Sentences with phrase «of emission trends»

Increases in production of renewable energy, especially wind and solar power, have also bent the curve of emissions trends downward.

Elisabeth Rosenthal reports Friday on the results of a new analysis of emissions trends by the Dutch government.

Not exact matches

The question now is whether Germany's auto industry — which is behind on the electric trend and has been upended by Volkswagen's emissions scandal — can build an e-vehicle that the nation's drivers actually want to buy, or whether the incentive will end up lining the pockets of foreign companies like Tesla and the Renault - Nissan Alliance.

If current trends persist, the transportation sector will overtake power sector as the largest source of U.S. emissions.

The personalization trend was in particular evident in the discussions addressing the risk of urban transport emissions.

In fact, absent new measures Environment Canada's 2014 emissions trends report projected that oil sands emissions would drive increased emissions from the oil and gas sector of 45 Mt CO2e (to a total of 204 MtCO2e) between 2005 and 2020, offsetting the emission reductions made in other sectors.

All of Alfa Laval's hygienic food equipment, food machinery, and services for the food processing industry are developed with the aim of keeping up with the food industry trends and addressing four key challenges; supplying food products to consumers at a competitive price, getting the most from raw materials, reducing waste and emissions, and delivering safe and hygienic food products.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Dr Ghassem Asrar, Director of JGCRI, a co-author of study, said: «Among global regions, there was notable variability in trends in estimated emissions over recent decades.

If current trends continue and the world fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, then severe bleaching will occur every year on 99 per cent of the world's reefs within the century, according to the study.

The trend is just one of dozens that appear in a sweeping new database of 60,000 power plants worldwide with emissions data going back to 2004.

«This represents a direct reduction in emissions from the current trends, because dedicated energy crops will reassimilate some of the carbon dioxide emitted by energy use.»

And with global emissions of greenhouse gases rising ever faster, there's no end in sight to the grim trend.

They credited drops in CO2 emissions from the United States and China as the primary drivers of the trend.

(Reuters)- Carbon emissions and electricity demand in Australia have risen in the two months since the government repealed a tax on emissions, bucking a nearly six - year long trend of decline, an energy consultancy said on Thursday.

The results, recently published in Science of the Total Environment, is surprising because long - term trends had shown a decrease in mercury emissions whereas data collected between 2007 and 2013 indicate an unsettling upturn from the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest.

Their findings: natural influences such as changes in the amount of sunlight or volcanic eruptions did not explain the warming trends, but the results matched when increasing levels of greenhouse gas emissions were added to the mix.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

Global warming became big news for the first time during the hot summer of 1988 when now - retired NASA climate scientist James Hansen testified before Congress that the trend was not part of natural climate variation, but rather the result of emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses from human activities.

But other IPCC work — on trends in emissions of greenhouse gases, for instance — assumes poor nations will grow richer.

In its annual analysis of trends in global carbon dioxide emissions, the Global Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

USA emissions increased 2.9 %, due to a rebound in coal consumption potentially reversing the downward trend since the start of the shale - gas boom in 2007

The latest report blends key points of the group's earlier reviews of climate trends, the possibility of adapting to a warmer climate and strategies for cutting carbon emissions.

«Westernized» diets in poor countries raise CO2 emissions Also important to the food emissions sphere is the growing trend of «westernizing» diets in low - and middle - income countries.

He also ordered up a government plan to «continue the trend of reduced emission».

While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long - term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases,» said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt.

The figure is also about 10 per cent less than the estimate given for China in the most recent publication of the Global Carbon Project, which updates annually the global carbon emissions and their implications for future trends.

Richard Muller, founder and scientific director of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study, released a peer reviewed study concluding that climate change trends are due entirely to human carbon dioxide emissions.

The team compared their results to four inventories of global carbon emissions to see if the same trend held.

«We can use this to look at trends in sulfur dioxide emissions on the scale of an entire volcanic arc.»

If greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current trend, the rate of warming will reach 0.7 °F per decade and stay that high until at least 2100.

But Steve Cohen, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, said the increases in use of fossil fuels in China and India — which show few signs of abating — will push emissions in the opposite direction in 2015, and only the development of affordable renewable energy technology is likely to counter that trend.

«I'm hopeful this is the beginning of a trend,» he said, referring to emissions in the U.S. «The fact that countries like Germany have so dramatically lowered their carbon emissions with mechanisms like feed - in tariffs that incentivize non-fossil-fuel energy, and the fact that the West Coast and Northeast states here in the U.S. are investing more in renewable energy means that we ought to be seeing a decrease in emissions.

Researchers measure historical trends of soot in a southeastern Tibetan glacier and identify emission sources in a climate model

On the contrary, SOMO35 trends were very different for both periods with a median trend of a 1.6 % relative increase over 1990 — 2001, whereas a sharp 30 % decrease was observed for the 2002 — 2012 period; highlighting the effectiveness of European emissions controls for this health metric (Colette et al., 2016).

From his own research in chemical oceanography, along with data from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.»

The study highlighted significant impacts of this trend, including land clearing for farming, logging and settlement; introduction of invasive species; carbon emissions leading to climate change and ocean acidification; and toxins that poison the ecosystem.

Our target is estimation of global total methane balances, including emission trends in time and their differentiation by region and emission category, with specific interest on methane emissions from northern wetlands, and transport and chemical sink of methane in the atmosphere.

Top - down estimates of methane emissions from the permafrost region also are highly uncertain, but substantial progress has recently been made by the NASA Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) campaign in quantifying methane budgets and trends in Alaska.

However, with current emissions trends, this would lead to very high temperatures to the end of the 21st century.

Nonetheless, our sea - level rise projections for the first half of this century are not strongly affected by the way Antarctica is modeled, nor are they strongly tied to global greenhouse gas emissions trends.

Still, a great portion of the «summary for policymakers» deals with the recent temperature rise, and it concludes that it's «likely» that there is a human contribution to the observed trend (by which I assume CO2 emissions are especially understood, even more so considered the negative forcings mentioned).

If emissions continue down a mid-range path — one consistent with the direction current policies and market trends seem to be taking us — the new results indicate a higher likely rise of 0.7 to 1.3 meters (2.2 to 4.1 feet), compared to 0.4 to 0.8 meters (1.4 to 2.5 feet) in the IPCC - consistent estimate.

And as the animation shows, it's a long - term trend that is likely to continue until the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are significantly curtailed.

The trend is one of the hallmarks of global warming and tightly tied with the rise in human CO2 emissions.

This paper provides an overview of recent trends in light - duty vehicle fuel economy around the world, new projections, and a discussion of fuel economy technology opportunities and costs over the next 30 - 50 years - all in the context of recent IEA projections of global energy use (especially oil use) and CO2 emissions.

If current trends continue, the 2.0 - litre TDI Ultra diesel with 187bhp will be by far the most popular engine, thanks to its economy of up to 68.9 mpg and CO2 emissions of 108g / km, for a company - car friendly Benefit - in - Kind (BiK) band of 23 %.

In order to meet the forthcoming CO2 emission specifications without losses in terms of torque and performance, there are two central trends when it comes to combustion units: downsizing (which means turbocharged engines with fewer cylinders and less engine displacement); and downspeeding, which is the reduction of the engine speeds combined with a maximum torque that is applied at a very early stage.

It was feared the V8 petrol engines from both car - makers could have been killed off and replaced by a twin - turbo V6 as part of the general downsizing trend in search of lower emissions, but now thanks to sharing its considerable development costs the well - loved V8 configuration will live on for at least another generation at both Audi and Porsche.

This bucks the trend of most manufacturers, who've made engines smaller over the past few years to boost fuel economy and reduce emissions.