Sentences with phrase «with less air pollution»

The GHG reduction scenario emphasizes energy efficiency and shifts energy production and use away from highly polluting forms toward cleaner sources with less air pollution.

Not exact matches

(In the U.S., air pollution regulations would make it necessary to ship it to a refinery for final processing or blend it with a less aromatic gasoline.)

Less dust means the air stagnates, with human - made pollution becoming more concentrated and sticking around longer.

Efforts to improve irrigation in sun - scorched regions, or to replace sensitive crops with more resilient varieties, could be less effective if ozone pollution keeps dirtying the air.

In January, a study linked higher air pollution with behaviors that are less «prosocial,» a decline the study describes as giving less, cooperating and reciprocating less, and demanding more — which can affect both individual and group decision - making.

The underlying motivation varies from buyer to buyer and usually involves one or more of these objectives: diminishing the demand for foreign oil, potentially releasing less pollution and carbon, saving money on cost per mile, driving solo in carpool lanes and / or irritating friends and strangers with an air of superiority.

The tower, which was completed last year, is said to produce about 10 million cubic meters (353 million cubic feet) of clean air per day, with an average reduction in PM 2.5 (fine particulate matter measuring 2.5 microns or less in width) of 15 % in local air during periods of heavy pollution.

Installing small solar systems on homes is often much less expensive than building a central power plant, with the added benefit of greatly reducing indoor air pollution from kerosene lamps.

With less pollution in the air and a more stable climate, the plan was projected to prevent 90,000 asthma attacks in children, 300,000 missed work and school days, and up to 3,600 premature deaths by 2030.

Remarkable as it sounds, this is actually feasible at low cost, and with a major side benefit: much less air and water pollution as well.

I have already made it clear elsewhere that the additional resistor effect of human CO2 would be insignificant in relation to that from the rest of the air and the oceans together with the varying solar and oceanic heating and cooling effects but we still need to know for sure whether it is significant at all over periods of less than several hundred years because that may be the time we need to solve our energy, pollution, resource and population problems.

Investment in coal - fired plants fell sharply, with nearly 20 gigawatts (GW) less commissioned, reflecting concerns about local air pollution and the emergence of overcapacity in some markets, notably China, though investment remained elevated in India.

With fewer carbon emissions, zero air pollution and less noise, electric vehicles don't just pay off for the environment — they also pay off for you.

Those of us who bike think cars should be happy to see us coming, since we cut overall carbon and pollution from getting into the air and make the streets less choked with automobile traffic.

Further highlighting the urgency of the issue in China, new research from Tsinghua University found that an estimated 670,000 premature deaths from four diseases - strokes, lung cancer, coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - were linked to air pollution, especially particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less (a.k.a. PM 2.5).

On top of that, natural gas produces less air pollution than coal, and you aren't left with millions of tons of coal fly ash (which contains mercury, among other things).

Thanks to an alchemy of the records, writes Andrews, not only did a majority of «Blue Sky» days last year fall exactly — and suspiciously — on or under the 100 mark: Beijing has also in recent years moved its air sampling stations to areas with less traffic and industry to create the appearance of less pollution.