http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC Also: «China, the world's most populous country,
average emissions of CO2 increased by 9 % to 7.2 tonnes per capita, bringing China within the range of 6 to 19 tonnes per capita emissions of the major industrialised countries.»
To determine a national average for charging emissions,
we average the emissions of the grids where EVs are sold today, based on 2014 registration data — a «sales - weighted» national emissions average.
But there are technology options on the horizon that might allow for future coal - fired power plants to avoid
the average emissions of more than four million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year per plant.
While oil palm can be grown sustainably, this is rarely the case in Indonesia, where Wetlands International estimates that production of one metric ton of palm oil will result in
an average emission of 20 tons of carbon dioxide from peat decomposition alone, not including emissions resulting from production or combustion.
Not exact matches
An Environmental Defense Fund - commissioned study by consultancy ICF International found that Canada's oil and gas industry could achieve a 45 per cent methane
emission reduction at an
average cost
of $ 2.76 per tonne
of carbon dioxide equivalent.
The full - scale, zero -
emission semi will offer a range between 800 and 1200 miles, and produce 1,000 horsepower, about twice that
of an
average diesel truck.
(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.
Emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, rose by an
average of 0.73 percent for every 1 percent growth in gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, Richard York
of the University
of Oregon wrote in his report.
These factors allow the firm to analyze things like hours
of operation, transportation coverage, reliability, efforts to lower
emissions and congestion, and
average time spent commuting.
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.
Subaru has admitted inspectors at its manufacturing plants in Japan «inappropriately altered» the
emissions and fuel efficiency data
of some 900 vehicles so that the
average data...
If we stay on our current
emission pathway, this will change: The metro region will likely see 2 to 7 extremely hot days on
average over the next 5 to 25 years, 4 to 17 such days likely by mid-century, and 11 to 59 days — nearly two months — over 95 °F likely by the end
of the century.
The LCA examined the effects
of a 1 kilogram industry -
average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas
emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.
The two meals were a meat free and a non meat free dish, whose ingredients were respectively 30 and 15 per cent less costly in terms
of harmful
emissions than those
of an
average meal.
With an
average of 77.5 % recycled across Europe in 20151, steel for packaging is already the most recycled packaging material in Europe, bringing - great savings in
emissions, resource and energy use.
Scientific instruments showed that the gas had reached an
average daily level above 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades
of efforts to bring human - produced
emissions under control are faltering....)
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).
In most cases, the surcharges were initially met with hostility, but the positive effects have been hard to deny: Immediately following the initiation
of zone charging, London saw congestion reduced by a quarter,
average speeds increase by 30 percent, and carbon dioxide
emissions decrease by 20 percent, per the Fix NYC report.
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.
However, four people travelling 250 miles in an
average sized petrol car towing a medium sized caravan would only create 38 kgs
of CO2
emissions per person - and even less in a diesel car - resulting in significant savings.
In March, the European Environment Agency confirmed that not only were UK
emissions significantly below the EU
average, but also they were falling at about double the rate
of the rest.
WHEREAS, in furtherance
of the united effort to address the effects
of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session
of the Conference
of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas
emissions were required, with a goal
of reducing global greenhouse gas
emissions so as to hold the increase in global
average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;
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.
The number
of days each year above 95 ° Fahrenheit (35 ° Celsius) is expected to rise across the United States, and
average summer temperatures will reach new heights if greenhouse gas
emissions remain high.
«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation
of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat
of climate change, in the context
of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global
average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts
of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts
of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas
emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas
emissions and climate - resilient development.
In this study, we created new per - animal
emissions factors — that is measures
of the
average amount
of CH4 discharged by animals into the atmosphere — and new estimates
of global livestock methane
emissions.»
«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.
We are almost halfway to that temperature already; there is some further warming kind
of built - in — even if we stopped our
emissions tomorrow, the world would continue to warm on an
average temperature basis.
The document cites a goal
of holding the global rise in
average global temperatures to 2 ºC but does not specify a long - term goal for reducing
emissions.
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.
To be more specific, the models project that over the next 20 years, for a range
of plausible
emissions, the global temperature will increase at an
average rate
of about 0.2 degree C per decade, close to the observed rate over the past 30 years.
New research predicts that migrants applying for asylum in the European Union will nearly triple over the
average of the last 15 years by 2100 if carbon
emissions continue on their current path.
Combining the asylum - application data with projections
of future warming, the researchers found that an increase
of average global temperatures
of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon
emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.
For wells with plunger lifts that vent to the atmosphere,
emissions averaged 1,000 scf to 10,000 scf
of methane per event.
The study also showed significant variations by region, with some areas showing higher than
average emissions because
of large differences in the age and type
of pipe in different parts
of the US.
Published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper concludes that limiting the increase in global
average temperatures above pre-industrial levels to 1.5 °C, the goal
of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, is not yet geophysically impossible, but likely requires more ambitious
emission reductions than those pledged so far.
The World Bank reports that Mexico's per capita
emissions are 3.9 metric tons
of carbon dioxide, just a hair below the global
average of 4 metric tons.
Three approaches were used to evaluate the outstanding «carbon budget» (the total amount
of CO2
emissions compatible with a given global
average warming) for 1.5 °C: re-assessing the evidence provided by complex Earth System Models, new experiments with an intermediate - complexity model, and evaluating the implications
of current ranges
of uncertainty in climate system properties using a simple model.
The work by Mark Jacobson, director
of Stanford University's Atmosphere / Energy program and a fellow at the university's Woods Institute, argues that cutting
emissions of black carbon may be the fastest method to limit the ongoing loss
of ice in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global
average.
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.
Depending on what steps people took to restrict
emissions, by the end
of the century we could expect the planet's
average temperature to rise anywhere between about 1.4 and 6 °C (2.5 — 11 °F).
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 ‰.
Of the large manufacturers, Italy's Fiat had the lowest
average emissions (117 g / km), while France's Renault and PSA Peugeot Citroen, at around 120 g / km in 2012, were also well below
average, the EEA said.
In fact, the mitigation pledges collected under the ongoing Cancun Agreements, conceived during the 2010 climate talks, would lead to global
average temperature rise
of more than 2 degrees Celsius, according to multiple analyses — and may not lead to a peaking
of greenhouse gas
emissions this decade required to meet that goal.
Although there was disagreement on exactly what should be done, there appeared to be a consensus that action should be taken to avert a 2 - degree Celsius (3.6 - degree Fahrenheit) rise in
average global temperatures and to cut
emissions of greenhouse gases in half by 2050.
The Kyoto Protocol, which was set to expire at the end
of 2012, set binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the E.U. for reducing greenhouse gas
emissions an
average of five percent against 1990 levels.