Sentences with phrase «percent less carbon emissions»

The diesel engine will meet emissions standards in all 50 states and will produce up to 20 percent less carbon emissions than a regular gas - powered engine.

Not exact matches

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

«Less than 1 percent of our carbon emissions are offset by this,» says Jolanka Nickerman, manager of Google's Carbon Offsets Team.

But if people were better at using less electricity, which accounts for 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, the potential for reducing emissions would be huge.

The Zafira and Combo CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) produce almost no soot particles, 20 percent less carbon dioxide than a comparable gasoline model and an up to 80 percent reduction in other harmful emissions.

The aircraft structure is made of lightweight carbon fiber reinforced plastic, therefore, it uses 25 percent less fuel and produces 25 percent less fewer environmental damaging emissions.

The oil sands are still a tiny part of the world's carbon problem — they account for less than a tenth of one percent of global CO2 emissions — but to many environmentalists they are the thin end of the wedge, the first step along a path that could lead to other, even dirtier sources of oil: producing it from oil shale or coal.

However, when that sink begins to become less effective, the percent falls, and the diminished capacity to absorb our carbon emissions would be counted as a feedback.

Libby's article speaks volumes about the difficulty of moving a world that is more than 80 percent dependent on fossil fuels toward one largely free of carbon dioxide emissions from such fuels within two or three generations, even as the human population heads toward 9 billion (more or less).

Americans will have to pay much higher electricity prices despite the minuscule benefits of the Clean Power Plan, which reduces global carbon dioxide emissions by less than 1 percent and global temperatures by 0.02 degrees Celsius by 2100, according to EPA's own models.

Ramping up the tax by $ 5 a year would shrink the use of carbon fuels so drastically that, by my calculations, US carbon emissions in 2030 would be 40 percent less than they were in 2005 (a standard baseline year).

The carbon cost of such expansion, however, is low: to bring electricity to those without it would increase global carbon dioxide emissions by less than 1 percent.

Not only have global carbon emissions continued to rise 3 percent a year, but the science has made more clear that human populations and natural systems face serious risk of substantial climate damage at warming less than 2 °C, they said.

It states that to stand a good chance (a probability of 66 percent or more) of limiting warming to less than 2 °C since the mid-19th century will require cumulative CO2 emissions from all anthropogenic sources to stay under 800 gigatons of carbon.

«If the proposal is approved by the state's Public Utilities Commission,» I wrote, «California's carbon dioxide emissions will either increase or decline far less than if Diablo Canyon's two reactors, which generated about 9 percent of the state's electricity last year, remained in operation.

But we account for less than two percent of global carbon emissions.

The 30 percent reduction represents an average, so states can cut carbon emissions at levels either greater or less than that overall figure.

So, if you can get 10 miles on less than a gallon of diesel, the carbon emissions will be less than gas; if the 35 percent efficiency upgrade holds (depending on your truck, how big the load is, etc.), then those 10 miles would produce about 14 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions — less than the 19.4 produced from burning a gallon of gas.

Wind was by far the most promising, Jacobson said, owing to a better - than 99 percent reduction in carbon and air pollution emissions; the consumption of less than 3 square kilometers of land for the turbine footprints to run the entire U.S. vehicle fleet (given the fleet is composed of battery - electric vehicles); l the savings of about 15,000 lives per year from premature air - pollution - related deaths from vehicle exhaust in the United States; and virtually no water consumption.

Coal is the worst offender, a dirty energy source that produces less than half our electricity but nearly 80 percent of all power plant carbon emissions.

I am not holding up China as a model of, of environmental activism, but what the reality here is, is that the United States with less than 5 percent of the world's population, contributes to 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions.

Illinois's power plants have reduced their carbon dioxide emissions by 3 percent between 2005 and 2012, mostly by using more natural gas and renewables and less coal.