Sentences with phrase «global transportation sector»

Our clients include many of the leading organisations in the global transportation sector including almost every major transportation finance bank, leading lessors and aviation, rail and shipping companies.

Also, deforestation is a great source of greenhouse gas emissions than the entire global transportation sector.

According to Rainforest Action Network, «Worldwide, tropical deforestation contributes as many emissions to climate change as those from the global transportation sector.

Forest loss contributes as much as 12 - 15 % to annual greenhouse gas emissions, about the same as the entire global transportation sector.

That's roughly comparable to the entire global transportation sector — including every car, truck, bus, plane and ship in the world — which emits roughly 15 percent.

«Deforestation and forest degradation, through agricultural expansion, conversion to pastureland, infrastructure development, destructive logging, fires etc. account for nearly 20 % of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire global transportation sector and second only to the energy sector.»

• BIOTECHNOLOGY The livestock business accounts for about 18 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions — an even larger contribution than the global transportation sector, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.

It's more than the total global transportation sector that's produced by the livestock industry.

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The global smart transportation sector is expected to grow to US$ 138 billion by 2020, up from US$ 46 billion this year, at a compound annual growth rate of 24 %, according to analysis firm Markets and Markets.

Safaricom is partnering with PayPal to boost its e-commerce capabilities in Kenya, solidifying its footing not just as a mobile phone business but as a global company with diversified interests in sectors including healthcare, transportation, and music.

The global dairy sector contributes 4 % to global GHG emissions with an estimated 2.7 % coming from global milk production, processing, and transportation, according to a report conducted by the FAO in 2007.

It is in Italy's strategic interest to keep political attention high also on the manufacturing, mechanical, and transportation sectors, where the country holds a global competitive advantage.

At present, emissions of the transportation sector already account for 23 % of global energy - related CO2 emissions.

reported in the journal «Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenGlobal Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenglobal emission scenarios.

The transportation sector makes up approximately 23 percent of all global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions, of which road transport is the largest and fastest - growing portion.

Were that to happen, emissions would be as high as the entire transportation sector, which takes up 14 % of global greenhouse emissions, currently dominated by pollution from cars and trucks.

For example, Holmstead referenced a section in the draft that estimates that about 1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the U.S. transportation sector.

Of course, one prototype plant won't save the planet, but the facility is attracting global attention because it may prove especially useful for solving a key piece of the world's carbon conundrum: the heavy - transportation sector.

A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

According to an assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, «the contribution of the livestock sector to global greenhouse gas emissions exceeds that of transportation,» and a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimated the impact of a global move to a plant - based diet could reduce global mortality by 6 to 10 percent and reduce food - related greenhouse gas emissions by 29 to 70 percent.

Previously, he held various other roles at Fidelity, including health care sector leader / portfolio manager of Select Health Care Fund, Select Pharmaceuticals Fund, and Select Biotechnology Fund from 2005 to 2006, analyst / portfolio manager of Select Transportation Fund and Select Air Transportation Fund from 2003 to 2004, and technology sector leader / analyst covering information technology hardware at Fidelity International Limited from 2000 to 2003, during which he also managed Fidelity Global Technology Fund.

-- Climate impacts: global temperatures, ice cap melting, ocean currents, ENSO, volcanic impacts, tipping points, severe weather events — Environment impacts: ecosystem changes, disease vectors, coastal flooding, marine ecosystem, agricultural system — Government actions: US political views, world - wide political views, carbon tax / cap - and - trade restrictions, state and city efforts — Reducing GHGs: + electric power systems: fossil fuel use, conservation, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, tidal, other + transportation sector: conservation, mass transit, high speed rail, air travel, auto / truck (mileage issues, PHEVs, EVs, biofuels, hydrogen) + architectural structure design: home / office energy use, home / office conservation, passive solar, other

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

In order to understand the potential to save energy through U.S. freight system efficiency improvements, we compare the findings of five studies (three U.S. transportation sector studies and two global supply chain studies) of freight energy savings opportunities.

If one nation desires to keep its total emissions below its fair share of safe global emissions by keeping their transportation sector low while having slightly larger emissions from their manufacturing sector, most theories of international responsibility would give that nation some choice on how it would achieve its international GHG obligations.

Renewable energy is making impressive gains in the electricity sector, although these are not being matched in transportation and heating — which together account for 80 % of global energy consumption.

The transportation sector is a major contributor to black carbon emissions and was responsible for 19 % of global black carbon emissions in 2000, contributing to 3.2 million deaths per year.

Meat and dairy generate more global greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector, yet reducing the consumption of animal products through institutional purchasing remains a largely untapped yet highly effective, cost - saving approach to mitigating climate change while promoting public health.

In addition, diverse sectors such as wild - capture fisheries, aquaculture, offshore energy, deep sea mining, marine transportation, and coastal tourism are expanding to meet growing global demand.

The CEM Electric Vehicle Initiative (EVI) recognizes the importance of reducing carbon emissions in the transportation sector, which account for almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and is one of the fastest - growing energy end use sectors.

Tropical deforestation and disturbance are a leading source of global greenhouse gas emissions, contributing about the same share as the transportation sector.

In a new report, «Biofuels for Transportation Markets», Navigant Research forecasts that global demand for biofuels in the road transportation sector will grow from representing almost 6 % of the liquid fuels market in 2013 to roughlTransportation Markets», Navigant Research forecasts that global demand for biofuels in the road transportation sector will grow from representing almost 6 % of the liquid fuels market in 2013 to roughltransportation sector will grow from representing almost 6 % of the liquid fuels market in 2013 to roughly 8 % by 2022.

It has adopted some of the strongest legislation in Oceania to fight global warming, «making it compulsory for state sectors, including those responsible for the environment, disaster management, transportation, infrastructure, health, education and finance, to mainstream climate adaptation in all policies and action plans,» according to the Inter Press Service.

In other words, with US emissions at about 25 % of global GHG emissions, elimiating gasoline from the US transportation sector would cut global emissions by about 2 percent.

This new milestone exploring the use of clean energy in one of the largest transportation sectors could mean positive impacts on the global goal to reduce CO2 emissions.

In a report released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, it states that cattle rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector.

And we still lack proven low - carbon technologies for huge carbon intensive sectors of the global economy such as transportation and heavy industry.

• Transportation (13 % of 2004 global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily involve fossil fuels burned for road, rail, air, and marine tTransportation (13 % of 2004 global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily involve fossil fuels burned for road, rail, air, and marine transportationtransportation.

The electrification of the transportation sector can also help a lot with air quality issues, especially if the power grid is being cleaned up in parallel (something that we have to do for all kinds of reasons, including global warming).

Transportation, Industry, Agriculture, and Land Use and Forestry are four global emission sectors that roughly correspond to the U.S. sectors.