Sentences with phrase «with high global warming potential»

This paper by NRDC, CEEW and IGSD explores the energy efficiency and power sector benefits of air conditioning companies in India to «leapfrog» and phase down unsustainable technologies based on chemicals like HFCs with high Global warming potential and move to a future based on climate - friendly and energy - efficient refrigerants.

The EU Regulation on fluorinated greenhouse gases requires the refrigeration and air conditioning sectors to phase out the use of refrigerant gases with a high global warming potential by 2030.

«It is ironic that high concentrations of molecules with high global warming potential (GWP), the worst - case scenario for Earth's climate, is the optimal scenario for detecting an alien civilization, as GWP increases with stronger infrared absorption and longer atmospheric lifetime,» say the authors.

The US Global Warming Action Plan, published last October, says the government will «narrow the scope of uses allowed for HFCs with high global warming potential where better alternatives exist».

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With many HFC replacements also having a high global warming potential (GWP), a new EPA scheme to restrict alternative to those with low GWPs only, could make a dent in their groWith many HFC replacements also having a high global warming potential (GWP), a new EPA scheme to restrict alternative to those with low GWPs only, could make a dent in their growith low GWPs only, could make a dent in their growth.

And melting permafrost might release a lot of high - global - warming - potential methane, but we don't have enough experience with that to say anything sensible about it.

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

This collection of Fact Sheets focuses on the work undertaken by UNIDO, in its capacity as Implementing Agency of the Montreal Protocol, to phase - out ozone depleting substances which also are high global warming potential gases, by introducing alternatives with zero ozone - depleting potential and low global warming potential.

Humanity could emit more CO2 than this budget allows — though at the risk of higher levels of global warming, with all the problems, risks, and potential horrors that entails.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - US President Obama and Chinese President XI have agreed to work together to combat climate change by curbing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)- super greenhouse gases with global warming potential hundreds and thousands times higher than carbon dioxide (CO2).

Today, HFCs are the most commonly used refrigerants in new refrigeration and air - conditioning systems in the United States and increasingly in developing countries, but these refrigerants are potent greenhouse gases (GHGs) with global warming potentials (GWPs) ranging from hundreds to thousands of times higher than CO2.

The Montreal Protocol has a lot more to offer than a model for addressing global warming emissions, it is itself an important tool that urgently needs to be strengthened to harvest the «low hanging fruit» of phasing out hydrofluorocarbons (and HCFCs), the high global warming potential ODS alternatives with genuinely climate friendly natural refrigerant solutions.

HFCs are extremely harmful to the climate, with global warming potentials hundreds and thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide (CO2).

These include auto - off lighting combined with the use of LED lights; energy efficient low - E glass used in glass door refrigerators; more efficient cooling compressors; more advanced microprocessor temperature control and defrost sensors; more efficient high - capacity air circulation systems, as well as hot gas defrost solutions; and low global warming potential, energy efficient alternative refrigerant options.

The organic - grass - fed - gluten free - cold pressed turkey in your shopping cart is being refrigerated with some of the most potent greenhouse gases in the world called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)-- gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners with global warming potentials hundreds to thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide.

An organic carbon decomposition model, calibrated with laboratory incubations, indicates a greater production rate of CO2 - C equivalents from waterlogged (compared to drained) permafrost soils, when the higher global warming potential of methane is factored in.

HFCs are chemicals primarily used in refrigeration, air conditioning, and foam blowing, which were introduced to replace the ozone depleting chemicals phased - out by the Montreal Protocol, despite the fact that HFCs are extremely harmful to the climate with global warming potentials hundreds and thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide (CO2).