Sentences with phrase «while increasing emissions»

A large gas pipeline would return savings of just $ 133 million while increasing emissions.

Not exact matches

The plummeting price of clean energy has allowed the US to decrease its carbon emissions over the last three years while the country's GDP has increased.

Labor unions have pushed for approval of the pipeline, saying it would create thousands of construction jobs, while environmentalists opposed it because it would increase greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands.

She said natural gas producers have reduced emissions while increasing production.

While this company's bond did not directly invest in increasing fossil fuel output, refineries are still processing fossil fuels and any investment in making refineries more efficient, as this bond is aiming to, will likely extend plant operating lifetimes and therefore indirectly increase emissions over time.

Creating an innovative new fiscal package to continue cutting carbon pollution by gradually increasing and expanding B.C.'s carbon tax, while creating targeted support for emissions - intensive trade - exposed industries and vulnerable citizens.

While both governments remain committed to finding new markets for Canada's oil and gas, they have voiced strong support for increasing clean energy production and exports in order to reduce carbon emissions and the impact of fluctuating oil prices on Canada's economy.

Since 2003, CO2 emissions have dropped by 40 %, and BTUs consumed per pound of production have decreased by 50 % while production has increased by 20 %.

He will highlight how organic farming practices can increase yield while keeping emissions low - a win - win scenario for people and planet.

ANNAPOLIS, MD, March 5, 2013 — Legislation before the Maryland Senate would significantly increase recycling rates, while reducing energy use and emissions, noted Lynn Bragg, President of the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI), in testimony offered today before the Senate Education,

Global packaging leader Smurfit Kappa has announced a multi-million euro investment in technology at its Nettingsdorf Paper Mill that will significantly reduce CO ₂ emissions while increasing production.

As international awareness about the environmental costs of producing and eating meat increases — The United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the meat industry generates nearly one - fifth of the man - made greenhouse gas emissions that are accelerating climate change worldwide — the work of RiceBran Technologies is supporting environmental sustainability and combating waste while globally providing a nutritious source of protein, carbohydrates, healthy oil and dietary fiber as food ingredients.

After doing my research, shown above (which I pretend support my claim, even though I said «this does not support my claim»), I see that cement production is not in the very top of CO2 emission causes (in comparison to others named above), but is in fact already one of the top in regards to manufacturing, materials, and minerals — which, while not as detrimental as I had believed, is still a pretty remarkable feat, especially whenever you look at the increase in effects in recent years and take in the knowledge that it's only going to get worse.

For over a quarter of a century, UK greenhouse gas emissions have been falling while GDP has increased, and we have begun to address flooding risks and other dangers.

«We view it all as an upside,» Gianaris said, citing the fact that the repowering will increase the amount of electricity flowing to the city, while reducing emissions.

From 1990 to 2008 the US increased its CO2 emissions by 12 per cent while the EU decreased its by 9 per cent, despite broadly similar economic growth trends (see «Peak planet: Carbon dioxide emissions «-RRB-.

«Our research team has developed a simple and cost - effective fabrication technique to create solar absorbers that can harness a greater share of the solar spectrum, thus increasing their efficiencies, while also maintaining low emission levels,» said Masdar Institute's Dr. TieJun Zhang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.

For example, emissions embodied in exports to North America and Western Europe declined by 20 per cent and 16 per cent, respectively, while those in exports to Latin America and the Caribbean increased by 33 per cent.

To produce the supply, tropical countries have been converting their forests for crop and livestock production, leading to a loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, such as carbon sequestration, flood protection or pollination, while increasing carbon dioxide emissions.

Russia, China, the US and Japan further decreased their CO2 emissions from 2015 to 2016, while the EU's emissions remained stable with respect to the previous year, and India's emissions continued to increase.

While some transportation researchers have suggested autonomous cars could cut emissions by boosting driver efficiency, others, including Fulton and his colleagues, project that energy use and carbon emissions would increase over a business - as - usual scenario because more people will travel farther.

China will peak its fast - rising emissions by 2030 at the latest, while also increasing its share of non-fossil energy to 20 percent in that same period.

Organising a car pooling system among your colleagues, planning fund - raising activities and increasing your online collaborations can all help to reduce your research team's overall carbon emissions, and help you to justify your adventures abroad while keeping your conscience clean.

The dairy cattle farming industry is being challenged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining or increasing profitability.

Therefore appropriate dairy farm management strategies could provide a solution that increases the farm profit while decreasing the greenhouse gas emissions,» noted Dr. Cabrera.

However, while field measurements of sulfur dioxide emissions are increasing, they still remain too sparse to piece together a cohesive global picture.

Scientists expect emissions from the tropics to increase, unless we take action to restore forests, while slashing our own emissions.

Faster sea floor spreading, presumably associated with more volcanic activity at subduction zones, and / or other increases in volcanic activity or geologic outgassing, or faster oxidation of exposed fossil organic C (as in shales)-- greater geologic CO2 emissions (I think another way of looking at the inorganic part is that any given region of sea floor has less time to accumulate carbonate minerals from chemical weathering, so that C reservoir could shrink while others, including the atmosphere, can grow).

Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture and forestry sectors could lead to increased food prices — but new research identifies strategies that could help mitigate climate change while avoiding steep hikes in food prices.

However, placing a value on terrestrial carbon emissions led to increased forest cover, while bioenergy use still increased considerably compared to today.

Berkeley Lab received these competitive awards from ARPA - E's Rhizosphere Observations Optimizing Terrestrial Sequestration (ROOTS) program, which seeks to develop crops that take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it in soil — enabling a 50 percent increase in carbon deposition depth and accumulation while also reducing nitrous oxide emissions by 50 percent and increasing water productivity by 25 percent.

The new study, by IIASA researchers Zbigniew Klimont and Janusz Cofala, and Steven Smith at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the US, showed that emissions from North America and Europe declined over the entire study period, while emissions from Asia and from international shipping increased.

The new study shows a decrease in global sulfur dioxide emissions since 2006, while emissions continued to increase in Asia.

According to a recent study, between 1990 and 1999 emissions rose by 1.1 % a year, while from 2000 to 2004 they increased by more than 3 % a year.

Either way, power sector emissions fell due to switching from coal to gas, while emissions from transport and heating increased slightly).

Humanity is Scrooge, and Paleoclimate is the past ghost, while extreme weather events increasing in frequency, severity and duration, extensive fires, methane emissions and ocean acidification are the parent ghost.

The United Nations scientific community is pointing to the overwhelming evidence that global warming, from increased greenhouse gas emissions, is propelling us towards an irreversible runaway melting of the ice caps and northern permafrost while rising temperature cause massive forest fires.

While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

And second, how do we safely handle a dramatic increase in traffic while also reducing aviation's greenhouse gas emissions?

Emissions climb to 54g / km and the combined fuel consumption increases to 117.7 mpg, while the same 9.2 kWh battery pack will get owners two miles fewer on a charge.

To increase performance, while reducing oil consumption and emissions, the cylinder head inlet ducts have an optimized design, while cylinder liners are made from thin cast - iron.

The 16V petrol engine features a new, high - pressure fuel pump injector to satisfy the greater performance demands and allow it to meet strict EU5 emissions standards while revisions to the electronic engine management system, plus increased maximum turbo pressure (1.9 bar at max output and 2.2 bar at max torque, versus 1.8 bar for the 240 PS 2.0 - litre TSI in Leon Cupra) complete the powerplant changes beneath the SEAT's svelte «clamshell» bonnet.

A misfire is when the combustion cycle of your engine is interrupted, causing a sudden and severe loss of power while dramatically reducing fuel economy and increasing emissions.

Mechanically, the 3.0 - liter V6 diesel engine is fine - tuned to emit fewer CO2 emissions, while fuel economy has also increased (according to EU tests).

The GS 450h emits 141g / km for a # 145 road tax charge, while the Sport version has larger 19in wheels, which cause a small increase to CO2 emissions.

While zero emissions is the ultimate goal, the company is committed to ongoing innovation in technologies that increase efficiency and reduce emissions.

This engine has a high - pressure direct injection system (over 2,200 psi), which dramatically increases power and torque, while reducing fuel consumption and emissions.

Direct - injection gasoline, diesel engines, common - rail injection systems, and variable valve timing are ways to increase power density while decreasing emissions.

Now fully compliant with Euro - 5 emissions requirements, power has increased from 63kW to 66kW (86hp to 88.5 hp) while CO2 emissions have fallen to just 110g / km from 115g / km.

«Automakers have the task of meeting increasing emissions regulations and tightening fuel economy standards while consumers want more power.