Faced with these competitive pressures, BASF may make the best of a bad situation by buying and selling the right to emit carbon from one of several new European markets.
The spawning process takes about 45 minutes, during which a female will emit anywhere from 10, 000 to around 60m eggs, only a small fraction of which will be lucky enough to meet their mates.
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The permits for big firms to emit CO2 will be auctioned from 2013 (at the moment, they are given away).
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Germany promises neither to increase imports from nuclear neighbours nor to emit more greenhouse gases than planned.
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Fuel cell electric vehicles generate their power from hydrogen and oxygen, and emit only water.
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Most of the demand growth will come from natural gas-fired power plants, which emit 60% less carbon than coal burners.
But LEDs are made from a semiconductor material, and are able to emit much more light for the same amount of electricity.
It was later discovered that the radiation was coming from its cargo of clay tiles, which naturally emit low levels of the stuff.
Properly seasoned cast iron will provide much the same results but without leaching out the perfluorochemicals non-stick surfaces are made from or the toxic fumes that studies have shown hot non-stick cookware can emit.
Six ocean kayakers will switch off paddling kayaks mere inches from Nyad's side throughout the journey, towing underneath them electronic Shark Shields that emit a harmless but annoying electrical impulse that repels most species of sharks.
They'll need to discuss how the 2015 deal can bring all countries into a new agreement that will eventually regulate emissions from all countries, yet contains the principle of equity at its heart, allowing poor countries room to emit carbon as they develop.
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