Sentences with phrase «indirect emission impacts»

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c) anthropogenic aerosols — mainly sulfate and nitrate (from emissions of SO2 and NOx / NH3) have a strong direct effect and undoubted liquid cloud nucleation impacts (the indirect effects).

This shift cuts the impact of indirect emissions due to electricity use, for example at a solar cell factory or nuclear fuel site.

«(II) indirect effects, both domestic and international, related to the production and importation of non-renewable transportation fuels that have significant greenhouse gas emissions, and the impact of these effects on greenhouse gas emissions.

Diageo, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Anglo American were recently ranked highest among the companies reporting on indirect emissions and supply chain impacts on the CDP's FTSE 350 Climate Change Report...

If indirect changes in transportation system emissions and fuel consumption are included, such as some theoretical impacts on congestion sometime in the future that may or may not happen, the move would risk undermining the foundation of the standards themselves.

The team also considered how emissions from each part of the economy can impact clouds, which have an indirect effect on climate, explained Surabi Menon, a coauthor of the paper and scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif..

Critically, as our recent alert demanded, biofuel's indirect land use impacts, starting with corn ethanol, are to be considered when determining a fuel's net impact upon emissions.

Such focus on energy efficiency makes a lot of sense since the vast majority of the global warming impact from air conditioning and refrigeration is due to indirect emissions related to energy use.

Other surprises include the recognition that reducing methane emissions from whatever source has important indirect impacts on a range of other drivers and is a more effective strategy for short - term reductions in global warming than had been previously recognized.

If we are seeing changes to the tropopause temperatures as an indirect impact from increased Asian aerosol emissions or solar - driven ozone changes, then this might be better thought of as impacting the efficacy of those forcings rather than implying some sensitivity change.

Thus although these individual cuts won't have a significant direct impact on global temperatures, they can have a major indirect effect by triggering more widespread emissions cuts.