«Switching from incandescent bulbs to Earthmate CFLs can have a significant
impact on the emission of greenhouse gases,» he explains.
Not exact matches
Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based
on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report
of «known and potential environmental
impacts» and «policy options» to address the
impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report
of recommendations
on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption
of «quantitative goals... for reducing total
greenhouse gas emissions.»
NDP environment critic Peter Tabuns welcomed the import
of more clean power from Quebec, but said the
impact on consumers» electricity bills and the actual reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions from the agreement will be minuscule.
«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better
greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University
of Minnesota who has done research
on biofuels»
emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.
The move came after Canada's National Energy Board announced a broader review
of the Energy East project, including its
impact on upstream and downstream
greenhouse gas emissions.
«Most
of the climate resolutions ask companies to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions or to re-port
on the risks from climate change
on business operations,» Passoff
of Proxy
Impact said.
Report Modelling the
Impact of the Climate Leadership Plan & Federal Carbon Price
on British Columbia's
Greenhouse Gas Emissions (December 2016)
The LCA examined the effects
of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014
on seven environmental
impact indicators: global warming potential (
greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.
Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower
impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive
impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation
of climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.
This calculator also describes the environmental
impacts of food recovery, including an estimate for the
impact on greenhouse gas emissions from reducing food waste.
The marginal
impact that years
of climate negotiations have made
on the pace and direction
of global
greenhouse gas emissions finds its roots, at least in part, in the successes
of the ozone negotiations.
If global corporations are allowed to turn our state into a sacrifice zone, reap massive short - term profits, and significantly add to
greenhouse gas emissions, the true costs
of drilling in terms
of environmental
impacts, quality
of life, and long - term cleanup costs would be passed
on to state residents.
Shelley also believes that climate change denial is a hurting our future and supported Climate and Community Protection Act, a bill that would help put New York
on track to minimize the adverse
impacts of climate change through a reduction in statewide
greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resiliency
of the state with respect to the
impacts and risks
of climate change.
Emissions of methane — which is a potent greenhouse gas - are already subject to control, but I am today commissioning a study of the possible impacts of shale gas development on greenhouse gas emissions and climat
Emissions of methane — which is a potent
greenhouse gas - are already subject to control, but I am today commissioning a study
of the possible
impacts of shale
gas development
on greenhouse gas emissions and climat
emissions and climate change.
«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation
of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat
of climate change, in the context
of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and
impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse
impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low
greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low
greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.
It's a subject that has not gotten much attention, even as more research focuses
on how to reduce agricultural
greenhouse gas emissions and how to make farming more resilient to the
impacts of extreme weather.
Its
impact on climate, the authors say, will be equivalent to the effect
of the annual
greenhouse gas emissions from over half a million cars.
Beyond Kerosene The amount
of emissions from aircraft compared with other vehicles is relatively small — roughly 3 percent
of total worldwide
greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major
impact on the climate.
As some
of the incentives for fracking come from the lower carbon
emissions produced by
gas - fired power stations, a key question is whether the extraction
of shale
gas has an additional
impact on greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions.
Writing in the journal Weather, Climate and Society, the University
of Manchester researchers argue that cutting
greenhouse gas emissions, while crucial to reducing humanity's longer - term
impact on the planet, will not eliminate violent storms, tornadoes or flooding and the damage they cause.
The study supports calls for improved monitoring
of wetlands and human changes to those ecosystems — a timely topic as the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change prepares to examine land use
impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, says Prof. Merritt Turetsky, Department
of Integrative Biology.
Schuiling says that before the Red Sea is tapped for power, experts would have to weigh the pros (reducing
greenhouse gas emissions and dependence
on oil) and cons (the disruption to local marine life and increase in salinity
of the remaining seawater as well as the
impact on tourism and transportation).
Written by the Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research and Climate Analytics, the report concludes that the world is
on a path to a 4 °C warmer world by end
of this century and that current pledges to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions will not reduce warming by very much.
The investigation
of greenhouse gas emissions is also important to anticipate future changes in time and to assess their
impact on climate.
To estimate the
impact of U.S. dietary choices
on greenhouse gas emissions, the researchers built a database that assessed the environmental
impacts involved in producing more than 300 types
of foods.
7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate
of the cost
of the
impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide
emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust
of his books chapter
on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects
of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.
When speaking about the buildup
of carbon dioxide and other
gases in the Earth's atmosphere, Goreham correctly told NEPPA members that
greenhouse emissions only make up a small fraction
of the atmosphere, but wrongfully deduced that this means they could not have any significant
impact on the planet.
• Lead Author, «Technological and Economic Potential
of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, «
Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation Scenarios and Implications,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Member, IPCC Task Group
on Scenarios and Data for
Impacts and Climate Analysis (1998 - present).
The preliminary results
of this study have been
on our website since the time the flooding happened, but now we have looked not only at the rainfall, but also the influence
of anthropogenic
greenhouse gas emissions on the atmospheric circulation and how this propagates from rainfall, to river flow down to the direct
impact of flooded houses in the river catchment zones.
Impacts of rice varieties and management
on yield - scaled
greenhouse gas emissions from rice fields in China: A meta - analysis.
Thus it can mask the full
impact that
greenhouse gas emissions have
on climate change by temporarily negating some
of the warming.
Project Learning Tree and the University
of Florida developed this secondary module to help educators in the Southeast teach about climate change
impacts on forest ecosystems, the role
of forests in sequestering carbon, and strategies for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to changing climatic conditions.
Considering the
impact of greenhouse gases on the warming
of the planet - which has been forecasted to detrimentally affect global environments and make the Earth less inhabitable — the U.S. and China have come together to address and mitigate their
emissions as the major contributors.
Changes in a variety
of other factors such as operating procedures, aircraft routing, and load factors can also have significant
impacts on greenhouse gas emissions per passenger mile.
But the finding does imply that anyone who expects a flattening or shrinking
of populations in the world's richest countries will blunt their
impact on the environment through
greenhouse -
gas emissions or other factors is bound to be disappointed, he said.
Ferenc Miskolczi, an atmospheric physicist at NASA's Langley Research Center with three decades
of experience, had found that researchers have been repeating a mistake when calculating the
impact of greenhouse gas emissions on temperatures.
In fact, the
emissions of all types from the modern, scrubbed, coal plants have an
impact on Kansas that is barely detectable even in pessimistic estimates in comparison to those from a
gas plant (since
gas plants emit higher levels
of Nitrous Oxide, another
greenhouse gas.
On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahea
On the contrary, roughly 80 percent
of HOT is devoted to
on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahea
on - the - ground reporting that focuses
on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahea
on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative
of preparing our societies for the many significant climate
impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.
Do not worry about the economic
impacts of putting the brakes
on greenhouse gas emissions.
3) If countries like China and India follow the American pattern in transportation, ballooning demand for oil is bound to be a disruptive influence
on world affairs with or without the climate
impact of all those additional
emissions of greenhouse gases.
Called «Many Heavens, One Earth,» the meeting is intended to generate commitments for actions by religious organizations, congregants and countries that could reduce
emissions of greenhouse gases or otherwise limit the human
impact on the environment.
The Yale Project
on Climate Change Communication «undertook this project because most
of the action to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for climate
impacts is happening at the state and local levels
of American society.
As for the ethics
of all
of this, Donald A. Brown
of Pennsylvania State University argues that the world's top emitters
of greenhouse gases are morally obligated to curb carbon dioxide and similar
emissions based
on the level
of certainty that is already established
on the
impacts of those
emissions — most
of which will be in poorer places with small contributions to the human - caused
gas buildup in the atmosphere.
(2010)
Impact of crop yield reduction
on greenhouse gas emissions from compensatory cultivation
of pasture and forested land.
By midcentury, this would add up to nearly a quarter - billion more Chinese than currently projected by the U.N. And given China's
impact on the environment, especially
greenhouse gas emissions, this change
of policy clearly portends a great deal.
The latest comes as basic flaws have been exposed in a panel finding
on thawing Asian glaciers that, while buried in the back matter
of the panel's 2007 report
on impacts of warming, had become a prime talking point among campaigners calling for action to curb
emissions of greenhouse gases.
In particular, future
greenhouse gas emissions depend
on societal choices, policies, and technology advancements not yet made, and climate - change
impacts depend
on both the amount
of climate change that occurs and the effectiveness
of development in reducing exposure and vulnerability.
On Twitter, I argued that this would have been the wrong venue for such a debate question because the most consequential
impacts from climate extremes (whatever mix
of forces triggered them) and the vast majority
of growth in
greenhouse -
gas emissions are outside United States borders.
«efforts to address climate change should continue to focus most heavily
on mitigating
greenhouse gas emissions in combination with adapting to the
impacts of climate change because these approaches do not present poorly defined and poorly quantified risks and are at a greater state
of technological readiness.»
The first
of these special reports, to be finalized in September 2018, is Global Warming
of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report
on the
impacts of global warming
of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global
greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context
of strengthening the global response to the threat
of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.