Not exact matches
Norman Baker MP, Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for
Transport gave the keynote address and outlined that the Department for
Transport's
high level targets were creating growth and reducing the
carbon output.
«We have secured investment to allow us to go ahead with important projects such as
high speed rail, support for ultra-low
carbon cars and major road - building and public
transport programmes.»
Higher taxes on domestic flights and improved public
transport are needed if Britain is to cut
carbon emissions by 80 per cent before 2050, a Conservative policy group has said.
Michael Replogle of ITDP, a co-author of the report «A Global
High Shift Scenario», said
transport, driven by a rapid growth in car use, had been the fastest growing source of
carbon dioxide emissions in the world.
The material that we have developed utilises
high - quality
carbon nanotubes grown at a
high density to allow electrical
transport throughout the composite material.»
«We have found that the resulting nano networks possess exceptional ability to
transport charges, up to 100 million times
higher than previously measured
carbon nanotube random networks produced by conventional methods,» says Dr David Barbero, leader of the project and assistant professor at the Department of Physics at Umeå University.
For instance,
carbon dioxide enables energy storage by reacting with hydrogen gas — called the hydrogenation process — transforming the mixture into
higher energy liquid compounds such as methanol that can be easily
transported and used as fuel for cars.
To provide
high breathability, the new composite material takes advantage of the unique
transport properties of
carbon nanotube pores.
Due to the
high cost of capturing,
transporting, and sequestering
carbon dioxide, EPA expects that any new coal fired power plants built in the foreseeable future will defray the costs of CCS by selling its
carbon dioxide to oil companies, which can use the gas to help extract oil by displacing liquid fuels deep underground, in a process known as CO2 enhanced oil recovery (or CO2 - EOR).
One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO
CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local v
CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE
TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate loca
TRANSPORT Zero
carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local v
carbon emissions from
transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate loca
transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the
carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local v
carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public
transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate loca
transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying
high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.
The report argues for a strong GEF role in such emerging sectors with
high mitigation potential as urban systems combining
transport, buildings, water supply, waste treatment, food supply and land use zoning, AFOLU (Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and
carbon capture and storage.
One potentially significant environmental benefit is the capacity to shift passengers away from aviation, a mode of
transport with much
higher carbon intensity.
In developing and emerging economies, slowing the rate of growth of using conventional
transport modes with relatively
high ‐
carbon emissions for passenger and freight
transport by providing affordable, lowcarbon options could play an important role in achieving global mitigation targets.
Despite often
high rates of erosion and sediment
transport, the riverbed can hold organic
carbon for 500 to 17,000 [continue reading...]
Now when you've got the
highest -
carbon petroleum on the planet and it's bloody expensive to extract, upgrade, dilute,
transport and refine in some distant land, what does that add up to?
A
high enough
carbon price would incentivise more efficiency and level the playing field for other, less polluting means of
transport, such as railways, thus reducing overall 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.
Theoretically, he says, we could produce all the electricity we need, with 90 % less
carbon emissions, with a combination of scrubbed natural gas burning generators and wind energy from
high - wind regime areas
transported through
high voltage direct current lines.
And then we circle around to the
carbon footprint again; the cost of
transporting and storing the Tropicana NFC juice is probably five times as
high as frozen concentrate, now almost entirely Brazilian, and a lot
higher than recon, or reconstituted concentrate, the one for the person too lazy to add water.
Forcing from black
carbon deposited on snow is a partial exception to this rule; it is concentrated at
high latitudes, from which heat is less readily
transported elsewhere.