Sentences with phrase «into carbon debt»

If we want to avoid the Apocalypse, the message we need to get out is the following: 1) we are out of carbon budget, and into carbon debt; 2) we need to eliminate all non-essential uses of fossil energy, and make the essential uses more efficient.

Not exact matches

The case to incorporate carbon risk into both equity and debt valuations now is one of short - and long - term prudent risk management.

Putting more effort into green projects now could improve international competitiveness, and initiating policy measure such as carbon taxes would ease debts, he notes.

For a given power source, the emissions released during its construction put it into «carbon debt» and it takes a while of generating carbon - free energy for it to work itself to the break - even point.

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.»)