Sentences with phrase «say high carbon emission»

Experts say high carbon emission and its concentration in the atmosphere is triggering more localised rain

Not exact matches

Higher taxes on domestic flights and improved public transport are needed if Britain is to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent before 2050, a Conservative policy group has said.

«We can not cope with that in a throw - away culture of high carbon emissions and profligate use of resources,» says Howard.

«The deposition of compounds such as sugars and organic acids from living roots can increase the activity of bacteria and fungi, and it's this increase in activity that accelerates the decomposition of carbon in the soil, leading to higher CO2 emissions,» Sulman said.

This second calculation allowed the researchers to see that people with higher incomes are responsible for a larger per capita amount of carbon emissions, Ivanova said.

Michael Replogle of ITDP, a co-author of the report «A Global High Shift Scenario», said transport, driven by a rapid growth in car use, had been the fastest growing source of carbon dioxide emissions in the world.

Xu said that higher trading activities are expected to emerge in coming weeks because regulated emitters are approaching their deadline of reporting annual emissions and therefore have stronger incentives to trade carbon allowances.

And even under the best of conditions, carbon sequestration is not at levels high enough to counteract the ruminants» own emissions, the report says.

One high - profile target, he says, should be reducing emissions of tiny soot particles, known as black carbon, that don't last long in the atmosphere but have an outsize impact on warming.

«The health hazards associated with high contaminant concentrations can therefore be avoided while at the same time reducing energy consumption in buildings by about fifty percent, which is highly significant in terms of existing carbon emission targets,» says Schütze.

«The consequences of not [acting] are even higher with these results than they were before, when we could think about 1.5 degrees as being in the realm of possibility — which I think, realistically, it's not,» he said, urging more investments in research, a tax on carbon and other established paths to emissions reductions.

Russia says its 2030 pledge will include the highest possible estimate of carbon dioxide absorbed by forests when they come to count its national emissions.

«Our study shows that very high climate sensitivities are virtually impossible, suggesting that we still have enough time to deal with the problem and reduce carbon emissions, which could avoid the most severe impacts,» said Andreas Schmittner, a climate scientist at Oregon State University and the study's lead author.

The International Energy Agency reported flat CO2 emissions in 2014 and 2015 but BP said it did not take into account numbers that became available later on with regard to Chinese carbon output related to higher grade coal it had been burning.

Frydenberg said carbon capture and storage technology, high - efficiency, low - emission coal - fired power stations, and the improvements in the technology of battery storage were canvassed in their discussion.

«We are calling on policy - makers to respond to the prospect of triggering future climate tipping points by applying the brakes now and putting a high price on carbon emissions before it is too late,» says one of the authors, Tim Lenton, professor of climate change and earth system science at the University of Exeter.

Mr. Bush said today that a recent Energy Department study had concluded that regulating carbon dioxide emissions would have led to «significantly higher electricity prices.»

«My view is that a Chinese target of a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions intensity between 2005 and 2020 would be a continuation of historical trends,» said Jim Watson, from the Tyndall Centre for climate change research in Britain [and whose report on China's carbon scenarios we've discussed on this blog; see previous post «Tyndall Centre Climate Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon»].

Russia says its 2030 pledge will include the highest possible estimate of carbon dioxide absorbed by forests when they come to count its national emissions.

The Sierra Club said the pledge made in Beijing «keeps the United States on track to cut its carbon pollution by 80 percent by 2050... setting a high bar for future administrations,» and the Obama administration said it would submit the 2025 target to the U.N. process seeking a deal on post-2020 emissions.

One minister says it is «stupid» to pin such high hopes on renewable energies, because boosting them is not the same thing as cutting carbon emissions.

LONDON, 13 April, 2018 — Massive savings in carbon emissions are possible worldwide if governments adopt the highest energy efficiency standards for lighting and other household appliances such as fridges, freezers and washing machines, researchers say.

«Gola REDD + is an exceptionally high quality exemplar project that presents a unique opportunity for Corporates who are concerned about deforestation, keen to support wildlife conservation and species preservation, whilst taking responsibility for their carbon emissions» said Edward Hanrahan, CEO of ClimateCare.

But the study says Drax's own data shows that while burning coal leads to emissions of 1,901 lb of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour (Mwh), the figure for wood is significantly higher — 2,128 lb per Mwh.

Global carbon dioxide emissions hit a record high in 2011, led by China, the International Energy Agency said in May.

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.

Combined with an ammonia - based storage system, the solar thermal concentrator will not only create carbon emission - free base load power, its technology could also be used to one day solve the widening oil crisis and supplant high - earning coal exports, Prof Lovegrove said in Melbourne this week.»

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.

«The question for leaders and governments everywhere is how to rein in dangerously high levels of carbon dioxide emissions without stunting development and reducing living standards,» said James Leape, WWF International's Director General.

It's worth noting that despite the significant role for CCS in its scenarios, the IEA says under a 2C or higher path: «Coal - fired power plants with CCS become too carbon intensive at a certain point, since 10 - 15 % of their emissions are not captured.»

At the higher carbon tax levels that would make truly monumental dents in emissions, say, $ 100 / ton, the annual charge would be a million bucks a year.

Reducing high - end consumption could have an enormous short - term impact on carbon emissions, as climate scientist Kevin Anderson is always saying.

Former UN climate chief says there's little chance 2015 summit will be able to curb soaring emissions, arguing high carbon price is best solution

Globally, 78 percent of young people said they want their favorite brands to reduce their carbon footprint, but again those in Chinese showed the highest demand for emission reductions, with 88 percent calling on firms to cut their footprint.

The estimated social benefit of carbon should include an estimated 20 % increase in crop yields that can conservatively be attributed directly to the higher CO2 concentration, plus the net benefit to humanity of a world that is roughly 1ºC warmer (of which, say, half was a result of human CO2 emissions).

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.

WWF summarizes Canada's poor performance by saying that the nation has very high emissions per capita compared to other industrial nations, despite the aforementioned large use of hydropower; its per capita emissions are still increasing; its expanding development of the carbon - intensive tar sands and has no significant policy to reduce overall emissions.

Indonesia, whose rapid clearing of rainforests accounts for about one - quarter of all carbon emissions from deforestation globally, has said that it will pledge to cut its emissions by 40 % from 2005 levels by 2030, if it receives international support: Currently deforestation is the source of 80 % of Indonesia's carbon emissions, and when these emissions are included in the nation's total (they aren't always, on some charts of highest emitting nations) it is in the top ten emitters — right up there with the US, China, and other industrial nations.

Sophie says: «In our civil rights case, titled Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. and available at ourchildrenstrust.org, we assert that the government is violating our constitutional right to life, liberty and property by approving emissions of fatally high levels of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, despite being aware of its damaging effects.

They explain that termination shock is most likely to occur if a solar geoengineering effort aimed at suppressing a large amount of warming — say, the 0.5 degrees Celsius per decade expected in the high - end (RPC 8.5) carbon emissions scenario — was phased out suddenly and completely.

US to double pace of emissions cuts, China to cap carbon pollution by 2030 but new Senate leader says deal means «higher utility rates and far fewer jobs»

While Abbott used to characterise the trade of international credits as «money that shouldn't be going offshore into dodgy carbon farms in Equatorial Guinea and Kazakhstan», the climate review says «access to high - quality international units will provide greater flexibility to business and government in meeting emissions reduction targets».