Sentences with phrase «produces more greenhouse gas»

«The global livestock industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars, planes, trains and ships combined,» the Guardian explains.

This produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars and trucks combined.

It also asserts that Brazil's dams are among the dirtiest in the world, producing more greenhouse gas emissions in some cases than fossil fuel plants.

Finding a plug for «leakage» Harstad's theory builds upon the concept of «carbon leakage,» which holds that countries opting out of climate agreements will produce more greenhouse gases as their neighbors take steps to ratchet down greenhouse gas emissions and regulate the sources of such emissions, like coal - burning industrial plants or motor vehicle fleets.

The country would be spending billions in loans, tax incentives and price guarantees to lock in a technology that produces more greenhouse gases than gasoline does.

Agriculture produces more greenhouse gases than all methods of transport put together, and contributes to...

Fact 1: Australian smelters produce more greenhouse gases per tonne of aluminium than smelters anywhere else in the world.

Australia and the USA are culpable on two counts, they are producing more greenhouse gasses than any other nations (considering population sizes) and they are doing less about controlling their emissions than any of the other major greenhouse gas emitting nations.

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.

In this report the State Department concluded that by tapping into the oil sands, KXL would produce more greenhouse gases, but that blocking the project would not prevent development of those resources.

Coal - fired power stations also produce more greenhouse gases per unit of energy than any other type of power station.

I can't find the reference, but recall a study published last year that showed the bovine population - both dairy and meat - producing more greenhouse gasses than all of mankind.

However, this leaves aside a big question, touched on in our comments section, regarding emissions by weight of cargo e.g. if the same amount of freight was shipped by air or by sea, which would produce more greenhouse gases?

Not exact matches

Insects are even more efficient when it comes to water consumption, and they produce far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than livestock.

In addition to representing 17 percent of the total waste stream, food decomposing in landfills produces methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more harmful than carbon dioxide.

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»

More renewable energy in Alberta will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean the air, and produce significant new investment and jobs — particularly in rural areas of the province.»

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 idea being raising cattle produces so much methane (which is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2) that the primary contribution to greenhouse gases is actually the cow itself, not shipping, so eating local beef vs generic feed lot beef has little effect on the environmental impact.

The 1.9 - megawatt array is anticipated to produce nearly 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually, avoiding the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to burning 2.4 million pounds of coal or more than 5,000 barrels of oil each year.

Yet U.S. coal - fired power plants produce more than 30 times more CO2 than Albertan oil sands facilities — 45 million metric tons of greenhouse gases versus nearly two billion metric tons.

Paying firms to destroy a potent greenhouse gas sounds like a good way to help combat global warming, but a coalition of outside groups says these companies are deliberately producing more of the waste just to earn offset credits

Instead, they provide the ideal conditions for the growth of yet other bacteria that in turn produce more potent greenhouse gases, such as nitrous oxide and methane.

My car annually produces 26,000 pounds of greenhouse - gas emissions — more than two killer whales» worth of pollution.

«We found that with a given amount of biomass you could produce more transportation and greenhouse gas offsets with electricity than with ethanol.»

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.

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.

«That suggests there was more greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, which would produce a warmer climate combined with increased weathering, because carbon dioxide creates carbonic acid and acid rain, which speeds chemical weathering.»

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.

Using either method produces gases that the atmosphere doesn't need more of: venting discharges methane, a potent greenhouse gas, whereas flaring generates carbon dioxide.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

They feed on carbon dioxide, growing faster and absorbing more of the greenhouse gas as humans produce it.

HFC - 23, an industrial greenhouse gas thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide, is produced as a by - product in the manufacture of refrigerant, and a number of major offset projects capture and destroy HFC - 23, doing a huge service to the climate.

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.

Gram for gram, beef costs more to produce — in land, water, and greenhouse gas emissions — than most fruits and vegetables.

Producing beef for the table releases more heat - trapping greenhouse gases than most people realize — far more, pound for pound, than are generated by the production of most other kinds of food

To estimate the impact of U.S. dietary choices on greenhouse gas emissions, the researchers built a database that assessed the environmental impacts involved in producing more than 300 types of foods.

The plant, equipped with DNA from barley, emits as little as 1 % of the methane — a powerful greenhouse gas — of a conventional variety, while also producing more rice.

Yet if more used wood in Switzerland was re-used to produce heat or power, this would eliminate the need for numerous shipments of timber abroad, which would save energy, lower costs and cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

In addition to a near elimination of greenhouse gases associated with its growth, SUSIBA2 rice produces substantially more grains for a richer food source.

Lettuce, for example, produces three times more greenhouse gas emissions than bacon.

The Maverick Oasis system allows producers to monetize biogas and natural gas (including associated or flare gas, and stranded gas reserves), as an alternative to producing electricity or venting greenhouse gases... Read more →

The benefit is higher efficiency jet engines and power turbines that produce more power and less greenhouse gases, which is a good thing for the planet.»

However, the surface warming caused by human - produced increases in carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases leads to a large increase in water vapor, since a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture.

And cities produce more than two - thirds of these greenhouse gases.

Methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide, is produced by cows and other livestock.

Using corn to produce ethanol has driven up food prices in recent years, and converting forests and other areas into farmland to grow more corn for biofuels may well negate ethanol's improved greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

The power produced is triple carbon negative because methane is 23 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas and this project destroys it.

The truth is the fact that the environment has had enough of us, and now starts to take measures to punish us hoping that somehow we will reduce or even end our daily activities that produce greenhouse gases and will begin to respect the environment more than before.