Sentences with phrase «than emissions»

That's a little bit less than emissions from road transportation.

Almost everyone realizes we need something more than emission reductions, but how to frame a positive vision for moving forward has proved elusive.

Hence, emissions embedded in trade grew faster than emissions of other source.

This is 10 times higher than emissions for wind power, if calculations take into account emissions during wind - turbine manufacture and installation.

Firstly, I don't think it's true that nobody is examining solutions other than emission reductions.

The author concludes that this proves the need for a carbon tax rather than an emissions trading scheme.

If the amount of absorption is greater than the emission then something has to change so that the emission increases.

Most of our owners have children and they know that they're taking really positive steps, setting a good example and you can't get better than emission free.

All of this will play much better than calling for nothing more than emission controls involving many economic restraints as they just slow the expanding of the overload and the worsening of global warming.

The relevant point: this is more than 100 times smaller than the emissions avoided by not driving my car to work.

You can fear global warming and favor adaptation policies rather than emissions cuts because you think adaptation is more cost - effective and technologically practical.

... policy targets based on limiting cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide are likely to be more robust to scientific uncertainty than emission - rate or concentration targets.

For a while there is no LTE, there is more absorption by the water than emission.

The basic idea is that countries would agree on a carbon price rather than an emissions limitation.

Many of the «committed warming» scenarios are actually for constant composition: so rather than emissions dropping to zero, emissions stay at a low level to maintain the current CO2 concentrations.

I wonder why it is that these types of solutions seem more «possible» than emissions reduction strategies?

Since we do not know what adaptations will be required, we can not say whether they will be harder or easier — more expensive or less — than emissions control.

But while these figures demonstrate that Gas STAR is effective in lowering the annual rate of emissions, the EPA's new figures essentially move the starting point, and, when recalculated, 2008 emissions are now understood to have been 53 percent higher than emissions in 1990.

The renewable synthetic diesel and jet fuels will meet all applicable fuels standards, be compatible with existing engines and pipelines, and burn cleanly, with emissions of particulates and other regulated pollutants significantly lower than emissions of traditional fuels.

If money, not cuts, is its bottom line, China may emphasize these funds as much or more than the emissions targets that developed countries bring to the table in Copenhagen.

«The radio emission arrives last but persists much longer than emissions at other wavebands,» Hallinan says.

Inclusion of short - term forcing agents within a rate - of - change target is a natural extension of this approach, and could provide a framework for including both emissions rates, or «flows», as well as cumulative emissions, or «stocks», into a set of climate targets that are better informed by current climate science than emissions rates in a given year or long - term concentrations.

* Information on the RFI factor applied for carbon footprint calculation: Plane emissions at high altitude have a more severe impact on global climate than emissions from the combustion of fuel on ground level.

This is 1 to 3 percent lower than the emission factors for lignite in the Fort Union Coal Region in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana and for lignite in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

Overall, the carbon dioxide emissions generated by exported goods and services from developing countries rose by 46 percent between 2004 and 2011, and emissions generated by South - South trade grew more quickly than emissions generated by exports to developed countries.

And then there is the article discussing whether carbon rationing or carbon taxes might be a better bet than the emission trading scheme that Australia is soon expected to embrace.

al. which determined that peak CO2 induced warming was largely linked to the cumulative release of fossil carbon to the atmosphere over time, rather than emission levels at any particular point in time.

I think you can make a compelling case that an emissions reduction sourced through CCS is worth more to Alberta than an emissions reduction from an existing, proven technology.

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

He told scientists that having «an internationally harmonized system of carbon taxes» would be much more efficient, from an economic standpoint, than emissions caps.

Intensity targets are different than emissions targets: they refer not to cumulative tonnage of greenhouse gases spewing into the atmosphere but rather total tonnage as a fraction of GDP.

This is up to 14 per cent lower than the emissions reported by previous assessments, including those by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC) in the US and the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) in the EU, which are the official data sources for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)-- providing scientific evidence for climate change policy negotiations in Paris later this year.

Now if the red shift really is cosmological and depends on distance, one should observe that all these absorption lines have lesser red shift than the emission line of the quasar behind all these gas clouds.

When a commercial nuclear generating station irradiates a nuclear fuel rod, nuclear power production does not result in significant greenhouse gas emissions and during normal operations the radioactivity emissions produce far fewer health effects than emissions from coal - fueled plants.

The report concluded that the feeding reservoirs were in fact a greater source of dioxins in food than emissions are, «and suggest that further risk management actions to reduce emissions from controlled sources beyond those already in place will have little or no additional impact on food levels.»