Sentences with phrase «increased emissions by»

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.

The credits may have increased emissions by 600 million tonnes.

Biofuels from switchgrass, if grown on U.S. corn lands, increase emissions by 50 %.

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.

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.

Increasing emissions by 1 - 2 % each year to cover increasing energy consumption isn't sustainable.

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.

Combined, these effects could increase emissions by more than 100 % according to the study.

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.