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Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

Since 2015, the World Bank, via Anita Marangoly George, former senior director of Global Practice on Energy and Extractive Industries, has pushed to eliminate «a huge amount of greenhouse gas, equivalent to the emissions of 77 million cars,» by 2030.

This produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars and trucks combined.

That means setting standards that encourage the new technologies, such as a promised renewable fuels standard, aimed at encouraging ways to ensure fuel consumers like cars and furnaces produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

This is a direct result of the greenhouse gases produced by vehicles like cars.

If everyone could fill a car of four people, this would mean four times fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

But the livestock sector is responsible for about 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, through cows producing methane and production processes - comparable to all the direct emissions from cars, planes, ships and other transport.

Several other administration policies are likely to have a greater impact on global greenhouse - gas emissions, including the Environmental Protection Agency's rule to limit carbon emissions from new power plants and its first - ever carbon limits on cars and light trucks.

Last - mile electric vehicle sharing company will help cities get cars off the road, curb traffic and greenhouse gas emissions

The reduction in greenhouse gas emissions was the equivalent of driving a car around the world over 14,000 times.

• Greenhouse - gas emissions to produce uneaten turkey equal 800,000 car trips from New York to San Francisco, Gunders found.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that if compost were applied over 5 % of the state's grazing lands, the soil could capture a year's worth of greenhouse gas emissions from California's farm and forestry industries, or the equivalent of removing 6 million cars from the road.

We provided technical assistance to a group of coffee farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico, who launched an agroforestry project to remove 130,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions (the annual emissions of 27,000 cars) from the atmosphere over 30 years through reforestation of degraded land.

The digester has significantly reduced methane emissions by over 1,600 metric tons of CO2e each year — equivalent to eliminating the annual greenhouse gas emissions from about 350 passenger cars.

I read recently in a study that was in the newspaper, that just ONE forest fire in CA makes more greenhouse gas than all of the cars, trucks, trains, factories, pollution, etc combined.

The Trump administration is expected to launch an effort in coming days to weaken greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for automobiles, handing a victory to car manufacturers and giving them ammunition to potentially roll back industry standards worldwide.

The bill mandates in law that New York fully transition to clean energy by 2050 by tasking state agencies with creating plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, not just in our power plants, but in our cars and buildings too.

To put these numbers in perspective, the amount of carbon dioxide the state would need to reduce, to make up for Indian Point's closure, is the equivalent of the annual greenhouse - gas emissions of more than 2.4 million passenger cars.

It is expected to save more than $ 2.7 million in annual energy costs and remove more than 25,600 tons of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere each year, the equivalent to taking more than 4,900 cars off the road, according to Cuomo's office.

Electric car sales have increased in the last year, but experts disagree over how significant the role of electric cars is in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Some experts, including Robert Bryce, are skeptical electric cars are a viable option for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Erie County and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority («NYSERDA») have announced the development of a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan for internal county operations which is expected to save more than $ 700,000 in energy costs and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 5,300 metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2020, equivalent to taking 925 cars off the road.

Without green taxes to shift our cars to lower emission models, and to limit the growth of aircraft greenhouse gas emissions, no climate change policy is worth the name.

The report is expected to cause a furore among environmental groups, which supported the fuel duty escalator as a way to limit the greenhouse gas emissions from car use.

Rising greenhouse gases from cars and trucks have hampered carbon - cutting ambitions in the Pacific Northwest, which boasts one of the cleanest power grids in the country.

Gases used in surgical anesthesia contribute the greenhouse gas equivalent of a million cars.

Preliminary estimates indicate the converted farm prevents the production of greenhouse gases equivalent to 5,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year — like taking some 1,000 cars off the road.

A study by the alliance, a nonprofit group supported by the banking industry, claims that if just 2 percent of American households switched from paper to electronic billing, more than 180,000 trees would be spared and greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by the equivalent to taking 32,572 cars off the road.

That provision led to this year's federal rule requiring 54.5 mpg by 2025, a tremendous victory that will cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks in half by 2025 and reduce emissions by 6 billion metric tons.

Ruling in a suit brought by Massachusetts over the regulation of car emissions, the court said that the EPA has the authority to regulate such climate - destabilizing greenhouse gases as carbon dioxide — something the agency had denied.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the use of landfill - gas - to - energy projects reduces greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of taking 16 million passenger cars off the road.

What are the options for decreasing demand for oil and lowering greenhouse gas emissions in cars and light trucks?

The President's program will accelerate increases in fuel economy and impose the first - ever national greenhouse gas emission standards on cars and trucks

«At first it may seem counterintuitive that making cars electric will help us limit greenhouse gases,» Stein says.

If we could pull carbon out of the air and use it to wean cars off fossil fuels, that would go a long way toward reducing humankind's production of greenhouse gases without impeding technological progress.

Its impact on climate, the authors say, will be equivalent to the effect of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from over half a million cars.

On a life - cycle basis, FCVs running on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a gasoline - powered car.

The EPA suggests that recycling in the U.S. reduces the same amount of greenhouse gas pollution as taking more than 38 million cars off the road.

On the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change.

Even stepping up from the Volvo V70 to a car that gets an extra two miles a gallon avoids about a ton of greenhouse - gas emissions annually.

Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.

My car annually produces 26,000 pounds of greenhouse - gas emissions — more than two killer whales» worth of pollution.

The good news is that roughly 33 percent of the American production of all greenhouse gases, or the equivalent of 17,422 pounds of CO2 per person, comes from sources under our direct control — our cars and houses.

Automated systems that would let cars travel in tight packs would cut drag and therefore fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, highway congestion and road noise.

On Tuesday, the governments of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.

Notably, California and 11 other states had been seeking waivers from the EPA permitting them to pass laws requiring reduced car emissions of greenhouse gases from the 2009 model year onward.

An all - electric Nissan Leaf in Buffalo, N.Y., emits relatively few greenhouse gases, equal to the amount produced by a gasoline - powered car getting 86 mpg.

In sum: The U.S. emits more greenhouse gases from cars than most countries do from all pollution sources.

Patrick Plötz, Fraunhofer ISI, emphasizes: «Plug - in hybrid vehicles represent a good addition to battery electric cars in order to meet the goal of reducing greenhouse gases.

But so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of new wind turbines for each turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of new solar cell arrays for every array in use today.