Sentences with phrase «fuel extraction emissions»

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By following carbon emissions in more than 100 countries and 57 industrial sectors — from the extraction of the fuels to the energy inputs in creating goods and services to delivery to the final consumer — he and his colleagues uncovered a more complete story of who emits the world's greenhouse gases, and at which point in the supply chain.

The group found that although fuel - cell vehicles would produce zero greenhouse - gas emissions during use, the extraction and refinement of hydrogen fuel would release three to five times as much carbon into the air as is released in procuring and refining gasoline and diesel.

While fracking has become a focal point in conversations about methane emissions, it certainly appears from this and other studies that in the U.S., fossil fuel extraction activities across the board likely emit higher than inventory estimates.»

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

Estimates of GHG emissions do not include additional «lifecycle» emissions related to transportation, such as the extraction and refining of fuel and the manufacture of vehicles, which are also a significant source of domestic and international GHG emissions.

The map was actually created for the 2014 United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York, but the interactive allows users to discover the information that holds true, whether its fossil fuel extraction or CO2 emissions.

If phase down of fossil fuel emissions begins soon, improved agricultural and forestry practices, including reforestation and steps to improve soil fertility and increase its carbon content, may provide much of the necessary CO2 extraction.»

The spatial patterns of our emission fluxes and observed methane — propane correlations indicate that fossil fuel extraction and refining are major contributors (45 ± 13 %) in the south - central United States.»

They should include people in gas country, where federal studies hopefully will soon clarify ways to responsibly expand extraction of a vital fuel (if you care even remotely about moving away from oil or limiting emissions from coal - burning power plants).

Recent studies including an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it's possible to slow the pace of warming and melting in the Arctic in the near term by reducing emissions of two common climate pollutants: black carbon and methane, both of which are emitted from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.

C. Continued high fossil fuel emissions place a burden on young people to undertake massive technological CO2 extraction.

Scope 3 emissions are other indirect emissions, such as those produced through extraction and production of purchased materials and fuels, or through outsourced, transport - related activities.

Energy Industries Comprises emissions from fuels combusted by the fuel extraction or energy producing industries.

About one - quarter of the total emissions are related to fossil fuel extraction (CH4 emissions from coal mines, CH4 venting from oil extraction), transport and distribution (e.g., leakage from pipelines), and consumption (incomplete combustion).

How would phasing out U.S. federal leases for fossil fuel extraction affect CO2 emissions and 2 °C goals?.

This paper examines the implications for U.S. fossil fuel production and global CO2 emissions of ceasing to issue new federal leases for fossil fuel extraction and not renewing existing leases for resources that are not yet producing.

Phasing out federal leases for fossil fuel extraction could reduce global CO2 emissions by 100 million tonnes per year by 2030, and by greater amounts thereafter.

May 10 (UPI)-- A new model tracks oil and gas extraction rates and how they impact the ability of major fossil fuel producers to meet global emission reduction targets.

But when some stepped back and looked at the entire fuel extraction and distribution system, they realized that byproduct methane emissions can make gas as bad as gasoline.

Additionally, the federal defendants admitted that fossil fuel extraction, development and consumption produce CO2 emissions and that past emissions of CO2 from such activities have increased the atmospheric concentration of CO2.

While annual investment in fossil fuel extraction, transformation, and transportation and fossil ‐ fired power plants without CCS is estimated to decline by about 86 billion USD per year in 2010 2029 (i.e., by 20 %), annual investment in low ‐ emission generation technologies is expected to increase by about 147 billion USD per year (i.e., by 100 %), over the same period.

«The Clean Power Plan was a step toward the future: away from destructive and costly pollution, away from environmentally damaging fuel extraction and away from emissions of heat - trapping gases,» Francis told Live Science in an email.

Methane emissions derive mostly from landfills, agriculture (particularly rice farming), livestock, and natural gas and coal extraction, while soot, otherwise called «black carbon», results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and derives primarily from primitive cook stoves used throughout much of the developing world, as well as diesel engines and coal - burning power plants.

For example, California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (CA - LCFS) embeds life cycle assessment within the policy to measure emissions intensity of various transportation fuel pathways through their full life cycle (including extraction, recovery, and transpoFuel Standard (CA - LCFS) embeds life cycle assessment within the policy to measure emissions intensity of various transportation fuel pathways through their full life cycle (including extraction, recovery, and transpofuel pathways through their full life cycle (including extraction, recovery, and transport).

Net - zero emissions will require carbon capture and storage (CCS) for all fossil fuels and other technologies (e.g., biomass with CCS or direct air capture) for residual emissions from fossil fuel extraction and from other anthropogenic sources such as agriculture.

[3] The Greenhouse House Gas Protocol categorizes direct and indirect emissions into three broad scopes: Scope 1: All direct GHG emissions; Scope 2: Indirect GHG emissions from consumption of purchased electricity, heat or steam; and Scope 3: Other indirect emissions, such as the extraction and production of purchased materials and fuels, transport - related activities in vehicles not owned or controlled by the reporting entity, electricity - related activities (e.g. T&D losses) not covered in Scope 2, outsourced activities, waste disposal, etc..

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.

so if those who insist the change is not happening / not fossil fuels fault are right, the effort put into bringing into existence renewable, low emission energy industries will virtually eliminate fossil fuel extraction (except for plastics etc).

This article examines the emissions implications of a cessation of new leases for fossil fuel extraction on U.S. federal lands and waters.

The fossil fuel extraction industries, faced with the knowledge that the very product they sell is the main culprit behind the destabilization of our global climate system, have a moral obligation to find ways to drastically reduce carbon emissions to Earth's atmosphere so as not to leave behind a climate system inhospitable to human life.

First, and most politically, we need to recognise that anthropogenic climate change is driven primarily by the economic logic of global fossil fuel extraction, and only to a lesser extent by the social practices and infrastructure that shape national emissions.