Sentences with phrase «harmful emissions per»

Furthermore, if an «apples to apples» comparison was done for hydrocarbon consumption and the resulting greenhouse emissions, Nano would be found to be almost at par with the two wheelers, and would actually pull down the amount of harmful emissions per passenger per kilometer travelled.

Not exact matches

The two meals were a meat free and a non meat free dish, whose ingredients were respectively 30 and 15 per cent less costly in terms of harmful emissions than those of an average meal.

While the bilateral deal falls short of the EU's commitment to a 40 per cent reduction in harmful greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, experts have said it will «inject a jolt of momentum» in advance of climate talks to be held in Paris next year.

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

In fact, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon University, following the USDA recommendations to consume more fruits, vegetables, dairy and seafood is more harmful to the environment because those foods have relatively high resource uses and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per calorie.

«Solar not only meets this peak need at a lower per kilowatt - hour cost, but also without the harmful emissions from running a power plant on standby (or fracking its fuel out of the ground),» he writes.

Annual emissions of harmful air pollutants such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter will also increase by tens of thousands of tonnes, with potential social costs of USD170 million per year.