Sentences with phrase «of emissions decline»

Growth in aviation emissions alone offset more than one third of the emissions decline from falling coal use in the electric power sector.

In all of the emission pathways considered, emissions peaked between 2010 and 2050 by construction, and thus cumulative emissions between 2010 and 2050 are reasonably well correlated to peak emissions rate, particularly when we only consider pathways with rates of emissions decline between 0 and 4 per cent.

We choose the parameters so that the majority of emission pathways have a maximum rate of emissions decline of less than 4 per cent per year, but we also consider a smaller number of pathways that decrease by up to 10 per cent per year.

The grey diamonds in figure 5 represent emission pathways that have a maximum rate of emissions decline of between 4 and 10 per cent per year, while the black crosses correspond to rates of decline between 0 and 4 per cent.

Again, black crosses indicate emission pathways in which the maximum rate of emissions decline is less than 4 % yr − 1; grey diamonds indicate the converse.

The black bars show the spread in pathways with peak rates of emissions decline less than 4 %, while the grey bars show the spread in all emission pathways.

Black bars consider only the pathways represented by black crosses with «rate of emissions decline» less than 4 per cent.

Not exact matches

«Economic decline... doesn't lead to as big a decline in emissions as a comparable amount of economic growth leads to growth in emissions,» York told Reuters.

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.

Declining shares included Subaru Corp which lost 2.2 percent after public broadcaster NHK reported allegations that there were hundreds of cases of mileage and emission data falsification at the automaker.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

Systematic national programs of these sorts would lead to a steady and substantial decline in the emission of greenhouse gases and greatly increase our ability to lead the family of nations into international agreements on the environment.

«This would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth,» the researchers said, noting that a portion of India's new energy consumption must be from «low - carbon» resources in order for global emissions to peak and then swiftly decline.

In 2008, they drew on data covering 1980 to 2006 to argue that there had been «declining intensities of impact, from energy use and carbon emission to food consumption and fertiliser use, globally and in countries ranging from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774).

Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.

That said, whereas CO2 emissions from coal - fired power plants in the U.S. have declined, greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands have doubled since the turn of the century and look set to double again by the end of this decade — the primary source of emissions growth for the entire country of Canada.

«The net emission flows from western regions to eastern regions in China may further decline because of the faster economic growth in the western regions.

The good news is if combustion emissions decline in coming decades, as most projections say, fine - particle pollution will go down even if fertilizer use doubles as expected, according to the new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Under the strictest pathway (RCP 2.6), which assumes an early peak of greenhouse gas emissions which then decline substantially, the potential net increases in mortality rates at the end of the century be minimal (between -0.4 % and +0.6 %) in all the regions included in this study, highlighting the benefits of the implementation of mitigation policies.

The biggest driver of lower carbon dioxide emissions has been declining natural gas prices, which has allowed the industry to replace coal - fired power plants economically with cleaner natural gas power plants — and without a costly regulatory mandate,» said Jeffrey J. Anderson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

Stricter emissions requirements on coal - fired power plants, together with low natural gas prices, have contributed to a recent decline in the use of coal for electricity generation in the United States, she said.

This has led to a large decrease in sulfur emissions, and less atmospheric deposition of sulfate to agricultural fields, and consequently, declining sulfate concentrations in rivers.

Each year the number of permits declines, reducing emissions over time.

(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.

This time, no return to cooler period Tim Barnett, a climatologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the new results appear to agree with his earlier work that used climate models to show humans» greenhouse gas emissions have contributed to declining snowpack in the western United States.

This protective layer began a precipitous decline in the 1980s due to emissions of several gases, including CFCs, which were widely used in refrigerators and spray products.

Simulating natural and humanmade climate drivers, scientists showed that the decline in rainfall is primarily a response to humanmade increases in greenhouse gases as well as a thinning of the ozone caused by humanmade aerosol emissions.

And an analysis published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that any decline in emissions in Europe has simply been outsourced to China.

The result is an overall emissions decline with the lowest overall economic impact, at least in theory, though some economists and other experts argue that such trade in greenhouse gases amounts to «voodoo economics» — the benefits of the trading never trickle down to the actual pollution control.

DENVER — Even as governments worldwide have largely failed to limit emissions of global warming gases, the decline of fossil fuel production may reduce those emissions significantly, experts said yesterday during a panel discussion at the Geological Society of America meeting.

While CO2 emissions have slowed during times of economic recession, this would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth, Jackson said.

A rapid decline in annual emissions would be needed to prevent warming from blowing past the ambitious temperature goals of the Paris agreement.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

Harmful greenhouse gas emissions should continue to fall in industrialized countries and recent signs of decline in China should continue, but emissions are set to rise in India, southeast Asia and Africa as energy demand growth dwarfs efforts to improve air quality.

The Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's most sweeping climate policy aiming to cut emissions from power plants that burn fossil fuels, is another factor in the decline of the coal industry.

«This is one of the first studies to show that soils are beginning to respond positively to declines in emissions of SO2 and NOx,» says Chris E. Johnson, an environmental geochemist at Syracuse University.

The Edison Electric Institute, which represents electric companies in all 50 states, declined to comment directly on the EPI's findings, but said the industry had already reduced emissions of the gases blamed for causing climate change.

The unstoppable retreat is the likely start of a long - feared domino effect that could cause the entire ice sheet to melt, whether or not greenhouse gas emissions decline.

-- In applying the portion of the formula in clause (i)(III) of this subparagraph, for calendar years for which a percentage is not listed in section 703 (a), the Administrator shall use a uniform annual decline in the amount of emissions between the years that are specified.

Energy emissions have declined to lowest levels since 1991 due to lower heating demand, less coal usage, and utilization of more renewable energy sources.

Global rates of temperature change in high and declining greenhouse gas emission scenarios.

While declines in emissions have previously occurred during periods of economic crisis, this would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth.

Pütz and his colleagues found that declining microclimate at these forest edges is leading to more than 68 million metric tons of carbon emissions in 10 years.

Because of this relationship, astronomers know that a dip in a star's X-ray emission would mirror a decline in its magnetic activity, as the two are intrinsically linked.

Mass bleaching and mortality are identified as the current crisis to corals, and based on the current rate of increase in global CO2 emissions (now exceeding 3 % per year), most reefs world - wide are committed to an irreversible decline.

If the rate of increase of CO2 emissions continues unchecked the pH could decline by an additional 0.3 units by the year 2100.

The first scenario describes the world that is and will be, with emissions of CFCs declining following the implementation of the Montreal Protocol.

Here's how RGGI works: Using an auction system, the states offer a declining number of carbon emissions credits each year, which power plant owners bid on and are then required to use to offset their carbon dioxide emissions.

A long - term experiment revealed that growth declined and individual branches were damaged when the water was undersaturated with aragonite (Ω < 1)-- a condition that could be achieved in 2100, according to model calculations of the IPCC in case emissions continue to develop at current rates.

The new study, published last week in the journal Environmental Research Letters, showed that emissions of sulfur dioxide, a common air pollutant released during coal and fossil fuel combustion, increased from 2000 to 2006, after which they started to decline.