High carbon dioxide levels have been shown to reduce rice's nutritional content.
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But you and I are passively guilty — stuck in a high-carbon system.
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Do you feel any tension between your high-carbon lifestyles and climate activism?
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Finally, it can reduce emissions by making extravagant high-carbon activities less desirable.
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Additionally, each knife is made with high carbon, no-stain forged steel for durability.
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And though typical cement has a high carbon footprint, there's still no cheaper option.
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Three family members were taken to the hospital and treated for high carbon monoxide levels.
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Each knife has balanced handles and high-carbon forged blades for smooth and comfortable slicing.
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Environmentalists called Peabody's bankruptcy a milestone in the effort to replace high-carbon energy sources.
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Plus, high carbon prices — for that matter any carbon prices — are politically a tough sell.
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In the letter, they admit that they are "hypocrites" because of their high-carbon lifestyles.
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Will the vast array of energy breaks (both low- and high-carbon versions) be chopped?
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A plant must be easily pollinated and able to survive in a high-carbon-dioxide environment.
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The ministry also criticized developed countries, saying their populations "live extravagant lifestyles with a high carbon footprint".
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"They believe it is imperative these companies move away from high-carbon emitting activities," Lubber told me.
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Lobster fishing, as well as shrimp and tilapia farming, also turned out to have high carbon emissions.
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Many clean bets continue to rely on tax breaks, subsidies or the prospect of high carbon prices.
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"I think we individuals with a high carbon footprint do need to cut back climate pollution," she added.
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High carbon costs make fossil fuel power generation more expensive which mean they also affect wholesale electricity prices.
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Canada's oil sands have become less attractive due to their high cost of extraction and high carbon intensity.
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"They have a high carbon footprint, and yet they're way less carbon intensive than their peers," she said.
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This suggests that avoiding most high carbon emitters can be done without fundamentally changing a portfolio's risk-reward characteristics.
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How can we be talking about moving toward decarbonization by 2050 and lock in high-carbon fossil fuel infrastructure?
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With all those rodents breathing and clogging up burrows, they often encounter low-oxygen and high-carbon dioxide conditions.
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And yet ... there seem to be real political constraints on how high carbon taxes can go, even with refunds.
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Ultimately, the most effective driver for steering shipping away from its high-carbon path may come from outside the industry.
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The targeted pipelines carry a particular type of heavy, high-carbon crude oil from Canada's tar sands region in Alberta.
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And insofar as that lowers the clearing price in capacity markets, it is a "cost" to high-carbon capacity sources.
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It follows that if a sulfur-rich object slammed into Earth, it would leave behind a high carbon-to-nitrogen ratio.
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The financial community would also be reluctant to support investment in high-carbon products, including coal-fired plants and conventional vehicles.
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Decarbonization would require replacing high-carbon energy sources like oil and gas with zero carbon sources, like solar or wind energy.
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Companies that focus exclusively on high carbon energy production increasingly will find themselves on the wrong side of a shifting society.
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One of the most widely-predicted consequences of a warming climate, stoked by historically-high carbon dioxide emissions, is increased fire weather.
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The teenager refuses to board any airplanes because of their high carbon footprint, and typically travels by train when moving around Europe.
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His campaign combines pocketbook promises with put-downs of Mr Trudeau (he's a "high-carbon hypocrite" because he campaigns using two aeroplanes).
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That is because investing in an S&P 500 index fund, for example, includes companies tied to high carbon emissions, tobacco or firearms.
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Poland is wary of high carbon prices as that adds costs for its utilities, which generate most of their power from polluting coal.
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Constructed of high-carbon stainless steel, the knife's blade has a slightly rounded belly for efficiently rocking it back and forth while cutting.
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IPOP, meanwhile, also prohibits land clearing in forests that have regrown after being cut down or cleared, and bushland that has high carbon content.
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To take one example, steel and iron are made using blast furnaces that burn coke (a form of "cooked" coal with high-carbon content).
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While wealth globally keeps increasing, the carbon budget keeps getting smaller, eaten up in part by the high-carbon extravagant activities of the rich.
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This stamped knife has a thin, flexible blade made of high-carbon, stain-free Japanese steel as well as durable, rubber-like plastic handles.
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It's not impossible to imagine a high carbon price in coming decades, or natural gas prices rising, and SMRs finding success in niche markets.
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The Republican plan also includes duties on dirty imports and tax credits for clean exports, to support businesses that face competition from high-carbon jurisdictions.
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The only way to make any money off sequestration is if a government is directly subsidizing it or if there's an extremely high carbon price.
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Tire-derived fuels can also be burned instead of coal at cement plants, for instance, reducing their notoriously-high carbon emissions by 18-24 percent.
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Some of the investments will have to go into companies with high carbon footprints but a strategy to move toward a more sustainable business model.
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Made of Japanese high carbon stainless steel, these razor-sharp knives are designed to be multipurpose and cut through fish, meat, or veggies with ease.
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This external layer of card is heavily processed, which means it has a high carbon and environmental footprint, but it's still recyclable, Barlow told me.
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Germany Dispatch BERLIN — It seemed like a no-brainer: Lower Germany's embarrassingly high carbon emissions at no cost, and save some lives in the process.
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Let's talk about big money and ask our banks to charge a premium in interest rates for high-carbon projects, or simply no longer finance them.
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Substituting high-carbon energy sources like coal for cleaner ones like natural gas, nuclear and bioenergy would do a great deal to push America towards decarbonisation.
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This pushed coal power off the grid where green energy gets priority, while high carbon emissions allowances and low gas prices also worsened coal's competitive position.
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Unfortunately, that record includes high carbon emissions, contaminated water, dirty air, poisoned farmland and heaps of mining waste so large they've been nicknamed the Estonian Alps.
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"One place that each of these banks [has] not moved to ... is to not finance high fossil fuel or high carbon projects or firms," Lubber said.
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The default assassination method remains garroting people with a line of tempered high-carbon steel — unlocking the "piano man" challenge, naturally — and it's always unpleasant to watch.
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L) said on Tuesday it had tightened restrictions on project finance and general lending for high-carbon energy projects and companies, joining other banks like HSBC (HSBA.
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Most of the high-carbon states are also less urbanized, less affected by the transition to white-collar, post-industrial work, and more reliant on manufacturing employment.
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The CVF countries said they would do their best to find resources at home to tackle climate change and to eliminate "harmful subsidies" for high-carbon activities.
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Because if that money is invested in high carbon, in the coal industry, or even in the oil and gas industry, you're going to lose your money.
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Our high-carbon culture is underpinned by a belief system that tells us we are in control of nature and can fix any problem with our superior technology.
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The most recent report assessed a number of scenarios from low to high carbon emissions, noted Rahmstorf; no one future scenario is emphasized (see pages 20403 and 82).
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The resulting low oxygen levels and high carbon-dioxide levels explain not only why Joe is always falling asleep but also why he is red in the face.
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"If we're to move from today's high-carbon, low-efficiency world economy to tomorrow's high-efficiency, low-carbon world economy, quite a lot needs to shift," he said.
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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is traveling across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas via boat because she refuses to board airplanes due to their high carbon footprint.
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Since she no longer flies because of the aviation industry's high carbon emissions, she was offered the opportunity to travel to the US on a zero-emissions sailboat.
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Potatoes—luckily for Mars explorers—enjoy growing in cold, barren land, but the research project involved growing potatoes in truly frigid, high carbon-dioxide settings that simulated Martian conditions.
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But soon enough, high carbon dioxide and low oxygen will slow things down: Breaths become slower and shallower, and the heart begins to contract with less force, Permentier said.
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As a result, the researchers found over a 1,000-year period, production of cultured meat could hike global warming more if the process depended heavily on high-carbon energy.
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The blades are made of high-carbon, cutlery-grade stainless steel, and the body is BPA-free acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), which is commonly used to make protective helmets.
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Why it matters: The spotlight on new tech underscores how the high-carbon parts of the energy industry are trying to embrace the future of low carbon and high tech.
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French nuclear safety regulator ASN has ordered EDF to carry out tests on 12 nuclear reactors in a metal resilience probe related to high carbon concentrations in their steam generators.
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Some 84% of lignite generation, which also has a high carbon content, and 76% of hard coal generation, is unprofitable, resulting in losses of 3.54 billion and 3.03 billion euros respectively.
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Inspectors are worried about high carbon levels found in steel forged by Creusot Forge, which is owned by Areva, another French firm, and by Japan Casting & Forging Corporation, a Japanese supplier.
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Global producers have been bailing on Canadian resource investments due to higher development costs, limited pipeline capacity to get crude to market and concerns about high carbon emissions in the sector.
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Doing so would go a long way toward making its proclamations on sustainable foreign investment — including its pledge to control public investment flowing into high-carbon overseas projects — ring less hollow.
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Analysts at Refinitiv said they had also increased their forecasts as recent high carbon prices meant much of the possible fuel switching, from coal to gas plants had already taken place.
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Then, the scientists attempted to grow the potatoes in below-zero temperatures with high carbon monoxide conditions and air pressure similar to that found at almost 20,000 feet above sea level.
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Wheat grown at high carbon dioxide levels, for example, will offer 6-13% less protein, 4-83% less zinc and 5-8% less iron, according to experiments done with these plants.
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Hot-drop forged from high-carbon cutlery steel and then double-plated with chrome and nickel, these shears are ground and polished for a gorgeous yet durable appearance and sharp edges.
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Innovation can also help reduce emissions with designs for cars and buildings that contain less material with a high carbon footprint — such as steel, aluminium and cement — or that use recycled materials.
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Similarly, President Obama's early 2016 moratorium on future coal leases on federal lands is yet another sign that the struggle to phase out new high carbon energy projects has gained forward momentum.
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For slicing a crusty loaf of bread, nothing beats this MAC bread knife, with a super-hard, super-sharp blade made of high-carbon stain-resistant steel, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, and tungsten.
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Global producers are bailing on their oil sands investments due to higher development costs, limited export pipeline capacity to get crude to market and concerns about high carbon emissions in the sector.
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Aluminum smelting is an energy-intensive business and the market is starting to differentiate between "green" low-carbon metal, powered by hydro, and "black" high-carbon metal powered by fossil fuels, particularly coal.
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But the timescale of high carbon emissions during the PETM isn't well known: did all that methane gush skyward over the course of decades, or did it leak slowly for thousands of years?
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Aluminium smelting is an energy-intensive business and the market is starting to differentiate between "green" low-carbon metal, powered by hydro, and "black" high-carbon metal powered by fossil fuels, particularly coal.
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French nuclear safety watchdog ASN has asked EDF to test 12 reactors which could contain zones with high carbon concentration in their steam generator channel heads, which it said could weaken their resilience.
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Julius McGee, an assistant professor of sociology at Portland State University, said that organic farming had a high carbon footprint because it's been co-opted by industrial growers that supply big-box stores.
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When the high carbon dioxide levels in his blood began to affect his brain function, he kept hallucinating that he was pressing buttons on an iPad, trying and failing to submit inspection reports.
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IMPORT TAX Under this option, EU importers of steel, aluminium and other products with high carbon footprints would have to buy carbon allowances, as EU producers do under the EU Emissions Trading System.
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Its vast oil sands, which hold the third-largest crude reserves globally, have been blacklisted by environmentalists for high carbon emissions and many oil and gas workers feel unfairly targeted by foreign activists.
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Its vast oil sands, which hold the third-largest crude reserves globally, have been blacklisted by environmentalists for high carbon emissions and many oil and gas workers feel unfairly targeted by foreign activists.
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"There is no high-carbon growth story in anything like the medium or long term," he told business and government officials at an innovation forum held as part of London Climate Week events.
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ASN said earlier it agreed with EDF that some of the nuclear reactors whose steam generators have high carbon concentrations could be restarted, although the utility would have to carry out some extra tests.
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Oil refiners and gas producers could face higher production costs if countries use a high carbon price to follow through promises made at last year's global climate summit in Paris, research showed on Thursday.
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A movement known as "flight shaming" has gained traction, and Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg in August took a widely-followed boat ride across the Atlantic due to the high carbon impact of flying.
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The high carbon steel used in Japanese chef knives can be susceptible to rust when used with things like fresh fruit but in this case, the rust didn't settle in too deep on the steel.
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Trump said the US was dropping out of the climate accord because of high carbon-emission targets set by the Obama administration when it signed onto the deal two years ago, among other sticking points.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian ethanol exports to California have been boosted recently by high carbon credits prices in the Californian market, which led to premiums to cane-based ethanol, Brazil's Datagro consultancy said on Monday.
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"We are moving urgently to help countries make major transitions to increase sources of renewable energy, decrease high-carbon energy sources, develop green transport systems, and build sustainable, livable cities for growing urban populations," he added.
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When companies like Exxon, Shell and BP invest in extracting more fossil fuel out of the ground, they lock us into high-carbon infrastructure, and that drives more fossil fuel consumption — exactly what these companies want.
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"The nature of the football sector where teams regularly travel great distances for fixtures, in addition to having international playing staff and managers who frequently fly... is a recipe for a high carbon footprint," Welfle said.
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It's no surprise that foreign oil companies Statoil, Shell and ConocoPhillips have recently sold off their stakes in high-cost, high-carbon Canadian oil sands to Canadian interests, and that Chevron is considering to do the same.
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The high-carbon states -- centered on the Plains, the Mountain West and portions of the South -- tend to be more rural, more culturally traditional, less racially diverse and home to fewer immigrants than the low-carbon states.
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The study of spiny damselfish, a small species from Australia's Great Barrier Reef, found that those best able to tackle high carbon levels in the water produced offspring with flexible body clocks that helped adapt to acidification.
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Each knife he sells is custom-made from a choice of blades (French carbon steel or Swedish high carbon stainless steel) and handles (striped micarta — a composite of various materials sealed in a plastic resin — and wood).
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The cutter blade is made from hard high-carbon steel which you can use to slash through a jammed seatbelt, while either one of the two steel window punches can be useful when you need bash side windows.
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Why it matters, per Axios science editor Andrew Freedman: UNEP is the UN's primary environmental organization, and having a leader perceived to be jetting around the world — with a high carbon footprint — jeopardized the reputation of the agency.
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As we restructure our economy and society away from a high‐carbon economy and toward a more sustainable one, we should seize this opportunity to create the society that benefits all of us, as well as the planet.
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Increasing relative prices for high-carbon energy sources and goods will direct consumer behavior away from carbon-emitting energy and drive investment toward carbon-free alternatives–a concept that has been embraced by economists across the political spectrum.
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But if the US ever does get serious about mitigating climate change, those companies are going to be the ones caught with their pants down, holding a bunch of high-carbon assets that are destined to be stranded.
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Dalmia Cement, an Indian company that already produces a third less CO2 per tonne of cement than the industry as a whole, aims to use less high-carbon clinker in its cement and use only renewable energy by 2030.
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With their power reinforced by the filibuster rule that allows 41 senators to block any bill, those high-carbon states now constitute a seemingly impregnable brown barricade against federal legislation to reduce the carbon emissions linked to climate change.
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Senior leaders wanted the bank's energy lending strategy to reflect "a transition from a high-carbon to a low-carbon economy," said James Mahoney, who oversees public policy issues at the bank and worked on the new coal policy.
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"It's possible that a lot of that money could easily be poured into high-carbon industries, which will mean that we could actually end up compounding the climate crisis through how we address the COVID-19 outbreak," he warned.
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The college already has a livestock composting program — a method of processing animal remains with high-carbon material — and the Recomposition Center will initially involve cows from WSU's dairy school as well as pets from the veterinary medicine program.
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The 2016 target had already been cut twice this year due to low power prices and a string of nuclear reactor outages ordered by French nuclear regulator ASN following the discovery of high carbon concentrations, which could weaken their steel.
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Steel, cement and other heavy industries are also collaborating on technologies such as hydrogen to reduce their carbon footprints (though Eurofer, Europe's steel chamber, says that with high carbon prices they will struggle to find the investment to scale these up).
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About a third of EDF's nuclear reactors are closed for scheduled maintenance as well as safety checks after nuclear regulator ASN ordered additional inspections following the discovery of irregularities in manufacturing documentation and high carbon concentrations which could weaken steel resilience.
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The EU has concluded that palm oil is a high risk crop after finding that 45 percent of palm cultivation expansion during 2008-2015 took place in high carbon stock area, far higher compared to rival crops soybean and rapeseed.
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The report noted that putting in place the policies required to meet the 1.5 degree Celsius goal would mean countries that "were not participants in the past system of high carbon wealth creation will need help from those that were".
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ASN said in June that certain steam generator channel heads at the reactors could contain a zone comprising a high carbon concentration, which could weaken the mechanical resilience of the steel and its ability to resist the spreading of cracks.
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International public-private partnerships like the Global Cooling Prize mark an unprecedented opportunity to disrupt entrenched high-carbon industries, address the underlying drivers of exponential climate change and meet the public health and economic demands of a growing global middle class.
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"The bank has a responsibility to help mitigate climate change by leveraging our scale and resources to accelerate the transition from a high-carbon to a low-carbon society," Bank of America said in its coal policy in May 22016.
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" Biden promises to crack down on the climate destruction China is supporting through Belt and Road by restricting financing for high-carbon projects, pushing for a worldwide ban on fossil fuel subsidies, and publishing rankings reports that "name and shame global climate outlaws.
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"We are moving urgently to help countries make major transitions to increase sources of renewable energy, decrease high-carbon energy sources, develop green transport systems, and build sustainable, liveable cities for growing urban populations," said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim.
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French utility EDF said on Wednesday it would carry out more tests on 12 nuclear plants during planned outages this winter to check for high carbon concentrations in steam generator channel heads, which could weaken the ability of steel to prevent cracks spreading.
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ASN said it agreed with EDF that some nuclear reactors whose steam generators have high carbon concentrations could be restarted, although the utility would have to carry out extra tests and the restart of each individual reactor would be subject to ASN approval.
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Switching to clean energy sources such as solar and wind - which have become 80 percent and 40 percent cheaper respectively since 2008 – is crucial, as is avoiding the construction of new high-carbon infrastructure, such as coal-fired power plants, she said.
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Policymakers have also been too short-term in their thinking when it comes to setting industry goals, meaning that high-carbon assets in sectors like steel or coal could end up being "stranded" when policies are tightened in the future, it said.
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The buzz-phrase for this is "just transition" -- an idea developed by the trade union movement which aims to make the transition to a low carbon economy fair on those who otherwise stand to lose out, especially workers in high carbon industries.
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After inspecting the plant, OSHA found that employees were at risk not only due to the lack of safety guards, but also because of high carbon dioxide levels, and lack of training when it came to chemicals that are used as disinfectants.
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Environmentalists say it could leak and damage local water supplies, and they contend that the project would expand the extraction of oil sands, a heavy oil that has a relatively high carbon footprint because it requires extensive, energy-intensive processing and refining.
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ASN is checking 12 of the state-controlled utility's reactors after raising concerns that certain steam generator channel heads could contain a zone with a high carbon concentration, which could weaken the resilience of the steel and its ability to resist the spreading of cracks.
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Calphalon Classic Self-Sharpening Cutlery Set — $79.70 to $163 See Details Featuring a gray rubberwood block with that same self-sharpening technology, this 15-piece set includes 13 full-tang blades made from high-carbon stainless steel and a pair of durable kitchen shears.
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The aluminium market is rapidly evolving to a two-tier structure of "green" (low-carbon) metal and "black" (high-carbon) metal, partly because Western producers have discerned a way to differentiate their product from Chinese aluminium, much of which is made using coal power.
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The context: A paper published earlier this week in Nature Climate Change found that elevated levels of carbon dioxide may result in a decline in human nutrition by the middle of this century, based on observations of crops grown in high-carbon dioxide conditions.
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Saleemul Huq, director of the Dhaka-based International Centre for Climate Change and Development, said the time had come to consider new ways of organizing the international climate process to reduce its high carbon footprint and complex logistics, but still get the work done.
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What's more, The Times reported that the Trump administration might not include future high carbon emission scenarios (which are quite likely) in forthcoming climate reports, including the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment — a major report closely reviewed by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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"First, the concept of offsetting creates an illusion that high-carbon activities enjoyed by wealthier individuals can continue, by transferring the burden of action and sacrifice to others — generally those in the poorer nations in the southern hemisphere," wrote Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja in the Guardian.
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Earlier this year Thunberg, who does not fly on planes because of its high carbon emissions, sailed across the Atlantic Ocean for two weeks from southwest England to attend a climate conference in New York City, and meet politicians and fellow activists in North and South America.
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"The nature of the football sector is a recipe for a high carbon footprint, and when you take into consideration football fans also sometimes traveling by air, the impact will probably be several magnitudes bigger," said Andrew Welfle of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
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"On June 18, we plan to carry out nonviolent direct action to ensure Heathrow Authorities close the airport for the day, to create a 'pause' in recognition of the genocidal impact of high carbon activities, such as flying, upon the natural world," Extinction Rebellion said in a statement.
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His appointments to the key energy and climate-related positions all came from high-carbon states: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke of Montana (which ranks sixth in per capita carbon emissions); Energy Secretary Rick Perry of Texas (which ranks 12th); and, at the EPA, Pruitt from Oklahoma (which ranks 10th).
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The big picture: As more countries act to reduce carbon emissions, large institutional investors are becoming increasingly aware that high-carbon assets, such as oil firms and coal mines, may become worthless in the long run, driving them to dedicate a larger portion of their assets to renewable energy.
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"On June 18, we plan to carry out nonviolent direct action to ensure Heathrow Authorities close the airport for the day, to create a 'pause' in recognition of the genocidal impact of high carbon activities, such as flying, upon the natural world," Extinction Rebellion said in a statement late on Thursday.
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Britain needs a high carbon price to justify its investment in building new nuclear plants, which generate energy without producing CO2, and has imposed a carbon tax of 18.08 pounds ($24.77) per tonne that users must pay in addition to buying allowances on the EU ETS, around 5 euros a tonne.
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The only Democratic senators left from these 20 high-carbon states are Joe Manchin and Jon Tester, who won tough re-election campaigns in West Virginia and Montana, respectively; Doug Jones, who faces an uphill re-election in Alabama in 2020; and Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich in New Mexico.
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While his June 29th speech at the Department of Energy singled out prospects of selling LNG to South Korea, it did not mention exporting North American energy resources to China, which has a large and growing demand for cleaner energy to replace its unhealthy dependence on polluting high carbon coal.
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Many big luxury hotel brands, airlines and cruise ship companies — notorious for their oceanic waste and high carbon footprints — remain slow to curb unnecessary single-use plastics like bottles, slipper wrappers and plastic swabs that end up in the very oceans and beaches their guests travel across the world to experience.
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"China is cutting back on coal because of its lethal costs to human health as well as its high carbon emissions, and plans to transition to the energy sources of tomorrow, rather than yesterday," said Isabel Hilton, founder of Chinadialogue, a prominent website that reports on environmental issues and policy.
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And, she added, because the high carbon dioxide levels were found to affect the nose and at least two parts of the brain, adaptation would have to take place at multiple levels, which would make it hard to predict how the fish would adapt — if they even had time to do so.
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This Schmidt Brothers stainless steel knife block set This everyday knife set includes six high-carbon, stainless steel knives – a bread knife, carving knife, chef's knife, utility knife, santoku knife, and paring knife – that cover all the essentials in the kitchen, plus a sleek and secure magnetic knife block for easy access.
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After the COP25 climate conference had to relocate to Madrid because of protests in Santiago, Chile, Thunberg — who says she won't fly because of the high carbon emissions from air travel — put out a request on Twitter for help finding an alternate mode of transport, and found help from an Australian couple with a catamaran.
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And strengthening the region's natural gas energy infrastructure will do more to address climate change than all the petty lawsuits and attempts to gum up the regulatory process by environmentalists, who seem ignorant of the fact that an array of experts believe natural gas is the planet's best bridge between high-carbon energy sources and a no-carbon future.
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Williams-Sonoma) This six-piece set is essential for someone who cooks regularly (I recently bought a similar set from Wusthof, and it's made all the difference in my food prep.) These durable knives feature blades stamped from high-carbon stainless steel, that have been ice-hardened for strength and hand honed for long-lasting sharpness.
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But even if Democrats can oust Trump in 2020, the high-carbon blockade in the Senate looms as an enduring challenge for any federal legislation to confront climate change, such as a "cap and trade" program, a tax on such pollution or federal requirements on states to generate more of their power from renewable clean-energy sources.
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Kozarcanin and his team used six different climate models to investigate three different futures: one where the world sticks to the Paris climate agreement that allows temperatures to climb only 1.5 degrees Celsius; one where high carbon taxes help rein in emissions to a lesser degree; and the nightmarish, business-as-usual scenario where we continue pumping out fossil fuel emissions unchecked.
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Number of miles between the conference&aposs original location, Santiago, Chile, and Madrid: 6,646 (On November 1, the UN moved the conference to avoid protests and riots at the Chilean capital.)Number of boat trips Thunberg took across the Atlantic Ocean to get to COP25: 2 (The last-minute move left the teen activist, who refuses to fly due to planes&apos high carbon emissions, scrambling to get a boatride back to Europe.
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I think it already is a huge problem… We are seeing this with some of the mass killers in Christchurch and also in El Paso, where in his manifesto he says that Americans aren't going to change their way of life, and the planet can't handle it if other people have the American way of life, so he's specifically saying you can't have immigration because Americans have to hoard their high-carbon lifestyle for themselves.
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OSLO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Norsk Hydro Chief Executive Officer Svein Richard Brandtzaeg made the following comments during a strategy update in London on Thursday: ** With a strong balance sheet we can make countercyclical investments ** We see (merger and acquisition) opportunities along the whole value chain ** But our ambition is not to be the biggest (aluminium maker) in the world but rather the most profitable one ... there are some (M&A) opportunities ** Says has little or no appetite for buying older, energy-intensive smelters with high carbon emissions ** Keeps options open on the future of Sapa joint venture; may buy Orkla's stake but could also sell through an initial public offering or choose to end up as a minority shareholder (Reporting by Terje Solsvik, editing by Stine Jacobsen)
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