A study in Environmental Research Letters found that converting grasslands for ethanol production generated as
much carbon emissions as 28 million cars.
In December 2008, the British Wind Energy was forced by the Advertising Standards Authority to reduce by half its claims of how
much carbon emissions might be reduced by wind energy.
Each company tells a rider how
much carbon emissions they saved in a single ride.
Maybe encourage development that's as sustainable and low - carbon as possible, in order 1) to avoid as
much carbon emission as possible by «leap - frogging» some of the carbon - intense practices that characterized past models, and 2) to facilitate the «demographic transition» in those nations?
They set out to estimate how
much carbon emission could be avoided from 2005 to 2030 by taking economically realistic opportunities not to cut down forest, and how much this would cost.
But when we think about how much good produced in China is actually consumed by Chinese themselves, you can estimate how
much carbon emission has been transferred to China's own fair share, but for others consumption and welfare.
Not exact matches
A very topical book, given the talks happening in Paris this week, this pick asks, «How
much can we reduce
carbon emissions that come from making and using stuff?»
Adding to it are ever tougher government constraints on greenhouse - gas
emissions: Europe, China, and
much of the rest of the developing world are moving to curb
carbon even as President Trump pulls the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord.
But the project has galvanized environmentalists who say developing Canada's oil sands would spike
carbon emissions linked to climate change and that
much of the oil would be sold abroad.
Fears of
carbon emissions from human activity have the rest of the developed (and
much of the developing) world taking steps to move away from oil.
The total biomass of our livestock is almost double that of the people on the planet and accounts for 5 % of
carbon dioxide
emissions and 40 % of methane
emissions — a
much more potent greenhouse gas.
In contrast to Alberta's largely cosmetic Specified Gas Emitters Regulation that does little to curb
emissions or raise revenue for the province, British Columbia has implemented a
much more comprehensive
carbon tax.
Of course,
much of that trail could be wiped away by pricing
carbon emissions and applying that price to imports via a
carbon tariff.
That is, count
emissions from public buildings and travel, reduce them as
much as possible and pay for
carbon offsets to negate the rest.
Alberta's 19 coal plants produce as
much greenhouse gas as the major oilsands producers, though the oilsands are often targeted in the province's battle to reduce its share of
carbon emissions.
They found that
carbon emissions would drop by 63 per cent if meat free eating were widely adopted, producing as
much as $ 30 trillion in savings a year, as healthier populations become more productive.
Just by changing the way we farm, by stopping deep tilling, mono - cropping, and chemical fertilizer use — the Climate Collaborative estimates regenerative
carbon farming practices could mitigate as
much as 4 billion to 6 billion tons of CO2 equivalents a year or 10 percent to 12 percent of global human - caused
emissions.
Only the EU
Emissions Trading System and the
carbon price floor were opposed by a clear majority of voters from across the political spectrum, though even then it is highly doubtful that very
much political capital can be gained by abolishing measures equivalent to an annual average cost of # 13 per household, (see pie chart graph).
It is vital that everyone does as
much as possible to cut down on
carbon emissions.
Unison is calling on the government to impose a target of an 80 per cent cut in
carbon emissions, warning a 60 per cent reduction will still see global temperatures rise by as
much as five degrees.
It claimed
much more should be done to improve energy efficiency in homes - identified as the single most cost effective way of reducing
carbon emissions - and on helping people to generate their own «green» power.
Tenney called new Environmental Protection Agency regulations of
carbon emissions from power plants «a job killer» that would not have
much of an effect on the climate.
They conclude that by continuing to adopt low -
carbon technologies, China could plausibly cut its
emissions by as
much as two - thirds by 2050, from 9 gigatonnes to 3 gigatonnes.
Despite this, I believe progress has been made, and existing international agreements contain an important and hitherto overlooked mechanism that can do
much to regulate
carbon emissions.
He then measured the total direct
emissions associated with the making of a product; for example, the amount of coal burned to generate a kilowatt of electricity and how
much carbon dioxide was released in the process.
Moreover, Exxon Mobil expressed confidence that its oil and gas assets were unlikely to become stranded even under
much tighter regulation of
carbon emissions because the fossil fuels would be needed to grow the world's economies.
The group found that although fuel - cell vehicles would produce zero greenhouse - gas
emissions during use, the extraction and refinement of hydrogen fuel would release three to five times as
much carbon into the air as is released in procuring and refining gasoline and diesel.
The rate at which
carbon emissions warmed Earth's climate almost 56 million years ago resembles modern, human - caused global warming
much more than previously believed, but involved two pulses of
carbon to the atmosphere, University of Utah researchers and their colleagues found.
Even if the United States implements all current and proposed policies, it would miss its 2025 target by as
much as 1.5 billion metric tons of
carbon dioxide per year — roughly 20 % of the nation's total
emissions, according to the analysis published today in Nature Climate Change.
A billion - dollar scheme to reduce household
emissions in the Czech Republic costs five times as
much per ton of
carbon dioxide (CO2) as some European industries need to spend to achieve the same cuts, government data showed.
To illustrate the beauty of Saab's new engine, which reduces fuel consumption and
carbon dioxide
emissions by 10 percent and slices other
emissions by as
much as 75 percent, the 41 - year - old engineer describes a lone runner jogging full tilt through a misty forest in his native Sweden.
With this in mind, the UN set up the REDD programme (Reducing
Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) in 2008, which will pay poorer countries to preserve their forests based on how
much carbon dioxide they store.
Chevrolet Volt, Ford Focus Electric and Toyota Prius Plug - in Hybrid, consumers may want to know just how
much they'll be saving in fuel and
carbon dioxide
emissions by driving an EV in their area.
India has announced it will cut its
carbon emissions intensity of its economy by as
much as a quarter from 2005 levels by 2020.
However, under business - as - usual scenarios, without significant reductions in
carbon emissions, the study shows these deadly heat waves could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, including the fertile Indus and Ganges river basins that produce
much of the region's food supply.
Most observers expect the EPA to say that aviation
emissions endanger public health but are not sure how
much the agency and the Federal Aviation Authority will reveal about their vision for a
carbon dioxide
emissions standard for new aircraft.
Of those approaches, none came close to reducing
emissions as
much as conservation, increased energy efficiency and low -
carbon fuels would.
So when, in fact, we have to try while still getting all of the energy that we need, we also need to start cutting back on our
carbon emissions, and we have to start doing that right away because every year that we delay we are pumping that
much more
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and getting closer and closer to those thresholds.
We think China could peak its
carbon emissions much earlier than 2030,» Li said.
In his review of Robert Laughlin's book Powering the Future, Fred Pearce summarises the author's view as «ultimately the planet won't care
much about our
carbon dioxide
emissions» because the gas will all end up in the oceans (1 October, p 46).
Until then, however,
much untapped potential exists to pursue other programs that align with their interests while also reducing
carbon emissions.
Member states will allocate
emissions credits,
much like was done in the European Union's
carbon trading program, and trade between one another.
«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas
emissions, wind and solar energy provide a
much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low
carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.
«Natural gas truly is a bridge to a low -
carbon future and could enable very substantial reductions in
carbon emissions — as
much as 50 percent by 2050,» he says.
Video games and the environment don't typically interact
much, so I was excited when I saw the following video of folks pulling
carbon emission data into the video game Minecraft.
One effect of this inequality is that the top 10 percent produce almost as
much total
carbon emissions as the bottom 90 percent combined.»
Because there is no combustion, fuel cells run extremely cleanly: Their
emissions are just water and
carbon dioxide, and they produce less than half as
much CO2 per kilowatt - hour as do traditional power plants.
As more
carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere, the global ocean soaks up
much of the excess, storing roughly 30 percent of the
carbon dioxide
emissions coming from human activities.
And it has long resisted calls to cap its future
emissions, arguing that it has not historically contributed
much to climate change, and will need «
carbon space» in the future to grow its economy and lift hundreds of millions of people from poverty.
Understanding how
carbon flows between land, air and water is key to predicting how
much greenhouse gas
emissions the earth, atmosphere and ocean can tolerate over a given time period to keep global warming and climate change at thresholds considered tolerable.