How to Use emission in a Sentence

emission

noun

• That's about four times the total emissions of the transportation sector as of 2021.
  — Kelly Livingston, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2024
• Since 2005, most U.S. states have witnessed a decline in these emissions.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2023
• At a time when the world needs to be reducing emissions, the numbers continue to climb.
  — Hannah Ritchie, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2024
• However, much more than that will be needed for the world to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
  — Matthias Mueller, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2023
• This emissions reduction would still lead to a loss of 15 percent of the Tibetan plateau’s snowpack by the end of the century.
  — WIRED, 23 Oct. 2023
• But, if things shift to the highest emissions scenario, the Arctic could be ice-free for up to nine months late this century.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
• Even if humans turned off the CO2 spigot today, the emissions already in the system would continue to warm the world for decades.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 21 July 2023
• Rather, Harrison argues, the aim is to buy time while countries bring emissions down.
  — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
• After three long years of delays due to emission standards the Emira made its stateside last month.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
• And yet, global greenhouse gas emissions continued to grow over the past year, the new UNEP report says.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2023
• The researchers also found that the fires spread more quickly because of drought and heat amplified by greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2023
• So, things that affect those emissions will affect climate.
  — CBS News, 9 July 2023
• After all, there are tailpipe emissions to consider when sitting and waiting for a drive-thru order.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2024
• To accomplish that goal, GM must find ways to appeal to those customers for whom emissions are not the highest priority.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
• Plus, the current food system contributes 20 to 40 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 12 June 2023
• But a bus fueled by green hydrogen would have about half the total emissions of a typical battery-electric bus run on a mixed grid.
  — Kristel Tjandra, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
• Patagonia Mayor Andrea Wood said the town does not support the permit, noting its lack of emissions data.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
• But the real work of reducing emissions, and actually delivering on the aims of these agreements, is still to come.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2023
• The state is in its second year of a $54 billion climate initiative aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and extreme heat, fires, and floods.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2023
• Major shippers are testing sails in efforts to save fuel and reduce emissions.
  — Danny Lewis, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2023
• But that remains far from reach: While U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have dipped in recent decades, global emissions continue to rise.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• The reason for this is the substantial greenhouse gas emissions generated in the manufacture of an EV.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 11 Feb. 2024
• In New Zealand, the new government of the farmer-friendly National Party proposed to delay what was set to be the world’s first ever farm emissions tax until 2030.
  — Nayla Razzouk, Fortune Europe, 13 Feb. 2024
• It would be repackaged and loaded on a truck and possibly a plane to be sent to the manufacturer, leading to more carbon dioxide emissions.
  — Simone Peinkofer, Fortune, 14 June 2023
• What was surprising is that more than 80 percent of those emissions were due to soil oxidation, while burning made up less than two percent.
  — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• The addition of all-electric cranes is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 69 metric tons to about 22 metric tons.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
• Food systems, however, account for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Nancy Vu, Washington Examiner, 11 Dec. 2023
• Adams is actively trying to let landlords off the hook for reducing building emissions.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
• Key questions remain unanswered, including how much melt our emissions to date will cause and how fast it is expected to happen.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023
• Appetite for carbon offsets soared in 2021, amid a wave of government and corporate pledges to trim emissions and head off global warming.
  — Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024