Sentences with phrase «large of a carbon footprint»

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Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

Some of the world's largest and most successful companies signed pledges to greatly reduce their carbon footprints heading into the meeting.

Since coal is the largest source of US emissions, the move to clamp down on the industry will go a long way toward reducing America's carbon footprint over the next two decades.

Sisters Food Group, one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, has started up a potato - powered energy plant as a first step in a new sustainability plan which aims to generate 35,000 tonnes of carbon savings a year and slash the group's carbon footprint by 20 % by 2018.

A report from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, estimated that throughout its entire life, a large building made mostly from wood would have a carbon footprint a third smaller than a comparable one made from steel or concrete.

One of the largest contributors to liquid milk's carbon footprint is enteric methane — gas emitted by the animal, research has found.

For example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the cards.

The average carbon footprint of households living in the center of large, population - dense urban cities is about 50 percent below average, while households in distant suburbs are up to twice the average: a factor of four difference between lowest and highest locations.

A CoolClimate Map of New York City's carbon footprint by zipcode tabulation area shows a pattern typical of large metropolitan areas: a small footprint in the urban core but a large footprint in surrounding suburbs.

Researchers concluded that the crime that generates the largest proportion of the criminal carbon footprint is burglary — breaking and entering with the intent to commit a crime — generating about 30 % of the total.

«The agricultural market might seem smaller, but it has a very large carbon footprint, and turning acid whey into a feedstock that animals can eat is an important example of the closed cycles that we need in a sustainable society,» Angenent says.

The most common current treatment, reverse osmosis, has a very high carbon footprint and generates large volumes of reject water containing radioactivity that requires further treatment.

But perhaps leaving a carbon footprint and using large amounts of energy resources for creating a film about limiting them is a worthwhile trade - off to educate the public.

Refrigerators and other kitchen appliances, especially older, poorly maintained models found in many cash - strapped schools, soak up electricity, which consumes large quantities of water and enlarges a school's carbon footprint.

After thinking about how people use up resources (e.g., riding in a car instead of walking or biking to school), teams describe ways that people contribute to a larger carbon footprint.

Drawing inspiration from nature, driven by technology and bathed in gorgeous Fusion Copper, the Cross GT is powered by an efficient hybrid powertrain that looks to reduce the vehicle's carbon footprint while providing the uncompromising performance that's expected of a large, luxury crossover.

Every person on earth has some level of footprint on the carbon register due to carbon dioxide, but beyond that, the impact of carbon emissions from cars, factories, large building construction and other industries is a concern, as it is affecting the quality of air and atmosphere we depend on for existence.

Small and large manufacturers alike are going green as the owners of these companies have made it their mission to do their part to reduce their carbon footprint.

Costas Christ, Editor - at - Large for National Geographic and Director of Operations at Beyond Green Travel, explains the pillars of corporate sustainability, which hotels are working on initiatives to minimize their carbon footprints and empower local people, and what travelers can do to support sustainable tourism.

As Hawaii's first LEED - EBOM Silver resort, Hyatt Regency Maui's list of leading environmental initiatives include LEED - EBOM certification maintenance by the resort's own Green Team; sustainability and recycling tactics supporting renewable energy and recycling; the recent installation of one of the largest photovoltaic solar panel systems in Hawaii that significantly reducing the resort's carbon footprint; and a new sustainability tour for guests to learn about environmental initiatives on site.

A new study, The carbon footprint of global tourism, is causing a stir, with news sources writing headlines like Global tourism's carbon footprint is four times bigger than thought, study says or Tourism's carbon impact three times larger than estimated.

You can't erase a carbon footprint without placing a perhaps larger more visible footprint in the form of changed vistas, increased inconvenience and increased energy consciousness.

Using a hybrid 9:1 ratio of wood to steel, Sumitomo Forestry aims to replace concrete, which is one of the world's largest carbon footprint contributors.

Depending on the type and size of the respective event, transportation - related emissions will usually account the largest share of an event's carbon footprint.

Computer modeling of the NRDC plan, which used the same model used by the EPA, suggests that if the EPA does follow this approach, the US could see a 26 percent cut in power plant emissions — and an overall reduction in the US carbon footprint of 10 percent by 2020 — the largest share of achieving the 17 percent reduction the president has called for.

Next to shipping and distributing product, powering and heating its facilities forms the second largest portion of MEC's carbon footprint.

Switzerland has a large carbon footprint as a percentage of total Ecological footprint, particularly compared to other European countries.

Local materials, such as glass and wood, were used to further lower the carbon footprint of the building and on - site photovoltaics and a large - scale biodiesel generator produce more energy than the building consumes.

The cropland and forest Footprints were the largest components of India's overall Ecological Footprint until the late 1980s, when the carbon Footprint exceeded the forest Footprint, and the late 2000s, when carbon exceeded the cropland Footprint.

It helps big energy companies lower their carbon footprints and capture an even larger share of a shrinking global carbon budget.

The reason for its large Footprint and less favorable results when compared with Germany overall is, in particular, the energy mix in North - Rhine Westphalia, or more specifically its carbon intensity of electricity.

As tar sands oil has a much larger carbon footprint than conventional oil, climate change legislation targeted by Prop 23 would limit California's imports of high - carbon fuels — fuels that would likely include toxic tar sands oil from Alberta.

Proposed measures include: undertaking of major energy efficiency measures on the supply and consumption sides, including reducing the large amounts of flared and vented gas; and minimizing the carbon footprint of the new capacity to be added.

A surprisingly large number of people seem to have concluded that all that gives meaning to their lives is the belief that they are saving the planet by paying attention to their carbon footprint.»

Taking data from the California Consumption Based Emissions Inventory, it illustrates the reality of our large carbon footprint from the goods and services we consume.

We are sufferers of a large carbon footprint because of our high proportion of out of town commuters.

Secondly, nuclear energy results in 9 — 25 times more carbon emissions than wind energy, due to the mining, refinement, and transportation of nuclear fuel; the much longer time involved in building a nuclear facility (approximately 4 times longer than WWS facilities); and larger building footprint.

How the US and China plan to reduce their carbon footprints could unusually prove one of the more harmonious topics during the sixth Strategic and Economic Dialogue, the most important annual discussion between the world's two largest [continue reading...]

(Inside Science)-- New research reveals that the carbon footprint of global tourism is much larger than previously thought, after accounting for all aspects of travel, including staying in hotels and shopping.

While glaciers and ice sheets may physically plug large stores of buried methane hydrates or pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through millions of small holes, their impacts reach much further than their physical footprint.

I hear you have one of the worlds largest carbon footprints.

North Korea is so determined to lower its carbon footprint it's keeping large numbers of its population in concentration camps and starving them.

Lamont director Sean Solomon added, «Seventy percent of the carbon footprint of the Lamont Campus currently comes from our electricity usage, so developing these two solar farms is the largest single step we can take to reduce that footprint.

Healthcare also accounts for a big slice of the EU's output of greenhouse gases: the 15,000 + hospitals within the EU's borders create a large carbon footprint.

Setting aside 30 percent of the oceans as no - take MPAs would mean more terrestrial food production, he argued, and the extra forests converted to farmland and livestock would generate a significantly larger carbon footprint than fishing.

The oil that would have flowed through the Keystone pipeline, extracted from a large sedimentary basin that includes the well - known oil sands of Alberta, has a higher carbon footprint than other, lighter crude.

For one thing, Dr. Pachauri has one of the largest carbon footprints on the planet.

Brazil will restore 12 million hectares of forest by 2030, increasing the footprint of land reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by an area slightly larger than Pennsylvania or about the size of England.

The enormous carbon footprint of Southern Company — among the largest financiers of Republican Party politicians — has raised eyebrows.

Farmers who have local renewable generating capacity may not draw from the grid, and of course in areas where the preponderance of demand is nuclear or hydro or a renewable, then the fertilizer needed would not have a large carbon footprint.