Sentences with phrase «less carbon intensive»

Now if there were research that promised to make it cheaper and less carbon intensive — that might be a different matter.

Paradoxically, there will also be many energy - intensive business winners in an economy that is overall, less carbon intensive, more dependent on renewable and local resources, and more efficient in every way.

A walk or bike ride is certainly less expensive and is less carbon intensive than a hybrid car even at 50 mpg.

All the students highlighted the importance to act at a global level, with the promotion of education programmes and awareness campaigns, as well as at the very individual level, with energy saving and less carbon intensive individual choices.

Not only has the Balanced Fund largely outperformed the S&P 500 Index over the past five years; the Fund's carbon footprint is 49.5 percent less carbon intensive than that of the S&P 500, according to a recent analysis undertaken for Green Century by Trucost.

For example, we will need to dramatically reduce the number of miles we drive as well as develop less carbon intensive vehicles.

Everyone whose technology makes current ventures less carbon intensive becomes more competitive.

Cleaning up soot pollution could prevent between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths each year, according to the international team of researchers, while capturing methane from coal mines, landfills, and agricultural waste can yield natural gas, a less carbon intensive and increasingly valuable fuel.

If that is your view then you have missed the point entirely, pricing carbon is not about people going without or even dramatically changing behaviour, it's about shifting production methods to supply close substitutes or even identical products but in a less carbon intensive fashion.

In order to decrease carbon emissions, countries essentially only have four options: reducing their population, cutting back economic activity, taking positive steps to increase energy efficient technologies, or expanding the role of less carbon intensive energy sources.

The conclusion we can draw from these is that policies and institutional settings matter as mechanisms to move our cities to less carbon intensive pathways of development.

Companies that produce, use and / or invest in fuels that are at least 50 % less carbon intensive than conventional fossil fuels can sign up to the approval process for joining below50.

Carol Browner worked with Vice President Gore and others to develop paths for moving forward toward a less carbon intensive economy.

Fuel Substitution: The oil and natural gas industry has spent nearly $ 25 billion developing substitute and less carbon intensive fuels, such as liquefied natural gas and reducing fugitive gas emissions.

Public policy can't make Texas more densely populated (in the short or even medium run) or cooler, but it could promote public transportation, increase gasoline and electricity prices, and shift electricity production towards less carbon intensive alternatives to coal.

And I'm not worried about that because I believe that in the meanwhile, we have that time to develop less carbon intensive forms of energy production, to walk away from the rising sea levels, and to build further inland, develop sea defences, etc, etc..

The transfer of knowledge, on the other hand, relies on the transmission of electrons, requiring an infrastructure of transcontinental fiber - optics that is far less carbon intensive that trans - ocean shipping.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

This is without even starting on the many benefits of less carbon intensive travel etc..

This is the case even when the solar panels are manufactured in countries where energy production is carbon intensive (e.g. China) and installed in countries where energy production is less carbon intensive (e.g. Germany).

Anyway its not an either / or situation between buying an electric car or flying less or buying less carbon intensive produce.

Research shows plastic bottles made from recycled material are 67 % less carbon intensive than those using virgin plastic.

Carbon taxes like those suggested in the «Stern Report» to the UK Government, about $ 100 / metric tonne of carbon dioxide (equivalent to 88 US cents / gallon of gasoline and so on throughout the system) would accelerate whatever technology, economic forces, and lifestyle decisions might choose as paths towards a less carbon intensive lifestyle.

April 3, 2013 — The Green Century Balanced Fund announced today that it is 49.5 % less carbon intensive than the S&P 500 ® Index * without...

Australians are strongly committed to kerbside recyling, which is cheaper and less carbon intensive than CDL.

Not exact matches

A gasoline provider could blend ethanol into their fuel to make it less carbon - intensive, for instance — something Canadian fuel providers already do.

Fortunately, promising ideas are already circulating that would help make the transition to a less carbon - intensive economy compatible with maintaining and creating high - quality jobs in Canada.

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.

«For scientific activities that require the emission of carbon, researchers should replace with less carbon - intensive activities, reduce the scope of the activity, and refine their research plan to maximize the scientific return for each unit of carbon emitted,» Favaro wrote.

Even in the United States — where much has been made of the switch away from coal to less carbon - intensive gas — coal is making a comeback.

Sound scientific advice will emphasize conservation and efficiency improvements, as well as research on less carbon - intensive substitutes, as part of a strategy that will clearly be important in the national interest of the United States and its friends.

Most of the needed policies will occur within countries, but some cooperative international efforts will be essential as well, such as new schemes to share technology or fund transitions to less carbon - intensive fuels.

Research lead Helen Skudder said: «This research highlights that burglar alarms and CCTV are far more carbon - intensive than door and window locks, and less effective from a security standpoint.

She and others have also proposed Colstrip explore less carbon - intensive ways to send power down the valuable twin, 500 - kilovolt transmission lines originating at the plant.

Burning that less carbon - intensive fuel could prevent the emission of 0.5 to one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas, according to one study.

The solvents can operate at much lower temperatures than those solvents considered for carbon - capture to date, making them less energy intensive and more cost effective.

Inspired to make your next vacation a less carbon - intensive one?

We make every attempt to minimize our carbon output by using «green» materials that are less resource - intensive to produce and transport.

Rural India and Africa require huge amounts of development and that development has bog all to do with developed world attempts to move to less carbon - intensive energy sources.

But cleaner transport also means less carbon emissions, both because buses are cleaner, less fuel intensive per passenger mile, and because people are actually leaving their cars for the faster buses.

The (somewhat) good news is that «in 2014 and 2015, emission growth rates slowed as economic growth has become less carbon - intensive.

A carbon tax or cap - and - trade program could make emission - intensive U.S. products less competitive and increase emissions overseas.

What are other ways smart technologies are already allowing you to live a less carbon - intensive lifestyle?

And even absent direct substitutes, costlier air travel would lose market share to other discretionary activities, almost all of which would be less carbon - intensive.

Also, support toward less carbon - intensive energy sources that could be developed domestically — such as biogas — could facilitate a less coal - intensive future.

By raising the cost of fossil fuels, the tax is intended to provide an incentive to find less carbon - intensive energy and transportation alternatives.

And where Lucas promises that there will be less unemployment under a Green Government, it is because a «zero carbon economy» is far more labour - intensive than its fully - powered counterpart.

It is also less clear with carbon - intensive companies who view themselves as more progressive whether in fact the threat has permeated company governance structures including executive planning, strategy, compensation and annual investment decisions.

Recommended policies and strategies include: (1) establishment of clear energy and climate change adaptation / mitigation policies in Africa; (2) implementation of renewable energy development - inducing policies; (3) creating conducive environments for private - public partnerships in clean energy development; (4) enhancement of broader regional and continental collaboration in energy and climate change policies; (5) accessing existing international funding sources for promoting less carbon - intensive energy technologies; and (6) implementation of energy portfolio diversification.

However, private investment will only flow at the scale and pace necessary if it is supported by clear, credible, and long - term policy frameworks that shift the risk - reward balance in favor of less carbon - intensive investment.