Sentences with phrase «local emissions also»

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Cayuga Marketing LLC — a collective of dairy farmers in the Finger Lakes Region, NY — decided to construct their local processing plant to reduce their milk - hauling costs while also greatly reducing transport emissions and carbon footprint as a result of the shorter transportation distances involved.

Buying products manufactured locally cuts down on the waste of fuel and the emission that result from transporting goods long distances, and also supports your local economy.

Ms Spelman will declare that the coalition is already making significant steps to cut carbon emissions and improve flood defences, but will also stress that adapting to climate change will be partly the responsibility of the local and community level.

This not only reduces emissions in the developing country but also increases technology transfer and creates local employment opportunities.

The authors also monitored the isotopic 13C composition of CO2, which serves as a fingerprint of emissions from coal - fired power plants and matched it to that of the local coal.

The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, examined if ongoing power transmission capacity investment in China — driven largely by concerns over air pollution — could also reduce local adverse health impacts from air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Cleaner coal - burning technologies would reduce emissions not only of greenhouse gases but also of soot and other by - products that cause local and regional pollution — and they could prove to be easier or less expensive to implement.

The authors hold up the United Nations program REDD + (an extension of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation program) as an example of such a win - win solution: It protects forests while also creating benefits for local communities and biodiversity.

The researchers further recommend that, given that many human influences are driving both climate change and biodiversity loss, conservationists should aim for win - win solutions such as the United Nations program REDD + (an extension of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation programme)-- an initiative that protects forests while also creating benefits for local communities and biodiversity.

While anthropogenic CO2 emissions are driving acidification at global scales, processes occurring at local scales can also affect ocean chemistry.

This type of action can, therefore, also reduce emissions from other local traffic not just from parents driving their children to school.

The new BMW 330e is also capable of travelling up to 22 miles in all - electric mode and therefore with zero local emissions.

However, as well as enabling short distances through town with zero local emissions, the electric drive system also makes it possible to enjoy the virtues of all - electric power on cross-country roads and motorways, thanks to a top speed of 78mph.

The new BMW 330e is also capable of traveling up to 22 miles in all - electric mode and therefore with zero local emissions.

And it will also be possible to sample the pleasure of all - electric driving with zero local emissions in the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer in future — with the BMW 225xe.

Buy local Supporting local farmers is not only good for the local economy it also reduces transportation costs and all the truck emissions that go with.

We also believe the video risks undermining the work of the many thousands of members of the public, schools and universities, local authorities and many businesses, of which Sony is one, who support the long - term aims of the 10:10 movement and who are actively working towards the reduction of carbon emissions.

... Cutting local air pollution from, say coal, can also reduce carbon emissions that cause warming.»

VERGE Interconnect also demonstrates how cities, communities and companies can foster resilience to extreme weather, earthquakes and other disasters by creating distributed, local energy systems independent from the grid — and doing so in a way that reduces or even eliminates greenhouse gas emissions.

Harnessing alternative sources of energy not only reduces the output of carbon emissions, but also helps military bases reduce their vulnerability to energy disruptions from the local power grid.

Probably the biggest grievance environmental justice advocates had with AB 398, according to Bill Magavern, policy director of the Coalition for Clean Air, is a specific provision that prohibits California's Air Resources Board and local air districts from directly regulating carbon emissions by sources that are also subject to the state's cap - and - trade program.

But BECCS is also described as an elephant in the climate mitigation room, criticized both as a false and unproven solution to reduce emissions and for the risks it poses to ecosystems, indigenous peoples and local communities through the potential for land grabbing and human rights abuses.

Airlight also believes in using local workers and material; reducing carbon emissions and water use; and respecting the land.

It also supports local agriculture to reduce dependency on imports, to lower greenhouse gas emissions and energy requirements for food production, transport and storage, and to improve food security and livelihoods.

But, expanding California's cap - and - trade program to enable polluters to buy REDD credits also harms Californians — overwhelmingly low - income communities and communities of color — those who live near the refineries, power plants, oil and gas extraction sites and other high - emission industries that are the main cause of local and global climate disruption

That happens, for instance, when building a waste - to - energy plant instead of a coal station not only cuts future emissions but also brings jobs to a community while protecting local water and biodiversity.

There also may be regional and local governments, organizations, businesses, and individuals in developing countries that are exceeding their fair share of safe global emissions.

The SDM also needs a new and improved approach to make sure that emission reduction projects don't harm local communities, but instead bring co-benefits and promote sustainable development.

The review also notes that coal combustion remains the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution in the Czech Republic and highlighted the benefits of retrofitting existing coal - fired power plants with cost - effective emissions controls, and replacement of ageing plants with high - efficiency technology.

We also need to call on local officials to do some intense creative thinking focused on freeing up resources being spent on maladaptive programs (i.e. those that increase GHG emissions and / or threaten human vulnerability to climate change impacts) for worthy causes such as those being presented by ICLEI USA through Climate Communities.

For example, conserving palm swamps in tropical forest not only mitigates climate change by storing carbon and avoiding greenhouse gas emissions, but it also provides local people with fruit for their families or for sale, Murdiyarso said.

In addition to metrics for greenhouse gas emissions and local pollutants, a government still focused on economic recovery and job growth should also be concerned about cost - effectiveness, reliability, and meeting consumer and business demand.

Eli: The real issue with BC forcing is that it is not global, but intensely local, depending not only on emissions (Asian brown cloud) but also absorptions (Greenland darkening) I guess the question for me is, are there any aerosol forcings that are truly global?

The real issue with BC forcing is that it is not global, but intensely local, depending not only on emissions (Asian brown cloud) but also absorptions (Greenland darkening) A global value for forcing is thus misleading.

Emissions of local pollutants in both countries, including sulphur - dioxide and nitrous oxides, would also be reduced sharply.

Depending on the electricity source of the local grid, even the most efficient electric car could be charged by coal or natural gas, or by hydropower (no combustion emissions, but linked to increased methane emissions), or nuclear energy (which might qualify as clean or low - carbon energy, but which also has its own environmental bugaboos and massive costs to consider)

Growing and processing sugar is the first step of making rum — and it's also one of the most environmentally destructive — resulting in soil degradation and erosion, the overuse and pollution of local water resources, the spread of pesticides and fertilizers, emissions of greenhouse gases, and habitat destruction.

The purpose of the project is to both generate clean energy and reduce carbon emissions, but also to channel the income generated into further local clean energy projects too.

many health related local pollution controls can also generate significant co benefits in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

Model - average mean local precipitation responses also roughly scale with the global mean temperature response across the emissions scenarios, though not as well as for temperature.

Action on a state or local level within the US could also drive additional declines in emissions regardless of policies adopted at the federal level.

The draft regulations will also require project proponents to consider and publicly address the issue of greenhouse gas emissions (with an eye to a proposed new mandatory review process trigger threshold of 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide that would emanate from new facilities or upgraded ones) as well as protection of the local environment, wetlands and other bodies of water.

Municipalities can also direct local changes that reduce the trajectory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and create resilient communities that can adapt to the changes caused by climate -LSB-...]

The matters to be assessed and conditions set in accordance with section 5 (1)(c) regulate resource developments which are within Provincial jurisdiction and which have effects on elements of the environment (such as dust and other local air emissions) which also lie wholly within Provincial jurisdiction.

Not only do these properties lend themselves to cheaper utility costs and fewer carbon dioxide emissions, but they also avail themselves to a variety of additions that local North Carolina home builders can install.