Sentences with phrase «ghg emissions estimates»

Consequently, GHG emissions estimates do not currently appear on the front page of flight search - engine results.

Full - fuel - cycle GHG emissions estimates for reformulated gasoline pathways by LCA study.

Despite the considerable uncertainty associated with the reservoir - specific GHG emission estimates synthesized here, we argue that these data provide a low - end estimate of global emissions.

Not exact matches

Mascarenhas estimates that applying her company's technology to the methane that's currently vented or flared could reduce Alberta's GHG emissions by 60 megatonnes — 35 % of Canada's 2020 reduction goal — at a cost of less than $ 1.70 per tonne.

Drawdown estimates that over the next three decades, solar energy could save some $ 3.4 trillion beyond dramatically reducing GHG emissions.

Comprehensive studies that account for both direct and indirect emissions estimate that over 50 % of global GHG emissions come from raising livestock.

Walmart does not disclose GHG emissions from its international marine shipping activities; it does estimate emissions from all «upstream transportation and distribution» — which includes marine shipping, trucking, air freight and rail freight — in its 2014 Carbon Disclosure Project report.

For Renewable Energy Investments, avoided greenhouse gas emissions were estimated using the approach outlined in the WRI GHG Protocol's Project Protocol.

If we put a price on those emissions of $ 50 - 200 per tonne, reflecting some recent estimates of the external costs of carbon emissions, we get a range of $ 4 - 20 billion in environmental costs just from GHG emissions.

NEC collected or estimated megawatt hour («MWh») generation data for each portfolio project and used region - specific eGRID emissions factors maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to determine the greenhouse gas («GHG») intensity of each MWh offset by its investments.

Marc's conservative estimate is that new oil sands production associated with the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (just the expansion beyond the existing pipeline) would represent an additional 93 megatonnes of global GHG emissions per year.

The global dairy sector contributes 4 % to global GHG emissions with an estimated 2.7 % coming from global milk production, processing, and transportation, according to a report conducted by the FAO in 2007.

Estimates of GHG emissions do not include additional «lifecycle» emissions related to transportation, such as the extraction and refining of fuel and the manufacture of vehicles, which are also a significant source of domestic and international GHG emissions.

Reductions in future GHG emissions are estimated under specific assumptions about growth in light - duty vehicle travel and the replacement of gasoline by various other fuels, both in the near term (10 years) and over the longer term (25 years).

Evea study estimates 69 % reduction in GHG emissions for Global Bioenergies» fully renewable ETBE compared to fossil gasoline

Research studies like these will add to our knowledge base of GHG emissions and will help us refine our estimates going forward.

So, even conservative estimates of committed warming indicate that we have to urgently reduce radiative forcing, in other words peak global GHG emissions as soon as possible and then reduce them as quickly as possible by reducing our use of fossil fuels drastically, if we want to have a chance at keeping warming under 2C.

The idea behind the new paper my co-author Rob Socolow and I have written is that it's possible to estimate future GHG emissions that are locked - in by all the existing fossil infrastructure, what we call «committed emissions.»

If we cut to the basics, these are the parameters that are really important for estimating the consequences of man's GHG emissions, and therefore for informing optimal policy:

This warming comes on top of an estimated 0.45 C warming which may have already occurred due to past GHG emissions.

Since, the solar power is Green House Gas (GHG) emissions free, the power generated will replace anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases estimated to be approximately 93,022 tonnes of CO2e per year, thereon displacing 95,145 MWh / year amount of electricity from the generation - mix of power plants connected to the INDIAN GRID, which is mainly dominated by fossil fuel based power plant.

By reducing an estimated five percent of GHG emissions, net savings from GGBP is projected to result in as much as $ 7 billion.

The combined non-CO2 GHG reduction potential for these sources is estimated at nearly 300 million metric tonnes (330 million U.S. tons) of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030 — more than the Netherlands» total annual GHG emissions.

A range of future SLR is estimated from a set of climate simulations governed by lower (B1), middle — upper (A2), and higher (A1fi) GHG emission scenarios.

I am trying to make the point that estimating the global economic impact of global warming GHG emissions and mitigation policies is extremely important.

I am trying to make the point that estimating the global economic impact of global warming GHG emissions and mitigation policies is critically important for justifying public expenditure on policies.

In a new, comprehensive study, a team from Argonne National Laboratory, Stanford University and UC Davis ITS has estimated the well - to - wheels (WTW) GHG emissions of US production of gasoline and diesel sourced from Canadian oil sands.

The energy system reference cases used for future greenhouse gas (GHG) emission pathways in climate change research are a case in point: baseline emission scenarios commonly project levels of coal combustion many times higher than current reserve estimates by the year 2100.

IPCC - 37: IPCC 37 will consider two methodology reports: the «2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands»; and the good practice guidance on estimating GHG emissions and removals from land use, land - use change and forestry under the Kyoto Protocol.

This chart uses historical GHG emissions data and the targets and timetables in submitted pre-2020 pledges (for 2020 reductions) and INDCs to estimate the average annual change in emissions (decarbonization rate) from 2020 - 2030.

As Gavin Schmidt has (reasonably in this case) observed in connection with Hansen's Scenario A, the ability to forecast future emissions is unrelated to the evaluation of the efficacy of a model's ability to estimate temperature given GHG levels.

Its overall goal is to provide estimates of GHG emissions associated with milk production and processing for main regions and farming systems of the world.

And the longer this «pause» in warming continues while GHG emissions continue unabated, the more «uncertain» become the model - based attribution estimates of IPCC and, hence, the projections for the future.

the estimated effect of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline on the U.S. GHG footprint would be an increase of 3 million to 21 million metric tons of GHG emissions annually (equal to the annual GHG emissions from the combustion of fuels in approximately 588,000 to 4,061,000 passenger vehicles)

This estimate means that the Methane Clathrate Gun, which went off in 2008, and has grown to 24ppb per year from 2013 - 2014 puts the Methane GHG equivalent equal to the entire CO2 worldswide emission!!

«EPA is aware of methane studies that result in estimates of national methane emissions that differ from EPA's estimates, and is interested in feedback on how information from such studies can be used to improve U.S. GHG [greenhouse gas] Inventory estimates,» the agency said in a statement.

That is what is needed to get an acceptable estimate of the true economic impact of GHG emissions (positive or negative).

Given current uncertainties, our global - scale estimate of reservoir GHG flux does not account for ice cover, but see the supplemental materials for an estimate of the extent to which ice cover could reduce annual - scale emissions (assuming no turnover emissions).

We estimate that GHG emissions from reservoir water surfaces account for 0.8 (0.5 — 1.2) Pg CO2 equivalents per year, with the majority of this forcing due to CH4.

Fred, this number seems to have come from climate4you, where unfortunately for Norm, it is an estimate based on just the IR window region, so it takes no account of GHG emissions that change OLR over time.

The flux estimates presented in previous sections use available estimates from every reservoir where GHG emissions have been reported (and mean estimates from reservoirs where multiple studies or years of data have been collected), but it is important to note that the spatial and temporal coverage of these emission estimates are highly variable.

Here, we synthesize reservoir CH4, CO2, and N2O emission data with three main objectives: (1) to generate a global estimate of GHG emissions from reservoirs, (2) to identify the best predictors of these emissions, and (3) to consider the effect of methodology on emission estimates.

The estimate of global reservoir GHG emissions presented here is calculated on the basis of the product of bootstrapped estimates of mean areal GHG fluxes and best estimates of global reservoir surface area (as was done in a recent estimate of global methane emissions from streams and rivers, Stanley et al. 2016).

Of the GHG estimates synthesized here, less than 25 %, 3 %, and 26 % of temperate reservoir CH4, CO2, and N2O emission estimates covered 6 months or more of the year.

To find an estimate for global CO2 and GHG emissions, and / or estimates for the shares of Annex I and non-Annex I Parties in global emissions

The UNFCCC secretariat does not make estimates of global CO2 and GHG emissions, because the requirements for reporting GHG data are different for Annex I and non-Annex I Parties.

According to FAO, the FAOSTAT Emissions Land Use database provides country - level estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions based on FAOSTAT activity data using Tier 1 computations, following 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National GHG InvEmissions Land Use database provides country - level estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions based on FAOSTAT activity data using Tier 1 computations, following 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National GHG Invemissions based on FAOSTAT activity data using Tier 1 computations, following 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National GHG Inventories.

My understanding (perhaps misunderstanding) is that the Anthoff, Nichols and Tol paper is estimating the cost of sea level rise, not sea level rise attributable to human caused GHG emissions and not attempting to say how much sea level rise could be avoided by GHG mitigation policies (I suspect virtually none of it).

• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.

Without a sound estimate of costs and benefits of policy options (including the do nothing option), there can be no valid justification for governments implementing policies to mitigate GHG emissions.