Sentences with phrase «more than emission»

Sustainability means more than emission - free driving.

For example, the CO2 in the air would increase if the emissions and sequestrations both reduced if the sequestration reduced by more than the emission reduced.

As far as I can see the standoff will continue until there is recognition that climate change is first and foremost an energy technology problem, one that can not be solved / resolved without a great deal more than emission reduction pledges.

Almost everyone realizes we need something more than emission reductions, but how to frame a positive vision for moving forward has proved elusive.

All of this will play much better than calling for nothing more than emission controls involving many economic restraints as they just slow the expanding of the overload and the worsening of global warming.

Thus UV decreases far more than emissions in the visible (which are what matters).

That is more than the amount the United States puts into the atmosphere from all sources and more than the emissions generated by all of the world's cars, trucks, buses and airplanes.

Destruction of these carbon - rich, biodiverse forests causes about 20 percent of global climate pollution — more than the emissions from all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world combined.

On two interesting asides, John P. Holdren, director of Woods Hole and one of the presenters, pulled up the statistic that in 2004, the emissions in the US from coal - electric power were more than the emissions from motor vehicles (an important point to consider when Bush touts coal as a renewable energy, falsely labelling it «green» simply because it is abundant).

Livestock production alone contributes to 18 percent of the global warming effect — more than the emissions from every single car, train, and plane on the planet.

Not exact matches

Chris Severson - Baker, Alberta director of the Pembina Institute, said reducing methane emissions is critical because the gas is 25 times more potent as a climate warming agent than carbon dioxide.

We're producing much more than we ever have, yet our methane emissions are going down, and they chose to regulate it?»

Switching from coal to natural gas would reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 60 percent.

Emissions Analytics, a U.K. - based consulting company, says it has tested the real - world emissions of more than 400 dieEmissions Analytics, a U.K. - based consulting company, says it has tested the real - world emissions of more than 400 dieemissions of more than 400 diesel cars.

About 40 percent of the energy used to control the climate in buildings seeps out through windows and doors, producing more than 250 million tons of emissions a year, according to the Department of Energy.

It is a family of compounds comprised of more than 100 chemicals, according to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and many are released into the atmosphere by forest fires, volcano eruptions and automobile emissions.

The company claims its service conserves one gallon of fuel per idling hour per truck, and with more than one million truckers on the road at any given time, the savings add up — so far, says Wilson, eight million gallons of fuel have been saved, 83,000 metric tons of emissions have been eliminated, and 150,000 road cowboys have plugged in.

Insects are even more efficient when it comes to water consumption, and they produce far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than livestock.

More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

Increases in emissions from air and sea transport will more than offset the savings from passenger cars unless new technologies can somehow make the same kind of impact on them as Elon Musk et al. have had on the car industry.

This produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars and trucks combined.

«Mandating tough fuel economy standards on auto manufacturers will do far more to reduce greenhouse emissions than a tax,» wrote one CEO.

A new strategy to tackle federal standards for engine emissions has also run up to more than $ 700 million, while Navistar is expected to pay warranty costs on prior engines until the end of next year.

Last year, GE Transportation began manufacturing its Evolution Series Tier 4 Locomotive, which the company says will reduce emissions by more than 70 % from the previous model.

The emissions from natural - gas - fired boilers used to generate steam make the well site more carbon - intensive than conventional oil wells.

The oilsands will be limited to a total of 100 megatonnes of emissions — about 30 megatonnes more than the industry now emits.

The glider kits spew so much pollution, that in one year, their emissions will be 13 times more than what VW «s emissions cheating vehicles would have spewed by 2025.

Greenpeace campaigner Mike Hudema also welcomed the Suncor proposal but said producers will have to leave behind more than just the oil that's difficult to produce if they're sincere about reducing emissions.

Overall, CDP said 89 % of companies in a wider survey of more than 1,000 companies had some form of carbon emissions targets, up from 85 % in 2016.

As a result testers got one outcome — a diesel - powered car that met all the EPA's emissions requirements — while VW owners got another: a more powerful vehicle that spewed out up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide, an air pollutant, than standards allow.

The findings «don't necessarily suggest future emissions will generally be higher or lower than current projections, but they suggest that this will depend more sensitively on how exactly economies grow (or shrink),» he said.

But emissions fell just 0.43 percent for every percent decline in GDP per capita, he added, based on a review of World Bank statistics of more than 150 nations from 1960 to 2008.

Still, getting carbon emissions from in situ projects down near the level of conventional oil will take more than that, which is where the new alternatives to SAGD come in.

Twelve other states, including New York and Pennsylvania, as well as Washington, D.C., have adopted California's emission standards, setting up a face - off between more than 130 million residents — who own more than a third of the auto market — and the President.

The automaker has lost more than a third of its market value in just two days amid the emissions scandal fallout.

It will take effect in 2020 only if it is ratified by more than 55 percent of nations, or nations that cause 55 percent of global emissions.

The Volkswagen Group has brought down CO2 emissions of its EU 27 new vehicle fleet from 166 grams (2006) to 144 grams (2010), corresponding to a reduction of more than 13 %.

«At over 20 GW of installed solar electric capacity, we now have enough solar in the U.S. to power 4.6 million homes, reducing harmful carbon emissions by more than 25 million metric tons a year.

The truth environmentalists refuse to admit is that the mass consumption of electricity due to EVs is rapidly becoming more dangerous to the environment than current refined oil emissions produced by ICEs.

The argument can been made, has been made, will be made again in the days ahead that Keystone is no more a contributor to carbon emissions than an apple crate makes apples.

An assessment paid for by DuPont said that the ethanol it will produce there could be more than 100 per cent better than gasoline in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

EMISSIONS - Because diesel fuel is heavier and oilier than gasoline it can be more polluting, earning a reputation for sootiness when it came into wider U.S. automotive use during the 1970's oil crisis.

And Notley has done more to reduce emissions than any Alberta government has ever done.

While Germany's official Energiewende strategy calls for a transition from fossil fuel and nuclear energy to renewable energy, and reduction of emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, the recently formed German government is more conservative than the previous governments.

In fact, the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have increased globally more in the past 20 years than it has in the previous 100 years.

Although the country is taking steps to rein in carbon pollution in other parts of the country, the exponential rise in emissions from the oil sands will more than offset gains being made elsewhere.

Shell's emissions last year were 5Mt, so with their credits from Quest and their use of cogeneration, more than half of this could be offset, far exceeding the reductions which will be required under Alberta law.

Volkswagen's emissions scandal has more in common with the arcane algorithms and opaque schemes at the heart of Wall Street's financial crisis than with traditional automotive recalls

Other downstream implications of CCS or other policy will depend on how they affect the relative price of electricity... and more expensive emissions reductions will make electricity more expensive than it needs to be, thereby limiting potential uptake of electrification.