Sentences with phrase «high emitters for»
The middle group is targeted along with the high emitters for aggressive decarbonization.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
The inspiration for the technology comes from optical refrigeration, where the absorbed light is re-emitted at higher energy, thereby cooling the emitter.
But even high - efficiency ammonia plants are heavy CO2 emitters: two tons are released for every ton of ammonia produced.
«The high efficiency of the materials along with cheap, scalable synthesis makes them very attractive as next generation emitters for fluorescent lamps, LEDs and for biological imaging, for example for highlighting tumours or cell division.»
One of those users is Dane Morgan, a professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison who develops new materials for a wide range of applications, including highly active catalysts for fuel cells, stable low - work function electron emitter cathodes for high - powered microwave devices, and efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally safe solar materials.
Four of them are known colliding wind, non-thermal radio emitters, and thus constitute valuable targets for future high angular resolution radio imaging.
A high mobility semiconductor is required for the pixel electronics in an OLED display, and making this layer organic (as well as the emitter materials) is the real breakthrough as it fully enables the flexibility and industrial benefits of OLED displays.
In the previous year's annual study, the researchers found for the first time that China had become the world's leading emitter, with carbon emissions 7 percent higher by volume than the United States in 2006.
As one of the highest per capita greenhouse emitters in the world we serve as a model for countries wishing to resist action on climate change.
I doubt it's coincidental that the price is just above the reserve — that suggests the «market» expectation is that it won't be too hard to for California emitters to meet the cap, something that's uncomfortably close to the problem of the European market that has too high a cap and a collapsed market.
Countries least vulnerable to the impacts of climate change were generally the highest GHG emitters, and conversely those most vulnerable to climate change were the least responsible for its genesis.
New Zealand carbon allowance prices rose 10 cents to their highest since Mar. 1 on Thursday, the deadline day for emitters to report their 2017 GHG output.
Brazil, for example, has reduced its deforestation - related emissions by two - thirds in just six years, and Indonesia, a large emitter of global warming pollution because of high rates of deforestation, has pledged to cut overall emissions by more than 25 percent by 2020.
Critics of cap and trade point out that the very idea of the highest emitters receiving the most permits for «free» is counterintuitive, and we only have to look at the performance of the European trading system for evidence that this doesn't work.
The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.
• Cap and trade regimes keep high - cost emitters in the political game because they can reduce their emissions at low cost and thereby help minimize political opposition for climate change legislation.
However the lack of emissions reductions commitments from the U.S. for the past few years puts decisions on finance into question, since many emerging economies like China and India who have only recently become high carbon emitting countries are loath to act until historical emitters, like the U.S., make a move.
«By setting the carbon budgets too high, policymakers have inadvertently granted European emitters a license to pollute at business as usual levels for much of the next decade,» said Damien Morris from Sandbag
It would promote higher utilization of power plants that are low emitters of carbon, and encourage low - carbon fuel choices for the future.»
Indonesia, whose rapid clearing of rainforests accounts for about one - quarter of all carbon emissions from deforestation globally, has said that it will pledge to cut its emissions by 40 % from 2005 levels by 2030, if it receives international support: Currently deforestation is the source of 80 % of Indonesia's carbon emissions, and when these emissions are included in the nation's total (they aren't always, on some charts of highest emitting nations) it is in the top ten emitters — right up there with the US, China, and other industrial nations.
This would be fairer and beneficial for China, the leading current emitter and third highest emitter historically.
The 500 largest emitters will have a direct obligation to hand in permits for their emissions, but emitters below the cut - off will still face higher costs for their carbon - intensive fuels.
And given the basis of their decision — that the current parties in the protocol can not hope to set a target for emission reductions in the second commitment period high enough to compensate for the lack of a similar commitment from the world's two largest emitters — the Japanese are being consistent with hard physics of the matter.
The LG Volt is a popular 2014 smartphone that received positive reviews for its well - built frame, smooth daily operation, latest Android 4.4 OS, decent storage with microSD slot for expansion, a high capacity battery and a built - in IR emitter.