Sentences with phrase «lower overall carbon emissions»

Suppose a comprehensive cost - benefit analysis showed that this would lower overall carbon emissions even while the living standard of poor people would be elevated.

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Overall, the new measures would lower global anthropogenic emissions of methane by 50 % and of black carbon aerosols, also known as soot, by 80 %.

Overall the UK's carbon emissions are 38 percent lower today than they were in 1990.

Although recent models predict that a small net accumulation of carbon will occur in Arctic tundra during the present century (low confidence), higher methane emissions responding to the thawing of permafrost and an overall increase in wetlands will enhance radiative forcing (medium confidence).

In the case of the US, president Barack Obama has vowed that by 2025, its overall carbon emissions will be at least 26 per cent lower than in 2005.

In other words, while low - or zero - carbon sources would make up a greater portion of India's energy supply, overall carbon emissions would nearly double: from around 2.1 billion tons in 2014 to more than four billion tons by 2040, according to the International Energy Agency.

The decline in coal CO2 emissions has contributed to a lower overall carbon intensity of U.S. energy consumption and kept emissions below pre-recession levels.

By targeting petroleum - derived gasoline and diesel and promoting low - carbon alternative energy forms such as electricity, hydrogen, natural gas and next generation biofuels, LCFS programs are intended to reduce overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on a «well - to - wheels» basis.»

A landmark report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies in 2013 described the system of UK taxes of recent years as «complex and incoherent and less effective than it could be at reducing carbon emissions at the lowest overall cost».

With a low - end warming comes low - end impacts and an overall lack of urgency for federal rules and regulations (such as those outlined in the President's Climate Action Plan) to limit carbon dioxide emissions and limit our energy choices.

And keep in mind that we have estimated lower carbon emissions for 2014 as well from the power sector for various reasons, including most recently lower power exports to France, though the overall forecast for the power sector remains bleak until the end of the nuclear phaseout in 2022.

The Alberta government and the oil industry argue for «intensity - based» targets that would require lower per - barrel emissions, but allow growing industries to increase their overall output of carbon dioxide.

Many «carbon offset» companies such as TerraPass or DriveNeutral do this by buying emissions rights on behalf of their customers, then retiring those rights - therefore the overall cap gets lowered by an amount equivalent to the emissions of a driver's yearly car use.