Sentences with phrase «average emissions from»

This tool calculates the average emissions from utility - scale electric generation at the regional electricity grid level.

The actual emissions generated by charging an EV can also depend on factors not considered in this analysis, including but not limited to the electric utility you choose (we average emissions from all electric utilities in a given region), presence of home solar panels, voluntary purchase of lower - emission electricity, individual driving behavior, and the time of day that the vehicle is recharged.

Drivers that have home solar panels will have lower or no emissions from driving an electric vehicle when calculated using the method used in this analysis (average emissions from generation).

Instead, the numbers — meant to represent average emissions from industrial activities — were incorporated into permits stipulating how much pollution individual facilities could release.

Not exact matches

(In 2011, Cenovus Energy let on that output from two of its in situ oilsands projects could meet the standard, which mandates that crude oil imported to the state have lower wells - to - wheels emissions than the average of all crudes sold in the U.S.) «Yes, I think that's feasible,» says George Hoberg, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia who specializes in environmental conflict.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

The shipping sector, along with aviation, avoided specific emissions - cutting targets in a global climate pact agreed in Paris at the end of 2015, which aims to limit a global average rise in temperature to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius from 2020.

The fact is that [emissions from] your average SAGD or mined barrel are significantly larger than the average Saudi crude or Gulf of Mexico barrel.

Only the EU Emissions Trading System and the carbon price floor were opposed by a clear majority of voters from across the political spectrum, though even then it is highly doubtful that very much political capital can be gained by abolishing measures equivalent to an annual average cost of # 13 per household, (see pie chart graph).

Mukasa's 2001 research concluded that the toxic particles released from commercial truck emissions on the Peace Bridge are the likely reason for the respiratory health problems found in 45 percent of west side households, which is nearly four times the national average.

Thanks to our nuclear power plants, greenhouse gas emissions from New York's electric generating plants are just one fourth (per capita) of what is produced on average across the U. S.

Over the course of the experiment, emissions of planet - warming methane from the dung of antibiotic - dosed cows were, on average, 80 % higher than those from the manure of untreated cattle, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

«Multiple analyses from many institutions around the Earth confirm that average CO2 is above 400 ppm,» he said, adding that that fact remains true «even at the South Pole,» thousands of miles from significant carbon emission sources.

Experts at the Global Carbon Project and the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom found emissions globally could drop as much as 0.6 percent this year — after growing at that rate in 2014 — a sharp difference from the 2.4 percent annual growth rate the world has averaged in the past decade.

Starbucks Seattle, WA Restaurants 211 million green kWh, 20 % of total power used A 2006 audit showed that a whopping 81 percent of the coffee giant's greenhouse emissions came from the conventional energy it used to power its North American stores; each square foot consumed an average of 6.57 kWh of electricity a month.

A U.N. Environment Program report released last week showed that, taken together, the NDCs only account for a third of the necessary emissions reductions needed to keep global average temperatures from heating 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels.

As a result, methane emissions have distinct isotopic values: Methane emitted from any microbially driven source such as wetlands or agriculture have values of about -60 ‰ (signifying a relatively low ratio of carbon - 13 to carbon - 12); oil, gas, and coal emissions have an average carbon isotopic value of -37 ‰; and tree and crop burning averages about -22 ‰.

To produce visualizations that show temperature and precipitation changes similar to those included in the IPCC report, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation calculated average temperature and precipitation changes from models that ran the four different emissions scenarios.

So, too, areas in which people of color make up at least 25 percent of the total population average nearly five times as many pounds of chemical emissions from industrial facilities per square mile, compared with communities where less than 5 percent of the population are people of color.

In their latest paper, published in the February issue of Nature Geoscience, Dr Philip Goodwin from the University of Southampton and Professor Ric Williams from the University of Liverpool have projected that if immediate action isn't taken, Earth's global average temperature is likely to rise to 1.5 °C above the period before the industrial revolution within the next 17 - 18 years, and to 2.0 °C in 35 - 41 years respectively if the carbon emission rate remains at its present - day value.

If we can rein in emissions enough to keep global average temperatures from rising 2 C (3.6 F), we can avert the biggest shocks to Earth's system, scientists say.

According to the White House, the United States will double the pace of emissions cuts from a current average 1.2 percent annually to 2.3 to 2.8 percent per year in the early part of the next decade.

According to the U.N. Environment Programme, if countries intend to avert catastrophic warming, they need to reduce annual emissions to an average 40 gigatons by 2025 from the 50 gigatons emitted in 2010.

The embassy has been using Twitter to publish average hourly readings of particulate matter that's less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM2.5): fine particles from combustion and industrial emissions that penetrate deeply into the lungs and are linked to heart disease and other health problems.

The researchers collected data from 1,571 food diaries completed by adults for four days in the United Kingdom to model the average diet and tweak it to still be appetizing but reduce emissions.

By analyzing nearly 8000 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Schulze's team found that on average the O III oxygen emissions are 1.5 times stronger in radio loud quasars than in radio quiet quasars.

«The average per capita resource use in wealthy countries is 5 to 10 times higher than in developing countries, and the developed countries are responsible for over three quarters of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions from 1850 to 2000.»

But the emissions slash will not stem the tide: Global average temperatures would still rise by nearly 1º F, about what scientists attribute to date from industrial emissions since 1900.

From 1990 to 1999, emissions growth had averaged a little over 1 percent per year.

The IPCC has determined that in order to keep Earth's average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times by the end of the century, global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced between 40 percent and 70 percent by 2050.

An international team of 27 oceanographers churned through 13 global models and concluded that carbon dioxide emissions could cause pH levels in the ocean to drop from an average of 8.1 today to 7.7 by the end of the century.

Last year, economist Marc Lee at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a non-profit organisation in Ottawa, Canada, analysed data from the collection of a carbon tax in British Columbia, and concluded that the top 1 per cent of households have carbon emissions three times the provincial average.

Keystone XL itself would exacerbate that — the U.S. State Department notes that the greenhouse gas emissions from just the pipeline's pumps would be 4.4 million metric tons per year, roughly the same as one average U.S. coal - fired power plant.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

However, while annual global average temperatures were locked in, it was still possible with immediate and strong action on carbon emissions to prevent record breaking seasons from becoming average — at least at regional levels.

(The global average is delayed from the Mauna Loa record because most CO2 emissions come from the Northern Hemisphere, and it takes about a year for air from that hemisphere to mix into the Southern Hemisphere.)

Human - induced warming is already close to 1 degree, so to limit warming to 2 degrees, CO2 emissions need to fall, on average, by 10 % of today's emission rate for every tenth of a degree of warming from now on.

Reductions in emissions from deforestation, in particular in the Amazon, have made a major contribution to global efforts to control global warming; since 2005 the Amazon has seen its deforestation rate drop 77 % below the historic average.

The past century has seen a 0.8 °C increase in average global temperature, and according to the IPCC, the overwhelming source of this increase has been emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants from human activities.

In accordance with California's Global Warming Solutions Act's (AB32) guidance, the ROW recommends that California allow states or countries that reduce their total emissions from deforestation below an historical average to generate compliance credit in California.

In the worst year, the impacts resulting from the beetle outbreak in British Columbia were equivalent to 75 % of the average annual direct forest fire emissions from all of Canada during 1959 — 1999.

Each image, taken using a positron emission tomography, or PET, scan, is based on averaged images from a group of six subjects with ADHD and six control subjects.

The new BMW M135i xDrive (average fuel consumption: 7.8 litres / 100 km [36.2 mpg imp]; CO2 emissions combined: 182 g / km) sprints from 0 to 100 km / h (62 mph) in just 4.7 seconds.

Fuel economy has improved by a claimed 4.3 mpg at 29.1 mpg, and average CO2 emissions drop from 268g / km to 227g / km.

The special edition will go on sale from April with the following engines: 1.4 MultiAir with 120 hp and 170 hp, 2.0 JTDM with 150 hp and 175 hp, and the 1.6 JTDM with 120 hp (this last one has an average fuel consumption of 3.9 l 100 km and CO2 emissions of 103 g / km).

According to figures monitored by European car industry association ACEA, Volvo Car Group delivered an industry - leading reduction of average fleet emissions by 8.4 percent from 2012 to 2013.

In addition, the ARB says this Honda model has lower greenhouse gas emissions than the fleet average standard required by all cars in 2025, the equivalent of a 50 - percent reduction from current required levels.

Combined cycle fuel consumption is down from 8.5 litres / 100 km to 8.1 litres / 100 km, while average CO2 emissions have dropped 11g / km to 213g / km.

It will accelerate from 0 - 100 km / h in 12.1 seconds, and on to a top speed of 175 km / h while returning an average fuel consumption of 7.4 l / 100 km and CO2 emissions of 194 g / km.

It accelerates in 7.3 seconds from zero to 100 km / h (62.14 mph), top speed is 238 km / h (147.89 mph) and the average fuel consumption is 6.2 liters per 100 km (37.94 US mpg), a CO2 emissions level of 142 grams per km (228.53 g / mile)(performance and fuel consumption figures are provisional).