrase «few additional emissions»

Cheaper natural gas has pushed out older, less - efficient coal and oil generation; however, the region's increasing overreliance on natural gas will provide few additional emissions benefits and increases risks of price volatility or supply disruption.

Not exact matches

Planting additional trees is basically only going to nibble away at a few % of emissions.

To which we must add the additional anthropogenic emissions of CO2 over the next few years, which will bring us to a total CO2 equivalent of 850 ppmv (David's estimate plus Hanson's estimate of near term anthropogenic CO2 emissions.)

This is because under a nationwide cap - and - trade system, any additional emission reductions achieved in California will be offset by fewer reductions in other states.

Let's compare where we are today and where we will be in a few years» time when additional CCS pilot projects are brought on stream and try to grasp the scale of the challenge we face in mitigating current emissions.

A certain amount of continued warming of the planet is projected to occur as a result of human - induced emissions to date; another 0.5 °F increase would be expected over the next few decades even if all emissions from human activities suddenly stopped, 11 although natural variability could still play an important role over this time period.12 However, choices made now and in the next few decades will determine the amount of additional future warming.

CARB proposes a few additional options not included in the NRC study, but each is a fuel - saving technology, not an emission - control technology.

Further, supporting policies to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions now, instead of delaying for a few more years, would avoid some $ 5tn in additional costs, according to the International Energy Agency.

For example, they pointed to additional temperature data gathered in the last few years, which have been substantially warmer than any similar string of years in many centuries; to improvements in computer models designed to project future trends; and to better understanding of the influence of other climate - influencing emissions, like particles of sulfates that can cool the earth by reflecting sunlight back into space.

Assume there is buy - in on the massive reforestation, and that the combination of emissions reduction due to substitution of low carbon technologies for fossil and hard additional demand reduction has to total about 20 % per year for a few years.