Sentences with phrase «than the emissions avoided»

Comparing emissions from various fuel crops versus carbon storage in natural ecosystems, Renton Righelato and Dominick Spracklen write that «forestation of an equivalent area of land would sequester two to nine times more carbon over a 30 - year period than the emissions avoided by the use of the biofuel.»

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

Not exact matches

This is more than avoiding pesticides and herbicides; it's about energy and water conservation, pest management, wildlife habitat protection and monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions, among other criteria.

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.

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.

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.

But there are technology options on the horizon that might allow for future coal - fired power plants to avoid the average emissions of more than four million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year per plant.

In the last decade more than 60 percent of all hydropower projects worldwide were in China and Three Gorges alone will avoid the emission of an estimated 95 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year — more than the combined output of Norway and Sweden.

From the atmosphere's point of view, growing biomass to burn in a power plant and using the electricity to move a car avoids 10 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per acre, or 108 percent more emission offsets than ethanol.

His estimates show that compared to the earlier targets, the new plan will avoid annual carbon emissions of more than 400 million tons, the equivalent to the total fossil emissions of Australia and New Zealand combined.

n Denver, 41 percent of Denver B - Cycle bike trips replaced car trips, and the entire program is estimated to have avoided more than 1 million pounds of CO2 emissions, said Nick Bohnenkamp, executive director of Denver Bike Sharing, which owns and operates Denver B - Cycle.

This shift will have to take place nearly immediately in order to avoid more than two degrees Celsius of warming: «Emissions will have to peak no later than 2015 and start back down again,» Moomaw says.

-- Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the Secretary shall establish an independent advisory committee, to be known as the «USDA Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee», to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agricultural and forestry practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gases.

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this title, the Secretary shall prepare and publish in the Federal Register a list of domestic agricultural and forestry practice types that are eligible to generate offset credits under this title because the practices avoid or reduce greenhouse gas emissions or sequester greenhouse gases.

In the middle, where there's a price that you have to pay to reduce the carbon emissions, you need an economic incentive to do that and the way you get that economic incentive is you put a price on carbon emissions that make it worthwhile to avoid them, or more worthwhile than it is under today's circumstances wherein most places — most countries — there is not a significant price on carbon.

This large uncertainty makes it difficult for a cautious policy maker to avoid either: (1) allowing warming to exceed the agreed target; or (2) cutting global emissions more than is required to satisfy the agreed target, and their associated societal costs.

Such research is needed for understanding future changes in cyclones and avoided impacts if we follow the Paris Agreement on climate change, rather than current, high greenhouse gas emission pathways.»

More than 170 nations have agreed on the need to limit fossil fuel emissions to avoid dangerous human - made climate change, as formalized in the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change [6].

You'll have to pay a bit more each month ($ 5 on average), but it's worth it considering Green Mountain customers have avoided more than 58 billion pounds of CO2 emissions so far.

We have worked with Congress to make available more than $ 40 billion in loan guarantees to support investments that will avoid, reduce, or sequester greenhouse gas emissions or air pollutants.

If this 2 degrees Celsius warming is to be avoided, then our net annual emissions of carbon dioxide must be reduced by more than 50 percent within this century.

The science indicates that we have no more than ten or fifteen years to put total global emissions on a downward slope to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.

I've always thought that CCS was an inelegant way to lick the carbon problem — because it involves burning fuels and then corralling a huge mass of pollution rather than avoiding the pollution in the first place — but if gas is to be a real «bridge» to a low emission future rather than a nice - looking dead end then we must seriously explore ways to further cut emissions from gas plants.

That said, helping out with clean development does more than just avoid emissions, it also helps with development and alleviates poverty.

«If there is a chance, and some would say there is a strong chance that man - made global warming exists and is having an impact on us, doesn't it make sense whether you believe that it is a 90 % chance or a 50 % chance, does it not make sense to take care to try to avoid the kind of emissions than may be contributing to it?

Avoiding emissions now will be far less expensive than capturing carbon dioxide from air in the future.

The study's authors estimate that taking similar steps in the gaming industry would cut the U.S. electricity bill by more than $ 1 billion per year as well as avoid 11 billion kilowatt hours of electricity and avoid seven million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

Anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are increasing, and accelerating, and current proposals for reducing them present no plausible scenario in which emissions will actually peak and decline in anywhere near the time frame that is required to avoid what are generally considered «dangerous» levels of CO2 (although points 1 - 3 above suggest that the current levels are more dangerous than has been generally believed).

But environmental groups said negotiators had failed to show the ambition necessary to cut emissions by levels that would limit global temperature rises to no more than 2C and avoid «dangerous» climate change.

Premature deaths worldwide from outdoor air pollution rise from 3 million today to more than 4 million in 2040 in the New Policies Scenario, even though pollution control technologies are applied more widely and other emissions are avoided because energy services are provided more efficiently or (as with wind and solar) without fuel combustion.

The team also observed that GHG Avoided [GHGA = (1 - GHGI) · (lifecycle GHG emissions for the displaced fossil fuels] for BTL - RC - CCS is 56 % higher than that of EtOH - CCS largely because 56 % of the biomass carbon is stored underground for BTL - RC - CCS compared to only 15 % for EtOH - CCS.

Scientists have now been telling us for more than twenty years that we must begin to significantly reduce the carbon emissions we pump into our atmosphere to avoid serious disruptions to our climate.

This project avoids more than 339,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, equivalent to taking 71,500 cars off the road

First, the emissions mitigation targets that the nations have tabled (but will as a technical matter only submit formally by January 31, 2010) will not get us on the path to the accord's stated objective of avoiding a global temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius, unless they are miraculously strengthened over the next 5 weeks.

With nuclear power cheaper than fossil fuel generated electricity it could avoid 50 % of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by around mid 21st Century (and achieve the other objectives in the list).

CO2 emissions in 2015 were 41 million tons less than the 2006 - 2008 baseline so the investments that were projected to avoid the release of 20.5 million tons of CO2 could account for no more than 50 % of the observed reduction.

The Commonwealth declaration avoided setting a numerical limit to global temperature rise, saying only, «We stress our common conviction that urgent and substantial action to reduce global emissions is needed and have a range of views as to whether average global temperature increase should be constrained to below 1.5 degrees or to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.»

An area of tropical forest the size of India will be deforested in the next 35 years, burning through more than one - sixth of the remaining carbon that can be emitted if global warming is to be kept below 2 degrees Celsius (the «planetary carbon budget»), but many of these emissions could be cheaply avoided by putting a price on carbon.

They'd be prepared to advocate all sorts of nutty schemes rather than accept that nuclear power can avoid CO2 emissions at < $ 0 / tonne CO2 — if we are allowed to remove the impediments that have been imposed by 50 years of irrational anti-nuclear protests which have resulted in mass radiation phobia and hysteria.

In order to avoid the most devastating impacts of global warming, climate scientists have warned that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases need to be cut in order to keep the increase in average global temperature to less than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius).

To achieve the maximum climate benefits of bioenergy in terms of greenhouse gas emissions avoided, the amount of carbon dioxide released during biomass production, processing, transportation and use should be equal to or smaller than the amount that was absorbed by the harvested biomass.

-- Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the Secretary shall establish an independent advisory committee, to be known as the «USDA Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee», to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agricultural and forestry practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gases.

If we fail to take serious action very soon to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, the future climate will be much less hospitable than today's, with potentially catastrophic results; however, our political leaders are currently failing to take the necessary steps to avoid a potentially catastrophic future.

One objective of setting performance - based goals rather than fuel - specific goals should be to avoid assumptions about unproven or insufficiently scaled technical fixes to [greenhouse - gas] emissions.»

-- Not later than 90 days after the end of each calendar year, the Administrator shall establish and distribute to the entity taking the actions described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) of paragraph (1) a quantity of compensatory allowances equivalent to the number of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent of avoided emissions achieved through such actions.

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this title, the Secretary shall prepare and publish in the Federal Register a list of domestic agricultural and forestry practice types that are eligible to generate offset credits under this title because the practices avoid or reduce greenhouse gas emissions or sequester greenhouse gases.

Think of how much greenhouse emissions would be avoided if more people used a small car such as a Jazz and a little camper trailer rather than big 4WDs and big caravans!

«Smart investors can already see that most fossil fuel reserves are essentially unburnable because of the need to reduce emissions in line with the global agreement by governments to avoid global warming of more than 2 °C.

By using the Montreal Protocol to remove one of the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, Parties could avoid more than 95 billion tonnes of CO2e by 2050, but they must act now.

Two countries, Indonesia and Brazil, account for more than half of all deforestation and thus have the highest potential for avoiding emissions from clearing forests.