Sentences with phrase «find less carbon»

By raising the cost of fossil fuels, the tax is intended to provide an incentive to find less carbon - intensive energy and transportation alternatives.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, if higher fuel taxes work as intended and get drivers to burn less carbon, then those people will find themselves ahead.

Study into carbon tax on high - emissions food finds people would be more likely to eat less meat if they had to pay more for it

Natural gas, which is mainly methane, may generate less carbon dioxide than oil and coal when burned, but as recent research has found, there's more to greenhouse gas emissions than just combustion.

The work found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

Anderegg's own work, including a study published in July in the journal Science, found that forests absorb less carbon for four years after a drought.

The new study, led by Professor Scott, found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

The authors found that when trees are exposed to drought, not only are climate - stressed trees less likely to take in as much carbon, but when they die, they release large amounts of stored carbon into the atmosphere.

The researchers found that in hot years, trees in a Costa Rican rainforest grow less, and the tropics worldwide release lots of carbon dioxide (CO2).

The researchers found that ocean warming would be an overwhelming stressor that made food webs less efficient, neutralised the «fertilising» effect of elevated carbon dioxide and threw the fragile relationship between predators and prey off balance.

Analyzing the light with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, the researchers found the amount of elements heavier than helium to be less than one - thousandth that in the sun's neighborhood, and the ratio of carbon to silicon is just what would be expected of exploded population III stars.

If you need to emit less carbon, you can change your process, you can change what fuel you use, or you can find a company that you can pay to reduce those tons for you, which is what happens when you buy an offset.»

They found that because natural gas plants are overall more efficient than coal plants, producing more energy per unit of carbon, they could cause less warming in the long term.

The study, which was led by University of Surrey Engineering Doctorate student Helen Skudder, also found that many burglary prevention measures installed individually or in combination, produce less carbon emissions than an incidence of burglary.

The result: Ice containing 2 percent carbon dioxide was 38 percent less resistant to fracturing than pure ice, the study found.

Some prior research has suggested that carbon dioxide emissions from all lakes on Earth are less than what was found in the Arctic, and future factors could shift the importance of sunlight, noted Lars Tranvik, a Swedish scientist, in an accompanying Science article.

A 2016 World Bank report found that of the various carbon pricing systems in use around the world, «about three quarters» of all emissions covered are priced at less than $ 10 per ton.

«These superdeep diamonds contained much less carbon - 13, which is most consistent with an origin in the organic component found in altered oceanic crust.»

A new study by a team of IMAS and Canadian scientists has found that catching most types of fish produces far less carbon per kilo of protein than land - based alternatives like beef or lamb.

The second is less popular: call it geoengineering, but we need to find a way to put carbon back in the ground.

At the time, he said «the stunning finding that forests can also feed on nitrogen in rocks has the potential to change all projections related to climate change,» because it meant there could be more carbon storage on land and less in the atmosphere than climate models say.

Unfortunately, most purified MCT oils on the market forget about the longest carbon chain fatty acid and contain far less lauric acid, which means you're losing out on one of the better medium chain fatty acids that are normally found in coconut oil.

It should even be less expensive, as graphene's carbon is much easier to find than the exotic indium metal you see in conventional e-paper.

The analysis found that 9 of the systems in the study — including two cellulosic ethanol systems (with and without CCS) have greenhouse gas index (GHGI) numbers of less than 0.20, and represent low - carbon transportation fuel options.

Examples: Since leaves function more efficiently in diffuse light than in dappled bright - or - dark direct light, clearer skies will reduce carbon uptake: Mercado et al. (2009); a multi-year study of grass found carbon uptake sharply decreased in hotter summers: Arnone et al. (2008); warming kills plankton, resulting in less emission of DMS and thus less cooling clouds: Six et al. (2013); changes in Arctic rivers and coastlines could bring more carbon loss than models anticipated: Abbott et al. (2016).

The frequency and severity of droughts are only expected to increase, Anderegg says, and once climate models take recovery time into account, we may find that future forests will harbor even less carbon than current models predict.

The study found these legacy effects could cause some forests to take up 1.6 metric gigatons less carbon over the next century — a quarter of the carbon emissions the U.S. churns out each year — and Anderegg cautions, «that number is almost certainly very low.»

But a review of studies regarding carbon pricing schemes from around the world by economist Tom Tietenberg concludes that «they typically find that the cost savings from shifting to [taxes or cap - and - trade] are considerable, but less than would have been achieved if the final outcome had been fully cost effective.»

If Pruitt choses to replace the CPP with a less rigorous regulation, it could mean the EPA would delay or abandoned efforts to fight the 2009 endangerment finding, which orders the agency to regulate carbon as a public health threat.

The analysis found, somewhat surprisingly, that only proceeding with lower cost, less carbon - intensive projects needed to satisfy demand in a carbon - constrained world will add over $ 100 billion to the value of the world's seven oil majors, unless oil prices spike beyond $ 100 a barrel for a sustained period of time — well over OPEC's long - term average assumption of around $ 80 a barrel.

I also found it interesting to see the less than strident call for abatement of carbon dioxide emissions at the time those papers were published.

At the time, he said «the stunning finding that forests can also feed on nitrogen in rocks has the potential to change all projections related to climate change,» because it meant there could be more carbon storage on land and less in the atmosphere than climate models say.

Or, it can find ways to emit less carbon, perhaps by changing its manufacturing process.

In a somewhat hopeful note, the report found that in 2014 and 2015, carbon dioxide emissions growth rates slowed as economic growth became less carbon - intensive.

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The study found that while the carbon dioxide emissions of Chinese exports had either slowed their increase or decreased, the carbon dioxide emissions of exports from less developed countries had only increased.

While the brash brand of direct interference into the public discourse on scientific findings about global warming and associated harmful impacts we saw from Exxon operatives in the 1980s and 1990s has now morphed into a more passive, less - visible form of tampering — such as the company's continued stream of donations (some alleged to be illegal) to groups known for lobbying against and often shooting down federal and state - level proposals to promote renewable energy and limit carbon emissions — perhaps Avery will be able to persuade the new corporate leadership team to stop funding these groups altogether.

«Optimal policy,» they found, «relies less on a carbon tax, and even more so on a direct encouragement of clean energy technologies.»

Preventing carbon dioxide levels from rising to potentially dangerous levels could cost less far less than originally projected — less 1 percent of gross world product as of 2050 — but a major shift in the way energy is found, transformed, transported and used will be necessary to prevent a severe energy crisis within the next century, say researchers from the The Earth Institute.

Meanwhile, research by Dr. Daniel Nepstad at the Woods Hole Research Institute has found break - even points of less than $ 5 per ton of carbon for forgoing development of most of the Amazon.

«A NEW peer - reviewed paper using observations rather than computer models has found the Earth's climate was less sensitive to increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Recent research found that natural solutions like improved management of forests, wetlands, grasslands and agricultural lands can remove about 5.6 GtCO2e of carbon per year by 2030 — a figure equivalent to total global emissions from agriculture in 2014 — at a cost of less than $ 100 per tonne of carbon.

However, there have been other studies in both the Swiss and Austrian alps (e.g. Schlüchter, Patzelt), which have found carbon - dated remains of trees under receding glaciers, supporting the conclusion that the glacial extent during the Roman Warm Period and the MWP (as well as during earlier warm periods) was less than today.

A notable finding again in this year's Outlook is that CO2 emissions are likely to peak in 2030 due to efficiency gains and a gradual transition to less carbon - intensive energy supplies.

If everyone who created value by finding a way of emitting less carbon was able to capture and profit from that value, change would be drastic and non-linear.

They also find that passive house delivers other advantages such as fewer void periods and less ongoing maintenance, while keeping operational energy and the resultant carbon emissions low.

New research finds that prescribed burns release 18 to 25 % less carbon than wildfires.

The authors found that carbon emissions could be reduced by roughly one gigaton per year within five years — equivalent to 3 % of worldwide emissions — if other countries followed the U.K.'s example by switching to natural gas from coal in power stations, as natural gas produces less than one - half the carbon dioxide produced by coal.

She found that the forest's ability to store carbon could be seriously eroded if even a small proportion of the large - seeded trees were to disappear and be replaced by smaller ones that store less carbon.

When Europe first issued carbon permits, energy prices skyrocketed as industries perceived the allotted amount of permits to be too low and had to find ways of doing business that were less carbon - intensive and more expensive.