Sentences with phrase «oxide emission level»

It also aims to stabilise the 2005 nitrous oxide emission level, increase the 2001 forest coverage rate by 20 %, and increase the carbon sink by 50 Mt over the 2005 level by 2010.

Not exact matches

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

In one, emissions of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds from human activities would continue at current levels through 2050.

Volkswagen Group's so - called «defeat - device» emissions software has allowed hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles from the 2009 - 16 model years to emit nitrogen oxide at illegal levels while thwarting emissions tests.

GM says it will use selective catalytic reduction or urea to reduce oxides of nitrogen or NOx emissions so that the Duramax can continue to be sold in all 50 states and meet new tier 2, bin 5 emissions levels.

In fact, the emissions of all types from the modern, scrubbed, coal plants have an impact on Kansas that is barely detectable even in pessimistic estimates in comparison to those from a gas plant (since gas plants emit higher levels of Nitrous Oxide, another greenhouse gas.

For the past ten years the plant has been operating without the level of emissions controls to limit sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions as stipulated in the Clean Air Act.

According to the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the burning of coal is responsible for 70 percent of the emissions of soot that clouds out the sun in so much of China; 85 percent of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain and smog; and 67 percent of nitrogen oxide, a precursor to harmful ground level ozone.

We can not avoid some level of warming caused by the heat - trapping emissions already present in the atmosphere, some of which (such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide) last for 100 years or more.

Garden equipment engines, which have had unregulated emissions untill very recently, emit high levels of carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, producing up to 5 % of the nation's air pollution and a good deal more in metropolitan areas.

The early results which found higher levels of nitrous oxide emissions from zero till all seem to have employed surface application of N fertilizer.

Consider the following abstract to the Level 3 rated paper Effect Of Encapsulated Calcium Carbide On Dinitrogen, Nitrous - oxide, Methane, And Carbon - dioxide Emissions From Flooded Rice, Bronson & Mosier (1991):

If emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane are all allowed to accelerate to 2050, they could cause three feet of sea - level rise by 2900 through thermal expansion alone.

In 2030, a million solar roofs (or at least 3,000 MW of solar energy capacity) would help the state avoid 11.8 million pounds of smog - forming nitrogen oxide pollution from power plants annually — a reduction of 9 percent below 2012 power plant emission levels.

(Sec. 340) Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress on an analysis of the effects of different carbon dioxide reduction strategies and technologies on the emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide, which cause acid rain, particulate matter, ground level ozone, mercury contamination, and other environmental problems.

Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that analyzes the effects of different carbon dioxide reduction strategies and technologies on the emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide, which cause acid rain, particulate matter, ground level ozone, mercury contamination, and other environmental problems.

When coal is burned due to combustion that is more or less completed the result is different levels of energy (B.T.U.'s), and different levels of air emissions (Sulfur Dioxide - SO2, Mercury - Hg), greenhouse gases (Carbon Dioxide CO2, Nitrogen Oxide - NO3), and amounts of ash that can potentially be toxic dependent on the conditions within the combustion chamber and ash that can or can not be used in a secondary market (ex.

California environmental goals include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 % from 1990 levels by 2030 and by 80 % by 2050, as well as reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other health - harming pollutants in areas of the state with the highest levels of air pollution by 2032.

Countries included in Annex B of the Protocol (most Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries and countries with economies in transition) agreed to reduce their human - induced heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride) by at least 5 % below 1990 levels in the commitment period 2008 to 2012.

India's Center for Science and Environment (CSE) reports coal is responsible for 80 % of India's mercury pollution, 60 % of airborne particulate matter, 45 % of sulphur dioxide emissions, and 30 % of nitrogen oxide levels.

The body found that, without additional action, emissions of the greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol - namely carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, PFCs and HFCs - are likely to rise by 25 - 90 % by 2030 over their levels in 2000.

A 2005 executive order requires California to reduce its emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases — including carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and hydrofluorocarbons — to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

A DEFRA report published earlier this year showed that by 2006, «Methane emissions, excluding those from natural sources, were 53 per cent below 1990 levels» and that «Nitrous oxide emissions fell by 40 per cent between 1990 and 2006.»

There are natural methane and nitrous oxide emissions, but destroying these GHGs will not lead to any adverse consequences to the environment / society because we can reduce removal efforts once their concentrations return to pre-industrial (i.e. sustainable) levels.

According to the report, carbon dioxide levels rose 0.53 % from 2005 to 381.2 ppm while nitrous oxide levels, third among greenhouse gas emissions, rose 0.25 % from 2006 to 320 ppb - 36 % and 19 % above pre-industrial times, respectively.

The Code notes that shutting down an engine during taxi - in operations can deliver reductions of 20 to 40 per cent of the ground level fuel burn and CO2 emissions, and 10 to 30 per cent of ground emitted oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions, depending on aircraft type and operator technique.