Sentences with phrase «total global carbon dioxide emissions»

«Peatlands in Malaysia and Indonesia store around 70 gigatons of carbon — if all of this were oxidized, it would be equivalent to seven years of total global carbon dioxide emissions at the current rate.»

Those emissions are dwarfed by others sources on the global scale, such as cars and power plants, amounting to just 5 percent of total global carbon dioxide emissions.

Total global carbon dioxide emissions could see a boost as flight times increase in the stronger winds.

Not exact matches

Even if the ambitious targets of the world's biggest economies are met, and internal combustion engines give way to electric or other zero - emission vehicles by 2040, the total impact on global carbon dioxide emissions will be minimal, according to a new study released Tuesday.

Methane gas is second behind carbon dioxide in contributing to the greenhouse effect and global warming; cow flatulence and excretion account for 20 percent, or 100 million tons, of the total annual global methane emissions.

«It only makes up 9 % of total greenhouse gas emissions, but it's got 300 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide», says Prof Richardson.

Forests and other land vegetation currently remove up to 30 percent of human carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere during photosynthesis, but thanks to this latest study, experts now know that we have tropical forests to thank for a great deal of this work - absorbing a whopping 1.4 billion metric tons of CO2 out of a total total global absorption of 2.5 billion metric tons.

Global vegetation fire emissions typically constitute a third of total releases of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission, annually (1).

Carbon dioxide emissions pathways defined in, or derived from, the original set of Representative Concentration pathways (RCPs), for the global total carbon dioxide emissions as well as for the carbon dioxide emissions attributable to U.S. electricity production.

Agriculture has become a major emitter of greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide — which are now responsible for 19 % of total global emissions.

«Oil Giants Call for Global Carbon Pollution Fees --» Six major European oil companies are asking the United Nations to help impose carbon dioxide emissions pricing in all countries... the letter was signed by representatives of the United Kingdom's BG Group and BP, Italy's Eni, the UK - Netherlands's Royal Dutch Shell, Norway's Statoil and France's Total.»»

Aviation accounts for about 2 % of total carbon dioxide (CO2) global emissions.

Wasdell said that the draft submitted by scientists contained a metric projecting cumulative total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, on the basis of which a «carbon budget» was estimated — the quantity of carbon that could be safely emitted without breaching the 2 degrees Celsius limit to avoid dangerous global warming.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions for 1990 at 39.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, suggesting that the Nigerian emissions may have represented approximately 0.09 % of the total in terms of CO2 and 0.76 % of the total in terms of methane, using the IPCCs 100 - year global warming potential for methane of 25.

In its report, Ford estimated that yearly greenhouse gas emissions from its vehicles and manufacturing plants totaled the equivalent of 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, which scientists have identified as one of the leading man - made causes of global climate change.

Assuming the IPCC's value for climate sensitivity (i.e. disregarding the recent scientific literature) and completely stopping all carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between now and the year 2050 and keeping them at zero, will only reduce the amount of global warming by just over a tenth of a degree (out of a total projected rise of 2.619 °C between 2010 and 2100).

While methane and nitrous oxide make up much smaller portions of total greenhouse gas emissions, these gases are still important factors in the climate crisis, in part because they each have stronger global warming effects than carbon dioxide and also because they constitute an increasing portion of total emissions.

Cities account for 75 % of global greenhouse gas emissions, and in Seoul, buildings are responsible for 68 % of the city's total carbon dioxide emissions.

Unfortunately, coal combustion is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions as well, accounting for 30 % of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions worldwide, and 72 % of CO2 emissions from global power generation.

Even if global emissions from agriculture are 30 %, the industrialized world emits 72 % of total carbon dioxide emissions, so why should developing countries mitigate?