Sentences with phrase «warming emissions»

Unfortunately, all of these impacts are due to the combined effect of global warming emissions from other regions.

These clean energy solutions can not only help ensure a reliable electricity supply, they also reduce global warming emissions from fossil fuels.

The sum of these efforts in developing countries will reduce growth in warming emissions by billions of metric tons of warming gases per year over the coming decade.

Not only does it result in double the global warming emissions as oil, it would lead to an increase in coal mining which destroys rivers and threatens community health.

It is important to effectively track this energy usage, gain a better understanding of the global warming emissions associated with water use, and develop new approaches to groundwater management.

Tell your automaker to stop attacking the successful fuel economy and global warming emissions standards.

For the first time ever, all eight major automakers reduced their average global warming emissions compared to their respective 1998 fleet average, the model year examined in our first report.

In total, about ten percent of all global warming emissions result from tropical deforestation.

Renewable electricity generation from biomass can have a wide range of global warming emissions depending on the resource and whether or not it is sustainably sourced and harvested.

African countries contribute the least per capita to global warming emission overall but suffer from the worst consequences of climate change.

If we do manage to start reducing planet - warming emissions soon, similar trends will be seen but they will be less pronounced.

A growing number also express doubts about the validity of climate science or reject outright the notion that carbon dioxide and other warming emissions represent a significant environmental threat.

AV systems can increase global warming emission attributed to driving.

Choosing a electric vehicle instead of the gasoline version for this analysis reduces global warming emissions from 20 to over 80 percent, depending on the emissions from electricity generation.

Before you give in to misinformation, get the facts on how your state rates for global warming emissions from electric versus gas - powered cars.

Enhanced geothermal systems, which require energy to drill and pump water into hot rock reservoirs, have life - cycle global warming emission of approximately 0.2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [11].

Last week, Governor Jerry Brown set aggressive new global warming emissions targets for California that put the nation and the world on notice.

Estimates of global warming emissions for open - loop systems are approximately 0.1 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour.

«It's not a major effect compared to other sources of greenhouse warming, but when it contributes up to 10 percent [of aircraft - produced warming emissions], you have to take it into account,» said Brasseur.

The authors estimate that if globe - warming emission continue unabated, fuel capacities and payload weights will have to be reduced by as much as 4 percent on the hottest days for some aircraft.

This report is to ensure that we «count carbs» accurately, by explaining why we need a comprehensive accounting system for carbon emissions — one that measures global warming emissions over a transportation fuel's entire life cycle.

Australia has one of the world's highest per capita global warming emissions rates, as well as vast coal reserves that make it the largest exporter of coal in the world.

According to the report's sponsors, this kind of comparative analysis is useful for policymakers considering regulatory approaches; public interest organizations concerned about public health and consumer costs; and financial analysts and investors assessing company risk exposure as global warming emission limits in the U.S. gain more momentum.

Quick Facts: 36 % of US global warming emissions comes from approximately 501 coal - burning power plants - that's more than the emissions from 377 Million cars.

Both the type of feedstock and the manner in which it is developed and harvested significantly affect land use and life - cycle global warming emissions impacts of producing power from biomass.

Angela Ledford Anderson, director of the UCS Climate and Energy Program, is leading our efforts to persuade government officials to enact policies that support clean energy and result in global warming emissions reductions.

Cutting the amount of short - lived, climate - warming emissions such as soot and methane in our skies won't limit global warming as much as previous studies have suggested, a new analysis shows.

Unfortunately, even if we curb global warming emissions today, these problems are likely to get worse before they get better.

This initial cranking of the engine exists to warm the emissions components to operating temperature so that when you need the gasoline engine for cruising, it can be as clean as possible.

Telephone surveys were conducted among voters who live in the congressional districts of six members of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee (which will be considering new global warming emissions legislation in the fall).

The Many Benefits of Half the Oil We can cut projected U.S. oil use in half over the next 20 years and create more than 1 million jobs, reduce annual oil spending by $ 550 billion, and eliminate 2 billion metric tons of global warming emissions per year by 2035.

This comes after a three - year period where emissions remained flat, which many scientists had hoped signaled a peak in climate warming emissions.

Encompassing Indonesia, which faces significant pressures on its tropical forest resources; the oil - rich countries of the Middle East; and the rapidly developing nations of China and India (currently the world's number one and four annual emitters of CO2 respectively, (using 2008 data), Asia currently contributes the most global warming emissions annually.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The climate accord reached in Paris this month aims to cut planet - warming emissions worldwide with the goal of averting the most disastrous effects of climate change.

The broad - brush elements are familiar: they set an initial ceiling on the amount of climate - warming emissions allowed in the industrial, electricity, transportation and other sectors, then gradually lower this ceiling over the years, while creating emission allowances that can be traded among polluting industries.

Over the vehicle's lifetime, however, the global warming emissions benefits of driving on electricity far outweigh the emissions costs of vehicle manufacturing; most EVs «pay back» their production emissions within one or two years of driving, a period that will shorten as electricity grids get cleaner.

The Paris Agreement calls for reducing global warming emissions enough to have a reasonable chance of keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius.

Using the latest data about how electricity is generated around the country, as well as crunching the numbers on the energy and materials required to build the batteries that power electric cars, UCS analysts examined all global warming emissions created during an electric car's lifetime — from its production and years of driving to its eventual retirement.

Finnish traffic warming emissions (million tonnes CO2) were: [6][7]

Nuclear power is «clean» from an emissions standpoint — nuclear power plants produce no air pollution or global warming emissions when they operate — but its long - term role in addressing climate change depends on overcoming economic and safety hurdles.

All told, the company's production and transportation activities in Colorado were responsible for more than 420,000 metric tons of global warming emissions between 2011 and 2015, according to the complaint.

The global economic crisis has pushed the search for a legally binding treaty to limit planet - warming emissions down the political agenda and countries do not want to lose their competitive edge by going it alone on strict climate targets, he said.

The EPA is now required to reduce global warming emissions under the Clean Air Act because they endanger public health.

The Astroturf organization, Americans for Balanced Energy Choices is a promoter of «Clean Coal», seeking to promote Global Warming emissions growth through even more coal use.

For the average consumer, stronger standards would translate to fewer global warming emissions associated with the products we use and love, and more affordable shipping as companies realize the cost - saving benefits of using less fuel.

With more than 27 years of experience in policy advocacy and issue campaigns, Ms. Robinson has played an integral role in some of the country's biggest energy and transportation advancements, including the historic fuel economy and global warming emissions standards for new cars and light trucks.