Sentences with phrase «higher carbon emissions»

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

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

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.

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.

First, we are richest, second we have much higher carbon emissions per capita and third, we put the CO2 in the atmosphere in the first place.

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.

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

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

Well - off people will be able to pay the higher prices, and the 50 - 70 % of people who will gain financially (dividend $ > higher prices) will have more money to spend, likely leading to higher carbon emissions or surely not as much reduction as predicted.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

In the long run I don't think we will succeed in getting transportation of oil by trying to stop oil production on a site - by - site basis, we are going to have to put a high price on transportation fuels that have high carbon emissions and get much more serious about driving energy innovation they can get the transportation system off carbon.

While industrial stacks belch greenhouse gases, and holiday - makers everywhere race crazily around in cars, boats and planes — total mentions of «climate change», «global warming» and «record - high carbon emissions» in press stories relating to major fires now burning in three provinces, Alaska and Siberia...?

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

The main reason the US ranks so poorly on carbon dioxide emissions is because its per - person consumption rate of electricity is so high; all of that energy comes primarily from fossil fuels.

Comparing the capital and operating costs of various forms of energy — even factoring in US$ 50 a tonne for carbon emissions (a higher rate than is currently levied by any North American state or province)-- natural gas comes out as a clear winner.

«We can in fact help other parts of the world reduce their greenhouse gas emissions dramatically by providing them with lower - carbon fuels in other parts of the world where they are using very high - carbon fuels like coal.»

But the carbon tariff would actually offset what amounts to a subsidy for Canadian consumers buying from low - cost but high - emission producers.

So, if one does want to lower emissions, the choice is not between a carbon price and nothing, but between a carbon price and regulations, technology subsidies, higher - cost renewable energy, or the long list of other tools.

New figures from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center have found that carbon emissions likely hit their highest levels ever in 2010 (the numbers are partially preliminary estimates).

Mr Gulland added, «Zero Waste Scotland looks forward to continuing with this work to design the most effective deposit return system for Scotland, which will provide opportunities to reduce carbon emissions and create jobs through high - quality recycling.»

The plant is able to produce high - quality sustainable coffee with an increased capsule collection recycling capacity and reduced carbon emissions.

Study into carbon tax on high - emissions food finds people would be more likely to eat less meat if they had to pay more for it

As the price of food goes higher and higher and we worry more and more about where our food comes from, organic vs. conventional (pesticide - laden), genetically - modified organisms, carbon emissions and climate change, it makes sense to me to try to grow some of our own food.

The CRC Scheme was designed to improve energy efficiency and cut carbon dioxide emissions in private and public sector organisations that are high energy users.

The government must impose higher taxes on gas - guzzling cars and on flights to cut carbon emissions, MPs warn today.

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.

Despite a series of high - profile cancellations, projects to capture and store the carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and other sources are under construction

The rate of carbon emissions to the atmosphere is arguably the highest in 66 million years, when the (non-avian) dinosaurs slipped off this mortal coil.

A recent report found that high - speed rail in the Midwest would reduce air travel by 1.3 million trips and car travel by 5.1 million trips per year by 2020, saving 188,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions (equivalent to taking 34,000 cars off the road while still getting everyone to and from work).

In the new study, McGuire and his colleagues used simulations to study changes in permafrost and carbon storage in the northern permafrost region from 2010 to 2299 using two climate change scenarios: One with low carbon dioxide emissions and one with high carbon dioxide emissions.

The CPP will require a 32 percent cut in utility - sector carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, with some states seeing reduction requirements as high as 45 to 47 percent.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

In the «Continued Effort» scenario, China's carbon emissions would not level off until around 2040, ten years later than in the «Accelerated Effort» scenario, and at a level 20 percent higher.

«The deposition of compounds such as sugars and organic acids from living roots can increase the activity of bacteria and fungi, and it's this increase in activity that accelerates the decomposition of carbon in the soil, leading to higher CO2 emissions,» Sulman said.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but using gas to produce power could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

Black - carbon emissions from newer stoves, designed to be safer, were higher than those from traditional fire hearths, a new study finds

Record emissions of carbon dioxide mean atmospheric concentrations have reached levels that lead to the highest temperature increases

These conflicts have stalled some high - profile projects despite the fact that renewable energy sources do not produce heat - trapping emissions of carbon dioxides, the primary greenhouse gas driving global warming.

States that use coal power, such as Wyoming, West Virginia and Kentucky, have the highest carbon dioxide emissions.