Sentences with phrase «less carbon per»

We would have to develop new technologies that use energy more efficiently, emit less carbon per unit of energy, remove carbon from the atmosphere, and / or reduce the harm done by carbon dioxide.

With a high - speed rail journey from London to Amsterdam emitting 80 per cent less carbon per passenger than the equivalent flight, Eurostar's new service reinforces high speed rail as the most environmentally responsible choice for European short - haul travel.

A new study by a team of IMAS and Canadian scientists has found that catching most types of fish produces far less carbon per kilo of protein than land - based alternatives like beef or lamb.

Not exact matches

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.»

1) Less than five per cent of Canada's economy is likely to experience significant competitive pressures from differences in jurisdictional carbon prices.

For comparison's sake, potatoes have a carbon cost of less than 2 kg of carbon dioxide per kilogram produced.

Traditional rustic shade has a larger carbon footprint than commercial polyculture because yields are lower per unit area, and all the contributing factors are allocated to less product.

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.

Stamp duty on carbon neutral homes has been dropped for homes worth less than # 500,000 and there will be a 50 per cent increase in funding for the low carbon building fund.

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 trust.

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

The simulations suggested that the indirect effects of increased CO2 on net primary productivity (how much carbon dioxide vegetation takes in during photosynthesis minus how much carbon dioxide the plants release during respiration) are large and variable, ranging from less than 10 per cent to more than 100 per cent of the size of direct effects.

This is partly due to the current atmosphere containing much less CO2 — approximately 400 ppm (parts per million)-- compared to before the PETM, where the concentration was about 1,000 ppm and partly because we emit carbon into the atmosphere at a much faster rate than during the PETM.

The researchers estimated the maximum sustained carbon release rate during the PETM had to be less than 4 billion metric tons of CO2 per year — about one - tenth the current rate.

Replacing some of the lawn with groundcover would mean spending less weekend time behind a power mower, which produces more carbon dioxide, not to mention noise, per mile than any automobile.

The plane's three - piece wing spar and some other components were made from carbon fiber tapes that each weigh less than a tenth of an ounce per square foot — one - third the weight of a sheet of paper.

They found that because natural gas plants are overall more efficient than coal plants, producing more energy per unit of carbon, they could cause less warming in the long term.

Because there is no combustion, fuel cells run extremely cleanly: Their emissions are just water and carbon dioxide, and they produce less than half as much CO2 per kilowatt - hour as do traditional power plants.

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.

Despite the strong warming trend of the past 15 years, worldwide temperatures have risen less than models predict, given the build - up of carbon dioxide in the air to 25 per cent above pre-industrial levels.

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.

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.

One area of primary forest ended up having more than 300 tons of carbon per hectare, while areas of forest that had been burned or subjected to timber extraction had, at most, 200 tons per hectare and, on average, less than 100 tons of carbon per hectare.

And although Alberta currently boasts a carbon price of $ 15 per metric ton, it is not enough — at less than a dollar per barrel — to keep greenhouse gas pollution from the tar sands in check.

These range from stabilization of atmospheric carbon dioxide at twice its pre-industrial value by the end of this century (IPCC SRES B1) to continuously increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide at the rate of a bit less than 1 % per year (IPCC SRES A2).

Although seagrasses account for less than 0.2 % of the world's oceans, they sequester approximately 10 % of the carbon buried in ocean sediment annually (27.4 Tg of carbon per year) *.

In an emergency, unlike today's reactors, it shuts down without human intervention and without requiring electric power... Hundreds of nuclear scientists believe this technology has the ability to generate carbon - free power at a cost per kW less than coal.»

Broccoli also produces the carbon emission equivalent of less than one mile driven per 4 - oz.

Tofu produces the carbon emission equivalent of less than one mile driven per four ounces consumed.

Reducing our carbon emissions by 80 per cent isn't going to mean we just do or have 80 per cent less stuff — we need to focus on doing things differently, or doing different things.

The school will use up to 80 per cent less energy than a conventionally built equivalent facility, reducing carbon emissions by 60 per cent without the use of renewable energy.

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.

Every aspect of the carbon wheel that aids per - formance also benefits efficiency for the same reason — physics: You're able to do the same or more with less energy.

The underlying motivation varies from buyer to buyer and usually involves one or more of these objectives: diminishing the demand for foreign oil, potentially releasing less pollution and carbon, saving money on cost per mile, driving solo in carpool lanes and / or irritating friends and strangers with an air of superiority.

The company says that over the NEDC standardized European driving cycle, its plug - in diesel hybrid will emit less than 50 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer.

Standard on the GT350R, carbon fiber wheels weigh about 13 pounds less per wheel than similarly sized aluminum alloys.

Other models that might be unveiled are a new efficient diesel C - Class that will be on the market by 2011 that uses less than five liters of fuel per 100 km and only emits less than 130g of carbon - dioxide per km.

Right now we're taxing sugar - based ethanol at 54 cents per gallon while we are subsidizing corn - based ethanol at 45 cents per gallon, even though sugar - based ethanol is cheaper and producing it generates less carbon dioxide.

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» emissions.

On these numbers alone = ~ 0.5 parts per million of carbon dioxide less per year between now and eternity

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 disturbing conclusion, documented in a paper I have written with several of the world's leading climate experts, is that the safe level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is no more than 350 ppm (parts per million) and it may be less.

It is like saying that if you drive at 55 miles an hour the carbon dioxide emissions from your car will be less than if you drive at 70 miles per hour.

A «hard collar» on the price of emission permits of no less than $ 10 per ton of carbon emitted and no more than $ 30 per ton.

IGCC plants should benefit from carbon pricing as they generate more power per ton of emission than a less efficient plant.

COTAP's carbon offset projects, which counteract emissions through tree planting, agroforestry and forest protection, are all located in areas where income levels are less than $ 2 per day, and are certified under Plan Vivo, the world's longest - standing voluntary standard for forest carbon.

Natural gas emits less carbon dioxide per unit of energy than coal.

In their conservative calculations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that approximately 25 % of deforestation emissions can be abated at a cost of less than $ 20 per metric ton of carbon dioxide (tCO2).

It would also mean the damages resulting from carbon dioxide emissions would be less for every ton of CO2 emitted (~ 20 tons of CO2 annually per capita in the US).

Natural gas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of electricity production around the world and in the U.K. Gas emits less than half the CO2 per kilowatt hour produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, black carbon, carbon monoxide, mercury, and particulates.