Sentences with phrase «then less greenhouse gas»

If more carbon is stored in forests, then less greenhouse gas is present to contribute to ocean acidification.

Not exact matches

The report — Less Is More: Greenpeace vision of the meat and dairy system towards 2050 — claims that unless the way we farm for food changes radically, then agriculture will soon be responsible for pumping out 52 per cent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

«If economics is the sole focus, then less expensive technologies that require significant amounts of energy for their manufacture, maintenance and replacement might win out — even if they ultimately increase greenhouse gas emissions and negate the long - term benefits of implementing wind and solar power.»

To understand emissions reductions necessary to have a good chance of limiting warming to 2 °C, the climate community has focused largely on emissions pathways — that is, when greenhouse gas emissions peak and the rate at which they must decline (e.g. peak sooner and then reduce less steeply versus peak later and then reduce more steeply).

After less than two months in office, the new president, George W. Bush, had announced that he would abandon a campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants, our greatest contributors to the greenhouse effect, and then swiftly pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol, the first binding international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Even if extra greenhouse gases just make it a bit warmer at the top of a natural cycle and a bit less cold at the bottom of a natural cycle then the current kerfuffle is pointless, harmful and dangerous.

And if that forcing is greater than 50 %, then the «greenhouse gas» contribution could be less than 25 % according to the IPCC.

The deadline for effective action to curb global warming, he argues, is 2030, and by then we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 %, nothing less.