Sentences with phrase «requires less carbon»

Driving to a local tree farm, cutting your tree from the ground, and bringing it home requires less carbon emissions than having your tree shipped from the Pacific Northwest — and it can be fun!

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«They also improve the health of soil and have a low carbon footprint, requiring less energy to grow.»

Within their progress report of the 4th carbon budget, the CCC illustrates that spending on domestic energy efficiency for low income households is currently less than half the required investment to meet statutory targets.

A crucial reason why the study of freshwater acidification has lagged until now is because determining how atmospheric carbon affects these ecosystems requires complex modeling, and is much less clear than that occurring in oceans, according to study author Linda Weiss, an aquatic ecologist at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

«For scientific activities that require the emission of carbon, researchers should replace with less carbon - intensive activities, reduce the scope of the activity, and refine their research plan to maximize the scientific return for each unit of carbon emitted,» Favaro wrote.

Using technology developed at Cornell University, Novomer gets additional funding to develop a plastic - manufacturing process that requires less oil by folding in carbon dioxide

In his thesis, Johan Rootzén also concludes that a shift in technology to a less carbon intense production of steel and cement would only have a marginal effect on the final price of a car or a house, despite the large investments required in the production step of the primary materials.

Propane is less dense than water, so LPG - based fracking projects should require less truck traffic and smaller staging areas, which cuts carbon emissions.

Less work required to capture the same amount of CO2 results in lowering the cost of using CCUS technology, making coal - to - chemicals factories a promising sector to reduce carbon emissions.

In an emergency, unlike today's reactors, it shuts down without human intervention and without requiring electric power... Hundreds of nuclear scientists believe this technology has the ability to generate carbon - free power at a cost per kW less than coal.»

Relative to corn, grasses require less fertilizer, less tilling (which helps release carbon stored in the soil into the air), and store more of their carbon underground.

The study showed that patients on a low - carbohydrate diet generated less carbon dioxide, breathed more slowly, and required less time on a ventilator.

Since carbohydrate is richer in oxygen than fat, its metabolism requires 25 percent less water and generates 50 percent more carbon dioxide.

A two in three probability of holding warming to 2 °C or less will require a budget that limits future carbon dioxide emissions to about 900 billion tons, roughly 20 times annual emissions in 2014.

396 ppm less...... pre-industrial................................................... 280 ppm anthropogenic carbon loading....................................... 116 ppm...... Loading as fraction required for 2X CO2:...... 116 / 280 = 41 %

Rural India and Africa require huge amounts of development and that development has bog all to do with developed world attempts to move to less carbon - intensive energy sources.

Second, the quantity of methane necessary to explain the carbon isotope ratio, as calculated by Dickens, would be much less than that required to warm ocean and atmosphere temperatures to the extent estimated by PETM temperature proxies and calculated by physical climate models.

He said, however, that liquid biofuels can and should play a central role in reducing the transportation sector's petroleum dependence, alongside programs to reduce vehicle sizes, charge for carbon emissions, and encourage lifestyles requiring less personal mobility.

EPA is not even requiring reporting of greenhouse gas emissions for sources emitting less than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually.

The transfer of knowledge, on the other hand, relies on the transmission of electrons, requiring an infrastructure of transcontinental fiber - optics that is far less carbon intensive that trans - ocean shipping.

Regarding text stating that limiting warming from anthropogenic CO2 emissions alone to likely less than 2 °C since 1861 - 1880 requires cumulative emissions to stay below 1000 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC), Saudi Arabia urged using 1850 for consistency, to which the CLAs responded that some model simulations only begin in 1860, which delegates agreed to reflect in a footnote.

We haven't even come close to defining what will be required in storage, what are the legal liabilities and what are the permitting requirements, much less the infrastructure needed to develop that storage and move the carbon, the C02, into that storage, pipelines or trucks or whatever that is.

(Sec. 213) Amends the EPCA to: (1) revise the definition of «energy conservation standard» to include energy efficiency for certain covered equipment, water efficiency for certain covered equipment, and both energy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal standards.

Requires the President, if a determination is made that that 85 % or less of such imports have met at least one criteria, to: (1) assess the effectiveness of rebates and the international reserve allowance program in mitigating the carbon leakage in that sector by June 30, 2018, and every four years thereafter; (2) modify the rebate formula; and (3) apply or continue to apply an international reserve allowance program with respect to the imports.

EPA did relax the CCS requirement, but did so simply by requiring less of coal plants» emitted carbon to be captured.

The sponsors of I - 1631 included a similar but less stringent provision, requiring electric utility plans to include «a long - term strategy to eliminate any fee obligation» imposed by the measure, as a way to push utilities to use at least some of the retained revenue to directly reduce carbon from their electricity generating sources.

But it's not clear what that exactly means — whether businesses will have to immediately start buying carbon allowances to cover their emissions, or some lesser form of regulation, like requiring companies to report their emissions.

The basic options are to have individuals consume less, consume things that require less energy, use energy sources that have lower ‐ carbon content, or have fewer people.

Improved energy - efficiency tactics — such as switching to light bulbs that use less electricity — could be required by the new rules and lead to lower costs for consumers and businesses, argues Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in a proposal to reduce carbon emissions, a plan that the EPA's is widely expected to resemble.

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.

That's only a small multiple of the weight of the CO2 people exhale, and realizing this goal within 42 years could require America to burn less carbon in a month than we do now in a day.

Better batteries for a start, lighter, stronger, materials (lighter even than the carbon fibre you're talking about), meaning less energy required to push things around.

The latest in the series puts the gap between emissions trends and what is actually required to keep the rise in global temperature at a level which does not spell catastrophe for the planet at between 8 - 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent (CO2e) by 2020 — less a gap than a gaping chasm!

CLT also has a lighter carbon footprint as wood products continue to store carbon absorbed by the trees while growing, and engineered wood manufacturing requires significantly less energy to produce than concrete and steel.

Simply making progress to the targets requires steps of a magnitude that seem practically impossible, e.g., such as the need for the UK to achieve a carbon efficiency of its economy equal to that of France in 2006 in a time period considerably less than a decade.

[M] any people have latched onto the local - food movement, billing themselves «locavores,» as an antidote to the energy used to transport food long distances and the energy intensity of large - scale industrialized agriculture... Strangely enough, shipping food thousands of miles can sometimes require less energy, emit less carbon dioxide and do less environmental damage.

The Gyapa stove cooks food more quickly, requires 50 - 60 % less fuel, cutting carbon emissions and reducing exposure to hazardous indoor air pollutants, thus improving the health of the cooks, who are typically women and children.

It would require some 12 — 14 of Princeton's «stabilization wedges» — strategies and / or technologies that over a period of a few decades each ultimately reduce projected global carbon emissions by one billion metric tons per year (see technical paper here, less technical one here).

Where today's solar panels might require a carbon price of $ 200 / tonne to be feasible, a future rollout may only need a price of $ 50 / tonne or less - if it hits grid parity, nothing.

But they also note that the isolation of pure carbon from the peanuts requires dramatically less energy in comparison to the temperature required to produce conventional carbon used for battery anodes: 1,100 F compared to 3,600 to 4,500 F.

Going all out on the hard front end emissions reductions provides these reductions when needed most and also means less low carbon technologies need to be implemented as replacements, thereby reducing the carbon expenditures that will be required for the implementation.

The National Petrochemical Plaintiffs explain that there is no dispute that application of the «two factors» identified by Defendants results in the following: (1) California's HCICO is assigned a CI [carbon intensity] value with less than half of the GHG emissions associated with its production and transport; (2) California's HCICO is the only HCICO to qualify for this favorable treatment; and (3) All HCICOs from outside of California are required to account for all of the GHG emissions associated with their production and transportation.