Sentences with phrase «more ghg emissions»

Germany has also «outsourced» a lot of its production, hence CO2 emissions, to less efficient countries, thus likely causing even more GHG emissions globally.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, it results in five times more GHG emissions than pork or chicken, while requiring 28 times more land and 11 times more irrigation water.

[Response: Even were that true, there are a lot more GHG emissions than just transport.

Forest depletion ultimately contributes more GHG emissions than all the cars and trucks in use worldwide, says Werner Kurz, a forest ecologist with Natural Resources Canada, who was not involved with the study.

Canadian oil sands crudes are on average somewhat more GHG emission - intensive than the crudes they would displace in U.S. refineries, as Well - to - Wheel GHG emissions are, on average, 14 % -20 % higher for Canadian oil sands crude than for the weighted average of transportation fuels sold or distributed in the United States;

Not exact matches

If your condition for GHG policy is that you must impose the same price on all sectors of the economy because you want to be cost - effective, that rules out higher prices on some sectors where deep emissions reductions are possible, or lower prices in more politically sensitive areas to ensure you get a policy in place at all.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

That's because companies have no incentive to reduce emissions if it costs them more than paying into the technology fund for above - limit GHGs.

Still, the fact that a global agreement has proven so elusive does not absolve Canadians of the responsibility to strengthen our own efforts to limit the growth of GHG emissions and contribute to the search for more environmentally sustainable forms of development.

Although the wine industry and most other agricultural industries are considered low producers of carbon emissions, GHG issues, such as gaining market access to retailers interested in carbon foot printing, providing data for marketing purposes and / or carbon credit accounting, are becoming more significant to brands and image.

The city has already reduced its GHG levels by 19 percent, but this next round of emissions cuts, warned the Mayor, would be far more difficult.

«Consumers often equate more dependence on pasture with environmentally friendly farming, but this study demonstrated that low milk production per cow is a major factor associated with high GHG emission.

With more research, however, crop and milk production, GHG emissions, and farm profitability can be optimized on organic dairy farms.

Emissions across nearly all sectors grew in 2013, with increased GHG emissions from electricity generation, more vehicle miles traveled on the nation's roadways and greater industrial production, according toEmissions across nearly all sectors grew in 2013, with increased GHG emissions from electricity generation, more vehicle miles traveled on the nation's roadways and greater industrial production, according toemissions from electricity generation, more vehicle miles traveled on the nation's roadways and greater industrial production, according to the EPA.

In fact, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon University, following the USDA recommendations to consume more fruits, vegetables, dairy and seafood is more harmful to the environment because those foods have relatively high resource uses and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per calorie.

Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of «common but differentiated responsibilities.»

Thus, we conclude that 20th - century land - use changes contributed more to forcing observed regional climate change during the summer in the central United States than increasing GHG emissions.

Having said that, I agree that climate scientists have already learned and communicated far more than enough to justify urgent action to end anthropogenic GHG emissions as quickly as possible — which numerous national and international scientific organizations, and many individual climate scientists, have explicitly called for in public statements.

CO2 accounts for more than 80 % of the added GHG forcing in the past 15 years [64], [167] and, if fossil fuel emissions continue at a high level, CO2 will be the dominant driver of future global temperature change.

Also, if rapidly declining GHG emissions are achieved, changes of solar forcing will become relatively more important.

Using corn to produce ethanol has driven up food prices in recent years, and converting forests and other areas into farmland to grow more corn for biofuels may well negate ethanol's improved greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

Also, my wording may have not been the best, the BDA encourages «a shift towards a more plant based diet -LRB-...) to reduce GHG emissions.

Today's final rulemaking builds on the fuel efficiency and GHG emissions standards already in place for model years 2014 - 2018, which alone will result in CO2 emissions reductions of 270 million metric tons and save vehicle owners more than $ 50 billion in fuel costs.

Activities / Accomplishments: DOT has implemented several strategies in order to reduce Scope 3 GHG Emissions, and some of these strategies include: 1) reducing employee business air travel through technologies such as web conferencing; 2) increasing telework rates through making more employees eligible for telework and / or allowing an increase in total number of days teleworked; and 3) using an employee commuting survey to identify opportunities and strategies for reducing commuter eEmissions, and some of these strategies include: 1) reducing employee business air travel through technologies such as web conferencing; 2) increasing telework rates through making more employees eligible for telework and / or allowing an increase in total number of days teleworked; and 3) using an employee commuting survey to identify opportunities and strategies for reducing commuter emissionsemissions.

This tool calculates emissions based on fuel consumption and / or vehicle miles traveled and thus allows for greenhouse gas (GHG) and criteria pollutant emissions estimation at a more local level.

Both engines meet California ARB optional Low NOx standards, as well as 2017 EPA greenhouse gas emission (GHG) requirements, making... Read more →

However, most states use few of the available transportation policy tools to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector,... Read more →

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

Because these events were rare before human GHG emissions forced more energy (heat) into the atmosphere, it is reasonable to conclude that AGW is responsible for (is the cause of) the most extreme events.

With 100 % wind energy from Green Mountain, we have now reduced our GHGs more than 1/2, maybe more than 3/4 from our 1990 emissions (also counting water & products, which entail GHGs in their production).

I have often imposed on the moderators» patience by noting the rapid growth of solar and wind energy for electricity generation, which for me gives rise to optimism that we can eliminate GHG emissions from that sector much more quickly than many people believe.

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And again, my position is that (1) nuclear power is not needed, since we can get all the electricity we need, and more, from renewables; (2) nuclear can not possibly be expanded enough, quickly enough to have any significant impact on reducing GHG emissions in the time frame that's needed, while renewables can be (and already are); and (3) resources invested in expanding nuclear power would be far more effectively invested in renewables and / or efficiency, and the opportunity costs of nuclear therefore mean that putting resources into nuclear power hinders rather than helps the effort to quickly reduce CO2 emissions from generating electricity.

Thus investment in these technologies diverts precious resources from more effective solutions and hinders rather than helps the effort to reduce GHG emissions.

As regulatory schemes continue to recognize the necessity of bringing more sectors and countries into GHG emissions reductions, lessening deforestation should play a critical role.

No mention that even though the Earth's orbit around the sun and axis inclination are «natural,» that these events are more extreme now due to man - made GHG emissions?

If we're going to address climate change, it's going to start with solutions experts agree on (efficiency, low - GHG sources such as nuclear, carbon capture and storage, wind, geothermal, cellulosic biofuels, and eventually solar), and processes that experts agree on (increasing the cost of GHG emissions, funding more R&D, mandates sometimes).

This seems highly unwise, and, as I discussed in a piece on HuffPost about it, «Methane in the Twilight Zone, Episode 2,» * the more that you're planning on doing anything about climate change — i.e., lowering GHG emissions, pulling carbon out of the system through biochar, afforestation, etc — the less sense it makes.

Now it's more a matter of «Urban GHG hot spots» (as per those satelite visuals on CO2 and CO emissions via NASA I posted recently)

The «emissions reductions» approach, including cap - and - trade systems and other economic incentive mechanisms as well as direct regulatory controls, will require power plants, cars, and many other GHG sources to become more «efficient» by cutting their discharges.

Actually, due to the severe consequences of contributing to people's attitudes to continue business as usual with respect to GHG emissions, this is much more than just a duty NOT to imply and mislead, this like a 11th Commandment which thou shalt NOT break.

It concludes that «given that household travel and residential energy use account for 42 % of total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, these findings highlight the importance of smart growth policies to build more compact and transit friendly cities as a crucial part of any strategic efforts to mitigate GHG emissions and stabilize climate.»

BACK TO TOPIC: If CO2 & CH4 are important forcings in a linear GW scenario, then in a «runaway» GW scenario of the warming triggering further mechanisms of warming, triggering further mechanisms, our anthropogenic GHG emissions have even more ultimate impact.

Once it is out of our control we're pretty much in for a terrible ride that will amount to much more harm than broken ribs, and no matter how much of our GHG emissions we reduce, there will be virtually nothing we can do about it — except maybe with huge reductions slightly reduce the severity of the harms.

And, since worry by itself accomplishes exactly nothing, aren't the policy actions mostly the same — ie., mitigating all anthropogenic GHG emissions, beginning with the most amenable and working toward the more obdurate?

What's more, strategies to enhance carbon sinks are almost identical to related GHG emission abatement strategies.

In Europe, HP has already reduced fleet average GHG emissions by using more energy - efficient vehicles.

This original commitment was successfully met, leading to the adoption of a second and more ambitious target of further reducing the company's GHG emissions by 30 per cent by 2015, a target that Sony is on track to meet by the end of the current fiscal year.

«taking more action now [to reduce GHG emissions] reduces the need for taking more extreme action later to stay within the 2 °C limit.»

They've caused electricity to be far more expensive than it could and should be, caused global GHG emissions to be 10 - 20 % higher than it could have been and caused the rate of emissions reductions over the coming decades to be very much slower than it would be of not for their irrational, ideologically driven scare mongering.