Sentences with phrase «thinking about carbon emissions»

Also, Virginia should have received more credit for lowering its carbon emissions by building nuclear plants back in the 1970s when no one was thinking about carbon emissions.

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It also makes logical sense, when you think about the money and the carbon emissions you can save by telecommuting or having accurate weather and soil information available on a farmer's smartphone.

«The Sustainable Consumption Institute encourages staff and students to think about the sustainability of the food they eat, and to play their part in reducing carbon emission associated with meat production,» says Lynda McIntosh, the SCI's communications and marketing manager.

While Exxon Mobil provided plenty of details about the company's thinking on climate change and disclosed steps it was taking internally to meet regulatory and other challenges around carbon emissions, it held fast to the broader assertion that the world's energy needs over the next three decades can not be met with low - carbon energy alone.

«This is partly about reducing carbon emissions, but it's also an air quality issue that has become very, very urgent,» said Kate Gordon, vice chairwoman for climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute, the China - focused environmental policy think tank led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

«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.

This means that, by continuing to manage its forests, Russia knows it will automatically reduce its carbon emissions by 500 million tonnes each year before even thinking about energy efficiency and renewables.

For example, Jacobson found that about 18 % of all carbon emissions come from a source most environmentalists hardly ever think about.

Get on a small plane, and carbon emissions aren't the only environmental problem to think about.

In the long run I don't think we will succeed in getting transportation of oil by trying to stop oil production on a site - by - site basis, we are going to have to put a high price on transportation fuels that have high carbon emissions and get much more serious about driving energy innovation they can get the transportation system off carbon.

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).

If our ultimate goal is to reduce carbon emissions and, hence, to save humanity, we must realize the psychological effect that the disturbing truth may have and teach about climate change and energy in a carefully thought - out manner based on the available research about human psychology.

The Pacala / Socolow conceptualization has been extraordinarily useful in helping to think about how to cut carbon emissions.

This means that, by continuing to manage its forests, Russia knows it will automatically reduce its carbon emissions by 500 million tonnes each year before even thinking about energy efficiency and renewables.

Experts have long warned of the devastating consequences of unrestrained burning of fossil fuels, but findings of a new study should get people and governments worldwide to think about the impacts of carbon emission.

International tourism accounts for 8 percent of all carbon emissions worldwide — about three times more than previously thought, according to a study released yesterday.

When we think about climate change, the main sources of carbon emissions that come to mind for most of us are heavy industries like petroleum, mining and transportation.

There is no mention in the China Daily article about when CCICED thinks these reductions should commence, what the assumptions to GDP growth are till 2050, nor what levels of carbon emissions will result by 2050 if such measures were taken.

But the more we thought about it, the more we realized that we will have some help in reducing our carbon emissions.

Dr. Theodore A. Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, said the long life of Larsen B «makes you think there's something particularly unusual about this warming» — perhaps evidence that the warming has been brought on by artificial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.

Think about it — the issues in contest are two explanations — evolution by natural selection or divine creation, and what to teach to kids in public schools, not «is it worth it to «limit aggressively» carbon emissions right «now ``?»

He wrote a well - reviewed book called «The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming,» in which he presents measured skepticism of climate - change orthodoxy — for example, he believes the role of carbon emissions from human industry is greatly exaggerated by politicized science, but he doesn't think human carbon emissions are irrelevant, and is not implacably hostile to the goal of reducing them.

I was at the «Other developed countries» table and I tried to think like an authorized person while I was making decisions and giving promises about lowering carbon emissions in those countries, reducing deforestation, etc..

That's what two men named David thought, too, when they first met in 2008 to talk about a climate policy with very little support: a national tax on industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

But it is important for corporate managers to think about how the long - term pathway to sustainability might involve net - negative emission reduction targets, and how early movers can start generating value through carbon removal today.

Agora is itself working to reduce carbon emissions, so the think tank probably can not use the news about lower carbon emissions.

Prof. Homer - Dixon says it's important that people begin to think about offsetting their carbon emissions, even if the process is still far from perfect.

But when we think about how much good produced in China is actually consumed by Chinese themselves, you can estimate how much carbon emission has been transferred to China's own fair share, but for others consumption and welfare.

If you thought that those pesky vuvuzela were the worst thing about the 2010 World Cup, wait until you hear about the carbon emissions estimated to be released during the planet's biggest sporting event.

Similarly, the authors went out of their way to include recent papers suggesting that the earth might be less sensitive to carbon dioxide emissions than previously thought, even though serious questions have been raised about the validity of those estimates.

The carbon price in Europe currently stands at about 7 Euros / tonne CO2 (US$ 10 / tonne) under the EU Emissions Trading System, I think.