Sentence examples for emissions counteract from inspiring English sources

Large uncertainties exist for the rates of CH4 emissions making it difficult to determine the extent that CH4 emissions counteract the carbon sequestration of wetlands.

As the CBO points out, this "dampens the reallocation of output and employment to industries that produce fewer carbon emissions," counteracting the bill's basic purpose of carbon reduction.

In a blog post, Gavin Schmidt stated that "Ideas that we should increase aerosol emissions to counteract global warming have been described as a 'Faustian bargain' because that would imply an ever increasing amount of emissions in order to match the accumulated greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, with ever increasing monetary and health costs".

Worst of all, freezing air passenger and fuel duties will increase carbon dioxide emissions, thereby counteracting any benefits derived from his green initiatives.

Both are quite ambitious, as they require policy-driven emissions cuts to counteract the growth of emissions in the BAU case.

I was skeptical of the ecological merits of shipping potting soil via FedEx, but I thought that surely those emissions would be counteracted by my über-local vegetable bounty.

The new numbers show that fluctuations in weather patterns and relatively small changes in fuel prices are enough to counteract the emissions reductions that have resulted from greater solar and wind power capacity and increased use of cleaner-burning natural gas instead of coal.

This won't do anything to counteract all the emissions the plane created while flying.

"This latest data shows that while current investment in renewables has had some impact, it's not enough to counteract increases in emissions across most of the economy, because corporations can pollute without penalty," Bandt said.

The growing concern for the increase of the global warming effects due to anthropogenic activities raises the challenge of finding novel technological approaches to stabilize CO2 emissions in the atmosphere and counteract impinging interconnected issues such as desertification and loss of biodiversity.

As major cities try to contend with air pollution, reduce carbon emissions and water use, and counteract urban heat, there has been an increasing interest in the role biology might play.