Sentences with phrase «adding to total emissions»

Furthermore, reduced emissions as a result of fewer people being born in richer countries allows more economic development in poorer countries without adding to total emissions.

Processing the biomass for energy use (converting trees into wood pellets, for instance) and shipping it overseas only adds to the total emissions produced by the industry, he noted.

Much of the farmed salmon are transported by plane or shipped to various destinations, further adding to total emission levels by as much as fifty percent.

Not exact matches

However, studies have shown that relevant amounts of petroleum products, such as synthetic chemicals from detergents, wash into wastewater and can eventually add to total greenhouse gas 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.

«Unfortunately, if we add up human emissions from the pre-industrial age to the present, then around 2000 gigatonnes out of the 5000 total have already been released into the atmosphere — so the situation is worrying,» explains Finnish Meteorological Institute researcher Antti - Ilari Partanen, who is currently carrying out research at Concordia University and was involved in the study.

''... Under the average U.S. electricity grid mix, we found that producing a midsize, midrange (84 miles per charge) BEV typically adds a little over 1 ton of emissions to the total manufacturing emissions, resulting in 15 percent greater emissions than in manufacturing a similar gasoline vehicle.

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!

Seeing this as a baseline, positive CO2 feedback from temperature changes, or a running out of capacity for greater uptake from CO2 accumulation, would be seen as adding more CO2 to the air in addition to anthropogenic releases, but it would have to surpass some level before it would result in a total atmospheric accumulation of CO2 greater than anthropogenic emissions (first, as a rate, and later, cummulative change).

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.

To which we must add the additional anthropogenic emissions of CO2 over the next few years, which will bring us to a total CO2 equivalent of 850 ppmv (David's estimate plus Hanson's estimate of near term anthropogenic CO2 emissionsTo which we must add the additional anthropogenic emissions of CO2 over the next few years, which will bring us to a total CO2 equivalent of 850 ppmv (David's estimate plus Hanson's estimate of near term anthropogenic CO2 emissionsto a total CO2 equivalent of 850 ppmv (David's estimate plus Hanson's estimate of near term anthropogenic CO2 emissions.)

A bit less than half of the total emitted CO2 «remains» in the atmosphere, so this equals 25.1 GtCO2 added to the atmosphere by UK emissions to year 2100.

For the year 1990, when these estimates are included in total CO2 emissions, the percentage reductions in emissions ranged from 1 to 81 percent, and for Australia and the United Kingdom, the emissions added 24 and 3 percent, respectively.

Viet Nam has agreed to reduce 8 % of its GHG emissions (adding up to about 25 % if international support is to be received), and to increase forest cover to an overall level of 45 % of the total land area.

For consistency, we approximate cumulative emissions through 2015 as 560 GtC based on historical values and forecasts under RCP 8.5 (21, 22); for a special case we add 199 GtC to this total to represent the future expectation of emissions already implicit in the current global energy infrastructure (23).

This video provides a sense of scale for atmospheric pollution — both in total emissions and the rate of emission — by showing what the 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide that New York City added to the atmosphere in 2010 would look like.

More than 52GW of clean, emissions - free wind power was added in 2017, bringing total installations to 539 GW globally.

If you add that to the emissions, then the measured increase in the atmosphere is about 45 % of the total emissions (fossil fuels + land use changes), while without land use changes the increase is about 55 % of the emissions (fossil fuels only).

The current total of 300 GtC human emissions adds less than 1 % to the carbon reservoir in the deep oceans, and ultimately that is all what returns if everything is back in equilibrium.

However, researchers investigating the fossil - related carbon content of municipal and industrial wastewaters at various points in the treatment process found that relevant amounts of petroleum products, such as synthetic chemicals from detergents, wash into wastewater and can eventually add to total greenhouse gas emissions.

HFCs would add up to 25 times the current total U.S. emissions to the global burden by 2040, largely because of their use in ever greater numbers in the developing world.

If India follows a path similar to China's, that will add another eight billion tons of carbon to the atmosphere each year — more than total U.S. emissions in 2013.

Finally, we represent the climate — carbon - cycle feedback by adding an extra, temperature - dependent component to the total anthropogenic emissions emitted each year (Ea): where T ′ is the temperature anomaly above an exponentially weighted running mean with a time constant of 100 years, and b5 is the adjustable carbon - cycle feedback parameter.

Over the world's tropical forests, this extra «carbon sink» effect adds up to 4.8 bn tonnes of CO2 removed each year — close to the total carbon dioxide emissions from the US.

For that reason one more sensitivity has been added to the palette: TCRE (Transient Climate Response to Emissions), which relates the peak temperature to the cumulative total of eEmissions), which relates the peak temperature to the cumulative total of emissionsemissions.

In order for biomass to be carbon neutral, you'd have to actually increase the amount of carbon being sucked out of the atmosphere by forests by an amount commensurate with the total net emissions created by chopping down a carbon sink and then adding a slew of new emissions by burning wood for energy.

A 23 % increase would add over 380 MTCO2e in 2030 (using a 100 - year GWP), equivalent to Poland's total GHG emissions in 2012.

This video provides a sense of scale for atmospheric pollution — both in total emissions and the rate of emission — by showing what the 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide that New York City added to the atmosphere -LSB-...]

The true carbon sink is the live forestry stand stock over total emissions artificial and natural, together with sequestration functions like adding inert carbon to the soil.

Prior to the additional 50 % of total metric tonnes of CO2 emissions being added to the world's biosphere, global warming change easily matched or exceeded that experienced since 1988 - the year of NASA's James Hansen's predictions of climate apocalypse from human CO2.

Because these lands play such a vital role as carbon sinks, it's no surprise that their destruction is partly responsible for the emissions from land use changes that add up to nearly 18 percent of the total global warming effect.

A press release circulated by the Japanese government added up the cold but convincing numbers: ``... the total emissions of energy - related CO2 from the countries undertaking obligations to reduce emissions under the Protocol account for only about 27 percent of the global emissions in 2008, which dropped down from 42 percent in 1990.