Sentences with phrase «additional gigatons»

In order to meet the 2 degree threshold, he argued that future emissions must be kept below 750 additional gigatons.

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Since the world adopted 1990 as the emissions baseline under the UNFCCC negotiated at the U.N. Earth Summit in 1992, the world has put an additional 363 gigatons into the air.

The Plausible Scenario projects that energy - efficient shipping can lead to an estimated emissions reduction of 7.9 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent greenhouse gases from 2020 - 2050, at an additional cost of approximately US$ 915 billion [10] and a net operating savings of US$ 424 billion.

«If the incoming Trump administration were to scrap the Clean Power Plan, it would mean that other countries would need to reduce their emissions by an additional 0.9 to 1.3 gigatons of CO2 to cover the gap that would be left,» Climate Analytics CEO Bill Hare says.

It does not count additional reductions that will be achieved under the House legislation such as the 0.7 gigatons of reductions from direct assistance to international forestry programs.

This is all the more reason to press for successful action in the Senate, which, if similar steps are taken to preserve these measures, can achieve almost a full gigaton of the additional reductions needed by 2012 to close the 5 gigaton gap between the high end of the Copenhagen Accord submissions and the path to climate safety.