Sentences with phrase «in carbon debt»

We have run out of carbon budget, and are heavily in carbon debt.

Not exact matches

The researchers found that no - till management in combination corn - soybean fields and corn - only fields created a carbon debt lasting 29 and 40 years, respectively.

«I know when I look at a tree that half the dry weight of it is carbon,» says ecologist David Tilman of the University of Minnesota, coauthor of the other study which examined the «carbon debt» embedded in any biofuel.

«I expected an increase in both carbon emissions and species extinctions debts, but the magnitude of these debts was surprising,» Rosa says.

«We show that even if deforestation had completely halted in 2010, time lags ensured there would still be a carbon emissions debt equivalent to five to ten years of global deforestation and an extinction debt of more than 140 bird, mammal, and amphibian forest - specific species, which, if paid, would increase the number of 20th century extinctions in these groups by 120 percent,» says Isabel Rosa (@isamdr86) of the Imperial College of London.

This has introduced dubious concepts, such as repaying «carbon debt» through «negative emissions» to offset delayed mitigation — in theory,» Geden wrote in a commentary published yesterday in the journal Nature.

Municipal issuers have a key role to play in terms of: • Low - carbon technologies • Pollution control • Climate adaptation, such as disaster prevention and recovery We will seek to avoid purchasing the relatively few government - issued bonds that are explicitly issued to finance the development of projects, such as nuclear power plants or casinos, which are fundamentally misaligned with our investment objectives Sovereign Debt National governments around the world issue bonds (debt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social welfDebt National governments around the world issue bonds (debt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social welfdebt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social welfare.

«Negative emissions «simply work like a «carbon debt» mechanism, but it's somewhat dubious to count on «payback» starting in 2050.

The Rapture wrt AGW is of course the sweet by and by of billions of dollars in «carbon debt» reparations, carbon trading profits, and «green» jobs for the true believers and those suffering victims of capitalism.

«[P] rojected growth in wood harvest for bioenergy would increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century because new carbon debt continuously exceeds NPP.»

Teaching marketable skills to young people in troubled neighborhoods, easing student debt, making medications more affordable and cutting carbon emissions are just some of the ways they are improving the lives of New Yorkers.

«Growth in wood supply causes steady growth in atmospheric CO2 because more CO2 is added to the atmosphere every year in initial carbon debt than is paid back by regrowth, worsening global warming and climate change.

Burning wood instead of coal therefore creates a carbon debt — an immediate increase in atmospheric CO2 compared to fossil energy — that can be repaid over time only as — and if — NPP [net primary production] rises above the flux of carbon from biomass and soils to the atmosphere on the harvested lands.»

The qualitative result that growth in bioenergy raises atmospheric CO2 does not depend on the parameters: as long as bioenergy generates an initial carbon debt, increasing harvests mean more is «borrowed» every year than is paid back.

That plunge in emissions is necessary because unlike most other pollutants, carbon dioxide from fuel burning stays in circulation for centuries, building in the atmosphere like unpaid credit - card debt.

It doesn't look like it is LEED - certified, but being more than half a century old, visitors could take heart in the fact that the building's carbon debt has probably been paid off a while ago.

We Have a Winner: British Columbia's Carbon Tax Woos Sceptics, gushed one headline in the Economist in July, as did a similarly glowing feature earlier this year in the New York Times, which suggested a B.C. - styled carbon tax could solve America's debt woes.

The research highlights that the 200 listed companies analysed in the study own 762 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) through their reserves of coal, oil and gas which supports share value of $ 4trillion and services $ 1.5 trillion in outstanding corporate debt.

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Focusing on the carbon emissions associated with tropical deforestation, it showed that converting rainforests or grasslands to corn, soybean, or palm oil biofuel production led to a carbon emissions increase — a «biofuel carbon debt» — that was at least 37 times greater than the annual reduction in greenhouse gases resulting from the shift from fossil fuels to biofuels.

For forests in the central and eastern US, which supply much of the wood used in UK power plants, the payback time for this carbon debt ranges from 44 to 104 years, depending on forest type — and assuming the land remains forest.

Interestingly, beyond this, despite considerable rhetoric about moving beyond debates about carbon - pricing, the report recommends that in order to avoid adding to the Federal debt, it would be necessary to impose new taxes, including increased royalties for oil and gas extraction, a tax on imported oil, a tax on electricity sales, and a «very small carbon price» (presumably from a modest carbon tax or unambitious cap - and - trade system).

A central hurdle is that carbon dioxide accumulates in the atmosphere like unpaid credit card debt as long as emissions exceed the rate at which the gas is naturally removed from the atmosphere by the oceans and plants.

Many people perceive climate change as a sort of moral and economic debt, accumulated since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and now come due after several centuries — a helpful perspective, in a way, since it is the carbon - burning processes that began in 18th - century England that lit the fuse of everything that followed.

The «carbon debt» incurred by the construction of power plants plays a big role in your paper, partially explaining why the carbon benefits of clean power take so long to manifest.

At a time when we have run out of carbon budget and run up carbon debt for avoiding climate catastrophe, the oil production in this country has shot up.

We have run out of carbon budget, and are in substantial carbon debt.

You kids who don't recall when gasoline was 33 cents a gallon aren't in near the carbon debt we old guys mostly accumulated, just driving around.

In practical terms, that means that the amount of time it takes to payback the carbon debt of producing biofuel on that land to replace fossil fuels is even greater than we thought; and pretty much makes palm oil biodiesel produced in such conditions worse than petroleum - based dieseIn practical terms, that means that the amount of time it takes to payback the carbon debt of producing biofuel on that land to replace fossil fuels is even greater than we thought; and pretty much makes palm oil biodiesel produced in such conditions worse than petroleum - based diesein such conditions worse than petroleum - based diesel.

While there is no easy answer — it depends on the type of land converted and the productivity of the crop — the study did find that in general soy had the shortest carbon debt, though still decades - long, while palm oil grown on peatland had the longest on average.

But an innovative new study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) published in Ecology and Society has computed how long it would take popular biofuel crops to payoff the «carbon debt» of land conversion.

However, two recent papers published in Science, including the one we discussed in our post, have pointed out that when you take into account land use changes, the global warming pollution benefit of corn ethanol is negligible or not a benefit at all but a negative (researcher Joseph Fargione's team found that most biofuels «create a «biofuel carbon debt» by releasing 17 to 420 times more CO2 than the annual greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that these biofuels would provide by displacing fossil fuels.»)