Sentences with phrase «with global emissions»

Well, rising seas will exacerbate the surge impact from any storm, and, in the long run, and that means dealing with global emissions.

At Chevron, a similar resolution sought to make the oil company's current carbon emissions reduction goals more challenging by syncing the targets with the global emissions limits needed to prevent runaway global warming.

However, early estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP) using preliminary data suggest that this is likely to change in 2017 with global emissions set to grow by around 2 %, albeit with some uncertainties.

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An early estimate published in Nature, based upon low Chinese coal consumption for the first eight months of the year, found that China's emissions declined by 3.9 % in 2015, with global emissions correspondingly shrinking by 0.6 %.

・ 20 percent better fuel efficiency thanks to the low compression ratio of 14.0:1 ・ A new two - stage turbocharger realizes smooth and linear response from low to high engine speeds, and greatly increases low - and high - end torque (up to the 5,200 rpm rev limit) ・ Complies with global emissions regulations (Euro6 in Europe and the Post New Long - Term Regulations in Japan), without expensive NOx aftertreatment

Complies with global emissions regulations (Euro6 in Europe, Tier2Bin5 in North America, and the Post New Long - Term Regulations in Japan), without expensive NOx aftertreatment

And with global emissions of greenhouse gases rising ever faster, there's no end in sight to the grim trend.

Ibid, page 10: «Compared with global emission levels in 1990, 2000 and 2010, global aggregate emission levels resulting from the INDCs are expected to be higher by: 40 (33 - 47) per cent in 2025 and 44 (34 - 53) per cent in 2030 in relation to the global emission level in 1990; 35 (28 - 41) per cent in 2025 and 38 (29 - 47) per cent in 2030 in relation to the global emission level in 2000; and 13 (7 - 19) per cent in 2025 and 16 (8 - 23) per cent in 2030 in relation to the global emission level in 2010.»

Not exact matches

To give one example, Climate Mayors is a group of U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding federal and global - level policymaking.»

In 2012, forecasts for 2020 global emissions were revised down from 2008 forecasts for the same period, based on actual energy efficiencies realized between 2008 and 2012, along with updated data.

The shipping sector, along with aviation, avoided specific emissions - cutting targets in a global climate pact agreed in Paris at the end of 2015, which aims to limit a global average rise in temperature to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius from 2020.

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy vWith high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy vwith large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy vwith coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

With CCS, instead of releasing carbon dioxide from oil and gas operations into the atmosphere, where the emissions contribute to global warming, that CO2 is converted into liquid and pumped underground to be sequestered indefinitely in porous rock formations.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

If the goods they produced end up being imported from jurisdictions with less stringent environmental standards, then we lose twice — higher global GHG emissions and less economic activity in Canada.

But as the consortium of Asian energy companies that submitted the Canadian project for regulatory approval three years ago weighs it's options in a global energy market now flooded with cheap oil and gas, and further considers the 190 conditions attached to Ottawa's approval, including a cap on annual green house gas emissions, it may be some time before this project crosses the finish line.

Marc's conservative estimate is that new oil sands production associated with the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (just the expansion beyond the existing pipeline) would represent an additional 93 megatonnes of global GHG emissions per year.

Given that agriculture, along with the deforestation associated with it, drives 24 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, we are dependent upon farmers to do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting climate change.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

Meat production is responsible for 14.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, with some scientists saying the percentage is higher.

This graphic depicts the carbon intensity of shipping wine from various global wine regions to key U.S. cities and bases its data on a seriously flawed, two - year - old working paper that is filled with untested assumptions, has not been peer reviewed, and does not accurately reflect the complexities of greenhouse gas emissions in the wine sector.

The global dairy sector contributes 4 % to global GHG emissions with an estimated 2.7 % coming from global milk production, processing, and transportation, according to a report conducted by the FAO in 2007.

Many multinational food and beverage brands are missing their biggest chance to address climate risks, according to the global non-profit group CDP, which says companies need to work closer with suppliers to improve agricultural emissions.

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

Finally, with the UK responsible for less than two per cent of global emissions, action at home is not enough.

With a global deal, the EU will up its commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 30 per cent by 2020.

Yesterday, the Conservatives criticised the government's plans to deal with global warming, arguing that cutting carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, as is proposed in the new climate change bill, was not enough.

Achieving the 2025 target will require a further emission reduction of 9 - 11 % beyond our 2020 target compared to the 2005 baseline and a substantial acceleration of the 2005 - 2020 annual pace of reduction, to 2.3 - 2.8 percent per year, or an approximate doubling;» Substantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarbonization.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;

«But it won't be maximised unless there is that true global deal, one with everybody in it, one that has in its heart a substantial cut in emissions and that most crucially has the means of doing it.

Conservatives are, on the whole, more aligned with business and / or industry Since industry is most likely to be adversely affected by the consequences of regulations to reduce global warming (emissions restrictions, for example) there is an incentive to deny global warming.

Many noted that even though Tillerson parts ways with Trump in saying that human - caused emissions at least play a role in driving warming, his refusal to discuss Exxon Mobil's role in obscuring climate research and his caution on U.S. leadership on global climate engagement helped fuel Democratic opposition to his confirmation.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

The best estimates of the increase in global temperatures range from 1.8 to 4.0 degrees C for the various emission scenarios, with higher emissions leading to higher temperatures.

Worldwide, carbon storage has the capability to provide more than 15 percent of the emissions reductions needed to limit the rise in atmospheric CO2 to 450 parts per million by 2050, an oft - cited target associated with a roughly 50 - percent chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees, but that would involve 3,200 projects sequestering some 150 gigatons of CO2, says Juho Lipponen, who heads the CCS unit of the International Energy Agency in Paris.

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.

Island nations threatened by sea level rise, such as the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific, have for years urged the IMO to push for a 100 percent emissions reduction by 2050 as the only strategy consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels.

According to his calculations, global infrared emission would be 0.8 watts per square metre higher if all atmospheric ice crystals contained lead compared with none.

Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.

The global potential of biochar is considered to be large, with up to 12 percent of emissions reduced by biochar soil application.

The study, published online today in Environmental Science & Technology, provides the most comprehensive set yet of direct measurements of emissions from the distribution system and, with a series of partner studies, is helping to determine the natural gas industry's contribution to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and to global warming.

Urban air quality continues to be a primary health concern as most of the world's population currently lives in urban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissions.

(Reuters)- Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions scientists blame for rising sea levels, intense storms, drought and crop failures.

«Comparing results with other global estuaries, the discharge per unit area of the Sydney Harbour provides a predictor of emissions for estuaries from a similar geomorphic class,» he said.

If carbon emissions continue on their current trajectory, with global temperatures rising by 2.6 C to 4.8 °C by 2100, applications could increase by 188 percent, leading to an extra 660,000 applications filed each year.

Three approaches were used to evaluate the outstanding «carbon budget» (the total amount of CO2 emissions compatible with a given global average warming) for 1.5 °C: re-assessing the evidence provided by complex Earth System Models, new experiments with an intermediate - complexity model, and evaluating the implications of current ranges of uncertainty in climate system properties using a simple model.

Pollution is a concern too: Shipping is responsible for 3 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, similar to the airline industry, along with substantial particulates and sulfur dioxide.

At the same time, shipping activity is expected to increase with global trade and continue to produce harmful air emissions and greenhouse gases.

Authors project with high confidence that continued growth in emissions from global passenger and freight activity could «outweigh future mitigation measures,» says a preliminary version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) study obtained by ClimateWire.