Sentences with phrase «lower emissions of carbon dioxide»

The result would be lower emissions of carbon dioxide.

The targets for lower emissions of carbon dioxide from Europe's basic industries are out of reach, without urgent introduction of innovative carbon dioxide mitigation technologies.

This is further complicated by some political rejection of science - based future climate projections and unwillingness to consider alternative economic development pathways to lowering the emission of carbon dioxide and other GHGs from the Human — Earth systems.

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That would give the company an even more dominant position in the pits north of Fort McMurray, which even some Calgary financiers consider a sunset industry in light of low oil prices and international pressure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Green Gas is actually a range of gases that have lower carbon dioxide emissions than natural gas.

Electricity has historically been the chief source of CO2 emissions, but shifts from coal to lower - carbon fuels, especially natural gas, have shrunk its share of the total carbon dioxide pie in recent years.

Like fossil fuel development or not, the Kemper plant is at the center of U.S. EPA's plans to regulate carbon dioxide from new power plants and at the center of global emissions, considering that «low - rank» coals like Mississippi lignite constitute half the world's coal supply.

Eliminating this financial risk premium makes nuclear power levelized electricity cost competitive with that of coal, and it becomes lower than that of coal when a modest price on carbon dioxide emissions is imposed,» the report says.

The increased particulate matter can be attributed to the adoption of a gasoline direct - injection fuel system, which results in improved fuel economy and therefore lower carbon dioxide emission per mile driven.

The biggest driver of lower carbon dioxide emissions has been declining natural gas prices, which has allowed the industry to replace coal - fired power plants economically with cleaner natural gas power plants — and without a costly regulatory mandate,» said Jeffrey J. Anderson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

«Poultry and pork cause rather low emissions, in a range equivalent to 10 to 30 kilos of carbon dioxide per kilo of protein, while beef cause 200 kilos per kilo protein.

«If we charge the car from a clean source of electricity and combine this with the lowest possible carbon dioxide emissions during production, then the electric car will be revolutionary.

Colorado led the way in 1988 when Denver became the first city to introduce the additives on the basis of research claiming that they helped the fuel's hydrocarbons to burn more efficiently at low temperatures, thereby producing more carbon dioxide than CO and also reducing emissions of the polluting hydrocarbons themselves.

For electrification to lower emissions, Kennedy says that a region needs to produce its electricity at a rate below his threshold: approximately 600 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per gigawatt hour (GWh).

Australia's National Transport Commission reports a 1.1 % reduction in carbon - dioxide emissions from new cars and light - commercial vehicles since 2015, even though the country has the lowest - quality gasoline of the 35 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The Euro IV compliant unit also offers impressively low carbon dioxide emissions, with a CO2 figure of just 149g / km for the five - door hatch and 158g / km for the Wagon, meaning the newcomer will appeal as much to fleets as it will to cost - conscious private buyers.

Rather than focus on high - and low - polluting rich and poor nations, they focus on the emerging global class of a billion or so individuals — whether they reside in Shanghai or Chicago — who are responsible for an outsize portion of the world's emissions of carbon dioxide.

In the interest of disclosure, I'll mention a few: One occurs if a new energy source puts carbon - based sources «out of business» and displaces them quickly, even without any cost assigned to carbon dioxide emissions: In other words, if the economic cost of the new energy source is so low that it completely and quickly beats even the lowest - cost carbon - based sources (even without a «carbon price») and justifies investments associated with replacing the associated infrastructure.

Even if poor and rich countries agree, magically, to meet in the middle — at, say, 10 tons of carbon dioxide per person per year (about Europe's emissions rate)-- that produces a world well on the way to centuries of warming and coastal retreats, even at the low end of estimates of carbon dioxide's heat - trapping power.

There's another advantage to this approach, which is that there is far stronger public support for advancing and disseminating low - carbon energy sources than there is for restricting emissions of carbon dioxide using a rising cost through a cap.

Substitution through increased utilization of existing combined cycle natural gas power plants provides a relatively low - cost, short - term opportunity to reduce U.S. power sector carbon dioxide emissions by up to 20 percent, while also reducing emissions of criteria pollutants and mercury.

Among other initiatives, we're proud to have reduced our greenhouse gas emissions intensity by more than 30 % since 1990; to be the initial developer of a supercritical coal plant that will emit 15 % lower carbon dioxide than existing plants; to be a founding member of the FutureGen Alliance; to be a part of Australia's low - carbon Coal 21 program; and to be the only non-Chinese partner in China's zero - emissions GreenGen project.

U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions resulting from energy use during the first quarter of 2012 were the lowest in two decades for any January - March period.

The evidence is clear: Due to natural gas, carbon dioxide emissions from power generation dropped to 25 - year lows in the first half of 2016, according to the Energy Information Administration.

What's more, the net effect to society could be large: If 60 million families take advantage of the program to lower their energy consumption by just 10 %, the total reduction of 132 million tons of carbon dioxide would be the equivalent of the emissions of Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, Maine, Idaho, Delaware, Washington, D.C., and Maine combined.

«Absent some new technological innovation, large - scale CDR techniques have costs comparable to or exceeding those of avoiding carbon dioxide emissions by replacing fossil fuels with low - carbon energy sources.»

Despite the absence of warming in actual measured temperature records over the last 16 years, and near - record lows in hurricane and tornado activity, they still cry «wolf» repeatedly and try to connect every unusual or «extreme» weather event to human emissions of plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide.

It then goes on to speak of how the horrible effects of air pollution can be averted by enacting measures to lower carbon dioxide emissions, which, again, is demonstrably false.

Even in «low emission» climate scenarios (forecasts that are based on the assumption that future carbon dioxide emissions will increase relatively slowly), models predict precipitation may decline by 20 - 25 percent over most of California, southern Nevada, and Arizona by the end of this century.

Energy - related emissions of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that is widely believed to contribute to global warming, have fallen 12 % between 2005 and 2012 and are at their lowest level since 1994, according to a recent estimate by the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the U.S. Energy Department.

The ad's message is as clear as America's air: Thanks to increasing use of clean, affordable natural gas, U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide from electricity generation — a major source of the greenhouse gas — are at their lowest level in 25 years.

Hansen and Sachs met with reporters here Tuesday (Dec. 3) in Columbia University's Low Library to discuss their study and their thoughts on the ongoing — and so far, largely ineffectual — effort to come up with a global plan to combat the problem of climate change and scale back emissions of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide.

That changed today during the 2016 China - US Climate - Smart / Low Carbon Cities Summit in Beijing, when Chengdu formally announced its commitment to control carbon dioxide emissions so that they reach a peak around 2025 and decline after that — a target five years ahead of China's national aim to peak carbon emissions by 2030.

As part of that accord, China pledged to increase the share of non — fossil fuels in its energy mix to around 20 percent and to lower carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 60 percent to 65 percent of 2005 levels.

The state with the lowest carbon dioxide emissions per capita is New York, which contains by far the largest share of the population that commutes via mass transit.

Likewise, continued development of solar, wind and other low - carbon sources of electricity generation could mitigate the increases in carbon dioxide emissions.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

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America's energy revolution continues to deliver broad economic benefits while helping to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from electricity generation to nearly 30 - year lows.

And due primarily to greater use of natural gas, 2016 carbon dioxide emissions from power generation were at nearly 30 - year lows.

It states that the temperature rise we can expect as a result of man - made emissions of carbon dioxide is lower than the IPPC thought in 2007.

Thanks to America's energy revolution, the broad availability of natural gas and its increasing use in the power - generation sector also is playing a significant role, helping to reduce power generation - related emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) to nearly 30 - year lows.

As for emissions, levels of carbon dioxide associated with electricity generation are near 30 - year lows, primarily because of increased use of cleaner - burning natural gas.

This momentous switch from coal to lower - CO2 gas as a source of energy has done far more to drive down carbon dioxide emissions than any recent government climate policy,» he writes.

the Administrator may by rule lower such threshold to not less than 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.

China and India are building new coal - fueled power plants every week, and neither they nor any of the real «developing countries» are required to commit to «binding targets» for lower carbon dioxide emissions.

Emissions of carbon dioxide from electricity generation, which is a leading source of that greenhouse gas, have fallen to near - 30 year lows.

Therefore all dreams of mankind going quickly to low - carbon should cease as our efforts should properly be directed at mitigating whatever harmful effects will come from the increased carbon dioxide emissions, as soon as we agree what those consequences will be and to what degree, if there will be any.

The process is particularly ill - suited to the so - called High Efficiency, Low Emissions (HELE) plants being pushed as a solution to the other half of the policy problem, reducing carbon dioxide eEmissions (HELE) plants being pushed as a solution to the other half of the policy problem, reducing carbon dioxide emissionsemissions.

The carbon cost of such expansion, however, is low: to bring electricity to those without it would increase global carbon dioxide emissions by less than 1 percent.