Combined, these effects could
increase emissions by more than 100 % according to the study.
The carbon - intensive scenario would
increase emissions by 233 million metric tons — equivalent to adding about 34 million cars to the road, the number of new cars and light trucks currently sold nationally over a two - year period.
He found that over 30 years, corn - based ethanol would actually
increase emissions by nearly 100 percent, because farmers exploit previously unfarmed land to grow corn for ethanol.
Biofuels from switchgrass, if grown on U.S. corn lands,
increase emissions by 50 %.
It would help me (and perhaps others) to understand CO2 - related stratospheric cooling if you would clarify where the energy comes from for
the increased emission by the greater concentration of CO2 in the stratosphere.
Russia had an uptick in oil use,
increasing its emissions by 2 percent to 449 million tons.
Additionally, when considering an emissions floor, it could be argued that temperatures will be rising or falling so slowly that their trend could be reversed by actively intervening in the carbon cycle, or simply reducing or
increasing emissions by an amount substantially smaller than has already been achieved in reaching that floor.
The credits may have
increased emissions by 600 million tonnes.
From 2012 to 2013, the top 10 emitters cumulatively
increased their emissions by 2.2 percent, compared to the average annual growth of 2.4 percent over the last 10 years.
Increasing emissions by 1 - 2 % each year to cover increasing energy consumption isn't sustainable.
Not exact matches
In addition, airlines are under
increased pressure to reduce carbon
emissions by new government mandates like the Environmental Protection Agency's new draft rules announced earlier this month.
We are living in an enormous fabric of life, where anti-poverty measures may create new pressures caused
by excess consumption; where methane
emissions increase if we eat more beef or throw food waste in a landfill; where drought leads to forest fires and more carbon; where marginalizing women makes communities less resilient.
A $ 30 per tonne carbon price, as is currently in place in B.C., applied on
emissions, would
increase processing costs
by about 12 cents per gigajoule.
By contrast, its GPI performance declined over the same period as the booming province experienced growing wealth disparity,
increased household debt, more greenhouse gas
emissions and a spike in problem gambling, among other things.
The government's argument is also a double - edged sword: If infrastructure prevents resources from being stranded, it must also be the case that this infrastructure
increases greenhouse gas
emissions over and above what they would otherwise be
by enabling development.
«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas
emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature
increases by the end of this century, well above the target set
by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.
Although its strong economic growth means overall
emissions are still
increasing, China has reached its 2020 «carbon intensity» targets ahead of time
by implementing serious environmental policies and technological innovation.
After declining
by 0.7 % in 2017, EIA forecasts that energy - related carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions will
increase by 0.9 % in 2018 and
by another 1.0 % in 2019.
This average meal uses up to 17 times more petroleum products, and
increases carbon dioxide
emissions by the same amount, compared to an entirely local meal.
Environment and Climate Change Canada projections show these
emissions climbing another 20 million tonnes
by 2030, a 32 per cent
increase from today.
Creating an innovative new fiscal package to continue cutting carbon pollution
by gradually
increasing and expanding B.C.'s carbon tax, while creating targeted support for
emissions - intensive trade - exposed industries and vulnerable citizens.
Alberta is boosting its use of renewable energy, closing power plants that burn coal and in January
increased its tax on carbon
emissions by 50 percent.
It aims to
increase carbon
emission reductions from 25 % of 2007 levels to 38 %
by 2030, above Singapore's pledge of a 36 %, its CDL Future Value 2030 document states.
The B.C. Climate Leadership Team appointed
by Christy Clark highlighted that
increases to the carbon tax are necessary if B.C. is going to have a good shot at achieving its 2050
emissions reduction target (80 per cent below 2007 levels
by 2050).
Even building just one LNG terminal coupled with modest oil sands growth would
increase oil and gas
emissions from 26 per cent of Canada's total greenhouse gas
emissions in 2014 to 45 per cent
by 2030.
Russia has gone them one better:
By picking a 1990 baseline, before the collapse of the Soviet Union's economy, they figure they can actually continue to
increase their
emissions and still claim a long - term reduction.
In any case, our past record of
increased energy use has been accompanied
by a seventeen-fold
increase in carbon
emissions, a thirteen-fold
increase in sulfur dioxide
emissions, and an eightfold
increase in lead
emissions to the atmosphere.
The cooperative notes that, in the past three decades, it reduced its
emissions by increasing its energy efficiency
by 60 percent.
Thanks to donations, a large quantity of edible food that would have gone to a landfill, creating C02
emissions and
increasing water and energy wastage, is now being consumed
by those most in need.
Since 2003, CO2
emissions have dropped
by 40 %, and BTUs consumed per pound of production have decreased
by 50 % while production has
increased by 20 %.
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.
IRRI develops ways to add economic, nutritional, and environmental value to rice
by reducing postharvest losses, improving grain quality of new rice varieties, improving value - chain linkages, investigating uses of husks and straw to produce bioenergy, cut carbon
emissions, and
increase carbon sequestration.
Life cycle analyses of diapers done
by Franklin Associates in the U.S. and the UK's Environment Agency found that using cloth diapers instead of disposables would decrease landfill waste but
increase water use and greenhouse gas
emissions.
Emissions of sulphur dioxide have fallen
by 89 per cent between 1990 and 2010, but
increased by 2 per cent between 2009 and 2010.
Though the forest idea introduces elements now associated with «greening the city», and largely determined
by ecological imperatives — to counter CO2
emissions, to lower ambient temperatures, to
increase surface water retention and avoid flooding — there are equally important social and economic imperatives in the forest strategy too.
I ask the question because MEPs have just rejected
increasing the EU's
emission reduction targets unilaterally from 20 %
by 2020 to an eyewatering 30 %
by 2020 (the reduction is from 1990 levels).
In most cases, the surcharges were initially met with hostility, but the positive effects have been hard to deny: Immediately following the initiation of zone charging, London saw congestion reduced
by a quarter, average speeds
increase by 30 percent, and carbon dioxide
emissions decrease
by 20 percent, per the Fix NYC report.
And accelerating they are: China
increases its
emissions each year
by roughly the same as the UK's total
emissions.
If climate change is not caused
by increased carbon
emissions, why would reducing them do anything?
How the UK can reduce its carbon
emissions by increasing the use of renewable energy sources is set to be outlined today
by the government.
By Sean Ryan A proposal to use a federal gasoline tax
increase to pay for carbon -
emissions research is frustrating builder associations that want the money for highway construction.
The other side of the «green» argument against nuclear power is the fear
by some climate scientists that carbon
emissions in New York could
increase by more than 31 million metric tons during the next two years, if a number of nuclear power plants close.
According to Governor Paterson's Climate Action Council, which issued an Interim Report earlier this month identifying strategies to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions 80 percent
by 2050, the State over time will need to significantly
increase deployment of solar technologies to address climate change.
Recent
increases in an unregulated ozone - depleting substance, could delay recovery of Antarctic ozone levels
by 5 - 30 years, depending on
emissions scenarios.
«Ozone recovery may be delayed
by unregulated chemicals: Recent
increases in an unregulated ozone - depleting substance, could delay recovery of Antarctic ozone levels
by 5 - 30 years, depending on
emissions scenarios.»
Assuming that greenhouse gas
emissions continue to
increase, the widespread adoption of cool roofs in the Los Angeles metropolitan area would offset some of the warming expected
by midcentury, the team reported in 2016 in Environmental Research Letters.
«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.
From 1990 to 2008 the US
increased its CO2
emissions by 12 per cent while the EU decreased its
by 9 per cent, despite broadly similar economic growth trends (see «Peak planet: Carbon dioxide
emissions «-RRB-.
His administration delivered the strongest
increases in fuel efficiency standards for passenger cars in decades with promises to cut carbon
emissions by 6 billion metric tons
by 2025.
Under a scenario where
emissions increase through 2050 and gradually decrease afterward, the assessment predicts that the median area burned each year in the Northwest could quadruple, reaching 2 million acres annually
by the 2080s.