Sentences with phrase «making additional emission»

«We do know many members of Congress are concerned about the economic impact of these rules, and more time will help mitigate the economic impact of making additional emission reductions,» a spokeswoman from the utility American Electric Power told the Wall Street Journal.

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Also, the model offers companies the possibility of buying others» emissions reductions — now, making sure that such GHG cuts are additional, i.e. would not have happened even without regulation, is tricky, argues the Pembina Institute.

«Our analysis shows that informed dietary choices can make a significant difference to greenhouse gas — reducing food - related emissions by around a quarter — with additional health benefits,» says Professor Hewitt.

«The strategy to encourage charging at home during the night is entirely consistent with the campaign to reduce carbon emissions and, by providing additional night time load on the grid, will make it more attractive to invest in renewable energy technologies.

The simplicity and low cost of a smell test — $ 26.95 retail, before additional doctor or hospital charges — make it especially appealing in neurology, a field dominated by positron - emission tomography scans, dopamine transporter single - photon emission computed tomography imaging and other expensive technologies.

For one, his published study does not take into account what is called the «substitution effect», which makes another weighty argument for cascading use: «The use of wood products helps to avoid greenhouse gas emissions that result during the production of non-wood products such as steel or concrete — and that applies equally for each additional cascading stage,» Professor Richter explained.

If I understand the above calculation correctly, it would seem that, in the electricity sector, we could mostly concentrate on meeting additional demand with efficiency and carbon neutral generation (and avoid some of the fights associated with replacing existing coal generation plants); but if we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sense.

We might consider a compromise with the Chinese that grandfathered and excused greenhouse emissions before Kyoto in return to a pledge to share technology and research, but that required nations to make additional cuts (or purchase additional emissions credits) to compensate for emissions since then.

The committee's model calculations, while exploratory and highly uncertain, indicate that the benefits of making the transition, i.e. energy cost savings, improved vehicle technologies, and reductions in petroleum use and greenhouse gas emissions, exceed the additional costs of the transition over and above what the market is willing to do voluntarily.»

Here's just one case in point: As the New York Times reports, the nine Northeastern states (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) that make up the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) have announced an additional 30 % reduction in power plant greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, on top of the 40 % reduction already achieved since the initiative launched in 2009.

However, the U.S. has pledged to reduce emissions by 26 - 28 % from 2005 levels by 2025 in its internationally determined contribution (INDC) to the UN process, meaning that the US must make more than an additional 16 % reduction from fuel efficiency standards, energy efficiency programs, non-CO2 greenhouse gas (e.g. methane, hydrofluorocarbons) reductions, and other components of Obama's climate action plan in order to meet its INDC.

The additional electrical output per unit of fuel as well as valuable efficiencies in water consumption and emissions should make the latest technology (when viewed over the life of the plant) highly attractive.

By providing an additional layer of insulation, they significantly reduce a building's need for cooling and heating, making it more energy efficient, saving energy costs, and decreasing its carbon emissions.

This means, above and beyond its domestic reductions of more than 60 %, the EU is obligated to make additional reductions internationally that amount to more than 70 % of 1990 EU emissions.

The World Bank Group also made additional exciting commitments, including applying a shadow carbon price in their investment decision - making, calculating and disclosing their greenhouse emissions, ramping up their Climate Change Action Plan's ambition in 2020, and scaling up their green finance.

Somerville and other scientists say they frequently have to make sure people they talk to understand the difference between «emissions» — the amount of additional heat - trapping gas humanity puts in the atmosphere per year, and «concentrations» — the amount of those gases that has piled up in the atmosphere and goes on hanging there for a long time.

That is a global scenario, so we made an additional assumption to allocate emissions to countries based on the IEA's World Outlook 2008 report.

A certain amount of continued warming of the planet is projected to occur as a result of human - induced emissions to date; another 0.5 °F increase would be expected over the next few decades even if all emissions from human activities suddenly stopped, 11 although natural variability could still play an important role over this time period.12 However, choices made now and in the next few decades will determine the amount of additional future warming.

Thawing permafrost also delivers organic - rich soils to lake bottoms, where decomposition in the absence of oxygen releases additional methane.116 Extensive wildfires also release carbon that contributes to climate warming.107, 117,118 The capacity of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and adjacent Canada to store carbon has been substantially weakened since the 1960s by the combination of warming and thawing of permafrost and by increased wildfire.119 Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.94, 95,96

This is an additional ethical reason why scientific uncertainty can not now be used by nations as an excuse for refusing to make reductions to their fair share of safe global emissions.

We have purchase incentives, policies to access the HOV lanes, additional support programs for low - income and disadvantaged communities, and furthermore, the California utilities are making headway in installing charging infrastructure through EV programs — all to achieve the Governor's goal of putting 1.5 million zero emission vehicles on the road by 2025.

In general, once you have an emissions budget, there are three additional choices to make: how to distribute emissions reductions over time, how to allocate the budget between CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gases, and whether (and to what degree) «negative emissions» are considered.

The reductions in operating costs quickly make up any additional costs associated with construction, and the reduced carbon emissions provide priceless peace of mind.

Let's make a rough estimate of how much additional CO2 emissions will come from just that one expansion of India's electricity capacity.

For example, reducing overall national emissions could make the climate impact of an additional child up to 17 times lower than current projections, the study found.

In terms of additional greenhouse gas emissions, producing fuel from oil shale produces eight times the emissions of making fuel from conventional sources of petroleum.

Partly that reflects the fact that costs begin rapidly to escalate beyond that amount of warming; partly it reflects the possibility (discussed in considerable detail by Mr. Lynas) that that may be enough warming to trigger climate feedbacks that would make yet more warming inevitable even without additional greenhouse gas emissions.

Vera Pardee, an attorney for the Centre for Biological Diversity, said the proposed standard put an additional burden on the Obama administration to make good on earlier promises to cut aviation emissions.

«The total emission of El Petro is to be carried out at the initial coin offering,» further down in the document we find that «an additional emission can be made as per the result of El Petro holders vote: 1 coin equals one vote.»