Sentences with phrase «annual global emissions»

To do this, we need to reduce annual global emissions of carbon dioxide from the 30 gigatonnes released today to 15 gigatonnes by 2050.

(For comparison, the total annual global emissions of carbon dioxide top 30 billion tons a year now.

ABARE's analysis of the effects of the partnership on global greenhouse pollution is summarised in a little diagram included in its report.5 To the extent that one can believe anything ABARE's modelling shows, it concluded that under the best - case scenario annual global emissions will increase from approximately 8 gigatonnes of carbon equivalent now to over 17 gigatonnes in 2050 under the influence of the AP6 agreement.

To be abundantly clear, just because growth in annual global emissions seems to be slowing doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet when it comes to climate change.

The vast majority of the increase in funding in 2008 came from a single source: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California, which gave a one - off contribution of $ 500 million to ClimateWorks, a group of organizations that aims to limit annual global emissions of greenhouse gases by 30 billion tons (gigatons) by 2030.

Annual global emissions of carbon dioxide have risen steadily from 21 billion tons in 1992 to 32 billion tons in 2012.

This is a huge amount, roughly equivalent to the annual global emissions of fossil fuel.

On this basis, the paper says that capturing 12 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent (GtCO2e) per year (around a third of annual global emissions) would require 156 exajoules (EJ) of energy.

Never mind that total CO2 emissions would amount to an almost undetectable portion of annual global emissions.

The Amazon Basin stores approximately 100 billion metric tons of carbon, more than ten times the annual global emissions from fossil fuels.

This paper evaluates the transparency of the greenhouse gas emissions targets presented in the INDCs of eight major emitters — Brazil, China, the European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and the United States — which, together, contribute nearly two - thirds of annual global emissions.

The recent U.S. contribution to annual global emissions is about 18 %, but the U.S. contribution to cumulative global emissions over the last century is much higher.

The researchers discovered a temperature increase of just 1 degree Celsius in near - surface air temperatures in the tropics leads to an average annual growth rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide equivalent to one - third of the annual global emissions from combustion of fossil fuels and deforestation combined.

[92] At the time of the agreement, these 76 countries were collectively responsible for 85 % of annual global emissions.

Annual global emissions have been increasing since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth century, when humans first began burning fossil fuels on a large scale to produce energy.