Sentences with phrase «urban emissions»

Corporate commitment to increasing the pace of electric vehicle uptake and growing the market for the world's most sustainable fuels are vital to reducing urban emissions.

If we are to eradicate poverty, build sustainable and inclusive economies and achieve environmental sustainability, then mitigating urban emissions and building resilience are critical steps in the process.

In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from Innsbruck, Austria, present the world's first chemical fingerprint of urban emission sources of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

«Such work could provide insight into whether urban emissions affect pollinators in farms neighboring urban centers.»

«It's a very simple math,» says Sarath Guttikunda, director of the independent research group Urban Emissions, which is registered in New Delhi.

The report, produced with Greenpeace India, uses power plant data compiled by former World Bank air pollution analyst Sarath Guttikunda, founding director of a Delhi - based organization focused on sharing scientific information called Urban Emissions.

Urban emissions alone produce a peak maximum DMS concentration of only 0.1 % of that seen from oceanic sources.

Federal transport minister Andreas Scheuer introduced the plan in an effort to improve air quality in cities, which are becoming increasingly active in owning and combatting urban emissions.

The Innsbruck data also show that, due to the very high proportion of oxygen - containing compounds, the total global amount of urban emissions is significantly underestimated.

Hence, strategies to reduce urban emissions are essential to solving the climate crisis and cities will play a vital role in achieving the carbon reduction targets required to keep the earth at a viable temperature.

Another site, Urban Emissions, shows that India is similarly polluted.

Heating and cooling alone account for 35 to 60 percent of energy use in buildings resulting in nearly 40 percent of urban emissions, globally, on average.