Sentences with phrase «average their emissions rate»

It is also unclear if facilities will be allowed to average their emissions rate over 30 years, as last year's NSPS proposal did.

The agency will go through a comment period for its two proposed strategies: either assign a cap on emissions and allow for the trading of pollution credits or require a state to meet an average emissions rate across its electricity fleet.

The concentration held steady in 2008, meaning at least that interannual variability is important in the methane cycle, and making it hard to say if the long - term average emission rate is rising in a way that would be consistent with a new carbon feedback.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

As the draft rule stands, EPA asks states to achieve a specific average reduction in their emissions rate for the years 2020 through 2029.

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.

So, had Bárðarbunga / Holuhraun continued for a full year at it's average rate it would have been close to 20 Mt SO2 which is about one fifth of the global anthropogenic emissions.

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It is relatively clean, getting a LEVII / BIN5 rating for emissions, but also is rated at 11.8 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually, which is below average.

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Average fuel consumption in the EU test cycle is 6.6 L / 100 kilometers (35.6 mpg US), the CO2 emission rating is 153 grams per kilometer.

Rated as a Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle (SULEV), 3 Prius c produces fewer smog - forming emissions than an average gasoline - powered new vehicle.

But the final horsepower rating will be determined by corporate average fuel economy and emissions factors.

Average fuel consumption in the EU test cycle is 6.2 liters / 100 kilometers (38 mpg US) with a CO2 emission rating of 162 grams per kilometer.

Modifications on the engine and the drivetrain reduce the average fuel consumption of the BMW 730d determined in the EU test cycle to 6.8 litres / 100 kilometres (equal to 41.5 mpg imp), with the CO2 emission rating moving down to 178 grams per kilometre.

Its latest - generation 3.0 - litre straight - six diesel comes with an all - aluminium crankcase as well as common - rail direct fuel injection with piezo - injectors, delivers 180 kW at 4,000 rpm, and gives the car average fuel consumption in the combined EU cycle of just 6.5 litres / 100 kilometres, as well as a CO2 emission rating of just 173 grams per kilometer.

Average fuel consumption of 6.9 litres / 100 kilometres in the EU test cycle (equal to 40.9 mpg imp) and a CO2 emission rating of 181 grams per kilometre, finally, mark new records for efficiency in this performance class.

There's an under - bias in my numbers due to self consumption at power plants and especially because average emission factors understate emissions from older and smaller (higher heat rate and thus higher emissions) plants that have disproportionately been the ones shut down or not dispatched.

In 2007, the report said, these sinks took in 54 percent of the emissions, but that is a drop of 3 percent from the long - term average rate from 1959 to 2000.

And, that just coincidently, the rate of the rise has consistently been (when averaged over a few year period to smooth out variability due to seasonal cycles and other factors) equal to about half of the emissions of CO2 that we are putting into the atmosphere?

On the other hand, if two states each choose the R2 compliance approach, they may only trade ERCs if they first coordinate with each other to establish a common state - average emission performance rate that represents the weighted average of both states» fossil steam and combustion turbine generation and submit a joint compliance plan.

Over the course of the past three years, overall CO2 emissions from the production of fossil fuels have remained flat while the economy has grown, on average, at a rate of 3.1 percent.

Finally, the emissions standard for each state would be a cumulative, overall emission rate average of all fossil fuel plants in the state.

Specimens of elkhorn coral living in water with excess carbon dioxide have been studied for fertilization rates, ability of larvae to settle on reef substrate (where they produce new corals), and subsequent growth and survival.3 Three levels of carbon dioxide were tested, corresponding to concentrations today, at mid-century, and at the end of the century on a high - emissions path.3, 5 At the mid-century concentration, the ability of fertilization to occur and for larvae to settle successfully on the reef was significantly reduced: around 52 percent, and the decline intensified to about 73 percent at the late - century concentration.3 The corals» ability to survive over the long run declined as well, by an average of 39 percent and 50 percent respectively.3, 4

The average operating heat rate for gas - fired power plants is about 21 % lower than coal - fired electric generation facilities, creating less CO2 emissions.

Moving the current average global efficiency rate of coal - fired power plants from 33 % to 40 %, using more advanced off - the - shelf technology, could cut two gigatonnes of CO2 emissions.

Last year the underlying multi-year average growth rate was higher than ever because the rate of emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas has experienced a steady upward trend.

The New York investments from the RGGI allowance auction revenues are expected to only reduce emissions 89,531 tons at an average investment rate of $ 81.5 million.

4.1 Trace Gases Scenario A assumes that growth rates of trace gas emissions typical of the 1970s and 1980s will continue indefinitely; the assumed annual growth averages about 1.5 % of current emissions, so the net greenhouse forcing increasese xponentially.»

The numbers are striking: in the 1990s, as the market integration project ramped up, global emissions were going up an average of 1 percent a year; by the 2000s, with «emerging markets» like China now fully integrated into the world economy, emissions growth had sped up disastrously, with the annual rate of increase reaching 3.4 percent a year for much of the decade.

Scenario A assumes that growth rates of trace gas emissions typical of the 1970s and 1980s - will continue indefinitely; the assumed annual growth averages about 1.5 % of current emissions, so the net greenhouse forcing increases exponentially.

The annualised average growth rate in global CO2 emissions over the last three years of the credit crunch, including a 1 % increase in 2008 when the first impacts became visible, is 1.7 %, almost equal to the long - term annual average of 1.9 % for the preceding two decades back to 1990.

While the monthly average levels of CO2 at Hawaii's Mauna Loa observatory exceeded 400 ppm in 2014, the globally average levels surpassed 400 ppm for the first time this year, and the rate of CO2 emissions continues to increase.

Under the IPCC Business As Usual emissions scenario, an average rate of global mean sea level rise of about 6 cm per decade over the next century (with an uncertainty range of 3 — 10 cm per decade).

This chart uses historical GHG emissions data and the targets and timetables in submitted pre-2020 pledges (for 2020 reductions) and INDCs to estimate the average annual change in emissions (decarbonization rate) from 2020 - 2030.

It notes that: 80 % of carbon dioxide emissions come from only 19 countries; the amount of carbon dioxide per US$ 1 GDP has dropped by 23 % since 1992, indicating some decoupling of economic growth from resource use; nearly all mountain glaciers around the world are retreating and getting thinner; and sea levels have been rising at an average rate of about 2.5 mm per year since 1992.

«This is because the average coal plant in the West has a lower NOx emissions rate at partial output than at full output,» according to NREL.

Requires auctions to have a minimum reserve price, which in: (1) 2012 will be $ 28 per allowance; (2) 2013 and 2014 will be the minimum strategic reserve auction price for the previous year increased by 5 % plus the rate of inflation; and (3) 2015 and thereafter will be 60 % above a rolling 36 - month average of the daily closing price for that year's emission allowance vintage as reported on registered carbon trading facilities.

The average global rate of clinker substitution could realistically reach 40 percent and avoid up to 440 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually.

While industry average leak rates (emissions / total nameplate capacity) are 3.8 %, ComEd's 2012 leak rate was 0.55 % for 2012 and 0.25 % for 2013.

Overall, the average annual SF6 emission rate for the Partnership has decreased approximately 87 percent from the 1999 baseline emission rate of 14.2 percent to 1.9 percent in 2013.

Finally, in the B2 marker, ALM emissions initially grow at a modest rate, close to those for the OECD90 region and the world average.

Thus if we could stop today with all emissions, nature still would be a net sink, but the (average) sink rate would decrease to zero over time when the basic equilibrium setpoint is reached, about 290 ppmv for the current temperature.

The Partnership's average annual SF6 emission rate, the ratio of SF6 emissions relative to total SF6 nameplate capacity (i.e., the total quantity of SF6 contained in electrical equipment), is a benchmark metric by which achievements of the Partnership are tracked.

* In the Chancel / Piketty proposal, the exemption threshold is defined by the global average per - capital emission rate, which they give as 6.2 tCO2e per year; only individuals with emissions above this threshold are taken to have global obligations, in proportion to their emissions above the threshold.

So with a trillion tonnes to go, we need to increase the fraction we bury at an average rate of one per cent for every 10 billion tonnes of global emissions.