Factoring social and environmental considerations into the design of future products can ensure we hit our long-term targets for carbon emissions, resource efficiency, waste reduction, and reduced toxicity.
This may dependen on many factors, mainly upstream emissions, resource sources, power grid implications and the opportunity for energy storage from batteries.
But to nearly eliminate them you have to be strategic mainly because no- or low-emission resources are limited in certain ways and have to be used to their best advantage.
Importantly, they typically reflect stakeholder engagement and consensus building and can include strategies to mitigate the effects of potential retirements, for example by expressing a policy preference to retain existing nuclear capacity that is safe to operate, increasing the use of other zero-emission resources, or establishing goals related to the deployment of advanced nuclear technologies.
Moreover, will cheap unconventional resources crowd out renewables or high-emissions resource out of the feedstock curve?
We need to get the right measure of the problem, in terms of both emissions and resources.
That was bad enough, but surely today some of our cleverest people wouldn't make similar, basic errors in measuring the emissions and resources needed to preserve the climate on which we depend, would they?
The E.C.'s role in UNCED is considered clear and constructive-at least compared to that of the U.S. The E.C. promoted the idea of capping CO2 emissions, plus resources for the developing world.
The promotion of a closed-loop material cycle is critical to contribute to sustainability thus minimising CO2 emissions, natural resources consumption.
In a wide-ranging speech, the secretary of state also promised new domestic policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, using resources more efficiently and tackling waste, planting more trees and restoring peatlands.
