Sentences with phrase «high carbon emissions»

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

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.

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

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

Men tend to have higher carbon emissions because they eat more meat and drive larger vehicles.

Because most of our energy has historically come from fossil fuels, rising economic growth has gone hand in hand with higher carbon emissions.

Production of high carbon emission should not get rewarded through carbon trading.

Agrofuels» «green» image is a myth: there is clear evidence that agrofuels result in higher carbon emissions than normal petrol and diesel.

The Berlin - based think tank Agora Energiewende is only one of a large number of organizations that estimated higher carbon emissions from the German power sector based on an uptick in final energy (electricity) from fossil fuel.

But it is saddling ordinary Britons with uncompetitive energy prices, lost jobs, rising fuel poverty, spoiled landscapes — and higher carbon emissions too.»

Experts say high carbon emission and its concentration in the atmosphere is triggering more localised rain

One possibility, Rodrigues suggests, could be to create a provision in the next international climate - change treaty requiring wealthy countries with high carbon emissions to pay Brazilians for the environmental benefits of keeping their forests standing.

MAGICC was one of the programs used in the 3rd UN IPCC Assessment on climate change, and it was designed to model CO2 for scenarios with much higher carbon emissions than our Producer - Limited Profile, including each of the 40 UN IPCC scenarios, which all have higher emissions.

The announcement does not mean that the state has completely divested from companies that produce high carbon emissions.

«We can not cope with that in a throw - away culture of high carbon emissions and profligate use of resources,» says Howard.

A separate study, published in Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, found that Brazilian mega-dams flooded far larger areas than projected in the dams» environmental impact assessments, resulting in higher carbon emissions and economic losses.

Agora has made quite a splash with its «Energiewende Paradox» (meaning that the Energiewende is leading to higher carbon emissions from the power sector), but the real paradox is that no one is reporting that carbon emissions from the power sector are down.

However, governments» responses to climate change — such as COP21 — could cripple firms with high carbon emissions.

In fact, diesel has both higher carbon emissions and carcinogenic fine particles, the form of invisible pollution from which France is currently suffering a major spike.

However, its popularity has driven a rapidly expanding industry that has been linked with deforestation, high carbon emissions, displacement of local communities and threats to endangered species such as the orang - utan, Sumatran tiger and sunbear.

The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Davey, is arguing that airport expansion may not lead to higher carbon emissions - given new technology and more efficient planes.

«Our model assumes «business as usual» in the province, with high carbon emissions and climate change continuing at the current rate.

The findings confirmed the previous rough estimates that releasing large amounts of sulfates can reverse some impacts of higher carbon emissions.

Unfounded health fears mean Europe is on the brink of banning the herbicide, risking greater soil damage and higher carbon emissions

I believe that the ozone hole and high carbon emissions are not the main cause of any warming trend.

And those harms are not only the physical ones arising from higher carbon emissions but the damage that reneging will do to the entire network.

So to comply with the state's decarbonization rules PG&E agreed to shut down a zero - emissions plant and replace it with a mix of gas and renewables with much higher carbon emissions.

But we need to act now, because each power station, city or transport system built without the climate in mind is a guarantee that high carbon emissions will continue for decades, unless we invest in the even higher cost of replacing it.

This side - by - side animation shows the difference between a lower carbon emissions future and a higher carbon emissions future.

In fact, the MTV SWITCH campaign launched yesterday aims to target people between the ages of 15 to 25 who happen to live in countries with high carbon emissions.