Sentences with phrase «wide emissions range»

This wide emissions range hinders accountability and creates uncertainty on the country's future emissions path.

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It collaborates with Domtar, the Rainforest Alliance, Staples and Columbia Forest Products on the Southeast Sustainable Forestry Project to help spread sustainable management among family - owned forests in the Southeastern U.S. And it pursues a wide range of internal sustainability goals, including developing a 100 percent sustainable certified sustainable paper supply, and steeply cutting its emissions.

They exhibit so many complex phenomena that there is a wide range of research problems associated with them, including increased global awareness of the environment and the worldwide introduction of stringent combustion emissions regulations.

The long - term warming over the 21st century, however, is strongly influenced by the future rate of emissions, and the projections cover a wide variety of scenarios, ranging from very rapid to more modest economic growth and from more to less dependence on fossil fuels.

Scientists and entrepreneurs are developing some ingenious processes for turning CO2 emissions into the raw materials for a wide range of products.

Organizers, delegates and a wide range of other participants — some 10,000 people are expected to attend — are still holding out hope for the establishment of an ambitious, legally binding global emissions reduction agreement to take effect beginning in 2012.

In a wide - ranging action plan to cut emissions over the next two years, China's cabinet, the State Council, said the country had already fallen behind in its pollution targets over the 2011 - 2013 period and was now having to step up its efforts.

It calls for phasing out a wide range of mercury products and curbing emissions from major sources.

On the high end, recent work suggests that 4 feet is plausible.23, 3,6,7,8 In the context of risk - based analysis, some decision makers may wish to use a wider range of scenarios, from 8 inches to 6.6 feet by 2100.10,2 In particular, the high end of these scenarios may be useful for decision makers with a low tolerance for risk (see Figure 2.26 on global sea level rise).10, 2 Although scientists can not yet assign likelihood to any particular scenario, in general, higher emissions scenarios that lead to more warming would be expected to lead to higher amounts of sea level rise.

Providing policymakers with a wide emissions reduction range such as a 50 - 90 percent is impractical at best.

The dataset was bound to show a wide range of emission rates given regional differences in regulations and other factors, he said.

With spectral data taken in a wide frequency range, we can obtain intensity ratio of various molecular line emissions.

There are a wide range of consequences of these emissions.

This band covers a wide range of radio emission lines from various atoms and molecules, and one of the most attractive targets is the emission from atomic carbon at 0.6 mm.

Still, our understanding has a wide range of projections, particularly for high emissions scenarios as Jevrejeva et al. (2014) illustrates.

Mercedes - Benz plans to roll out a wide range of diesel - and hybrid - powertrain models over the next three years to cut fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, and plans to put a B - class wagon powered by a...

The same Ingenium motor is also offered across the wider range, with 237bhp and 500Nm, and CO2 emissions of 154g / km.

The Daily van is available with a wide range of diesel engines, as an all - electric van and with a number of compressed natural gas (CNG) low - emissions motors.

The engine's turbocharger ensures a wider torque band than the earlier 1.6 - liter engine, making it more responsive in a wider range of driving conditions while also reducing emissions.

Alongside fresh looks, the extensively revised bestselling Mercedes - Benz SUV, which will soon be launched in China, offers a wide - ranging package of measures that deliver best - in - class figures for emissions and drive.

Toyota Optimal Drive showcases a combination of wide - ranging advanced technologies and internal improvement programmes designed to optimise the balance of performance and driving enjoyment with fuel economy and low emissions.

Introduction of new TDI and TSI engines, and the 7 - speed dual clutch transmission (DSG), has resulted in considerable improvement in fuel economy and reduced emissions over a wide range of engine power outputs.

The introduction of new TDI and TSI engines, as well as the 7 - speed dual clutch transmission (DSG), has resulted in considerably reduced fuel consumption and emissions over a wide range of engine power outputs.

The wide range of engines is mated to manual, automatic transmission gearboxes, and all of these drivetrain options offer high fuel efficiency and low exhaust emissions, re-emphasizing Hyundai Motor's continuing commitment to the global environment.

With the hybrid drive system offering this wide range of individual modes and applications, the 918 Spyder is able either to achieve lap times comparable to those of a thoroughbred racing car, or the extremely low emissions and high fuel economy figures of a plug - in hybrid.

The 2013 Civic appeals to a broad range of buyers and has a correspondingly wide array of trims, from sedans and coupes to fuel - saving and emissions - curbing hybrid and natural - gas variants.

The i - VTEC system combines with Active Control engine Mounts (ACM) to allow the VCM system to operate with just three cylinders in a wide range of situations to maximize fuel efficiency and lower emissions.

The engine's turbocharger ensures a wider torque band than the earlier 1.6 - litre engine, making it more responsive in a wider range of driving conditions — while also reducing emissions.

The VTEC system combines with Active Control engine Mounts (ACM) to allow the VCM system to operate with three cylinders in a wide range of situations to maximize fuel efficiency and lower emissions.

BMW EfficientDynamics: wide range of features serving to reduce fuel consumption and emissions - and all coming as standard.

Sabre's technology aims to help LATAM Airlines Group to deliver a wide range of enhancements in flight planning and operational efficiency, including a subsequent reduction in CO2 emissions.

The study identifies energy efficiency as the single most important option for achieving significant and long - term reductions in GHG emissions, accounting for up to 50 percent of the reduction potential across the wide range of scenarios analyzed.

Still, our understanding has a wide range of projections, particularly for high emissions scenarios as Jevrejeva et al. (2014) illustrates.

The massive reports and shorter summaries are certainly relevant to global and national energy policies, describing the possible climatic outcomes of a wide range of societal paths, from business as usual to aggressive emissions curbs.

As a longtime observer of a wide range of efforts to limit global warming, I see this as one of the least likely to succeed — and a bad match of tool and task — if the goal is, in fact, to limit warming, which would require global cuts in emissions.

However, even given a particular emission scenario, IPCC has always allowed for a wide uncertainty range.

A wide range of policies aimed at increasing conservation, efficiency, and reducing emissions is vital, but carbon prices and regulations alone will not create new, clean and affordable energy systems soon enough or at the scale needed.

Ricarda Winkelmann et al. modeled the response of the Antarctic ice sheet to a wide range of future carbon emissions scenarios over the long - term (previous simulations have mainly looked at changes that might occur on a shorter timescale).

ACR provides the flexibility of a wide range of methodologies that diversify offset sourcing options and demonstrate environmental benefits beyond emissions reductions.

In a wide - ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a «human tipping point» — essentially, a social revolution — as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near - term climate policy.

The models used to calculate a Social Cost of Carbon for use in estimating the benefits of reducing carbon emissions fall far short of including a wide range of expected damages from global climate disruption.

The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

Authors in a recent study from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have identified higher emissions from continuously flooded rice, compared to rice which has more frequent periods of water drainage, and a wide range of emissions for other crops due to variation in fertilizer application.

As reported by other flora wide studies [20]--[21], our projections of range size change vary greatly based on future climate simulations, emission levels, and dispersal scenarios.

Users have access to a wide range of numerical and qualitative data, ranging from companies» emissions and energy consumption to their human rights policies and the size of their boards of directors.

A wide - ranging list of businesses, politicians and organizations that support a tax on carbon emissions can be found here.

To enable the assessment of a wide range of possible futures, we analyze 41 evenly spaced emissions totals from 500 to 2,500 GtC.

He shows, how the emission originates over a wide range of altitudes with a significant contribution from altitudes 8 - 15 km, where the amount of water is small and CO2 is the main source of emission and where the temperature is falling with altitude (Figure 2).

Mexico's energy reform is set to revitalise an ailing sector and boost the economy, IEA report says Mexico's wide - ranging energy reform, which began in 2013, is expected to reverse the country's declining oil production, increase the share of renewables in the power sector, and slow the growth in carbon emissions, providing a solid foundation for robust economic growth in the coming decades, according to the International Energy Agency.

They now show a somewhat wider range of -182 to 393 GtCO2, with the difference from the prior set of IAMs due in part to differing assumptions about future emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases.