Sentences with phrase «with less emissions»

Under a carbon trading scheme, a country with more carbon emissions is able to purchase the right to emit more while the country with less emissions trades the right to emit carbon to other countries.

Downsizing was first introduced with VAG and Peugeot 1.4 lt turbo engines which replaced the 1.6, 1.8 and in some cases the 2.0 lt petrol engines, with less emissions and more power and torque, something that they had to do in order to compete also with the smaller diesel engines.

Today's coal - fired electricity - generating plants produce more power, with less emission of pollutants, than ever before.

Not exact matches

As with carbon dioxide emission rankings, less developed nations tend to score better on electricity consumption because access to electrical power is not as widely available.

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.

Closed freezer cases also emit less CO2, a detail that is important to eco-conscious retailers, ones who are already regulated by emissions standards or who have to comply with emission caps.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

Certified farms must reduce their carbon footprint by providing cattle with an easy to digest diet — generating less methane emissions — treating manure and protecting the trees in pastures and neighboring forested areas.

It provides the greatest cube efficiency, and its light weight allows a truckload to cube out before it weighs out — meaning that every available inch of space is optimally utilized, minimizing freight and handling costs with fewer trucks, less fuel, and lower emissions.

«In general there is a clear and strong trend with reduced greenhouse gas emissions in diets that contain less meat,» said lead researcher Peter Scarborough, who added that the study was the first to «confirm and quantify the difference» between diet - related carbon footprints.

Also, when compared to the production of the rigid gallon jug, the YES Pack is made with: 50 percent less energy, 60 percent less plastic, and 70 percent fewer CO2 emissions from transportation.

Manufacturing GHG emissions are primarily carbon dioxide, with significantly less contribution from methane and nitrous oxide.

On the environment, Europe's target under the Kyoto protocol is to cut carbon emission by eight per cent by 2012, but Mr Cameron will warn that with just six years to go, emissions are down less than one per cent on 1990 levels.

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

«At the end of the day, economic incentives for cleaner, less - polluting energy will have a greater impact on reducing CO2 emissions than a non-binding agreement with no enforcement mechanisms,» Faso said in a statement.

In three separate indoor UV chambers, Benca exposed the dwarf pines to 7.5, 10 and 13 times Berkeley's normal UV - B intensity, in line with estimates of the impact Siberian Trap eruptions would have had on the ozone layer if their emissions occurred over various lengths of time, ranging from 400,000 years to less than 200,000 years.

WMG is analysing the suitability for micro / mild hybridisation (MMH)-- a feasible solution that represents a simple, low - cost implementation to create high fuel efficiency with less energy use and fewer emissions.

«It was surprising to see some of the less - industrialised countries with such high rankings, but this also reflects their CO2 emissions related to deforestation,» says Matthews.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Instead, with the imposition of a cap - and - trade program, O'Connor said, people looked at the sources of coal and realized they could obtain it from different parts of the country with lower sulfur, cutting emissions at less cost.

Reducing emissions through energy efficiency With respect to its own multibillion - dollar portfolio of drilling operations, refineries and pipelines, Exxon Mobil said it «addresses the risk of climate change in several concrete and meaningful ways,» including through energy efficiency measures, deployment of less carbon - intensive technologies at its facilities and even the development of products that help consumers use energy more efficiently.

The discovery could lead to metal - production systems that are much less expensive and that virtually eliminate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with most traditional metal smelting.

Although it is not surprising to see some correlation between frequency of unloadings and higher annual emissions, the study's findings indicate that wells with a high frequency of unloadings have annual emissions that are 10 or more times as great as wells that unload less frequently.

Indeed, the Clean Power Plan proposed by the Obama administration to clean up CO2 emissions from power plants relies on capture and storage to allow coal - fired power plants to continue to produce electricity, but with less climate - changing pollution.

«For scientific activities that require the emission of carbon, researchers should replace with less carbon - intensive activities, reduce the scope of the activity, and refine their research plan to maximize the scientific return for each unit of carbon emitted,» Favaro wrote.

Natural gas blended with renewable hydrogen also produces less emissions than regular natural gas when used at a power plant or as a transport fuel.

Instead, the Administration's plans for energy conservation and using energy sources with less CO2 emission will help in the short - term, he said; down the road, a new National Climate Change Technology Initiative will help develop cutting - edge technologies such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration, Bush said.

Although natural gas generates less greenhouse gas than coal when burned, when its total life - cycle emissions associated with extraction and distribution are factored in, it does not seem much cleaner than coal

Other factors come into play: Increasing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide are making all oceans more acidic, forcing species to use more energy to adapt, leaving them with less energy to reproduce and grow.

So, too, areas in which people of color make up at least 25 percent of the total population average nearly five times as many pounds of chemical emissions from industrial facilities per square mile, compared with communities where less than 5 percent of the population are people of color.

When faced with environmental regulations and the costs they impose, companies may relocate to a less - regulated jurisdiction, taking with them jobs and contributing to «leakage» in which targets of regulation, such as carbon emissions, are not reduced, just redistributed.

In theory, if a city or region has policies that encourage biking instead of driving, the researchers should be able to see the change in consumption patterns, with less car fuel consumed and fewer vehicles overall and a drop in consumption - based transport emissions, she said.

«When taking into account that production of the far smaller batteries of plug - in hybrids is associated with less carbon dioxide emissions than production of the larger batteries of electric vehicles, their carbon dioxide balance is even better,» says Patrick Jochem of KIT's Institute for Industrial Production.

«We see no evidence of Kyoto actually leading to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, much less of stimulating the fundamental technological change that will be required to achieve the 60 - 80 % reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists tell us the world will need to achieve in order to prevent what the Framework Convention calls «dangerous interference with the atmosphere».»

Three images, left to right, of the same thundercloud depict a less - than -10-milliseconds-long sequence of events: (left) formation within the cloud of a small channel, or «leader,» of electrical conductivity (yellow line) with weak emission of radio signals (ripples), to (middle) a burst of both dark lightning (pink) and radio waves (larger ripples), to (right) a discharge of bright lightning and more radio waves.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burniWith more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burniwith electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Turbine blades made out of materials with higher melting temperatures would require less fuel consumption and lead to lower CO2 emissions.

For one thing, the Obama administration has less to offer in return, having already announced with China its 2025 emissions targets and also struggling to scare up funding for any new projects under a Republican - led Congress.

If Americans in the highest - impact group shifted their diets to align with the U.S. average — by consuming fewer overall calories and relying less on meat — the one - day greenhouse - gas emissions reduction would be equivalent to eliminating 661 million passenger - vehicle miles, according to the researchers.

THE Paris climate agreement, sealed last December, was a first in many respects: the first truly international climate change deal, with promises from both rich and poor nations to cut emissions; the first global signal that the age of fossil fuels must end; the first time world leaders said we should aim for less than 2 °C of warming.

But such a charismatic carbon project is all too rare these days, both because the carbon market is dominated by less robust emission reductions from heavy industry in China and India as well as development efforts that proceed with little thought of the environmental cost or co-benefits.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

Because photons released into the atmosphere take energy with them, Miller said it was previously understood that greater photon emission meant less energy efficiency.

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).

This is why they expected brown dwarfs, with masses less than that of any star, to lack radio emission.

Compared to the past decades, the pattern (more emissions in South Asia) and the relative forcings are completely different, with much less relative influence of aerosols than today (due to faster increasing CO2 levels).

Periods of volcanism can cool the climate (as with the 1991 Pinatubo eruption), methane emissions from increased biological activity can warm the climate, and slight changes in solar output and orbital variations can all have climate effects which are much shorter in duration than the ice age cycles, ranging from less than a decade to a thousand years in duration (the Younger Dryas).

The operationalization of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) led to targeting earlier symptomatic cases of the illness and treatment strategies based less on pathology and more on a chance to halt or slow decline than there would be earlier in the disease.1 With the development of amyloid imaging, MCI due to AD diagnosis was refined, 2 and early - stage AD was extended further to include preclinical AD, 3 wherein a positive amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scan or diagnostic low levels of cerebrospinal fluid β - amyloid (Aβ) indicated the presence of pathology in people who were cognitively normal.

Although sustainability guidelines are unlikely to be included in the final version of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the Advisory Committee included the following statement in their initial report: «Consistent evidence indicates that, in general, a dietary pattern that is higher in plant - based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods is more health promoting and is associated with lesser environmental impact (greenhouse gas emissions and energy, land, and water use) than is the current average U.S. diet.

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