Sentences with phrase «produced by greenhouse gas emissions»

As a stunning early spring blooms across the United States, just weeks after scientists declared 2016 the hottest year on record, it's easy to forget that all the extra warmth in the air accounts for only a fraction of the heat produced by greenhouse gas emissions.

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An assessment paid for by DuPont said that the ethanol it will produce there could be more than 100 per cent better than gasoline in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

The NEB plans to judge a project on the greenhouse gas emissions of the people who produce the oil, as well as those who eventually consume it By Ken Green,... Read more»

The more I read, the more I learned about food waste, the rising costs of obesity in America, and the greenhouse gas emissions produced by raising, manufacturing, storing, and transporting food.

the US would reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France.

Nuclear power is included in Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard by the Public Service Commission because nuclear does not produce greenhouse gas emissions.

New York must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 38 percent by 2030 and the emissions - free power produced by Indian Point won't easily be replaced by plants that burn coal, natural gas or oil.

Preserving nuclear plants also allows the administration to move toward its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030, through a zero - emission credit program that awards companies for producing energy without carbon emissions.

So companies in the developed world have an annual limit on the level of greenhouse gas emissions they can produce, and if they exceed their cap, they can purchase credits generated by the emission reduction projects or low - carbon technologies in developing countries.

The electric vehicles» benefits of reduced greenhouse gas emissions are countered by the expense and pollution from producing the vehicles, leading to debate on whether they are the best replacement for conventional vehicles.

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.

As some of the incentives for fracking come from the lower carbon emissions produced by gas - fired power stations, a key question is whether the extraction of shale gas has an additional impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Renewable electricity produces just 5 % to 6 % of the greenhouse gas emissions created by coal - fired energy plants, and 8 % to 10 % of those generated from gas - fired plants.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

Rather, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would drop by 28 percent without farmed animals because of increases associated with producing additional food crops and the use of more synthetic fertilizer to replace manure.

Previous research from Cambridge and elsewhere has shown sparing land for nature by producing more food per field is the «least worst option» for both biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions, says co-author Andrew Balmford, Cambridge professor of conservation science.

But hydrogen is commonly produced from natural gas heated by steam, which results in greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental problems.

-- For a covered entity described in section 700 (13)(C), 1 emission allowance for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of fossil fuel - based carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or any other fluorinated gas that is a greenhouse gas (except for nitrogen trifluoride), or any combination thereof, produced or imported by such covered entity during the previous calendar year for sale or distribution in interstate commerce.

-- Activities that receive support under this part shall not be issued offset credits for the greenhouse gas emissions reductions or avoidance, or greenhouse gas sequestration, produced by such activities.

(2) the term «carbon footprint» means the level of greenhouse gas emissions produced by a particular activity, service, or entity; and

-- Activities that receive support under this subtitle shall not be issued offset credits for the greenhouse gas emissions reductions or avoidance, or greenhouse gas sequestration, produced by such activities.

-- Where carbon dioxide (or another greenhouse gas) generated by a covered entity is used as an input in the production of algae - based fuels, the Administrator shall ensure that emission allowances are required to be held either for the carbon dioxide generated by a covered entity that is used to grow the algae or for the portion of the carbon dioxide emitted from combustion of the fuel produced from such algae that is attributable to carbon dioxide generated by a covered entity, but not for both.

Overall, closing yield gaps by 50 % for crops and 25 % for livestock would lead to a 12 % savings in greenhouse gas emission per calorie produced.

Improving crop yields using sustainable methods could cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 12 % per calorie produced according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

63 percent of respondents said the United States should move forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do... In the same poll, the public supported — by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent — requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if that would cost the average household an extra $ 100 per year.»

The lack of a shared long - term goal for cutting emissions represents a mixed result for President Bush, who had pledged last year to bring together most of the world's biggest economic powers — later called «major economies» by the White House — and produce a shared long - term goal for curbing greenhouse - gas emissions by the end of 2008.

He said it sets a marker chosen by the United States that it can use in talks, running Thursday and Friday in Paris, with officials from a dozen or so countries that together produce more than 80 percent of the world's greenhouse - gas emissions.

According to estimates produced by the Obama administration's EPA, the plan would have reduced the electricity sector's greenhouse - gas emissions approximately 25 % below 2005 levels by 2020, and 30 % by 2030.

A study by a leading apparel company concluded that one pair of denim jeans produces 44 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions — equivalent to burning over 21 pounds of coal.

All told, that avoids greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to that produced by 165,000 cars, the utility highlights.

Mack Trucks achieved its initial goal by reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 32 percent per unit produced from 2003 to 2007.

Carbon dioxide is the most important greenhouse gas directly produced by human activities.Present emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) account for about half the short - term climatic impact of man - made greenhouse gases (GHGs).

And there was this: «By using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land - use change,» Timothy Searchinger of Princeton and other researchers reported in 2008, «we found that corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years.»

MIT's greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced by 9 percent from 2016 levels, primarily due to electricity produced via a solar power purchase agreement last year with a solar farm in North Carolina, and by 16 percent from the 2014 baseline year — half of the minimum reduction called for.

It cited «plausible scenarios in which GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions from corn - grain ethanol are much higher than those of petroleum - based fuels,» and questioned the method by which EPA determined that ethanol would produce 21 percent less emissions.

Perhaps the biggest pathway through which carbon taxes could cut greenhouse gas emissions from shipping would be by altering the cost equation between distant imports that must be transported thousands of miles, and domestically produced goods.

Green energy is recognized by the EPA as a means for providing electricity in a responsible, sustainable way that produces far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than traditional power sources.

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But Canada is further ahead on implementing the actions required to address climate change that will provide a long - term sustainable future for wind energy development by looking beyond wind energy's role in the electricity grid to its role (with other renewable energies) as a substitute for fossil fuels in other sectors of the economy where most of our greenhouse gas emissions are produced.

The company has pledged to buy palm oil certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and to use proprietary NExBTL technology that produces fuel with lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions 40 to 60 percent less than those of conventional diesel fuel.

He says if you took half of all the vacant land in cities, and grew produce on it, it would reduce food - related greenhouse gas emissions by just one percent.

The treaty required ratification by countries producing at least 55 percent of the world's greenhouse gases and support from Russia, with its large share of emissions, allowed the treaty to take effect.

That convention defines climate change as change produced not by all greenhouse gas emissions, but by human greenhouse gas emissions.

(B) is determined by the interagency group to have in force national policies and measures that are capable of producing measurable, reportable, and verifiable greenhouse gas emissions mitigation.

«(aa) the number 20 multiplied by the number of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas emissions (including direct emissions from fuel combustion, process emissions, and indirect emissions from the generation of electricity used to produce the output of the sector) of the sector based on data described in subparagraph (D); by

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.

-- Where carbon dioxide (or another greenhouse gas) generated by a covered entity is used as an input in the production of algae - based fuels, the Administrator shall ensure that emission allowances are required to be held either for the carbon dioxide generated by a covered entity that is used to grow the algae or for the portion of the carbon dioxide emitted from combustion of the fuel produced from such algae that is attributable to carbon dioxide generated by a covered entity, but not for both.

Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a greenhouse gas mitigation technology which produces negative carbon dioxide emissions by combining biomass use with geologic carbon capture and storage.

Mr. d'Oliveira views his dNGR as a potential way for reducing greenhouse gas emissions produced by the combustion of fossil fuels.