Sentences with phrase «largest source»

They are the single largest source of greenhouse gases, accounting for 26 per cent of our emissions.

And the oil and gas industry is the single largest source of methane pollution in the country.

For example, soil is second only to oceans as the planet's largest carbon sink, while agriculture and land use changes represent the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

One of the country's largest sources for printing books has teamed up with one of the largest book data companies to offer a tool set for publishers.

Coal produces huge amounts of carbon dioxide when it's burned, and federal climate policy is silent on this potentially large source of emissions.

The next largest source of information for buyers is a yard sign, mentioned by 71 per cent of buyers.

But to really benefit from all this — even assuming no other large sources of income — you really have to be in the lower tax brackets.

Although these measures may be beneficial, self - directed learners should not rely on larger sources to do the work for them.

Also, a very large source of uncertainty in climate projections is the unknown future development of emissions, land use and solar activity.

When it's hot, plants become a surprisingly large source of air pollution.

The technique has unlocked large sources of energy that would otherwise be inaccessible.

If such additional sinks operated, it would take an even larger source to maintain the observed abundance.

The transportation sector is the second - largest source worldwide, responsible for 20 percent of all carbon emitted.

Yet farming is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, only slightly behind heating and electricity.

The asset manager has also been the single largest source of growth in its net asset value for several years running.

It goes on to report that the next largest source — nearly 20 % — of hires is from referrals.

The second largest source of income for credit card companies are fees collected from merchants.

The UK is currently Australia's third largest source market for international visitors (delivering 593,000 visitors in 2012) but is the second largest market for Australia in terms of spend and visitor nights, delivering A$ 2.9 billion and 22.5 million visitor nights during 2012.

The CPP was President Barack Obama's signature policy and aims to fight climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, the single largest source in the United States.

The challenge is being able to detect such minute variations while screening out far larger sources of background noise, such as vibrations caused by earthquakes or the thermal jiggling of atoms.

The cruise industry is worth about $ 4 billion in Australia alone, making it the fourth largest source market in the world.

One of the world's fastest growing outbound travel markets, the country is now Marriott's fourth largest source market for travel in Europe fueled by a rising middle class with growing discretionary income.

China is the fifth largest source country in respect of the stock of foreign direct investment, accounting for around 4.4 per cent of the total stock.»

Expectations of decreases in large source regions such as China [195] may be counteracted by aerosol increases other places as global population continues to increase.

Don't laugh; the standard American diet is so pitiful that beer represents the fifth largest source of antioxidants in the United States.

nuclear plants, both of which require large sources of water, energy consumption must surely become a new performance metric in assessing viable future energy options.

In the future, carbon markets or regulations can provide large sources of revenue for DAC system operators.

Projected changes in climate, including an increase of droughts and less frequent, more intense rain events, imply that this phenomenon may make peat bogs into larger sources of methylmercury to downstream water resources and ecosystems.

An instrumented aircraft platform was used to identify large sources of methane and quantify emission rates in southwestern PA in June 2012.

On a post-earnings conference call in July, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings downplayed the importance of losing exclusivity with Epix, saying Epix's offerings are «not a particularly large source of total viewing.»

Coal will be an increasing large source of the power needs of the U.S. and internationally.

The Netherlands is Canada's seventeenth largest source of imports in the world and fifth largest in the EU

Because ethanol is made from plants that pull carbon from the atmosphere as they grow, it could drastically reduce greenhouse - gas emissions from automobiles, the second largest source here, behind power plants.

But no sufficiently large source exists in the immediate sub-surface of the Witwatersrand Basin.

Blinderman's reappropriation takes a detail from the much larger source photograph, turns it from color to black - and - white, reframes it, reprints it, and recirculates it in order to draw our attention to its problematics.

We are implementing scaled - up, real - world initiatives to attack large sources of emissions, such as methane from landfills and from oil and gas production; black carbon from heavy - duty diesel engines; and HFCs used in refrigeration and air conditioners.

This cooling to the surface can actually be a pretty large source of cooling.To illustrate how important this is, the authors put this really informative table from some idealized radiative calculations.

Oceania was the 3rd largest source of demand for forest carbon offsets in 2013, transacting 1.5 MtCO2e roughly half of previous volumes.

We encourage everyone who is negotiating in good faith in Illinois to recognize that Learner and ELPC are committed to destroying Illinois largest source of clean energy, and negotiating in bad faith.

However, if emissions data is available and there is a compelling reason to include them in the inventory (relatively large source of emissions, use them to influence third party activities), they may be reported under Scope 3.

Becker said if Ford were a country it would rank as the 10th largest source of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

The bill specifically requires the EPA to regulate large sources of carbon pollution, but it does not allow it to issue what in many cases would be duplicative regulation of the same sources.

He's perhaps best known for founding HARO, or Help a Reporter Out, the world's largest source repository.

In 2014, Nerdwallet released American Household Credit Card Debt Statistics: 2014 which reveals that «credit card debt is the third largest source of household indebtedness.

In its latest World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2017 report, coal remains the single largest source of electricity generation through to 2040 at 26 %.