Sentences with phrase «than emissions cuts»

It is possible that a combination of emissions cuts, carbon removal and solar geoengineering could provide a significantly safer climate than emissions cuts alone or emissions cuts and carbon removal combined.

Not exact matches

Nationally, however, Ontario's efforts to cut the amount of carbon pollution from electricity generation are more than offset by the growth in emissions from the oil sands, which are expected to triple by 2020 from 2005 levels.

Opinion: Wynne is wrong when she claims the Conservative carbon tax plan will cost families more than cap and trade and do less to cut emissions

Over the last year, the Carbon Trust has worked with companies including Allied Bakeries, Dairy Crest, Cadbury and Nestle to identify more energy efficient manufacturing processes with the potential to cut industry carbon emissions by some 450,000 tonnes a year: equivalent to taking more than 150,000 cars off the road.

The livestock industry notes that if some or most of the methane could be incorporated into the animal's nutrition processes, rather than being emitted, this would increase productive weight gain at the same time as cutting greenhouse gas emissions, for a double bonus effect.

More used to helping people cut the costs of kitting out their homes than to cutting carbon emissions, Ikea is to begin dishing up meat free meatballs.

Critics say the electricity sector must do more to meet Australia's economy - wide emissions reduction target because emissions cuts are easier and cheaper to achieve in electricity than in agriculture, transport or industry.

On the environment, Europe's target under the Kyoto protocol is to cut carbon emission by eight per cent by 2012, but Mr Cameron will warn that with just six years to go, emissions are down less than one per cent on 1990 levels.

However, a recent report from Friends of the Earth entitled «A Dangerous Distraction» was highly critical of the CDM, suggesting that rather than reducing global emissions or benefiting developing countries, offsetting was merely leading to more ingenious ways to avoid cutting emissions.

Importantly, Mr Osborne told the conference that Britain would not cut its carbon emissions any faster than the rest of the EU.

So let's at the very least resolve that we're going to cut our carbon emissions no slower but also no faster than our fellow countries in Europe.

A 30 percent cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030 is a big number — less than environmental groups want but far more than the president can get via Congress, where climate change skeptics rule the House and the Democratic Senate so far avoiding bringing a climate change bill to the floor during Obama's presidency.

Clinton seeks to cut greenhouse emissions by more than 80 percent in the U.S. by 2050.

Last week New Scientist reported that US emissions could be cut by more than 7 per cent if people changed their ways at home.

Unless greenhouse emissions are cut, «we move toward a world where heat stress is a vastly greater problem than it has been in the rest of human history.

The administration released its strategy at the UN climate talks for cutting U.S. emissions more than 80 percent by mid-century

Concerns over the Dreamliner kicked off over a decade ago when Boeing decided to create a civil airliner that would be both lighter than any of its previous jets and fly with leaner - burning engines to cut the plane's emissions of CO2 and nitrogen oxides.

In the short term, new gas - fired power stations can help cut emissions, but only if they replace existing coal - fired power stations rather than nuclear plants or renewable energy sources.

Based on this analysis of potential emissions - cutting measures — as well as the success of programs to inspire them — weatherizing homes as well as properly maintaining heating and cooling systems could save more than 37 million metric tons of carbon.

Such technology could cut acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent, smog - forming nitrogen oxides by 75 percent, and — ultimately — capture more than 80 percent of the CO2 normally produced by combustion, storing it in nearby depleted oil fields by 2015.

The changes will cut emissions of carbon dioxide from Bynov by 12 800 tonnes a year, or more than 65 per cent.

After that, serious cuts would be required to reduce global emissions to less than half today's levels by 2100.

Energy Both John McCain and Barack Obama have called for a cap - and - trade system to cut carbon emissions, although Obama's proposed reduction (80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050) is larger than McCain's (65 percent).

By building green — and retrofitting existing buildings — the countries of North America could cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25 percent

It turns out Earth will warm more slowly over this century than we thought it would, buying us a little more time to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

It remains to be seen whether there is economic value to the idea of overshooting a given target and then coming back down, given that the time frame of emission cuts matters less than the cumulative emissions of CO2, Yohe notes.

By the energy office's estimates, the island has also reduced nitrous oxide emissions by 41 percent, cut sulfuric oxide emissions by 71 percent, and eliminated more than its share of carbon dioxide emissions.

Then he laid out Obama's goals to cut U.S. emissions by more than 80 % by 2050.

They would also do something to help Australia meet its target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions, as most would have more impact than the small carbon tax which has been proposed.

More than 40 mainly developed countries, including New Zealand and members of the European Union, have, or are in the process of developing, markets to help cut their output of climate - warming emissions by putting a price on carbon dioxide.

Speaking from Apia, Shirley Laban, the convener of the Pacific Islands Climate Action Network, an NGO, said: «Unless we cut emissions now, and limit global warming to less than 1.5 °C, Pacific communities will reap devastating consequences for generations to come.

More than 20,000 lives a year all over the world could be saved if major industrial regions cut emissions of ozone - triggering gases by a fifth

Plantation forestry is the key rather than the usual approach of cutting emissions by reducing the rate of using carbon fuels like coal, oil and gas.

The CDM has since 2005 helped channel more than $ 315 billion to poor nations to help them cut their CO2 emissions or adapt to the effects of climate change.

However, the Clean Air Act is not the ideal vehicle for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Parenteau said, suggesting that pricing carbon would yield better and faster results than setting compliance targets for individual states.

Regardless, the team emphasized that meeting upcoming greenhouse gas emission targets will require deeper emissions cuts than just building natural gas plants with low methane leakage.

Rather than trying to monetize all emissions in emerging economies, the clean development mechanism offers a better compromise in theory because it promises to constrain trading to areas where developing countries have made actual cuts.

The team found that by 2019, US households could cut their annual emissions by 20 per cent — representing slightly more CO2 than France spews out each year.

The Bush administration insists that research into better technologies is more important than premature, expensive measures to cut emissions, and that may be right.

Indian emissions, for example, are expected to leap nearly eight-fold to 540 megatons by 2050 from 70 megatons now but the researchers found this rise could be reduced by more than a third if cities managed to cut down car use.

Studies have repeatedly shown that it is cheaper to pay to cut emissions now than it is to pay for the consequences later, and the island states in particular hoped a deal would create an incentive for rich nations to renew efforts to reduce emissions.

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

Obama vowed at last year's climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, that America will cut its greenhouse gas emissions about 17 percent below 2005 levels in the coming decade and more than 80 percent by midcentury.

Ultimately, the best solution is probably the most obvious: cut carbon emissions sooner than later.

A new study to be published by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research finds that a 70 percent cut in emissions should stabilize temperatures at a mark not too much higher than today.

He drew the line at trading the Clean Power Plan, President Obama's regulatory program aimed at power plants, for a federal carbon tax, saying more than one program is needed to cut emissions.

The first is that industrial nations need to cut emissions rather than just stabilising them.

It suggests that Earth will warm more slowly over this century than we thought it would, buying us a little more time to cut our greenhouse gas emissions and prevent dangerous climate change.

However, cutting emissions so that global temperatures increase by no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit) could reduce those impacts by half, with about a quarter of the state's natural vegetation affected.

The United Nations Environment Program estimates that cutting back on methane and soot emissions alone could prevent 0.7 degree Celsius of additional warming by 2040 — and those cooling benefits could come faster than comparable cuts in CO2.