Sentences with phrase «produce high carbon emissions»

The announcement does not mean that the state has completely divested from companies that produce high carbon emissions.

Animal products generally use larger amounts of resources and energy than various other plant - based foods, plus produce higher carbon emissions.

Not exact matches

The plant is able to produce high - quality sustainable coffee with an increased capsule collection recycling capacity and reduced carbon emissions.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but using gas to produce power could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

These conflicts have stalled some high - profile projects despite the fact that renewable energy sources do not produce heat - trapping emissions of carbon dioxides, the primary greenhouse gas driving global warming.

(D) combustion technology to produce higher firing temperature while lowering nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide emissions per unit of output;

The highest per capita carbon emissions are in several small oil and gas producing countries.

Specimens of elkhorn coral living in water with excess carbon dioxide have been studied for fertilization rates, ability of larvae to settle on reef substrate (where they produce new corals), and subsequent growth and survival.3 Three levels of carbon dioxide were tested, corresponding to concentrations today, at mid-century, and at the end of the century on a high - emissions path.3, 5 At the mid-century concentration, the ability of fertilization to occur and for larvae to settle successfully on the reef was significantly reduced: around 52 percent, and the decline intensified to about 73 percent at the late - century concentration.3 The corals» ability to survive over the long run declined as well, by an average of 39 percent and 50 percent respectively.3, 4

As defined in Title 26 of the US Code (The Internal Revenue Code of 1986), refined coal means a fuel which is a liquid, gaseous or solid fuel produced from coal (including lignite) or high carbon fly ash, including such fuel used as a feedstock; and is sold with the reasonable expectation that it will be used to produce steam, resulting in a qualified emission reduction.

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 observatory's location in Hawaii was chosen specifically due to the cleanliness of the air that produces more accurate measurements than what would be measured close to areas with higher carbon dioxide emissions.

(D) combustion technology to produce higher firing temperature while lowering nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide emissions per unit of output;

America's energy revolution has produced affordable, reliable energy for consumers along with stable, high - paying jobs for small businesses — all while dropping carbon emissions to their lowest level in 25 years.

If countries do not move fast enough to achieve zero carbon emissions or at least produce no more greenhouse gases than can be taken in by trees and the ocean, Figueres said the poorest of the poor will pay the highest price.

Each person on the planet produced 1.3 tons of carbon last year — an all - time high — despite a global recession that slowed the growth of fossil fuel emissions for the first time this decade, according to a report published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Calpine Corp. and Vistra Energy Corp. of Houston, Texas, and Bucksport Generation LLC of Maine filed a joint statement citing experts who said the carbon dioxide emissions from NECEC's electric power generation would either provide no benefit or may produce higher emissions.

China produced 6,200 million metric tons of carbon dioxide last year, compared with 5,800 million tons for U.S. CO2 emissions in China are now 7.5 percent higher than in America, whereas last year China's emissions lagged 2 percent behind those of the U.S., which faces a slowing economy.

Conservatives in Australia, Brazil, and Canada also show a proclivity for climate denial, though not at the same levels as the U.S. Outside of the oil - producing countries in the Middle East, Australia, Canada, and the U.S. have some of the highest per capita carbon emissions in the world.

Theoretically, he says, we could produce all the electricity we need, with 90 % less carbon emissions, with a combination of scrubbed natural gas burning generators and wind energy from high - wind regime areas transported through high voltage direct current lines.

Specifically, ammonia that is produced from fossil carbon, with high CO2 emissions.