Sentences with phrase «leading greenhouse gas emissions»

AB 32, California's nation - leading greenhouse gas emissions reductions law, and the state's Renewable Energy Standard (RES), requiring state utilities to obtain one - third of their power from renewable sources by 2020, will not only drive the growth of renewables capacity, Hertel said, but also necessitate new natural gas - burning power plants or result in serious power supply problems.

Not exact matches

China continues to lead in the ranking of the world's top 40 renewable energy markets, despite its continuing high greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on coal.

Led by Encana Corp. chief executive Doug Suttles, companies that are employing innovations in drilling and hydraulic fracturing insist they can boost investment, employment and exports while contributing to efforts in Canada and around the world to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

But we are leading the way in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions,» she added.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded the Keystone XL pipeline will significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions because it will lead to the expansion of Alberta's carbon intensive oilsands.

Systematic national programs of these sorts would lead to a steady and substantial decline in the emission of greenhouse gases and greatly increase our ability to lead the family of nations into international agreements on the environment.

«In general there is a clear and strong trend with reduced greenhouse gas emissions in diets that contain less meat,» said lead researcher Peter Scarborough, who added that the study was the first to «confirm and quantify the difference» between diet - related carbon footprints.

California dairy farmers — from the nation's leading agricultural state — are facing pressure to lower methane emissions under the state's ambitious new greenhouse gas reduction laws, which include methane emission reduction targets of 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030.

De Blasio has sought to position New York City as a leader in the fight against climate change, but even as he has committed to quickly come up with an aggressive plan to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, the agency that is supposed to lead that effort is in flux.

«Leading by example in making state buildings more energy efficient will save taxpayers money, create thousands of local jobs, and bolster New York's broader efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats want Wales to lead the way on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, calling for a target to reduce them by 100 % by 2050 to be enshrined in the Environment Bill.

The «Energy to Lead Competition» is looking for submissions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions on college campuses and in communities.

Washington (CNN)- Two leading senators on Wednesday introduced a sweeping energy and climate change bill intended to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions while reshaping the energy sector for the 21st century.

Lamatogne is pushing to follow New Jersey's lead and pull New Hampshire out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap - and - trade program limiting utility emissions in New England states, New York, Delaware and Maryland.

It is a member of a U.N. - led initiative to reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is the primary component of natural gas.

If greenhouse - gas emissions are not curtailed, heat - related deaths in Chicago alone could rise tenfold by the end of the century, government scientists say, and the Midwest and the South could swelter with triple - digit temperatures for much of the year, leading to more heatstroke and other heat - related illness and death.

The production and use of fertilizer has led to significant greenhouse gas emissions, Burney said, but that increase pales in comparison with what might have been had more forests and grasslands been shifted to agricultural uses.

«So far, we show that consumption volume increase is much faster than the efficiency increase,» he warns, «leading to an increase in the absolute volume of greenhouse gas emissions.»

The discovery could lead to metal - production systems that are much less expensive and that virtually eliminate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with most traditional metal smelting.

That provision led to this year's federal rule requiring 54.5 mpg by 2025, a tremendous victory that will cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks in half by 2025 and reduce emissions by 6 billion metric tons.

«Globally, beef production can be taxing on the environment, leading to high greenhouse gas emissions and land degradation,» said Jason Rowntree, MSU associate professor of animal science, who led the study.

The electric vehicles» benefits of reduced greenhouse gas emissions are countered by the expense and pollution from producing the vehicles, leading to debate on whether they are the best replacement for conventional vehicles.

Must greater prosperity necessarily lead to a greater carbon footprint and increased greenhouse gas emissions?

The state has long led the U.S. in environmental regulations, from high vehicle - emissions standards to a greenhouse gas cap - and - trade program — and it has done so without sacrificing its economy.

In fact, the mitigation pledges collected under the ongoing Cancun Agreements, conceived during the 2010 climate talks, would lead to global average temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius, according to multiple analyses — and may not lead to a peaking of greenhouse gas emissions this decade required to meet that goal.

Coal is the globe's leading source of greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change.

CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project, is one of the world's leading collectors and disseminators of business sector data on greenhouse gas emissions, and its annual «Global 500 Climate Change Report» has become one of the leading indicators of how corporations are responding to climate change.

According now to two separate modeling analyses published in Science, this error would lead to the loss of most of the world's natural forest because clearing those forests for bioenergy becomes one of the cost - effective means of complying with laws to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The research suggests that — contrary to some prior findings — CO2 led the prior round of global warming rather than vice versa, just as it continues to do today thanks to rising emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

A surprising recent rise in atmospheric methane likely stems from wetland emissions, suggesting that much more of the potent greenhouse gas will be pumped into the atmosphere as northern wetlands continue to thaw and tropical ones to warm, according to a new international study led by a University of Guelph researcher.

The biologists predict that a temperature rise of 1 degree Celsius leads to 6 - 20 percent higher emission of methane bubbles, which in turn leads to additional greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and to an additional temperature increase.

«We see no evidence of Kyoto actually leading to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, much less of stimulating the fundamental technological change that will be required to achieve the 60 - 80 % reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists tell us the world will need to achieve in order to prevent what the Framework Convention calls «dangerous interference with the atmosphere».»

«Every tonne of greenhouse gas that we emit leads to additional emissions from natural sources such as methane bubbles,» says Kosten.

«This is worrisome given that the temperature in the study region is predicted to rise by as much as 2 degrees by midcentury under the range of plausible greenhouse gas emissions scenarios,» said Avery Cohn, aassistant professor of environment and resource policy at Tufts, who led the work while he was a visiting researcher at Brown.

Crucially, lower greenhouse gas emissions scenarios did not always lead to widespread tree mortality.

«This study is the best estimate we have to date of how effectively behavioural change could cut US greenhouse gas emissions,» says Ruth Rettie, who leads Project Charm, a group based at Kingston University in London that investigates ways in which people's behaviour could be influenced.

The results showed that higher greenhouse gas emissions would lead to more annual fatalities from heat across the city as far out as the 2080s.

Agricultural expansion is a leading cause of wild species loss and greenhouse gas emissions.

But whether that will lead to a less - congested transportation system — saving fuel and cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions — remains to be seen, according to be transportation experts.

«Greenhouse gas emissions due to human activity have affected the odds of floods in England and Wales,» says physicist Pardeep Pall of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), who led the research published February 17 in Nature.

In fact, the two events were connected by the same weather system, leading some scientists to blame human greenhouse gas emissions.

Already, 29 states, led by New York and California, have their own renewables and greenhouse gas emissions standards.

In the time since the 2007 version of this report, the human effect on the climate has grown more than 40 percent stronger, thanks to continued emissions of greenhouse gases and more precision in measurements, with carbon dioxide leading the charge.

That makes a huge difference for some things — notably aluminium — but even recycling glass leads to a small energy saving and consequent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

«We must lead the world to produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, and we must do it in a way that does not undermine economic growth or prevent nations from delivering greater prosperity for their people.»

When he challenged the Obama rule in court as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt was one of the leading voices for the legal argument that EPA can't regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants because it already has a standard for mercury and air toxics emission from generators — known as the 112 exclusion, referring to a section of the Clean Air Act.

Former Secretary of State James Baker led a group of senior Republican statesmen today in rolling out a plan for using a carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Stable atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases would lead to continued warming, but if carbon dioxide emissions could be eliminated entirely, temperatures would quickly stabilize or even decrease over time.

The letter notes that «Stable atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases would lead to continued warming, but if carbon dioxide emissions could be eliminated entirely, temperatures would quickly stabilize or even decrease over time.

Professor Rob Lamb of the JBA Trust and Lancaster University said: «Each of these steps reflects different sources of uncertainty, but we find overall that there is a substantial chance of more properties having been placed at flood risk because of past greenhouse gas emissions, leading to potential damages that could be part of the losses incurred in 2013/14.»