Sentences with phrase «lower emission levels»

Calibration Engineers are in charge of calibrating engine controls in order to improve performance and lower emission levels.

One reason for the uptick in coal - fired generation in Europe has been the looming deadline for the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive, which will require older coal plants to meet lower emission levels by the end of 2015 or be mothballed.

There is a choice of gasoline and upgraded diesel engines, like the 1.6 Turbo GDi with 175 hp and an upgraded 1.7 diesel CRDi delivering 141 hp, with lower emission levels made possible thanks to the advanced seven - speed double - clutch transmission (DCT).

«Our research team has developed a simple and cost - effective fabrication technique to create solar absorbers that can harness a greater share of the solar spectrum, thus increasing their efficiencies, while also maintaining low emission levels,» said Masdar Institute's Dr. TieJun Zhang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.

The CUPRA R also features usefully lower emissions levels than many of its rivals, as its 190 g / km on average make it the most efficient car in its segment with this power output.

The target that resulted in the lowest emission levels was used in the calculation of the aggregate emissions (Whenever necessary, multiple initial growth rates were used.

If you can't point to a single country that lowered its emissions levels due to some policy having been implemented --- doesn't that mean by defination that that BAU approach was generally followed?

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But there are ideas demonstrated in the laboratory that could bring the oilsands» carbon emissions and other drawbacks down to the level of conventional oil or even lower.

The government allocated C$ 1 billion over four years to support clean technology development and established the C$ 2 billion Low Carbon Economy Fund to support activities at both the provincial and federal levels to curb carbon emissions.

California dairy farmers — from the nation's leading agricultural state — are facing pressure to lower methane emissions under the state's ambitious new greenhouse gas reduction laws, which include methane emission reduction targets of 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030.

Dairy farmers in California are already facing pressure to lower methane emissions under the state's ambitious new greenhouse gas reduction laws, which include methane emission reduction targets of 40 % below 2013 levels by 2030.

This product is composed of safe materials, so its emission of toxic substance is at a low level, creating a healthy environment for your children while sleeping.

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The chemical plants were largely self - regulated and manufacturers used air to dilute the emissions, to lower the opacity, but it didn't reduce the levels of toxic chemicals released.

The plan calls for cutting greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030 from 1990 levels; lowering energy consumption in buildings 23 percent from 2012 levels, and generating half of the state's electricity from solar, wind, hydropower and biomass by 2030.

The world can make lower sea - level rise outcomes much more likely by meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of bringing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero in the second half of this century, the study shows.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

Those closures have helped reduce U.S. energy - related carbon emissions to their lowest levels in 20 years.

In cold weather, particulate levels in the open air can grow, when vehicle emissions increase and are suspended in the lower atmosphere.

In a further setback to reducing U.S. carbon emissions, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering the U.S. government's «social cost» of carbon, or the estimated cost of sea - level rise, lower crop yields, and other climate - change related economic damages, from $ 42 per ton by 2020 to a low of $ 1 per ton.

So companies in the developed world have an annual limit on the level of greenhouse gas emissions they can produce, and if they exceed their cap, they can purchase credits generated by the emission reduction projects or low - carbon technologies in developing countries.

The researchers also observed regional differences in methane emission levels, with the lowest emissions per device measured in the Rocky Mountains and the highest emissions in the Gulf Coast, similar to the earlier 2013 study.

The system enables large - bore, multi-cylinder engines used in trains, pipelines, backup diesel generators and other fields to run efficiently while producing lower levels of harmful emissions than they do currently.

Toxins and nicotine have been measured in that aerosol, such as formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acetic acid and other toxins emitted into the air, though at lower levels compared to conventional cigarette emissions.

NOx emissions were about 70 percent lower than past levels and 10 percent below the EPA requirement.

The Electric Power Research Institute's report on decarbonizing electricity generation said an «aggressive» push on new technologies could lower 2005 - level carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 41 percent in 2030.

This year natural gas moved to the top of the electricity - producing charts in the U.S., threatening coal's 120 - year dominance and pushing carbon emissions down to their lowest levels in 20 years.

Exozodiacal dust emission, even at low levels, makes it significantly harder to detect Earth - like planets with direct imaging.

Carbon dioxide emissions from energy production in the United States fell to 5.29 billion metric tons in 2012 - its lowest level since 1994 - despite a growing economy and rising population, according to government data released on Monday.

In a separate report released in September, EIA analysts predicted carbon emissions for 2016 will fall to their lowest level since 1992 — three years before the United Nations held the first of its 21 global summits on climate change, called the Conference of the Parties.

English also recommended loosening the draft bill's emission limits (currently 20 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, and 83 percent cuts by midcentury) to match up with the availability of low - carbon energy technology.

German river levels lowest in a century Some three - quarters of oilseed rape goes into the country's biodiesel industry — the biggest in the 27 - nation bloc — leaving it critically short of feedstock and either forcing imports or cutting production, with a consequent knock - on effect on the country's and the European Union's efforts to cut climate - changing carbon emissions.

Still, he noted, climate negotiators are not generally experts in finance, and if nations are serious about raising big bucks to protect low - lying islands from sea level rise, to develop distributed solar generation or to do other much - needed work toward both mitigating emissions and building resilience against weather disasters, the conversation needs to shift.

Houston, it turned out, had focused on controlling the wrong emissions from the wrong sources to lower its ozone levels, says Daniel Cohan, an associate professor of environmental engineering at Rice University.

The oil industry incentivises the development of carbon - capturing tech, but researchers say this will not reduce emissions to low enough levels.

The move preempts expected European Community legislation to lower acceptable levels of sulphur dioxide emissions.

However, emission factors for Chinese coal were on average 40 per cent lower than the default levels recommended by the IPCC.

For sure, as we go to the longer time periods and extraordinarily low levels of greenhouse gas emissions being discussed, we're going to have to keep that going.

He hopes that the satellite will be able to confirm ground - based measurements that show a small increase in CO2 levels above Pasadena each day as emissions from the greater Los Angeles area pool in the low atmosphere.

They found that, broadly speaking, higher national investment in these environmentally - friendly incentive schemes over a five - year period correlated with increased levels of bird biodiversity and lower rates of gas emissions from farming.

Recent projections show that for even the lowest emissions scenarios, thermal expansion of ocean waters21 and the melting of small mountain glaciers22 will result in 11 inches of sea level rise by 2100, even without any contribution from the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.

On the high end, recent work suggests that 4 feet is plausible.23, 3,6,7,8 In the context of risk - based analysis, some decision makers may wish to use a wider range of scenarios, from 8 inches to 6.6 feet by 2100.10,2 In particular, the high end of these scenarios may be useful for decision makers with a low tolerance for risk (see Figure 2.26 on global sea level rise).10, 2 Although scientists can not yet assign likelihood to any particular scenario, in general, higher emissions scenarios that lead to more warming would be expected to lead to higher amounts of sea level rise.

Recently, Steffen's research has revealed some good news - levels of airborne mercury measured in Alert decreased between 1995 and 2007, possibly due to lower emissions from North America and Europe over that period.

In 2009, at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen, China vowed to reduce the carbon dependence of its economy by lowering CO2 emissions per unit of gross domestic product from 2010 levels by 17 percent by 2015.

But in recent years, using X-ray emissions as a measure of heat given off by powerful gravitational forces, they unexpectedly found that most SMBH accrete matter at very low levels.

While this number is higher than the previous estimate made in the late 1990s based on ground measurements, the new research includes data on more volcanoes, including some that scientists have never visited, and it is still lower than human emissions of sulfur dioxide pollution levels.

«But if we reduce emissions drastically to the lowest pathway recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (RCP2.8), then we will never enter a new normal state for extreme seasons at a regional level in the 21st Century.»

Energy emissions have declined to lowest levels since 1991 due to lower heating demand, less coal usage, and utilization of more renewable energy sources.

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