Sentences with phrase «in emissions of carbon dioxide»

The book also has extensive discussions of the economics, science, and politics involved as well as the role played by some of the major groups pushing reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide.

The bottom line remains, as the International Energy Agency warned in its 2008 World Energy Outlook, that 97 percent of projected growth in emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use through 2030 (without aggressive action) will come in developing countries, with three - fourths of that growth in China, India and the Middle East.

He says the only answer may be immediate cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels, which would curb the amount of bleaching and limit acidification of oceans that results when they absorb carbon dioxide.

Such a deal would probably call for very modest reductions in the emission of carbon dioxide in the next 20 years, making sure that nothing upset the economy in any way.

But many energy experts have run the numbers on just how many nuclear power plants would have to be constructed between now and 2050 just to avert even a tenth or so of the projected increase in emissions of carbon dioxide coming from expanding use of coal in that span.

And nearly all of the projected growth rates in emissions of carbon dioxide (and five other kinds of heat - trapping gases included in the determination) in the next few decades are expected to occur in fast - growing developing countries, led by China and India (which by midcentury is expected to be have more people than China and even today has the population density of Japan).

Updated, 11:28 a.m. With climate treaty negotiations expected to intensify next year, China is signaling that it may soon set the timetable for hitting an eventual peak in its emissions of carbon dioxide, the most important human - generated greenhouse gas.

The Department of Energy yesterday reported a sharp drop last year in emissions of carbon dioxide, and a steeper decline than what was anticipated through the impacts of the recession alone.

A story by Roger Harrabin of the BBC yesterday provided the latest of many estimates that China's explosively growing use of coal for electric power had vaulted it past the United States into world leadership in emissions of carbon dioxide.

A countervailing example is the unabated rise in emissions of carbon dioxide.

Asked for comment, a spokesman for the Edison Electric Institute, one of the trade associations scrutinized in the report, said only that the industry has made deep reductions in its emissions of carbon dioxide since 2005.

Without serious and significant cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide now and in the future, the world will be unable to keep a global temperature rise this century under 2C.»

Of course, burning fossil fuels to produce energy results in the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, tipping the natural balance of annual CO2 flux and leading to a gradual build - up.

The reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide per new unit of non-hydro «renewable» capacity falls off rapidly as additional «renewable» capacity is added to an electric grid because additional fossil fuel sources must be kept in «spinning reserve» in case the wind dies or the sun goes under a cloud unless hydro is available.

[ANDY REVKIN notes: On your last point, our news desk has asked me to prepare a guide to climate language for reporters and editors so we're consistent when we use phrases like «global warming» or describe growth in emissions of carbon dioxide in terms of the carbon content or the CO2 (CO2 is 3.66 times the mass of the C atom in the molecule).

During the 2011 - 2014 drought period, burning more natural gas to compensate for limited hydropower led to an eight - percent increase in emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants from California power plants.

In Berlin this March, the signatories to the Climate Change Convention will hear renewed calls from their science advisers for major cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide to stave off climate change.

The result will be power generation in a local area with growing power demands - enough power for over 150,000 homes - with a 90 per cent reduction in the emission of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas.

Climate campaigners embraced it as showing that known technologies, if deployed on a massive scale, could end growth in emissions of carbon dioxide by mid-century (an extraordinary feat given that the growth spurt in human populations and resource appetites is nowhere near done).

This Article, excerpted from Michael B. Gerrard & John C. Dernbach, eds., Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States (forthcoming in 2018 from ELI), addresses the use of CCS to achieve significant reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2050, and explains why its widespread adoption in the United States has not yet occurred.

Mr. Bush set a policy that until 2012 would rely on voluntary measures by industries to slow growth in emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases.

There is no mandatory reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate - altering gases like those in the Kerry - Lieberman plan put forward last month.

It is also important to note that most governments at the Ministerial segment of the Second Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (held in Geneva in June 1996) concluded that there is sufficient evidence to warrant reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, based on IPCC's Second Assessment Report.