Sentences with phrase «using local emission»

The calculator is in six language versions (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu) and asks questions that enable a carbon footprint to be measured using local emission factors.

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To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

This average meal uses up to 17 times more petroleum products, and increases carbon dioxide emissions by the same amount, compared to an entirely local meal.

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

They used those readings to estimate NOx emissions from soil, after subtracting local estimates from the CARB California Emissions Projection Analysis Model of NOx emissions derived from fossemissions from soil, after subtracting local estimates from the CARB California Emissions Projection Analysis Model of NOx emissions derived from fossEmissions Projection Analysis Model of NOx emissions derived from fossemissions derived from fossil fuels.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

«(I) The Administrator shall determine the amount of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered at retail by each electricity local distribution company, and shall use appropriate emission factors to calculate carbon dioxide emissions associated with the generation of such electricity.

After the field campaign, Fast will perform computer simulations to help evaluate all of the field campaign data and quantify the uncertainties associated with using coarse grid global climate models to study megacity emissions and to determine the radiative impact of the Mexico City particulates on the local and regional climate.

The new study, published in Nature Communications, estimates how annual wildfire emissions have been influenced by changes in land use and local population increases.

The Climate Impact Lab's sea - level rise projections use a framework that ties together multiple threads of information to assess the probability of local sea - level changes around the world, under different future emissions scenarios.

The two largest factors influencing wildfire emissions included land use change, such as the conversion of forests to cropland, and local population increases, the researchers say.

The CCAP Transportation Guidebook is to engage state and local officials in understanding the extent to which policy decisions impact air pollution, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Local emission - free electric vehicles such as the new B - Class Electric Drive are a major part of the Mercedes - Benz strategy for sustainable mobility that will be suitable for everyday use.

ZF is using its plug - in Vision Zero concept vehicle to showcase a number of new safety and zero local emissions technologies.

Examples of the positive steps we take include always buying locally if we can, using energy as efficiently as possible, reducing the CO2 emissions caused by transportation, using as much recycled material for packaging as we can and supporting local charities that promote education and support the wellbeing of both people and animals.

They strive towards responsible tourism and seek to reduce their carbon emissions whenever possible through recycling waste, using sustainable materials, conserving water and buying produce from local farmers and fishermen.

-- Limiting the construction and use of the least - efficient coal - fired power plants delivers more than 20 % of the emissions reduction and helps curb local air pollution.

In the New Mexico of 2020 includes a move away from fossil fuels, a perfected use of renewable power sources, zero - emissions buldings, fewer miles traveled, less imported power and fewer power lines, micorgrids that produce their own electricity for hundreds of communities, a reconfiguration of human organizations that aligns with better pricing and energy supply, green collar jobs, and supportive local governments.

His tactic is to use anti-science rhetoric based on fear - mongering - namely, human CO2 emissions are «acidifying» the sea waters of the local oyster environment, thus supposedly harming the valuable shellfish harvest.

Geely is a shareholder ($ 45.5 - million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International (CRI), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO2 emissions sourced from a local thermal... Read more →

Carbon pricing continues to reveal itself as an effective, efficient means to lower emissions; new data shows that UK's carbon price has greatly reduced local coal consumption, and may result in decreasing fracked gas use too.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

The model, which captures fuel use in the power, transport, and other energy sectors out to 2030, with fuel responsiveness parameterized to empirical literature, estimates the impacts of mitigation policies on CO2 emissions, revenue, premature deaths from local air pollution, household and industry groups.

For the short term, carbon pricing and more stringent pollution control regulations may be used to reduce emissions, minimise local air pollution, and limit and ultimately phase out generation from subcritical coal - fired power stations.

Airlight also believes in using local workers and material; reducing carbon emissions and water use; and respecting the land.

Unlike the traditional GHG emissions inventory which only accounts for carbon emissions associated with energy use in buildings and fuel burned in local vehicles, the Consumption - Based Emissions Inventory for San Francisco looks at carbon impacts of the full lifecycle of goods and emissions inventory which only accounts for carbon emissions associated with energy use in buildings and fuel burned in local vehicles, the Consumption - Based Emissions Inventory for San Francisco looks at carbon impacts of the full lifecycle of goods and emissions associated with energy use in buildings and fuel burned in local vehicles, the Consumption - Based Emissions Inventory for San Francisco looks at carbon impacts of the full lifecycle of goods and Emissions Inventory for San Francisco looks at carbon impacts of the full lifecycle of goods and services.

Beijing is to ban the sale and use of coal in several regions including its six main districts by 2020 cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduce air pollution, according to an announcement by local authorities on Monday.

Rigorous requirements and safeguards, local stakeholder engagement, and the use of independent, third - party auditors guarantee that funders are supporting real emissions reductions and verified SDG impacts, protecting businesses against accusations of «green - washing».

A new report «Mapping REDD + and Land Use Financial Flows in Brazil» by research organizations Forest Trends and IDESAM shows how over US$ 2.2 billion in REDD + funds have been used by Brazil to implement deforestation policies, and highlights new ways to make these investments more effective at reducing emissions, including by making payments directly available to the stakeholders who are implementing the deforestation policies such as subnational governments, farmers, local communities and indigenous Peoples of the Amazon.

«Transportation Energy Use in California» is part of the California's Energy Future group of projects, which is designed to help inform the decisions California state and local governments must make in order to achieve California's ambitious goals of significantly reducing total greenhouse gas emissions over the next four decades.

With nearly 25 years experience analyzing energy use in China, the China Energy Group has tailored a variety of resources to help local Chinese officials turn government mandates into practical how - to guides for understanding their energy usage and reducing their carbon dioxide emissions.

Innovative and supportive policies at the federal, state, and local levels can encourage building owners to make energy efficiency upgrades and install rooftop solar projects that together cut energy use, lower energy bills, and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.

The project, created using Aurora solar design software, will save the local union over $ 140,000 per year in utility bills and cut carbon emissions.

A climate change action plan lays out a strategy, including specific policy recommendations, that a local government will use to address climate change and reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

As a first step, we should dismantle the web of policies that overwhelmingly favors fossil - fuel production and use and actively discriminates against new technologies and practices that would reduce harmful emissions... The second step is to institute federal, state, and local policies that reverse the disincentives created by the existing policy structure and force users to pay the costs of extracting, transporting, and burning fossil fuels.

This was likely an aerosol increase from the increased refining of oil in Texas and more local emissions from cars, whose effect on dimming is enhanced by the humid environment in the SE, and perhaps land - use change -LRB-?).

Although land use decisions are made on the local level, they often have statewide implications by directly influencing consumer transportation choices, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate change was assessed by means of two Long Ashton Research Station - Weather Generator (LARS - WG) weather generators and all outputs from the available general circulation models in the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse - gas Induced Climate Change - SCENario GENerator (MAGICC - SCENGEN) software, in combination with different emission scenarios at the regional scale, while the Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS) model has been used for projections at the local scale.

In its latest report, Walmart's Dirty Energy Secret: How the Company's Slick Greenwashing Hides Its Massive Coal Consumption, the Institute for Local Self - Reliance (ILSR) calculates the total electricity use, coal - fired power consumption and resulting greenhouse gas emissions of every Walmart store and distribution center in the country.

It aims is to help local actors to understand, plan and execute initiatives successfully which, over time, will: save money, while increasing energy security; increase standards of living and the supply of more efficient and sustainable energy solutions; and reduce the overall use of energy and greenhouse gas emissions.

On the one hand, advocates of both resilience and sustainability would most likely agree that well built communities with a robust local economy and plenty of amenities will help reduce the need to travel, increase quality of life, and cut emissions and resource use in the process.

Reducing local pesticide use can improve drinking water quality and reduce human exposures to neurotoxins (especially for farmworkers), biking instead of driving reduces carbon emissions and petroleum extraction and makes us exercise, and eating organic whenever possible improves drinking water quality and farm health and significantly reduces our dose of neurotoxins.

As a result of these notably lower emissions, many local environmental agencies and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommend that people use manufactured logs in place of cut cord wood in their fireplaces.

With easy - to - use features that allow local governments to create in - depth reports of local greenhouse gas emission levels, which is one of the most essential steps in reaching predetermined goals surrounding climate change and pollution issues, the SEEC tool is tailored to the needs of California cities and counties.