Sentences with phrase «yields additional emission»

That decline is even sharper than in the EU which does have economy - wide climate policy, and where CO2 emissions in the first half of 2012 are down 11 % from 2005 levels (though the EU has an international offset program that yields additional emission reductions).

Not exact matches

Regulators have steadily added tough safety, emissions and fuel efficiency standards, and in the U.S., class - action lawsuits that have yielded big judgments is putting additional pressure on auto companies.

But even with the yield gaps closed, projected food demand will still require additional land — so the impact on GHG emissions and biodiversity remains.

This is essentially the application of diesel ignition to gasoline, and will yield similar highway fuel economy without all the downsides of diesel emissions and additional maintenance.

In addition to carbon emissions reduction, our projects yield additional benefits such as improved living conditions and environmental benefits in the project region.

This technical document presents the latest estimates of the emissions gap in 2020 and provides plentiful information, including about current (2010) and projected (2020) levels of global greenhouse gas emissions, both in the absence of additional policies and consistent with national pledge implementation; the implications of starting decided emission reductions now or in the coming decades; agricultural development policies that can help increase yields, reduce fertilizer usage and bring about other benefits, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; and, international cooperative initiatives that, while potentially overlapping with pledges, can complement them and help bridge the emissions gap.

India was the first standout, insisting that projects funded by Kyoto's «Clean Development Mechanism» should not actually be required to be strictly «additional,» which is climate speak for actually yielding carbon emission reductions that would not otherwise have occurred.

«Business - as - usual» scenarios, with fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions continuing to increase about 2 percent per year as in the past decade, yield additional warming of 2 or 3 °C this century and imply changes that constitute practically a different planet.

Business - as - usual scenarios, with fossil fuel (CO2) emissions continuing to increase at 2 percent per year as in the past decade, will yield additional warming of two or three degrees this century.