Sentences with phrase «high carbon»

According to this, many firms are already looking at high carbon prices to guide investment decisions.

And with the trend for longer fire seasons likely to continue, wildfires could create a positive feedback loop of higher carbon emissions from the land, the paper concludes.

Through carbon trade, countries with higher carbon emissions could purchase emission permit from those with lower emissions or even negative emissions.

Whether they could survive both a sustained rise in temperatures and the increasing acidification of the oceans that goes with higher carbon dioxide levels is another matter.

For example, we have captured that forests have much higher carbon content than farmland, and that farms using conservation techniques contain more carbon than those using conventional practice.

If we put higher carbon taxes in place, not only would it encourage conservation, but it would directly discourage «alternative» energy that relies heavily on fossil fuels.

There was also a switch to lower - priced natural gas, from higher carbon emitting coal, for electricity generation, which helped in pulling the numbers down.

One potentially significant environmental benefit is the capacity to shift passengers away from aviation, a mode of transport with much higher carbon intensity.

The point is made of high carbon steel and it's razor sharp.

This is a relatively large CO2 reduction for the amount of energy saved because electric power generation is an inefficient process that makes use of a lot of high carbon fuel (coal).

The results show that under high carbon dioxide levels, the bugs ate 88 per cent more leaf material than under current levels.

In the end, products with high carbon costs won't be competitive in the market place.

Under the current approach these would lock economies and the planet into a costly high carbon future and undermine a green new deal that could pave the way out of economic recession.

This is because the downturn had affected investments into unsustainable high carbon technologies much more significantly than investment in renewable energies, which have been less badly hit and quicker to recover.

This initiative highlights the opportunity to redirect this capital, rather than it being wasted on high carbon assets that could become stranded.

Governments talk far too much about setting a relatively high carbon tax on emissions while focusing far too little on ensuring a meaningful increase in research and development to bring about necessary breakthroughs.

Animal products generally use larger amounts of resources and energy than various other plant - based foods, plus produce higher carbon emissions.

Surprisingly, population dense suburbs have significantly higher carbon footprints than less dense suburbs.

High carbon fossil fuels - in particular tar sands, the most destructive and carbon intensive source of oil - have no place in our future or in our economy.

Some land will be abandoned and without interference will revert to more complex, diverse higher carbon state.

If there is high carbon build up, the throttle body will need to be cleaned.

Warming is expected to affect the carbon cycle, resulting in even higher carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, but the magnitude of this is uncertain.

However, where that is true, CCS would be the option deployed by firms in the face of a sufficiently high carbon price.

These design choices include materials like reinforced high carbon steel analog stick necks, aircraft grade aluminum triggers, and palm grips that can be removed as desired.

In other words, there is billions of public and private money to make a very energy intensive, high carbon transport system that simply does not work.

This will be achieved through a combination of high carbon trading and offset; the use of sustainable fuel such as from waste and fuel - burn reduction through a more efficient aircraft fleet.

It also means that you can enjoy a balanced high carbon steel knife without having to worry about rust.

Model projections conducted by other studies expect much higher carbon release rates — from 100 to 900 times greater — for its release during the upcoming 90 years.

Study participants were exposed to moderately high carbon dioxide levels in other tests, which usually increases the breathing rate and depth.

This protects American families no matter how high carbon prices go.

This shifted about two decades ago, when high carbon producers hired the same public relations team that worked with big tobacco companies.

But that, the commission says, would require stronger action through other policies and instruments and perhaps higher carbon prices later as well, and might increase the total cost of the change.

On the other hand, a comparatively high carbon tax would lead to increased demand for allowances and higher prices in the cap - and - trade jurisdiction.

It is odd to look at my state, MT, and see the fairly high carbon intensity and think about the clean power plan requirement for us that is quite high.

Transportation measures generally contribute a higher percentage to emissions reductions than to energy use reductions due to the relatively high carbon content of most transportation fuels.

Each new piece of infrastructure that fails to do that leaves us locked in to high carbon emissions for decades.

Higher carbon prices mean a bigger incentive to cut emissions.

We're not being offered a «high carbon future» because none of the political parties have any idea about how to deliver optimistic plans.

This is consistent with higher carbon dioxide concentrations reducing the nutritional quality of the plant material and stimulating increased feeding.

We're going to get to the point where we ask how the hell we put up with high carbon for so many years.

The blade is flexible and made of surgical grade, high carbon stainless steel.

The taps and dies in this set are made of high carbon steel, which means they'll last you for as long as you need.

I'll add this: during some times when the oceans became more acidic because of high carbon in the atmosphere — there was a huge mass extinction event.