Sentences with phrase «time reducing air pollution»

Second, Jacobson said, the wind turbines would pay for themselves in the long term by generating normal electricity while at the same time reducing air pollution and global warming, and providing energy stability.

Not exact matches

Trucks are embracing green technologies — hybrid electric and engine - powered systems — that reduce idling time and air pollution.

Reducing certain kinds of air pollution could limit the rise of ocean waters and buy time to address CO2 emissions.

The 2012 Global Energy Assessment, for example, elucidated multiple pathways that could simultaneously achieve decarbonization at the same time as expanding energy access to the millions of people currently living without modern energy and electricity, and improving public health by reducing air pollution.

Approaching this in a slightly different way, studies indicate that the health co-benefits of reduced air pollution that could be avoided at the same time as reducing greenhouse forcing is about the same as the estimates for the social cost of carbon through greenhouse forcing.

It points to the case of China where the new administration is under huge pressure to reduce air pollution levels, which have soared in the past 12 months to 40 times acceptable levels, and put the government under enormous pressure to take action.

Day of awful air quality in Delhi underscores need for energy sector actions to reduce pollution Air pollution in Delhi yesterday reached 30 times the World Health Organisation's recommend levels, heightening serious respiratory problems for its inhabitanair quality in Delhi underscores need for energy sector actions to reduce pollution Air pollution in Delhi yesterday reached 30 times the World Health Organisation's recommend levels, heightening serious respiratory problems for its inhabitanAir pollution in Delhi yesterday reached 30 times the World Health Organisation's recommend levels, heightening serious respiratory problems for its inhabitants.

In fact, when externalities such as reduced air pollution and other health benefits are considered, IRENA's approach projects the overall benefits to be between two and six times greater than the system costs of decarbonisation.

The resulting benefits can include lower travel costs, improved mobility, better community health through reduced local air pollution and physical activities resulting from non ‐ motorized transport, greater energy security, improved safety, and time savings through reduction in traffic congestion.

These dramatically reduce fuel bills, cut harmful indoor air pollution and at the same time, reduce global carbon emissions, helping to tackle climate change.

If India reduces air pollution significantly, the savings from health costs would be many times the amount it spends on reducing emissions of the greenhouse gases that are causing climate change

But time is short, and absent that, I support the President's efforts to reduce carbon pollution by using the Clean Air Act as mentioned in last night's address.

That line already carries more than 260,000 passengers each day and has shortened commute times by up to an hour, as well as reduced air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, according to WRI.

A solution, as Envirofit sees it: New cookstoves, which while still burning biomass (wood, crop waste, dried animal dung) reduce indoor air pollution by 80 %, reduce fuel usage by 50 % and decrease cooking times by 40 %.

If air quality in a particular area is poor and the air pollution is problematic, consider reducing the amount of time you stay there.