Sentences with phrase «key greenhouse gases in»

The legislation is entirely based on the agency's finding, in 2009, that key greenhouse gases in the atmosphere «threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations» — because of their contribution to global warming.

Water vapor and carbon dioxide are key greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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As well as its decision on upstream oil and gas, the World Bank Group said on Tuesday that it would, among other things, report the greenhouse gas emissions arising from investment projects it finances in «key emissions - producing sectors» from 2018.

In the nearer term, the key is to curb some of the most concentrated sources of greenhouse gas emissions like methane and black carbon, Gov. Brown said.

As a key player in reducing greenhouse gases, carbon pricing is a crucial step towards building a credible climate action plan for many generations to come.

This graphic depicts the carbon intensity of shipping wine from various global wine regions to key U.S. cities and bases its data on a seriously flawed, two - year - old working paper that is filled with untested assumptions, has not been peer reviewed, and does not accurately reflect the complexities of greenhouse gas emissions in the wine sector.

Similar frozen methane hydrates occur throughout the same arctic region as they did in the past, and warming of the ocean and release of this methane is of key concern as methane is 20x the impact of CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

Forests play a key role in offsetting U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, but that ability may shrink as the climate changes

Your article on a slowdown in the increase in global emissions of greenhouse gases cites energy efficiency as a key...

In 2009, ahead of key U.N. talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, the government vowed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 7 to 11 percent below business - as - usual levels by 202In 2009, ahead of key U.N. talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, the government vowed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 7 to 11 percent below business - as - usual levels by 202in Copenhagen, Denmark, the government vowed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 7 to 11 percent below business - as - usual levels by 2020.

The Heartland Institute, a think tank that claims that science doesn't support regulating greenhouse gas emissions, published an article in April that claimed that poverty, not air pollution, is the key driver behind childhood asthma.

Carnegie's Caldeira and Zhang, along with Myhrvold, aimed to identify the key factors that are responsible for most of the difference in greenhouse gas emissions between individual gas and coal plants.

General Electric (GE), a world leader in industrial power generation technology and the world's largest supplier of gas turbines, considers gas - fired power generation a key growth sector of its business and a practical step toward reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

A team of researchers from four American universities says the key to reducing harmful greenhouse gases (GHG) in the short term is more likely to be found on the dinner plate than at the gas pump.

A deal that sees all major emitters cutting greenhouse gases will be key to driving the needed global investment in low - carbon growth, the commission argues, calling it a «powerful macroeconomic policy instrument» that will send clear signals to businesses and investors.

But now researchers from the University of Helsinki have found that beetles living in cow pats may reduce emissions of the key greenhouse gas — methane.

New research confirms that avoiding deforestation can play a key role in reducing future greenhouse gas concentrations.

When considering options for using CERs from registered projects, a key question for policy makers is whether the projects are likely to continue greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement even in the absence of CDM revenues or whether they are vulnerable of discontinuing abatement.

The key to understanding why is realizing that there are many potential sources of predictability: the motions of the atmosphere in the short term (days); the motions of the ocean (months to years); and external factors such as the sun's activity, the orbit or greenhouse gases (years to millennia).

«Unlike greenhouse gases, soot particles are relatively short - lived in the atmosphere,» said Wang explaining a key difference between greenhouse gases and soot.

When fuel is burned, as in an automobile engine, virtually all of the carbon in the fuel is released to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas.

In particular, the new «Planetary Boundaries» paper, forthcoming in Nature, makes the case that humanity has overshot the global carrying capacity in a variety of key areas, including GHGs [greenhouse gases], nitrogen, phosphorus, fresh water, land use, and biodiversitIn particular, the new «Planetary Boundaries» paper, forthcoming in Nature, makes the case that humanity has overshot the global carrying capacity in a variety of key areas, including GHGs [greenhouse gases], nitrogen, phosphorus, fresh water, land use, and biodiversitin Nature, makes the case that humanity has overshot the global carrying capacity in a variety of key areas, including GHGs [greenhouse gases], nitrogen, phosphorus, fresh water, land use, and biodiversitin a variety of key areas, including GHGs [greenhouse gases], nitrogen, phosphorus, fresh water, land use, and biodiversity.

Knoblauch et al (2018) «Methane production as key to the greenhouse gas budget of thawing permafrost» The findings of this paper are already a matter of dispute between you and me, in that my not inconsiderable assessments of this paper and its context in UVMarch2018 @ 365 and @ 378 and @ 393 & @ 406 which show zero «Skyrocketry» are already dismissed by you as «exaggeration, flawed cherry - picking and seemingly endless Strawman creation» although the rationale you present underlying such comment is mostly non-existent and nowhere approaching adequate.

In this scenario wall plug charged electric powered vehicles become the key to necessary oil free, non polluting, greenhouse gas - free, personal transportation.

The Major Economies Forum will facilitate a candid dialogue among key developed and developing countries, help generate the political leadership necessary to achieve a successful outcome at the UN climate change negotiations that will convene this December in Copenhagen, and advance the exploration of concrete initiatives and joint ventures that increase the supply of clean energy while cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Key numbers from T2 and Associates» new report on investments in mitigating greenhouse gases (GHG) by industry include $ 90 billion in zero and low - carbon emitting technologies from 2000 through 2014.

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhouse gas emissions through the conversion of peat forests, dispossessing local communities of land, and engaging in a heavy - handed campaign to undermine its critics within Indonesia and abroad.

Global Carbon Cycle Recent efforts have begun to extend Global Climate Models (GCMs) towards Earth System Models (ESMs), where the physical - dynamical GCM also includes key biogeochemical cycles important in determining the Earth's response to increasing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

Climate scientists agree that rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases trap incoming heat near the surface of the Earth and are the key factors causing the rise in temperatures since 1880, but these gases are not the only factors that can impact global temperatures.

In the Arctic, the tipping points identified in the new report, published on Friday, include: growth in vegetation on tundra, which replaces reflective snow and ice with darker vegetation, thus absorbing more heat; higher releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the tundra as it warms; shifts in snow distribution that warm the ocean, resulting in altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.&raquIn the Arctic, the tipping points identified in the new report, published on Friday, include: growth in vegetation on tundra, which replaces reflective snow and ice with darker vegetation, thus absorbing more heat; higher releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the tundra as it warms; shifts in snow distribution that warm the ocean, resulting in altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.&raquin the new report, published on Friday, include: growth in vegetation on tundra, which replaces reflective snow and ice with darker vegetation, thus absorbing more heat; higher releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the tundra as it warms; shifts in snow distribution that warm the ocean, resulting in altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.&raquin vegetation on tundra, which replaces reflective snow and ice with darker vegetation, thus absorbing more heat; higher releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the tundra as it warms; shifts in snow distribution that warm the ocean, resulting in altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.&raquin snow distribution that warm the ocean, resulting in altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.&raquin altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.»

The campus greenhouse gas reduction plan outlined in the report centers on four key approaches: reducing the overall energy use on campus, reducing the use of fossil fuels in campus buildings and vehicles, increasing the use of renewable energy sources to meet campus needs, and minimizing the release of «fugitive» gases from campus operations such as specialty research gases in laboratory buildings.

The document, in addition to the key initial accounting parameters, has also contained annual information on: (a) total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the sources listed in Annex A to the Kyoto Protocol; (b) GHG emissions and removals from land use, land - use change and forestry activities under Article 3, paragraph 3, of the Kyoto Protocol, and elected activities under Article 3, paragraph 4, of the Kyoto Protocol; and (c) transactions and holdings of Kyoto Protocol units.

According to Apple's announcement, the goal of the project is to ultimately «commercialize patented technology that eliminates direct greenhouse gas emissions from the traditional smelting process, a key step in aluminum production» and to create an efficient process by which carbon - and greenhouse gas - free aluminum can be used to manufacture consumer goods.

Lord Stern, the former World Bank chief economist whose landmark report on the economics of climate change warned the world risked plunging into economic depression if action was not taken urgently on greenhouse gases, said carbon trading was a «key plank» in dealing with climate change.

Thos original scientists knew even then that simply postulating that CO2 was a greenhouse gas would mean that their descendants in the conspiracy would one day be essentially hand the golden keys to a gigantic vault of grants money.

Of course, on the policy side, they had made it clear they were running out the clock on engaging in meaningful action, that EPA would not be allowed to move forward on regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and that high - level political officials wouldn't openly embrace the conclusions stated by scientists, or do much to publicize key assessment reports that were finally being published.

«Key to achieving our greenhouse - gas emission reduction goals in Canada and the U.S. is cleaning our shared electricity grid and using that non-emitting electricity to power other sectors.

NY Green Bank is a division of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and a key component of New York's 10 - year, $ 5.3 billion Clean Energy Fund (CEF) to accelerate the use of clean energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency, and spur economic development in New York State.

«Environmentally Beneficial Nanotechnologies: Barriers and Opportunities» explores the application of nanoscience in five key areas that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, namely: insulation, photovoltaics, electricity storage, engine efficiency and the hydrogen economy.

Higher temperatures and permafrost thaw could cause an increase of up to 50 per cent in emissions of a key greenhouse gas from northern lakes and ponds by 2100.

In this context, a key aspect is to distinguish and quantify more precisely natural and anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing of global climate change and related sea ice decrease2.

Natural gas is a foundation fuel and has been the key to unlocking the most substantial greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the nation's history by reducing the use of coal for making electricity and facilitating growth in renewables.

This new study shows that a change in human activities may have played a key role in the recent leveling off of methane, which, being a potent greenhouse gas contributes to global temperatures...»

This move from the NRMCA represents a key milestone, moving us one step closer to phasing out greenhouse gases in the built environment by mid-century.

So we have a situation in which the latest science on two key issues: how much the earth will warm as a result of human greenhouse gas emissions, and how well climate models perform in projecting the warming, is largely not incorporated into the new IPCC report.

Also, while we have good atmospheric measurements of other key greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, we have poor measurements of global water vapor, so it is not certain by how much atmospheric concentrations have risen in recent decades or centuries, though satellite measurements, combined with balloon data and some in - situ ground measurements indicate generally positive trends in global water vapor.»

The work of the initiative therefore creates a direct intersect between three internationally agreed goals for the first time: the Paris Climate Agreement; the Sustainable Development Goals; and the Montreal Protocol's Kigali Amendment * — with one of the key goals of the amendment to limit consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas used widely in air conditioners and refrigerators.

I responded «Chris (# 50), from your reference: «Endangerment Finding: The Administrator finds that the current and projected concentrations of the six key well - mixed greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)-- in the atmosphere threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations.

6 Ice age — time in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of Earth's surface Global warming — a gradual increase in the temperature of Earth's atmosphere Greenhouse gas — Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, that trap solar energy Ozone hole — a large area of reduced ozone concentration in the stratosphere, found over Antarctica Chlorofluorocarbon — chlorine compounds that are the main cause of ozone depletion KEY TERMS