Sentences with phrase «about total emissions»

All other major players who have proposed targets have talked about total emissions, not intensity, which indexes emissions relative to economic growth.

Not exact matches

Greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry currently total about as much as those of Germany, not a small amount, and experts say that sum will grow as the world becomes even more mobile.

The oilsands will be limited to a total of 100 megatonnes of emissions — about 30 megatonnes more than the industry now emits.

Heavy traffic is responsible for about a third of Beijing's total emissions of harmful breathable particles known as PM2.5, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

According to one Pembina Institute report, using data compiled by Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada, buildings account for about 11 per cent of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2011, farms were responsible for about 13 percent of total global 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.

In 2016, the latest year for which data is available, fossil fuel - generated power and transportation each supplied about 34 percent of total U.S. CO2 emissions, according to the annual EPA report.

The U.S. pledged to reduce its total CO2 emissions about 26 - 28 percent by 2025, in comparison to 2005 levels.

For example, because rickshaws have less mass and smaller engines, their CO2 emissions are about one third those of private cars, the latter of which consequently contribute as much as 90 percent of India's total urban road passenger transport emissions.

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

Ink accounted for about 1 percent of the total greenhouse - gas emissions for both products.

Alaska composes about one percent of Earth's total land area, and its estimated annual emissions in 2012 equaled about one percent of total global methane emissions.

That's about one - eighth of the country's total annual CO2 emissions.

Production of organic corn resulted in the greatest nitrous oxide emissions and represented about 8 % of total GHG emission; corn also had the highest carbon dioxide emissions per hectare.

Total annual production emissions, averaged over five years, would equal about 100 grams of carbon dioxide per megajoule — which is 7 percent greater than gasoline emissions and 62 grams above the 60 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.

That would represent a drop of only about 2.6 percent of total U.S. emissions.

Greenhouse impact In 2011 U.S. ammonia - producing facilities released 25 million tons of greenhouse gases (nearly all of it CO2)-- just under 14 percent of the chemical - manufacturing sector's total carbon footprint (and about 0.1 percent of total U.S. emissions).

The researchers found that reforesting topsoils across the country are currently adding 13 million to 21 million metric tons (13 - 21 teragrams) of carbon each year, an amount equivalent to about 10 percent of the total U.S. forest - sector carbon sink and offsetting about 1 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Cars and light trucks that use gasoline account for about 17 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to the EPA.

Individual cows can produce up to 500 liters of methane a day; the species accounts for about one - third of total methane emissions.

• About 20 percent of total current carbon emissions comes from land - use change.

The food system contributes about 30 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, with the largest proportion coming from animal - based food.

Its plain wording about reducing «the vast part» of emissions means, on any straightforward reading, that the total emissions are now vastly smaller than they were before.

Taken together, he explained, emissions from the aviation and shipping industries represent about 5 percent of humanity's total emissions — the approximate equivalent of the collective carbon footprint from the planet's least - polluting 164 nations, he explained.

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

We have a total of 500 climate laws that cover about 90 per cent of emissions.

By comparison, scenarios for fossil fuel emissions for the 21st century range from about 600 billion tons (if we can keep total global emissions at current levels) to over 2500 billion tons if the world increases its reliance on combustion of coal as economic growth and population increase dramatically.

The Summary for Policymakers states that taking into account additional warming factors, the amount of carbon that can be released through carbon dioxide emissions — in total — comes down to about 800 billion tonnes.

Facilities in the United States and Europe account for 11 percent and 9 percent of those emissions, respectively, while India makes up about 8 percent of the total.

Agriculture and land use change contributed about 1/3 of total human greenhouse gas emissions in the past decade, through crop cultivation, animal production, and deforestation.

The most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, released last week, show that as the number of such facilities have increased in the U.S. between 2011 and 2014, total greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas operations have risen by about 6.2 percent.

Since non-domestic buildings are responsible for about 20 per cent of total UK CO2 emissions, according to leading authority on the built environment BRE, it's good PR to be seen to be doing something to improve that statistic.

Conditional contributions represent about 25 % of the total range of emission reductions.

Aviation accounts for about 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from transportation in the U.S., or about 2.7 percent of total national greenhouse gas emissions.

Making an exception here, one thing that the OCO - 2 data «means» is that in about a single year 3 small regions on this planet can add the Equivalent of 63 % of the total annual man - made GHG emissions to the atmosphere in one go!

Doubling the total to 20 million tons to account for the correction by Miller et al and livestock accounts for about 40 percent of methane emissions.

After that, emissions taper to zero — they must — CO2 concentrations go asymptotically to what corresponds to about half the total ever emitted — the other half going into the ocean and biosphere — and temps go asymptotically to the long - term equilibrium value for that concentration.

At that point, in about 1,000 years, ~ 20 % of our total emissions would remain in the atmosphere, although that ~ 20 % figure for the remnant does creep up as the quantity of CO2 we release gets bigger.

Hence, we get a strong idea of total methane emissions over all source sectors but get much less information about individual sectors.

Total anthropogenic emissions of one trillion tonnes of carbon (3.67 trillion tonnes of CO2), about half of which has already been emitted since industrialization began, results in a most likely peak carbon - dioxide induced warming of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures, with a 5 — 95 % confidence interval of 1.3 — 3.9 degrees Celsius.

If one takes as the total emissions a «natural» part (60 GtC from soils + 60 GtC from land plants) and the 7 GtC fossil emissions as anthropogenic part, the anthropogenic portion is about 5 % (7 of 127 billion tons of carbon) as cited in the Welt article.

That effect turns out to cancel out the logarithmic behavior, giving you a nearly linear warming (at least up to about 5000 gigatonnes total emissions).

As inertia significantly delays the AGW resulting from our emissions, you say «30 - 50 years» before, we could perhaps look to see how much AGW we have added in the last 40 - years (about half of it) and conclude that about half of the total of AGW is still in the pipeline.

That system will instantly become the largest in the world, covering some 5,000 million metric tons worth of emissions, about 13 percent of the the world's total.

«The three day emissions from Fukushima of Iodine - 131 would be about 20 % of the total Chernobyl emissions, while those of Cesium - 137 would be between 20 and 60 % of the total Chernobyl emissions, depending whether one believes in the different Iodine to Caesium ratio measured in Japan.»

Because this is only for 75 flights, the total impact will be rather small - the equivalent of taking 26 cars off the road for a year - but if the airline powered all of its flights with a 20 % biofuel blend for one year, the annual emissions reductions would equal taking about 64,000 cars off the road or providing electricity to 28,000 homes.

Once that's in place, about a quarter of the world's total carbon emissions will be priced.

When implemented, the Clean Power Plan (CPP) will reduce emissions from power plants by 32 % by 2030 from 2005 levels, accounting for about 10 % of reductions of from total US emissions in 2005.

In a sample D.C. zip code, that's about half of a typical household's total emissions per year and about a sixth of the total climate impact of its residents.