Sentences with phrase «for less greenhouse gases»

Seems like this site is anti EV's because I made a reasonable post about how a Tesla is responsible for less greenhouse gases than a typical ICE car.

Not exact matches

Natural gas is primarily composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that is more potent than carbon dioxide, but remains in the atmosphere for less time.

New Democrats have repeatedly pointed out that it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.

By investing in solar energy, for example, Walmart has contributed to less greenhouse gas emissions, and helped create thousands of jobs for American solar companies.

Eating less meat is of course a vital way to help prevent the cruelty to and suffering of animals and benefits the environment: livestock production could be responsible for as much as 51 % of global greenhouse gas emissions.»

The report — Less Is More: Greenpeace vision of the meat and dairy system towards 2050 — claims that unless the way we farm for food changes radically, then agriculture will soon be responsible for pumping out 52 per cent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

For example, my industry — the ski business — could eliminate all its greenhouse gas emissions, but we'd still go out of business in less than 100 years if the rest of the world doesn't change.

Infrastructure investments in new train tracks or fast - lane bicycle paths, for example, might not only reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, but also decrease costs in other areas, because less roads and parking lots have to be built.

«If economics is the sole focus, then less expensive technologies that require significant amounts of energy for their manufacture, maintenance and replacement might win out — even if they ultimately increase greenhouse gas emissions and negate the long - term benefits of implementing wind and solar power.»

Pound for pound, insect farming emits 1 per cent of the greenhouse gases that raising ruminants like cows and sheep does — and it requires far less water.

The report notes that three business sectors — energy firms, utilities and materials companies — account for 87 percent of scope 1 and 2 emissions, greenhouse gases that are directly emitted by a firm's activities, even though they account for less than 25 percent of all companies on the index.

Such a system limits the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted while allowing companies to pay for releasing more or to earn credit for spewing less.

Adds Peter Milne, a program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, «We can easily measure the greenhouse gas budget from a single smokestack, but somewhat less well for a stand of trees.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

A key finding of the UC Berkeley study is that suburbs account for half of all household greenhouse gas emissions, even though they account for less than half the population.

That the Netherlands is responsible for less than 0.5 % of global greenhouse gas emissions isn't a valid argument either, it said.

«(i) increase the percentage of emissions that can be offset through the use of international offset credits to reflect the amount that 1.0 billion exceeds the number of domestic offset credits the Administrator determines is available, at prices generally equal to or less than emission allowance prices, for that year, up to a maximum of 0.5 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions; and

The United States, with less than 5 % of the world's population, is responsible for nearly 25 % of the world's greenhouse gases.

The benefit is higher efficiency jet engines and power turbines that produce more power and less greenhouse gases, which is a good thing for the planet.»

Reducing the need for paper products means less demand for tree cutting — this prevents deforestation, protects wildlife habitats, reduces pollution and other negative effects of paper industry, the third - largest industrial emitter of greenhouse gasses.

However, this doesn't account for feedbacks, for example ice melting and making the planet less reflective, and the warmer atmosphere holding more water vapor (another greenhouse gas).

The general consensus among scientists is that the young Earth's atmosphere contained much larger quantities of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide and / or ammonia) than are present today, which trapped enough heat to compensate for the lesser amount of solar energy reaching the planet.

We should continue to support the very best parts of it: the ones that encourage the production of more advanced and more sustainable biofuels, for instance, or the requirement that a renewable fuel must emit less greenhouse gas than the petroleum - based fuel it would replace.

While other greenhouse gases make up less of the atmosphere, they account for about 40 percent of the greenhouse gas radiation sent back to Earth.

Although sustainability guidelines are unlikely to be included in the final version of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the Advisory Committee included the following statement in their initial report: «Consistent evidence indicates that, in general, a dietary pattern that is higher in plant - based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods is more health promoting and is associated with lesser environmental impact (greenhouse gas emissions and energy, land, and water use) than is the current average U.S. diet.

That means, in turn, less land required to grow the feed for animals, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and less water pollution.

Natural gas vehicles have been found to produce less greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline vehicles, but very little natural gas consumption is currently used for transportation fuel.

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

The result being that as the «greenhouse gas layer reflection increases, so less energy (in the appropriate frequency band, or bands) will reach the Earth, compensating for the increased «greenhouse effect» Please explain......

For example, If we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, scientific evidence suggests we should invest in alternative energies that release less greenhouse gases.

It turned out things were far more nuanced (as he later said, «The Earth system may be less responsive in the warm times than it was in the cold times»), but in a field that had long mainly foreseen smooth curves for planetary change with rising greenhouse gas levels, the result was a vital focus on the risks of abrupt climate change.

James E. Hansen, the NASA climate expert who has long been a bellwether for global warming campaigners, has strongly endorsed one of the less - popular options — a variant on the «cap and dividend» system for cutting greenhouse - gas emissions.

Raising insects for human consumption uses far less water, land, and food than livestock, and insects emit almost no greenhouse gases.

that we emit less greenhouse gas, let next generation more happy and left resouce for our next generation.

The project activity is the introduction of an alternative ignition technique for domestic coal fires that causes households to switch from a less efficient ignition technique with significant greenhouse gas emissions to a technique that results in considerably less emissions.

For decades, it has been a given that heavy rainfall on steep mountain slopes is likely to chemically weather the exposed rock and precipitate a chemical reaction that ends with carbonate minerals on the ground and with less of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

However, the Canadian government has no credible plan for stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions, much less reducing them.»

This communication already includes information regarding China's greenhouse gas inventory, albeit in much less detail and than is required for Annex I countries, and also using emissions from way back in 1994!.

EPA is not even requiring reporting of greenhouse gas emissions for sources emitting less than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually.

Conservatives should embrace a carbon tax (a much less costly means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions) in return for elimination of EPA regulatory authority over greenhouse gas emissions, abolition of green energy subsidies and regulatory mandates, and offsetting tax cuts to provide for revenue neutrality.

[12] In fact, using the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change developed by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, even if all carbon dioxide emissions in the United States were effectively eliminated, there would be less than two - tenths of a degree Celsius reduction in global temperatures.

For countries less fussed about climate change (some ex-communist newcomers), the policy stresses independence from scary suppliers such as Russia, and asks the rich countries of old Europe to accept the lion's share of greenhouse - gas curbs.

However, the call for control of greenhouse gas emissions in Agenda 21 is much less precise than the obligations to adopt policies and practices to prevent the threat of climate change that the George H.W. Bush administration had agreed to when it negotiated and Congress ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992.

Burning coal, for example, also produces copious quantities of greenhouse gasses (even with «clean coal» technologies) and our coal reserves are decidedly less limited than our oil reserves.

It leaves less than 0.05 degrees C / decade for greenhouse gases.

That is a major reason the planet's surface temperatures have risen less than expected in the past dozen or so years, given the large greenhouse gas hike during the same period, said Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

But it's also the by - product of fossil fuel combustion, and when a refinery or power plant reduces its greenhouse gas emissions (by becoming more energy - efficient, for example), it also releases fewer smog - forming chemicals like nitrogen oxides, less of the sulfur dioxide and soot that can irritate lungs and cause respiratory disease, and fewer toxic emissions linked to cancer and neurological disorders.