Sentences with phrase «other environmental impacts»

Significant wildlife and other environmental impacts of wind turbine proliferation are also becoming evident.

Unlike other environmental impacts such as water use, it doesn't matter where in the world carbon is reduced.

It is specifically motivated by my concern for the future to the effects of climate change, sea level rise, deforestation and many other environmental impacts humans have had on the planet.

Additionally, the industry improved in other environmental impact indicators.

But ask any more independent source and you'll find the emissions, not to mention other environmental impacts, are massive.

«We know that carbon footprint, a popular indicator used in environmental policies, does not correspond well with other environmental impacts such as toxicity to ecosystems and humans, depletion of resources, and land use.

However, it is an important driver of other environmental impacts including global warming, acidification, eutrophication and resource depletion.

Flying is a major topic when it comes to curbing greenhouse gas emissions, but airplanes have other environmental impacts too.

According to the Press Association, Heath said other environmental impacts along the planned network, which would link London to cities in the Midlands and northern England, could be mitigated but «you can't grow old trees».

Research also points to greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts for cultured beef being lower than conventional beef.

A 2014 IMF report (covering over 150 countries) provides estimates for taxes on fossil fuel products to reflect pollution and other environmental impacts associated with energy use, while underscoring the large environmental, health, and fiscal benefits from tax reform and the critical role of finance ministries in administration and ensuring efficient use of revenues.

The scale of land use and other environmental impacts necessary to power the world on biofuels or many other renewables are such that we doubt they provide a sound pathway to a zero - carbon low - footprint future.

There is a wide range in the estimated heat - trapping emissions and other environmental impacts from each biofuel over its life cycle (i.e., from farm to finished fuel to use in the vehicle), depending on the feedstock, production process, and model inputs and assumptions.

We know that cutting energy usage in buildings reduces energy load on power plants, reducing carbon emissions and other environmental impacts of power generation.1

Other environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions or land use should be taken into consideration, when possible, in order to address the environmental impacts of the global dairy sector in a holistic manner.

However, none of the arguments above for expanding Heathrow, rather than Gatwick, is to say that the climate change and other environmental impacts including air quality, CO2 emissions and noise can be ignored.

Among many other environmental impacts the concert industry has, the top 100 tours in 2015 sold an estimated 60 million plastic water bottles (the equivalent of 48,000 barrels of oil) and Johnson was getting tired of leaving such a huge environmental footprint in his trail.

Flying can be a divisive topic when it comes to curbing emissions, but airplanes have other environmental impacts too.

Environmental declarations detail carbon footprint estimates (along with other environmental impacts) of individual products.

On its site, Keurig has also vowed to reduce its other environmental impacts, including greenhouse - gas emissions and water use.

When disposed of in landfill, food waste has other environmental impacts such as the production of greenhouse gas emissions.

Reducing food waste is important as it keeps food out of landfills, reduces emissions of methane, and has other environmental impacts.

[12][13] based on a Y - shaped route from London to Birmingham with branches to Leeds and Manchester, as originally put forward by the previous Labour government, [14] with alterations designed to minimise the visual, noise, and other environmental impacts of the line.

As well as being a major contributor to human - induced greenhouse gas emissions, current livestock production has other environmental impacts.

Third, nitrogen fertilizer use should be avoided or minimized because of its global warming and other environmental impacts.

o a target of cutting CO2 emissions by 25 % (now 35 %) per passenger journey by 2012 o a 10 - point plan to reduce all other environmental impacts o a commitment to neutralise the carbon from all passenger journeys from the date of Eurostar's move to St Pancras International (14 November 2007), by offsetting them through investment in projects that reduce the same amount of CO2

The High Performance Green Buildings Act of 2007 (S. 506) encourages government buildings to become greener by achieving the highest standards for energy efficiency, indoor air quality and other environmental impacts.

The statement estimates, and then dismisses, the pipeline's massive carbon footprint and other environmental impacts, because, it asserts, the mining and burning of the tar sands is unstoppable.

Candidates for the starting point for the age of humans range from the dawn of agriculture to the age of plastics and fallout and the «Great Acceleration» of greenhouse gas growth and other environmental impacts.

Efforts like composting, and maybe even small - scale waste - to - energy projects, could pop up at churches, temples, and other centers of worship as these organizations work to wring every bit of use out of this «waste» while reducing their carbon footprints and other environmental impacts.

Other environmental impacts are also greater with big reservoirs, including human displacement and the loss of forest and biodiversity.

«In addition to our study of global warming, we also compared the two fuels in terms of a range of other environmental impacts — from eco and biological toxicity to ozone layer depletion and acidification,» the authors wrote.

Greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts of extraction are clearly important considerations for materials used in low - carbon technologies.

NA # 19: You are right, tropospheric aerosols from fossil fuels are incredibly bad for human health and other environmental impacts (black carbon soot, acid rain, radioactive emissions, mercury poisoning).

This activity report provides an overview of Blended Finance, which refers to structured transactions in which development finance and private capital achieves climate impact — or other environmental impacts — while at the same time delivers adequate risk - adjusted financial returns for the private investor.

All of these create greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts.

Although they can cut greenhouse gas emissions, biofuels may have other environmental impacts that are harmful.