Sentences with phrase «global pollution combined»

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Shipping and aviation combined account for only an estimated five percent of global CO2 pollution.

Destruction of these carbon - rich, biodiverse forests causes about 20 percent of global climate pollution — more than the emissions from all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world combined.

1) Minimize global warming pollution 2) Combine bioenergy with efficiency, conservation, and smart growth 3) Protect public health 4) Promote ecologically sound bioenergy systems 5) Ensure bioenergy developments expand economic opportunity

Combined with the US coal industry's efforts to boost exports, subsidized US coal could have a similar impact abroad, undermining global efforts to reduce carbon pollution.

The project would be the first LNG export facility ever built so close to so many homes, the first built in close proximity to Marcellus Shale fracking operations, and a potential trigger of more global warming pollution than all seven of Maryland's existing coal - fired power plants combined.

These tax credits can pay enormous dividends at low cost: by helping reduce tropical deforestation, they'll cut the source of 15 of global carbon pollution, more than all the cars, trucks, ships, and planes in the world combined.

On a global scale, deforestation accounts for as much as 17 percent of global carbon pollution — roughly 50 percent more than the entire world's air, road, rail, and shipping traffic combined.

He added that even if the EPA were forced to regulate greenhouse gases, it would target emissions from coal - fired power plants and then vehicles — which combined account for about half of the nation's global - warming pollution — before requiring smaller operations to apply for new emissions permits.

The combined costs of pollution, ecosystem depletion, and health impacts amount to almost $ 3 trillion annually for global companies, and if businesses had to pay for these costs, profits would be reduced to zero.