Sentences with phrase «means overall emissions»

Although its strong economic growth means overall emissions are still increasing, China has reached its 2020 «carbon intensity» targets ahead of time by implementing serious environmental policies and technological innovation.

Not exact matches

«If we use the storage as the means to foster the adoption of significantly more renewables that offset the dirtiest sources, then storage — done the right way and installed at large - scale — can have beneficial impacts on the grid's emissions overall,» Webber said.

«If you went back to 1850 and repeated history» — meaning the same volcanic eruptions, the same solar variability, the same greenhouse gas emissions — «the overall temperature increase would be about the same, but you would end up with somewhat different temperature records due to the inherent randomness in the climate.»

Even the 350 - ppm limit for carbon dioxide is «questionable,» says physicist Myles Allen of the Climate Dynamics Group at the University of Oxford, and focusing instead on keeping cumulative emissions below one trillion metric tons might make more sense, which would mean humanity has already used up more than half of its overall emissions budget.

That means per - capita transportation emissions have gone down, even as overall emissions remain about the same.

Besides outstanding thermal efficiency, diesels» low overall emissions «profile» means less reliance on expensive, deterioration - prone exhaust aftertreatment strategies.

In other words: Increased fertilizer use alone would likely mean that either of those projects would increase greenhouse gas emissions overall and thus make climate change even worse.

Second, a reference emergency pathway should not be so vague when it comes to defining overall global emissions allowances, or indeed in specifying what «substantial deviation from baseline» in the «non-Annex I» developing world actually means.

One way or another the oil will find a way to market, which means building Keystone won't raise overall greenhouse gas emissions at all relative to not building it.

The compromise would involve «emission trading» among nations that faced different costs of compliance, as a means of lowering the overall cost.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

The French had a point: the emission trading scheme, while it would have allowed the U.S. to sign on, was really a cop - out, since buying unused permits from Russia would mean that overall emissions to the atmosphere would not actually be reduced at all.

The recent recession has also left emissions permits undersold, meaning there's room, under the EU limit, to burn more coal or gas overall.

Because emissions needed for food production will decline more slowly, a 3 % overall decline means a 4 % p.a. decline in energy and industrial emissions.

By Otto's logic, that means countries should already have cut their overall carbon emissions by 10 percent in that time, an ambition that outstrips the Clean Power Plan's goal of six percent in 15 years.

For example, the 183 figure which is highlighted in gold means Mass's 17.1 % electric power as a source of its overall CO2 emissions is 1.83 times higher than Maine's 9.4 % electric power as a source of CO2.

Now, new research in Nature Climate Change [1] not only reinforces the reality of this trend — which is already provoking debate about the overall climate consequences of a warming Arctic — but statistically attributes it to human causes, which largely means greenhouse gas emissions (albeit with a mix of other elements as well)

This means that oil sands oil has overall (well to wheels) emissions some 17 % greater than for typical crude oil and most of these extra emissions are due to energy needed to extract bitumen from the ground.

Neither will the 85 % electric - sector CO2 reduction afforded just by nuclear + gas suffice: 85 % is what we should be shooting for overall, meaning electric - sector emissions must become essentially zero.

A high enough carbon price would incentivise more efficiency and level the playing field for other, less polluting means of transport, such as railways, thus reducing overall emissions.