Sentences with phrase «of flat emissions»

The increase follows three years of flat emissions.

Last year's growth came after three years of flat emissions and contrasts with the sharp reduction needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

The increase in emissions is very low, and comes after three years of flat emissions.

It's a start, but we should be observing a global response that would really crash the emission numbers instead of possibly reducing the rate of increase or producing several years of flat emission numbers.

Not exact matches

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

The new modeling, conducted by the Washington, D.C. — based nonprofit group Climate Interactive, assumes annual emissions will remain flat for the remainder of the century after 2025 to 2030; nations will neither do more to clamp down on annual emissions, nor allow them to rise.

The CO2 minimum forcing estimate of 1.08 W / m2 by 2050 assumes flat emission growth (i.e. no further increases in CO2 emissions), and thus is the absolute minimum (and something I would be willing to bet against!).

The anode, on the other hand, was made with phosphor deliberately optimized by coverage of ITO nanoparticles and assembled together with the cathode by the new stable assembling process resulting to stand - alone flat plane - emission panel.

Efforts to reduce GHGs enough to keep them flat are hardly enough to make much of a difference in the climate, he said, adding that developing nations must make significant investments in wind, solar, and nuclear power or emissions are going to rise in the long term.

Constraining the neutrino emission of gravitationally lensed Flat - Spectrum Radio Quasars with ANTARES data

Thermal emission and reflected light spectra of super Earths with flat transmission spectra.

They release radio energy in a nearly flat spectrum because of the emission of radiation by charged particles moving spirally at nearly the speed of light in a magnetic field enmeshed in the gaseous remnant.

Do you mean to imply that the subsequent decrease of CO2 in («so absent any human emissions, there would be a net decrease of CO2») would cancel the temperature rise that would otherwise result from the warming still in the pipeline so that M & W's «zero emission» plot would immediately go flat?

The wind project, known as Shepherds Flat, will provide 400 jobs, 845 megawatts of power and avoid emissions of 1.2 million tons of carbon annually.

The record year for renewables, coupled with a second year of declines for coal, saw global CO2 emissions remain flat for the third year in a row, the BP figures show, increasing by just 0.1 %.

In fact, all cars except pure electric vehicles attract a flat rate of # 140 a year, regardless of their emissions.

The main purpose of Porsche downsizing the previous Cayman's flat - six engines to turbo fours was to reduce emissions in the wake of tightening CO2 regulations.

The much - loved normally - aspirated flat - sixes of old have been retired, replaced by downsized, turbocharged engines in the pursuit of reduced emissions and improved fuel economy.

CO2 emissions are 115g / km, but since van owners pay a flat rate of road tax, it's only your environmetal conscience that needs to know that.

In a world where increasingly stringent emissions regulations mean that big manufacturers look every which way to lower CO2 and NOx outputs, Porsche saw fit to ditch its naturally aspirated six - cylinder engine in the Cayman in favour of a more frugal flat - four - cylinder turbo.

So the new flat - fours are now boasting emissions figures as low as those of a 1.6 - liter diesel Hyundai while packing more punch than the previous generation, courtesy of turbocharging: 296 hp, respectively 345 hp to play with.

Its 368 kW (500 hp, 911 R: Combined fuel consumption 13.3 l / 100 km; CO2 emissions: 308 g / km) four - litre naturally aspirated flat engine and six - speed manual sports transmission places the 911 R firmly in the tradition of its historic role model: a road - homologated racing car from 1967.

The included valve angle is 35 degrees, to decrease the surface - to - volume ratio of the combustion chambers and help create a flatter, more compact combustion chamber that reduces unburned hydrocarbon emissions.

David G. Victor, the head of Stanford University's program on energy and sustainable development, said that — whatever approach is pursued — achieving flat emissions by 2025 in the United States could well be the best anyone should expect given the nature of American politics, inertia, and other issues.

The CO2 minimum forcing estimate of 1.08 W / m2 by 2050 assumes flat emission growth (i.e. no further increases in CO2 emissions), and thus is the absolute minimum (and something I would be willing to bet against!).

However, as I understand it what is currently the mainstream view is that what explains the transition from early 20th century warming to the flat period between is the resumption of industrial production and thus of reflective aerosols (predominantly sulfates), and that likewise, it was the passage in the early seventies of laws requiring cleaner emissions that reduced reflective aerosols.

Leif Knutsen 35 «To stop climate change, flat CO2 emissions aren't enough, say scientists» IMHO the movement of heat into the deep ocean with heat pipes as explained in the above references is also required and can produce as much zero emissions energy as we currently derive from fossil fuels.

Is there any evidence that the flat - ish emission reports are showing up in any change in the rate of increase of CO2 in the atmosphere?

The flat period from about 1950 — 1970 is believed to be due to polluting particulate emissions from the proliferation of industry after WW2 with the revolution in consumer goods.

Bottom line: during the period during which wind increased from 0 to roughly 10 % of total electric generation, CO2 emissions stayed approximately flat, while state GDP increased by a factor of roughly 2.5.

Over the course of the past three years, overall CO2 emissions from the production of fossil fuels have remained flat while the economy has grown, on average, at a rate of 3.1 percent.

A feisty Obama — «We don't have time for a meeting of the flat earth society» — cited a list of projects to address climate change, but the centerpiece is crimping smokestack emissions from coal - fired power plants.

This is the first time in the past 40 years in which emissions have fallen or remained flat during a time of economic growth

However, the speed of change in the power sector is not matched elsewhere: CO2 emissions from oil use in transport almost catch up with those from coal - fired power plants (which are flat) by 2040, and there is also a 20 % rise in emissions from industry.

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The Commission and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality describe how Oregonians use goods and services that cause emissions elsewhere — in China to produce sneakers; in Japan or Korea for flat - screen TVs.

Two years after the historic agreement was signed, global emissions of carbon dioxide are rising again after several years of remaining flat.

While total campus emissions were flat, emissions associated with MIT's academic buildings (comprising 94 percent of MIT's total emissions) continued to decline in 2017.

The initial pre-1900 period is nearly flat when plotted on the scale of recent emissions.

According to the International Energy Agency, energy - related CO2 emissions were flat that year, despite an increase of around 3 % in global GDP.

In China, the government is also getting serious — revealing more details about its pilot emissions trading scheme, canvassing a flat carbon tax on certain industries, and also announcing that it would impose emission caps on certain provinces and cities, including the powerhouse economy of Guangdong, and the key commercial hubs of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen, in preparation for the ETS.

Nuclear generation was relatively flat over the past decade but remains the single largest source of generation without CO2 emissions.

Australians are genuinely concerned about the need to restrict their (paltry) share of global CO2 emissions, yet we are flat out filling the developing (and developed) world's requirement for fossil fuels.

Energy - related CO2 emissions from OECD countries are projected to be flat from 2015 to 2040 in the IEO2017 Reference case, slightly lower than the annual rate of growth from 1990 to 2015 when OECD CO2 emissions increased 0.3 % per year.

From 2005 to 2015 production of natural gas increased nearly 50 percent, while methane emissions from natural gas systems remained relatively flat, increasing by just 1.7 percent.17 Furthermore, methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry make up just 4 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.18

Global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions (CO2)-- the largest source of man - made greenhouse gas emissions — stayed flat for the second year in a row, according to analysis of preliminary data for 2015 released today by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

NOVEMBER 13, 2017 Tobias Buck in Berlin and Lucy Hornby in Beijing 58 comments Stronger Chinese economic growth will push global greenhouse gas emissions to a record high in 2017 after remaining flat for three years, dashing tentative hopes of a turning point in the world's efforts to curb climate change.

If global power sector emissions remain flat until 2025, before falling more steeply later on, then losses could reach $ 8.3 tn by 2060 and early retirements of coal and gas plants would climb to 2,350 GW.

Its reference case, based on federal policies on the books at the end of 2014, forecast that emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use (the United States» main source of greenhouse gases) would not decline but remain flat through 2025 and beyond.

The trend in anthropogenic CO2 emissions was essentially flat and very low (averaging just 1 gigaton of carbon [GtC] per year) from about 1900 to 1945, when a significant portion of the modern glacier recession occurred.