Sentences with phrase «less carbon by»

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Studies indicate carbon dioxide emissions from transportation in the province have declined 16 % in that time, and while it's impossible to draw a direct causal relationship between the tax and the emissions decline, it's fair to say it was a factor contributing to indisputable behavioural changes — you can't emit 16 % less CO2 by doing the same things you did before.

Environmental groups are employing the same strategy, in a less direct way, on the oilpatch, by raising public opposition to pipelines and low - carbon fuel standards for refineries in California and Europe.

We are living in an enormous fabric of life, where anti-poverty measures may create new pressures caused by excess consumption; where methane emissions increase if we eat more beef or throw food waste in a landfill; where drought leads to forest fires and more carbon; where marginalizing women makes communities less resilient.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

Shortly after assuming office, the government made B.C.'s tax regime less competitive by raising the general corporate income tax rate, creating a new top personal income tax rate and increasing the carbon tax.

Another issue loaded with political implications is the proposed carbon - credit trading mechanism, by which countries with less «pollution» than their set limits can sell credits to those that exceed their quotas.

Industrialized countries with less than a quarter of the world's population are responsible for about three - quarters of the carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels.

Certified farms must reduce their carbon footprint by providing cattle with an easy to digest diet — generating less methane emissions — treating manure and protecting the trees in pastures and neighboring forested areas.

By eliminating this packaging (bottles, corks, capsules, labels and cases), there is a lot less to ship and recycle, lowering the carbon footprint of the wine and hospitality industries.

Louisville Slugger tweaked the standard titanium design by utilizing a re-enforced carbon polymer that provided better durability, a better weight distribution, less «sting» on the hands, a wider and longer «sweet spot,» and an even more potent trampolining effect, spawning even more composites.

With the Laundry Pure system, you're no longer pumping detergent chemicals into our water supply and you're reducing your carbon footprint by using less water and less energy.

The ability to buy additional glass inserts reduces the carbon footprint on the environment by using less plastic.

I keep them in my car for impromptu shopping to help reduce my carbon footprint by using less plastic.

On the environment, Europe's target under the Kyoto protocol is to cut carbon emission by eight per cent by 2012, but Mr Cameron will warn that with just six years to go, emissions are down less than one per cent on 1990 levels.

The only real climate change solutions that I have seen are to reduce carbon dioxide in the air by having human activity emit less of it.

By the end of 2006/07 businesses and public sector organisations had implemented less than 40 per cent of carbon dioxide savings identified by the trusBy the end of 2006/07 businesses and public sector organisations had implemented less than 40 per cent of carbon dioxide savings identified by the trusby the trust.

By displacing older, less efficient generation operating today, the facility will reduce regional carbon emissions by nearly half a million tons per yeaBy displacing older, less efficient generation operating today, the facility will reduce regional carbon emissions by nearly half a million tons per yeaby nearly half a million tons per year.

Thawing permafrost may mean more CO2 in the atmosphere but less sea ice may mean more carbon captured by the Arctic ocean

The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.

It could also mean rainforests in the future are populated by smaller trees, which store less carbon, the team says.

«Less than 1 percent of our carbon emissions are offset by this,» says Jolanka Nickerman, manager of Google's Carbon Offsets Team.

In fact, it would take 3,600 projects of Sleipner's scale — which is the largest such project underway — to reduce current carbon dioxide emissions from coal by less than half, the report says.

They determined a material with less than 90 percent carbon and enhanced by oxygen, rather than nitrogen or sulfur, worked best for both carbon capture and methane selectivity, especially for materials activated at temperatures approaching 800 degrees Celsius.

This is because firstly, the micro-organisms that break down dead trees produce copious amounts of CO2, and secondly, there is less vegetation remaining that can remove the greenhouse gas from the air by capturing the carbon in leaves, trunks and roots as part of its growth cycle.

Using technology developed at Cornell University, Novomer gets additional funding to develop a plastic - manufacturing process that requires less oil by folding in carbon dioxide

By looking at the chemistry of rocks deposited during that time period, specifically coupled carbon and sulfur isotope data, a research team led by University of California, Riverside biogeochemists reports that oxygen - free and hydrogen sulfide - rich waters extended across roughly five percent of the global ocean during this major climatic perturbation — far more than the modern ocean's 0.1 percent but much less than previous estimates for this evenBy looking at the chemistry of rocks deposited during that time period, specifically coupled carbon and sulfur isotope data, a research team led by University of California, Riverside biogeochemists reports that oxygen - free and hydrogen sulfide - rich waters extended across roughly five percent of the global ocean during this major climatic perturbation — far more than the modern ocean's 0.1 percent but much less than previous estimates for this evenby University of California, Riverside biogeochemists reports that oxygen - free and hydrogen sulfide - rich waters extended across roughly five percent of the global ocean during this major climatic perturbation — far more than the modern ocean's 0.1 percent but much less than previous estimates for this event.

The new study, led by Professor Scott, found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

«Thanksgiving dinner's carbon footprint: A state - by - state comparison: Meals prepared in Maine and Vermont emit less carbon dioxide; meals made in Wyoming emit most.»

And an efficient, well run incinerator emits less carbon than is produced by letting the rubbish decompose and burning the methane.

«However, ocean warming cancelled this benefit of elevated carbon dioxide by causing stress to the animals, making them less efficient feeders and preventing the extra energy produced by the plants from travelling through the food web to the fish.

According to DOE, as those less - efficient bulbs disappear, the savings will gradually add up — reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 594 million tons from 2012 to 2042.

The authors aren't yet sure why the organic carbon from the more developed watersheds is less vulnerable to breakdown by sunlight in rivers and streams, but suggest that it might be because it has already been exposed to appreciable sunlight in the less shady urban and agricultural environment.

This may have been triggered by a 250 - million - year lull in volcanic activity, which would have meant less carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere, and a reduced greenhouse effect.

The low - carbon fuel standard orders providers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels by 10 percent by 2020 through efforts such as blending in biofuels that result in less greenhouse gases emitted when burned.

While the team's research showed no significant difference in bacterial degradation of organic matter from cleared or forested watersheds, Canuel says it did show that «organic carbon in runoff from watersheds affected by human activity is less susceptible to solar degradation than that from forested watersheds.»

Engineered plants conserve 25 percent more water by only partially opening their mouth - like stomata, allowing less water to escape through transpiration while carbon dioxide enters the plant to fuel photosynthesis.

Goddard and Gray created two environments for the yeast in their lab — one containing relatively little carbon at an uncomfortably hot 37 °C, the other limited for nitrogen instead, at a less stressful 30 °C but with an «osmotic stress» caused by an unusual balance of salts.

The study, which was led by University of Surrey Engineering Doctorate student Helen Skudder, also found that many burglary prevention measures installed individually or in combination, produce less carbon emissions than an incidence of burglary.

Those simulations, which included nitrogen limitations in northern hemisphere soils and phosphorus limitations in the tropics, predicted that land plants will absorb 23 % less carbon than is projected by other models.

The result is a forest dominated by smaller trees with milder woods which stock less carbon.»

Then in 1991, while studying the unique atomic structures called buckyballs, which are created by electrically charging carbon soot, Sumio Iijima of Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan, discovered the first nanotubes — fantastically strong cylindrical carbon - atom constructions less than two nanometers wide and of varying lengths.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

It produces no carbon dioxide exhaust emissions, and even when the CO2 released in generating the electricity used to charge its batteries is factored in, it is responsible for less than half the amount emitted by the «greenest» petrol cars.

That is because more than 80 percent of their industrial waste is carbon dioxide; by contrast, the figure is less than 20 percent in the power plants, said Wang Yongsheng, engineer of Shenhua's carbon capture and storage project.

MORE PROFIT WITH LESS CARBON, by Amory B. Lovins.

Furthermore, it is likely that Miller and Urey erred by simulating Earth's early atmosphere with gases containing hydrogen, which reacts easily, as opposed to carbon dioxide, a gas that is far less reactive but was probably far more plentiful at the time.

Researchers made the discovery by growing today's teosinte in 20.1 °C to 22.5 °C greenhouses with 40 % to 50 % less carbon dioxide in the air — conditions more like those 14,000 years ago, before the plant was first domesticated.

The forests that were disturbed by logging or fire had from 18 % to 57 % less carbon than primary forests.

But such a charismatic carbon project is all too rare these days, both because the carbon market is dominated by less robust emission reductions from heavy industry in China and India as well as development efforts that proceed with little thought of the environmental cost or co-benefits.

The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Exeter, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, the University of Hawai'i and ETH Zürich, has for the first time shown that increased leaching of carbon from soil, mainly due to deforestation, sewage inputs and increased weathering, has resulted in less carbon being stored on land and more stored in rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries and coastal zones — environments that are together known as the «land - ocean aquatic continuum».