«My experience is that when regulators start looking at
actual emissions the figure can easily double,» says Bosch.
Not exact matches
When you look at real world scenarios, including studies that look at
actual trajectories in
emissions compared with the cuts needed for 2 degrees (see, for example,
figure SPM.5, left panel or the very influential Peters et al 2012 article) a totally different picture emerges.
In order to compare their projections with
actual emissions I had to manually scale bars on their
figures.
As this
figure shows, even without accounting for the
actual GHG
emissions since 1990, the warming projections are consistent with the observations, within the margin of uncertainty.
Disturbing
figures presented by AOSIS in the AWG - KP last year demonstrated that the
actual reduction in aggregate Annex I
emissions pledged in Copenhagen ranged from a feeble -1 to -7 %.
Because this option uses
actual electricity usage
figures from your bill, it allows us to calculate the most accurate
emissions associated with your usage.
Figures show that the
actual emissions of installations covered by the ETS in 2005 were several million tonnes below the granted permits.