Sentences with phrase «times less greenhouse gas emissions»

This process is toxin - free, and they estimate it produces 10 times less greenhouse gas emissions than typical petroleum - based dyes.

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They include less wait time at toll booths, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and fewer accidents.

Such so - called in situ production requires less water but far more energy to get the bitumen flowing, resulting in greenhouse gas emissions some 2.5 times higher than those from mining.

It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse gas emissions to keep a promise made by almost 200 countries in 2010 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

Eating a plant - based diet was presented in the form of moderate - impact actions such as eating less meat, even though a completely plant - based diet can be 2 to 4.7 times more effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions than decreased meat intake.

This decline is one - third less than the decline experienced by the nation as a whole, which saw greenhouse gas emissions drop 9.3 percent during the same time period.

ECCC, less focused on protecting the environment than on meeting its 2018 and 2019 deadlines for implementing the clean fuel standard, effectively told them to buzz off, saying it «may make updates to the emissions calculations to reflect indirect greenhouse gas emissions at a future time.»

With the greenhouse gases already accumulated in the atmosphere, it would take less than 30 years for it to be inevitable that temperature would in time reach 2 °C above the pre-industrial level if the global greenhouse - gas emissions stayed at their current rate.

'' [Cities] require less time, money, fuel and greenhouse gas emissions for residents to meet their everyday travel needs.