Sentences with phrase «high emissions»

Not all transport subsidies result in higher emissions of GHGs.

We need a national approach that targets low cost emissions reductions, not emissions in high emissions locations.

However, that was based on a scenario with higher emissions than actually occurred.

The revision appears to be due to higher emissions from deforestation.

Continued high emissions of heat - trapping gases increase the risk of impacts that are severe, pervasive, and irreversible.

The production of both beef cattle and dairy cows is tied to especially high emissions levels.

For this study, researchers paid particular attention to Chinese regions with high emissions intensity.

In both cases, temperatures are expected to rise, although the difference between lower and higher emissions pathways is substantial.

Other studies, some showing higher emissions, make the same case.

But there's too much evidence of its «parts bin» nature inside, while the relatively high emissions and steep price also count against it.

It will become exceedingly difficult to keep warming below a target smaller than 2 °C, if high emissions continue much longer.

Increased cooling means increased consumption of electrical power and therefore higher emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, driving global warming even faster.

How is it possible for a modern diesel vehicle to display such high emissions on the roads?

Lower emissions of heat - trapping gases and particles mean less future warming and less - severe impacts; higher emissions mean more warming and more severe impacts.

The best estimates of the increase in global temperatures range from 1.8 to 4.0 degrees C for the various emission scenarios, with higher emissions leading to higher temperatures.

On other flights, the team actually measured higher emissions, but the atmospheric conditions gave the data more uncertainty.

The issue is that concurrent with the pause in temperatures are extremely high emissions — one third of all human emissions having occurred since 1998.

For instance, if 100 companies release higher emissions than they had planned for, they all have to buy more credits, which can create a very expensive bidding war.

The researchers then ran their ice sheet model to simulate how the glaciers responded to global temperature rise under a medium - high emissions scenario.

This results in the use of transport above its equilibrium value and most of the time also results in higher emissions, although this depends on the type of subsidy.

Higher emissions levels will result in more warming, and thus more severe impacts on human society and the natural world.

In all cases, temperatures are expected to rise, although the difference between lower and higher emissions pathways is substantial.

The project contributes to a cleaner energy supply in the region, which is still largely dominated by coal - fired plants with high emissions.

It will become exceedingly difficult to keep warming below a target smaller than 2 °C, if high emissions continue much longer.

This means that new coal, and therefore higher emissions, is potentially being locked into future energy infrastructure.

Mountainous areas will face glacier retreat, reduced snow cover and winter tourism, and extensive species losses (in some areas up to 60 % under high emission scenarios by 2080).

The US and the rest of rich world on the other hand have very high emissions per capita and have been emitting billions of tonnes of CO2 per year for decades.

Median projections of global mean sea level over the course of this century for low, median, and high emissions futures.

One outcome emphasised by experts is that if society continues on the current high emissions trajectory, cold water coral reefs, located in the deep sea, may be unsustainable and tropical coral reef erosion is likely to outpace reef building this century.

However continued high emissions causing changes in sea - surface temperatures and oxygen levels are likely to disrupt many ecosystems protected by MPAs.

There are also very high emissions from deforestation and also some emissions from soils as the new farmland is degraded.

By comparison, the coal deposits in the West are largely subbituminous coals, which have relatively high emission factors.

«In the absence of meaningful climate policy, higher baseline growth scenarios likely imply higher emissions growth around the world.

The higher proportion and lower productivity of ruminants in organic agriculture may, however, lead to slightly higher emissions of CH4.

If we continue on our current high emissions trajectory the world will have no chance of staying under the 2C threshold that the federal government has committed to.

Without a broad GHG policy in place, there is no reason to expect that oilsands products would not be replaced with even higher emissions sources of oil.

«The revision seems to be based on higher emissions from deforestation,» says Vieweg.

Howarth says his latest calculations show that the type of shale gas drilling taking place in parts of Texas, New York and Pennsylvania leads to particularly high emissions and would likely be just as dirty as coal.

The technical expert meeting on renewable energy supply built on the recommendations and findings resulting from the renewable energy TEM held in March 2014, and focused on the most promising and feasible policies and options for renewable energy supply that could be implemented and scaled up to achieve high emission reductions in the pre-2020 period; in particular, distributed generation and policy and financial incentives, such as feed - in tariffs.

The sunken «living room» is lined with tables fashioned from reclaimed wood from a farm in Arkansas, as well as a 12 - person communal table built from the tractor tread of a decommissioned CAT Excavator, in honor of the State of California's effort to reduce high emissions from old equipment.