Sentences with phrase «co2 equivalent emissions»

The true result: Germany managed to cut its CO2 equivalent emissions, but the net result is most likely greater overall CO2 emissions.

This budget is an upper limit on total human CO2 equivalent emissions from the beginning of the industrial revolution until the day we stop burning carbon.

Under a business - as - usual scenario that includes rules already passed at the federal level, HFCs are forecast to contribute 71 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions annually in the state by 2030.

But Die Welt's Wetzel notes that doing so would mean Germany cutting it's CO2 equivalent emissions by some 40 %, or 350 million tonnes, within the next 12 years.

EIA International Climate Policy Analyst, Avipsa Mahapatra, adds, «As developing countries like India and Brazil begin to transition from using ozone depleting substances, they have the tremendous opportunity to leapfrog high - GWP HFCs by transitioning to energy efficient climate - friendly natural refrigerants, thus saving billions of tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions.

Not only will hydrocarbon units help mitigate millions of tons of CO2 equivalent emissions, they will also alleviate the strain of high utility bills, as these units show energy efficiency improvements of 30 to 60 percent greater than traditional HFC units.

Germany's CO2 equivalent emissions revised upward for 2016.

All told, those moves have reduced my CO2 equivalent emissions by 8 tons / yr.

The difference between the harmonized and unharmonized scenarios for cumulative emissions over the 2000 — 2050 period in total CO2 equivalent emissions is expected to be 1 to 2 %, except for the RCP6 scenario, which has a difference of 5 % (Meinshausen et al. 2011b).

CH4 constituted the majority of CO2 equivalent emissions from reservoirs, and the per area reservoir CH4 fluxes reported in this synthesis are higher than per area fluxes for any other aquatic ecosystem (table 1).

Today we are already in the process to trigger a large scale climate change because of the quantities of CO2 equivalent emissions released and what is projected under business as usual scenarios.

«Washing Hands in Hot Water Wastes Energy, Study Says --» Although the choice of water temperature during a single hand wash may appear trivial, when multiplied by the nearly 800 billion hand washes performed by Americans each year, this practice results in more than 6 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions annually.»»

Starting in July 2008, that price was C$ 10 per tonne of CO2 equivalent emissions, designed to increase by C$ 5 / tonne annually until 2012, when it will hit C$ 30 / tonne.

In the agricultural sector, most of the approximately 5 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions are from methane and nitrous oxide rather than carbon dioxide.

Tank - to - wheel CO2 equivalent emissions of 684.9 g / km are 37 % lower than those of a conventional Euro VI diesel bus, making the Enviro400H with Series - E technology an Ultra Low Emission Bus and qualifying it for funding from the Department for Transport's ongoing # 48 - million Ultra Low Emission Bus Scheme.

The stakes for full implementation are high — the agreement is expected to prevent up to 80 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions by 2050, which could prevent up to 0.5 degrees Celsius in warming.

Can anyone demonstrate that certain CO2 equivalent emission (of traveling by plain or by car) increases that correspondant decimal in the global temperature?.

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Additionally, global kerosene use has been estimated to emit up to 200 million tons of CO2 annually, which is the equivalent of emissions from approximately 60 large U.S. coal plants, heightening the need to develop sustainable alternatives.

The equivalent CO2 emission of Mr. Nguyen's car was 222 g / km, which is in the CEVS surcharge band,» says the LTA spokesperson.

Driving an equivalent gas - powered car like the Mercedes S - Class S 500 results in emissions of approximately 200 g CO2 / km,» says Tesla.

According to Professor Nick Hewitt of the Lancaster Environment Centre, 40 million tons of CO2 is «equivalent to a 50 per cent reduction in current exhaust pipe emissions of CO2 from the entire UK passenger car fleet».

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the US would reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France.

International nonprofit GRAIN has revealed that the world's top 10 dairy companies emitted roughly 231Mt (million tons) of CO2 in 2016, the equivalent of half of France's total GHG footprint and a quarter of the emissions emitted by Germany.

Just by changing the way we farm, by stopping deep tilling, mono - cropping, and chemical fertilizer use — the Climate Collaborative estimates regenerative carbon farming practices could mitigate as much as 4 billion to 6 billion tons of CO2 equivalents a year or 10 percent to 12 percent of global human - caused emissions.

The total emissions for the Lincoln Park project during the course of the year is 30,272 metric tons CO2 equivalent, about equal to the annual emissions from all households in the Town of Ulster, or 1.5 % of all Ulster County emissions.

The party forecasts the equivalent of 9.3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year being cut in reductions to greenhouse gases by 2020.

That is the message of new research that has quantified CO2 emissions from the Harbour for the first time — found to be 1000 tonnes annually — equivalent to the pollution from about 200 cars.

«Sydney Harbor emissions equivalent to 200 cars on the roads: Journal publishes 1st CO2 footprint of growing megacity icon on World Environment Day.»

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

Comprehensive statistics on the system won't be available till Fall, but ITDP said that according to an accounting method being developed by the U.N. Environment Programme, Guangzhou's BRT reduces about 20,000 tons of CO2 a year — the equivalent of the emissions from about 4,000 cars in the United States.

Ultimately, the EPA estimates that the rules will reduce CO2 emissions by nearly one billion metric tons, or roughly equivalent to taking 30 million cars and light trucks off the roads.

They currently contribute about 0.5 gigatonnes of CO2 - equivalent emissions per year.

On top of all this, Azolla has the capacity to trap an astounding amount of carbon, at maximum rates sequestering 60 tons a year of CO2 per hectare, equivalent to the emissions of almost two hours of flight by a Boeing 747.

Together, the two sites will pump more than 3.5 million tons underground of total captured CO2, the equivalent of the annual emissions of roughly 600,000 automobiles.

As supercritical technology becomes more mainstream and power generators normally improve on the efficiency of even their oldest plants over the course of operations, the loophole allows plants requesting CDM credits to exaggerate the calculated emissions avoided by millions of tons of CO2 - equivalent gases, the panel warns.

Prices have fluctuated since trading began, but CERs have historically traded in a range between $ 10 to $ 14 per metric ton of CO2 - equivalent emissions reductions.

At present, nations report methane emissions in terms of CO2 equivalents, using GWP100 as the conversion factor.

What we need are the kinds of policy incentives that are equivalent to air mail,» such as a cost for CO2 emissions and a subsidy for captured and stored CO2.

That's equivalent to a 10 per cent rise over what the CO2 level would otherwise have been — small compared to the effect of today's human emissions of around 120 parts per million, but perhaps enough to trigger local change.

Urban areas and their aging natural gas pipes and valves are also responsible for a lot of methane emissions, which is about 35 times as potent as a greenhouse gas over the span of 100 years and makes up about 10 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in terms of CO2 equivalents.

Building a huge solar power plant and then saying that «offsets» CO2 emissions from a coal - fired plant is nonsense — the only way to offset CO2 emissions is to bury an equivalent amount of carbon in the ground, permanently.

Goat farming in Europe is responsible for more than 1.4 tonnes CO2 equivalent per year, so replication of the project could have a significant impact on this major source of emissions.

This scenario would change if there were a significant tax on carbon emissions, or if an equivalent economic penalty were imposed on fossil - fueled plants through a cap on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions or a requirement that CO2 be sequestered.

More than a third of the EU's 2020 climate target will be delivered by cities, equivalent to 240 million tonnes of CO2 emission reductions (JRC, 2016).

Help reduce agriculture - related greenhouse gas emissions in rice - based farming systems by at least 28.4 megatons carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent / year by 2022 and by a further 28.4 megatons CO2 equivalent / year by 2030, compared to business - as - usual scenarios.

The amount of CO2 emitted from fires in the US is equivalent to 4 — 6 % of anthropogenic emissions at the continental scale and, at the state - level, fire emissions of CO2 can, in some cases, exceed annual emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel usage...

Over what time period might this savannization process release carbon «equivalent to several years of worldwide carbon emissions», and how does that affect the assessment offered by Gore, Hansen and others that we have perhaps ten years in which to substantially reduce CO2 emissions to avoid irreversible catastrophic warming?

Ian Plimer in another contrarian tome included some even more made up facts: «massive volcanic eruptions (e.g. Pinatubo) emit the equivalent of a years» human CO2 emissions in a few days» (p472) and «Volcanoes produce more CO2 then the world's cars and industries combined» (p413).

The fifth IPCC assessment Summary for Policymakers [14] concludes that to achieve a 50 % chance of keeping global warming below 2 °C equivalent CO2 emissions should not exceed 1210 GtC, and after accounting for non-CO2 climate forcings this limit on CO2 emissions becomes 840 GtC.