Sentences with phrase «ghg emissions»

Generally the costs of reducing GHG emissions by saving energy are lower than by switching to alternative energy sources, in particular biofuels.

These standards will result in significant GHG emissions reductions and fuel efficiency improvements across all of these vehicle types.

Thirty years from now, wind power might be cutting global GHG emissions by 10 %.

Comprehensive studies that account for both direct and indirect emissions estimate that over 50 % of global GHG emissions come from raising livestock.

«The energy sector is the largest and fastest growing contributor to climate change globally — 35 % of all human GHG emissions come from this sector,» the call says.

That specific amount of wasted food represents 8 % of total GHG emissions.

Reducing GHG emissions as much as possible is the right thing to do.

Certainly, CO2 and other anthropogenic GHG emissions are a potent driver of warming, with water serving in a feedback role due to its short atmospheric lifetime.

Not only are such investments critical to securing long - term productivity and competitiveness, research clearly shows a strong relationship between technological adoption and lower GHG emissions.

The project reduces GHG emissions associated with the consumption of biomass for wood fuel traditionally used to boil drinking water.

Nor do we know how man - made GHG emissions might affect this stability.

Our 2007 work, and the work in our new paper make it clear that without GHG emissions mitigation, there is no sustainable future for polar bears or other ice dependent creatures.

The raw resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, construction, usage, and end - of - life stages of building products each generate significant GHG emissions.

CI takes into account the full lifecycle GHG emissions associated with a fuel: all of the steps of producing, transporting, and consuming a fuel.

[Response: Even were that true, there are a lot more GHG emissions than just transport.

Corn is among the most intensive uses of fertilizer and represents a significant opportunity for nitrogen use efficiencies that could reduce GHG emissions while maintaining or improving yields.

Chapter 3 also describes in some detail the results of long - term GHG emissions scenarios.

Addressing GHG emissions is clearly an important first step in ensuring the burden of climate change is not amplified in the future.

These prices do not include the cost of a backup for wind and solar require, or the costs in terms of human health or rising GHG emissions from fossil fuels.

As this figure shows, even without accounting for the actual GHG emissions since 1990, the warming projections are consistent with the observations, within the margin of uncertainty.

GHG emissions inventories are used by policy makers to understand sources of emissions, to develop strategies to reduce GHGs, and to track progress.

In 2012, these vehicles accounted for about 59 % of transportation GHG emissions.

The pipeline itself is meaningless, what matters, from a climate perspective, are all the additional GHG emissions that would be caused, directly and indirectly, by tar sand development.

Together, we are protecting wildlife habitat, minimizing GHG emissions and ensuring that cattle are well - treated.

The bottom line is that while achieving the necessary GHG emissions reductions and stabilization wedges will be difficult, it is possible.

Whereas widespread agreement on a gold standard remains elusive, the present study shows that the principal GHG emissions calculation methods produce consistent rankings within specific route - structure classes.

Also, if rapidly declining GHG emissions are achieved, changes of solar forcing will become relatively more important.

The company also commits to reduce supply chain GHG emissions ** by 29 % over the same time - period.