Sentences with phrase «less carbon emissions in»

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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.

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.

But while that is a crucial national conversation, the heated pipeline debate sometimes means we pay a lot less attention to the kinds of things we should build in Canada if we're serious about reducing carbon emissions.

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.»

If lower oil prices are as bad for Canada's economy as rate - cutting Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz insists, the central bank might consider assessing the risks to the economy in a world where constraining carbon emissions becomes less of an abstract notion and more of a daily reality.

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.

«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 footprintIn 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 footprintin 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.

The environmental audit committee's report on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) points to underperformance in the scheme so far, concluding the «record in reducing carbon emissions is far less impressivEmissions Trading Scheme (ETS) points to underperformance in the scheme so far, concluding the «record in reducing carbon emissions is far less impressivemissions is far less impressive».

Reducing emissions through energy efficiency With respect to its own multibillion - dollar portfolio of drilling operations, refineries and pipelines, Exxon Mobil said it «addresses the risk of climate change in several concrete and meaningful ways,» including through energy efficiency measures, deployment of less carbon - intensive technologies at its facilities and even the development of products that help consumers use energy more efficiently.

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.

Instead, the Administration's plans for energy conservation and using energy sources with less CO2 emission will help in the short - term, he said; down the road, a new National Climate Change Technology Initiative will help develop cutting - edge technologies such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration, Bush said.

When faced with environmental regulations and the costs they impose, companies may relocate to a less - regulated jurisdiction, taking with them jobs and contributing to «leakage» in which targets of regulation, such as carbon emissions, are not reduced, just redistributed.

«When taking into account that production of the far smaller batteries of plug - in hybrids is associated with less carbon dioxide emissions than production of the larger batteries of electric vehicles, their carbon dioxide balance is even better,» says Patrick Jochem of KIT's Institute for Industrial Production.

In a fossil fuel - fired generator, this means less carbon dioxide emissions for the same unit of electricity produced.

«If ozone continues to increase, vegetation will take up less and less of our carbon dioxide emissions, which will leave more CO2 in the atmosphere, adding to global warming,» Sitch says.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

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.

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.

In its annual analysis of trends in global carbon dioxide emissions, the Global Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levelIn its annual analysis of trends in global carbon dioxide emissions, the Global Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levelin global carbon dioxide emissions, the Global Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

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.

Although ponds less than a quarter of an acre in size make up only 8.6 % of the surface area of the world's lakes and ponds, they account for 15.1 % of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and 40.6 % of diffusive methane (CH4) emissions.

Less work required to capture the same amount of CO2 results in lowering the cost of using CCUS technology, making coal - to - chemicals factories a promising sector to reduce carbon emissions.

The figure is also about 10 per cent less than the estimate given for China in the most recent publication of the Global Carbon Project, which updates annually the global carbon emissions and their implications for future trends.

The compound works to convert carbon monoxide emissions in automotive exhaust to less harmful carbon dioxide.

Some prior research has suggested that carbon dioxide emissions from all lakes on Earth are less than what was found in the Arctic, and future factors could shift the importance of sunlight, noted Lars Tranvik, a Swedish scientist, in an accompanying Science article.

A 2016 World Bank report found that of the various carbon pricing systems in use around the world, «about three quarters» of all emissions covered are priced at less than $ 10 per ton.

Low emissions, much less zero emissions, are only true in certain places where most of the electricity comes from a mix of low - carbon sources such as the sun, wind or nuclear reactors.

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.

A new report published today by researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Sheffield shows that global carbon emissions could be cut by one gigatonne per year (3 % of global emissions) in less than five years if other countries followed the same strategy.

GM crops that tolerate herbicides deserve some praise: They help minimize mechanical weed removal, which means less soil erosion, more carbon stored in the soil and fewer carbon emissions from tilling equipment making trips across fields, scientists noted in 2012 in a special issue of Weed Science focused on herbicide - resistance management.

A UFZ team of scientists led by Andreas Huth described in Nature Communications in spring of last year that fragmentation of once connected tropical forest areas could increase carbon emissions worldwide by another third, as many trees die and less carbon dioxide is stored in the edge of forest fragments.

But if people were better at using less electricity, which accounts for 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, the potential for reducing emissions would be huge.

Because everyone in this global community will be affected by climate change, it will be for our own benefit if we manage to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in such a way that global warming is limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius», says Prof. Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and coordinator of BIOACID.

It also supports over the counter sales, allows either caterers and schools to justifiably claim that the containers they sell can be recovered for recycling after - use, and also carries numerous other benefits; such as improved janitor utilisation (so less time's spent on litter control / cleaning), reduction in skip use as materials are removed separately for recycling and / or are stored in a compacted form, and reduction of carbon emissions within the recovery chain.

According to Alex Green, LESS CO2 programme manager: «From staff awareness to student engagement, the positive change we've seen in the participating schools as a result of the programme has been remarkable, not to mention their reduced carbon emissions.»

As well as cutting their fuel bills, LESS CO2 schools are also making significant carbon savings, with schools in Devon and Cornwall reducing their CO2 emissions by over 300 tonnes over the course of the programme.

When run in Europe's standardized fuel economy and emissions test cycle, the Flextreme is expected to produce less than 60 grams of carbon dioxide per mile.

And of course, the car is powered by a fuel - efficient 2.0 - liter four - cylinder engine that will reduce carbon emissions in a city that sorely needs less pollution.

Considering the fact that this car even misses the sub-50g / km carbon emissions rating it would need to qualify for decent financial sweetners to ownership, it looks less and less likely to transform the standing of the Panamera «hybrid» in quite the way Porsche may have hoped.

The Zafira and Combo CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) produce almost no soot particles, 20 percent less carbon dioxide than a comparable gasoline model and an up to 80 percent reduction in other harmful emissions.

These touches contribute in improved fuel economy, as well as less carbon dioxide emissions.

The diesel engine will meet emissions standards in all 50 states and will produce up to 20 percent less carbon emissions than a regular gas - powered engine.

However, for those who are interested in paying substantially less at the fuel pump, and also doing their part to reduce carbon emissions, there is the Escape Hybrid edition.

A two in three probability of holding warming to 2 °C or less will require a budget that limits future carbon dioxide emissions to about 900 billion tons, roughly 20 times annual emissions in 2014.

... Based on these results, further warming and drying of tropical forests is expected to result in less uptake and more release of carbon on land, unfortunately amplifying the effect of fossil fuel emissions warming the climate.

In the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion people, emitting less than one ton of carbon dioxide per person per year (compared to the 20 tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissionIn the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion people, emitting less than one ton of carbon dioxide per person per year (compared to the 20 tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissionin the richest populations» emissions.

And remember, energy is far from the dominant component of the economy, and phasing in a 50 or 75 % reduction in carbon emissions doesn't mean a 50 to 75 % reduction in energy usage — still less a 50 to 75 % reduction in productive use of energy, given likely efficiency gains.

As I wrote in The New York Times last week, the Swedish government is already encouraging its citizens to modify their diets (less red meat, more seasonal vegetables) to reduce personal carbon dioxide emissions.

One thing that the public aren't widely aware of — even though emissions in China are anticipated to rise rapidly, their current plans lead to 1 gigaton [billion metric tons] of carbon less being emitted by about 2030 than under the previous high growth path.

This seems highly unwise, and, as I discussed in a piece on HuffPost about it, «Methane in the Twilight Zone, Episode 2,» * the more that you're planning on doing anything about climate change — i.e., lowering GHG emissions, pulling carbon out of the system through biochar, afforestation, etc — the less sense it makes.