Sentences with phrase «if overall emissions»

The article points out that according to research conducted by a variety of institutions, the temperature goals set forth in the Paris Agreement will be unattainable if overall emissions are not decreased.

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CEO Steve Williams said Suncor has asked the Alberta government to allow it to «strand» some of its oilsands reserves if they're too expensive to produce, or if they'd add too greatly to the intensity levels of its overall greenhouse gas emissions.

Overall, our research shows that the Midwest region faces significant climate risks to its agricultural sector if we stay on our current greenhouse gas emissions pathway, but that these risks vary markedly by state, county, and even specific crop.

Overall, our research shows that California faces significant climate risks to its commodity crop output if we stay on our current greenhouse gas emissions pathway, but that these risks are extremely crop - and location - specific.

Even if 60 % of agriculture would convert to organic farming, concentrated feed were reduced by 50 % and food waste by 50 %, it would result in a food system with significantly decreased environmental impacts, including lower overall greenhouse gas emissions, and only a marginal increase in agricultural land area.

If solar energy were to make up 10 per cent of the country's electricity mix, this difference would add an extra 0.23 per cent to overall grid emissions in the US — a small but significant amount.

«If we use the storage as the means to foster the adoption of significantly more renewables that offset the dirtiest sources, then storage — done the right way and installed at large - scale — can have beneficial impacts on the grid's emissions overall,» Webber said.

If not, such so - called offsets aren't displacing the emissions from fossil fuel burning, they're simply adding more electricity to the overall system.

«If you went back to 1850 and repeated history» — meaning the same volcanic eruptions, the same solar variability, the same greenhouse gas emissions — «the overall temperature increase would be about the same, but you would end up with somewhat different temperature records due to the inherent randomness in the climate.»

So to find out if plug - ins really do reduce overall emissions of CO2, researchers at NRDC and EPRI used a computer model to project the overall emissions from the cars and the power plants.

By suggesting that approval should be given only if the pipeline does not cause an overall increase in emissions, Obama is likely to set off a new fight over those numbers.

In theory, if a city or region has policies that encourage biking instead of driving, the researchers should be able to see the change in consumption patterns, with less car fuel consumed and fewer vehicles overall and a drop in consumption - based transport emissions, she said.

If Americans in the highest - impact group shifted their diets to align with the U.S. average — by consuming fewer overall calories and relying less on meat — the one - day greenhouse - gas emissions reduction would be equivalent to eliminating 661 million passenger - vehicle miles, according to the researchers.

Suggestions of an overall decrease in pressure inside the volcano, and if a drop in ash and gas emissions continues, the situation will be reviewed and alert level may be downgraded.

Therefore, if you keep increasing forcing, yes the «Planck emissions» will also keep increasing but always ending in higher overall temperatures.

Computer modeling of the NRDC plan, which used the same model used by the EPA, suggests that if the EPA does follow this approach, the US could see a 26 percent cut in power plant emissions — and an overall reduction in the US carbon footprint of 10 percent by 2020 — the largest share of achieving the 17 percent reduction the president has called for.

«Use of full or partial CCS technology should not be part of the BSER [best system of emissions reduction] for existing EGUs [electricity generating units] because it would be more expensive than the measures determined to be part of the BSER, particularly if applied broadly to the overall source category.»

Viet Nam has agreed to reduce 8 % of its GHG emissions (adding up to about 25 % if international support is to be received), and to increase forest cover to an overall level of 45 % of the total land area.

If the overall cap for any year is set below the level of emissions last year, on a downward trajectory compatible with stabilizing concentrations at a safe level, reserving some credits for new entrants would force other firms to bid for fewer permits, raising prices and increasing the number of mitigation activities that are worth undertaking.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

Yet the American coal industry, which pumps 2 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year and contributes more than one - third of the nation's overall greenhouse gas emissions, is nothing if not resilient.

In general, if the cumulative emissions over the duration of the emissions floor are small compared with the overall emissions, then the floor is not particularly important.

But if the LDV became redundant through modal shift to public and non ‐ motorized transport, the overall emission reductions could only be counted once.

Friends of the Earth believes that if the EU allows the aviation sector to grow according to its forecasts, it will find it politically impossible to achieve the overall cut in CO2 emissions needed.

How much of a problem is delayed participation by developing countries in terms of raising the overall burden of global mitigation costs, and what does this imply for appropriate near - term emissions pricing goals for the United States, if eventual targets for global stabilization are still to be met?

-- Muller believes humans are changing climate with CO2 emissions — humans have been responsible for «most» of a 0.4 C warming since 1957, almost none of the warming before then — IPCC is in trouble due to sloppy science, exaggerated predictions; chairman will have to resign — the «Climategate» mails were not «hacked» — they were «leaked» by an insider — due to «hide the decline» deception, Muller will not read any future papers by Michael Mann — there has been no increase in hurricanes or tornadoes due to global warming — automobiles are insignificant in overall picture — China is the major CO2 producer, considerably more than USA today — # 1 priority for China is growth of economy — global warming is not considered important — China CO2 efficiency (GDP per ton CO2) is around one - fourth of USA today, has much room for improvement — China growth will make per capita CO2 emissions at same level as USA today by year 2040 — if it is «not profitable» it is «not sustainable» — US energy future depends on shale gas for automobiles; hydrogen will not be a factor — nor will electric cars, due to high cost — Muller is upbeat on nuclear (this was recorded pre-Fukushima)-- there has been no warming in the USA — Muller was not convinced of Hansen's GISS temperature record; hopes BEST will provide a better record.

Here's the thing: If a state shifts a bunch of transportation and building heat over to electricity, overall consumption of electricity could rise and average electricity - sector efficiency could fall, at least temporarily, even as economy - wide carbon emissions decline.

And if the models are good enough to accurately model the effects of geoengineering, then perhaps we should trust what they tell us about addressing global climate disruption, namely that cutting greenhouse gas emissions is the best way to curtail overall climate disruption.

Emissions trading will only be viable in China's electricity if its helps to solve some of the sector's existing challenges — inefficiency in overall generation, running deficits of coal generators, system reliability — while contributing to balanced economic development objectives.

If we add up all of these costs, which we did in a study published in 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we find thousands of dollars of damages per vehicle (gasoline or electric) that are paid by the overall population rather than only by those releasing the emissions and consuming the oil.

For conscientious consumers who already own a diesel vehicle, filling up with biodiesel may reduce your overall global warming emissions, especially if your biodiesel supplier is focused on waste resources.

The study says this is vital if the EU is to meet its emission reduction targets, centred on cutting overall emissions of greenhouse gases by 40 % on 1990 levels by 2030.

In other words, if it continues, the recent trend in sea ice loss may triple overall Arctic warming, causing large emissions in carbon dioxide and methane from the tundra this century (for a review of recent literature on the tundra, see «Science stunner: Vast East Siberian Arctic Shelf methane stores destabilizing and venting; NSF issues world a wake - up call: «Release of even a fraction of the methane stored in the shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming»).

If the United States phased out the twenty - three nuclear power plants with the same design as Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex by 2030, carbon dioxide emissions in the United States would increase overall by at least 1 percent.

To simplify the idea — if 95 % of atmospheric CO2 is natural but we do not know how much overall the natural emissions amounts change over time, but we do know they change, it is easy to see that a 10 % change in natural emissions would have potentially great change to total CO2.

The total number of allowances is equivalent to the overall emissions cap (e.g. if a cap of 1 mm tons of emissions is set, 1 mm one ton allowances will be issued).

Overall, and at least tentatively, some positive climate science - related news — albeit set in the context of atmospheric CO2 being such that even if emissions were reduced to zero today there's enough warming baked into the system that we will cruise past the critical 2 °C warming threshold.

But overall, especially with climate, since nearly all of the growth in emissions is going to come in poor countries, if you can't come up with energy choices that are less greenhouse gas emitting and also are cheap, they are just going to keep burning fossil fuels.

If they are used as part of an overall strategy to reduce emissions, they make sense — given that it's impossible for us to get to zero overnight.

Below, we've estimated the impact on overall current carbon emissions if Japan were to completely phase out production of electricity from its current fleet of nuclear reactors.

If it can be shown that Bodélé dust emission is subject to strong modulation on a variety of time scales that influence the overall output of dust, then insights into the thresholds which constrain the system may be gained.

Even high mileage drivers may benefit overall if they prefer owning multiple vehicles, and because they would benefit most from reduced traffic congestion, accident risk and exposure to pollution emissions.