These companies aim to produce biofuels from renewable non-food sources, with lower carbon emissions to boot.
However, environmentalists believe the grid still represents one of our best hopes for a lower carbon future.
There are a growing number of funds and indexes focusing on clean energy and lower carbon companies.
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After legislation due by Christmas, Australia will at last start taking action in 2012 to lower carbon emissions.
Yet the benefits also promise to be huge: power savings, reduced investment in electricity generation and lower carbon emissions.
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The significantly lower carbon cost of the Vancouver Olympics is in part due to their easy access to hydroelectric power.
According to reports, no coal plants have been de-commissioned in northern Europe rendering the claim of lower carbon dioxide emissions questionable.
If our great goal is to move American transportation toward lower carbon emissions, then it should start with the federal fleet.
Across all sectors of the economy, decreasing consumption of carbon-emitting fossil fuels resulted in both a lower carbon intensity and lower absolute emissions.
Many industrialized nations are trying to use less coal, oil and natural gas to lower carbon dioxide levels, which is warming the atmosphere and changing the Earth's climate.
We know where we need to head: in the direction of a lower carbon economy that delivers sustainable prosperity for a planet that will have 9 billion people by the middle of the century.
Incentives to promote energy efficiency and clean energy manufacturing don't automatically create jobs or lower carbon emissions -- but these steps provide a framework in which companies can compete and innovate to create those jobs and reduce energy consumption.
Why is it, I asked, have the power firms meekly accepted the government's requirement to deliver Whitehall policy on the shift to lower carbon and renewable power, while funding energy efficiency measures, smart metering and the social tariffs that support poorer customers?
Carmakers quickly refocused their manufacturing efforts towards so-called crossover vehicles or compact sports utility vehicles (SUVs) which combine the looks and high-riding positions of full-size SUVs with the better handling, the lower carbon dioxide emissions and the improved fuel economy of ordinary cars.
Using natural gas has a huge upside from the lower carbon emissions, limiting the amount of oil we buy from countries that do not like us and most of all jobs will be created from building Nat Gas refueling station across the country and from new orders for Nat Gas powered vehicles.
As long as a proper cap is in place that creates a value for environmental scarcity, carbon trading can be very effective in redirecting investments towards lower-carbon activities and in making human behavior more environmentally sustainable.
Fewer herbicide applications mean fewer tractor trips across the field, less fuel consumed and lower overall carbon emissions.
The Tajik effort aims to create smaller-scale, lower-carbon centers and then to build these centers alongside schools, hospitals, and small to mid sized farms.
Lower gas prices will increase energy consumption and displace some lower-carbon nuclear power and renewables, but will also squeeze out some dirty coal and oil.
Investors are filing dozens of shareholder resolutions with U.S. companies every year calling for action on strategies that lower their carbon emissions and boost their clean energy efforts.
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Some applaud it as a lower-carbon source of electricity.
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The new regulations in Massachusetts, which will take effect in June, will promote smaller and more efficient combined-heat-and-power biomass facilities that require less fuel and have lower net carbon dioxide emissions over time.
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From Atkins' vantage point, even if the energy bill dies in the Senate (as some predict it may), her company is positioned to reap the benefits of the transition away from fossil fuels and toward a lower-carbon economy.
The rule, which operates under the Clean Air Act, does not stipulate a lower level of carbon output.
This could be done unilaterally by the United States at much lower cost than cutting carbon emissions.
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Health care has a mission-related imperative to lower its own extensive carbon footprint and lead the effort to a secure and sustainable energy economy.
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And raising that discount rate really does lower that social cost of carbon emissions.
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Thus raise taxes on carbon emissions but lower them on something else: exactly what Australia did.
In fact, in my native UK, the numbers are such that the correct carbon tax would lower the price of gas.
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Our government must also level the playing field for all alcohol fuels that break the monopoly of gasoline, to lower both gasoline prices and carbon emissions.
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