Sentences with phrase «billion metric»

If we allow young secondary forests to regrow and improve forest management in addition to stopping deforestation, WHRC notes, «the cumulative size of the forest sink could increase by 100 billion metric tons of carbon by the year 2100 — significantly larger than it is today.»

New analysis from The Nature Conservancy, WRI and others estimates that stopping deforestation, restoring forests and improving forestry practices could cost - effectively remove 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or as much as eliminating 1.5 billion cars — more than all of the cars in the world today!

Emissions in the United States peaked in 2007 at 6.3 billion metric tons and then immediately plummeted under the pull of the Great Recession.

In a 2004 report to the United Nations, the last time India published detailed emissions data, the government said total greenhouse gas emissions were 1.228 billion metric tons, or about 1.3 tons per person, in 1994.

Electricity generation accounts for about one - third of the 2005 U. S. total of six billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

Today, ENERGY STAR is the most widely recognized symbol for energy efficiency in the world, helping families and businesses save $ 362 billion on utility bills, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 2.4 billion metric tons since 1992.

New research in Nature Geoscience estimates that the world's seagrass meadows conservatively store 19.9 billion metric tons of carbon, even though the threatened marine ecosystems make up only 0.2 percent of Earth's surface.

Without new agreements to foster emerging technologies such as solar and wind power and burial of carbon dioxide underground, world emissions of the gas should hit 40.4 billion metric tons by 2030, up from 29 billion metric tons in 2006, said the Energy Information Administration, the independent statistics arm of the Department of Energy.

A record amount of 2.3 billion metric tons of carbon was absorbed in 2008.

The 40 % of food that gets wasted from farm to plate creates 3.3 billion metric tonnes of greenhouse gases... and much of that is methane, which is much more potent than the more common carbon dioxide.

Note that values reported here are in billion metric tons of carbon.

Since its inception in 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners have helped prevent a total of more than 2.4 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

According to the GCP study, carbon dioxide emissions rose 3 percent in 2011 to 9.5 billion metric tons of carbon and are expected to increase a further 2.6 percent by the end of 2012.

By 2030, carbon dioxide emissions from developing countries should hit 25.8 billion metric tons, while the pollution from rich countries should be 14.6 billion metric tons, the EIA said.

Coal output last year fell 2.5 % to 3.87 billion metric tons compared with a year before, while coal consumption fell 2.9 % in the period, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

During the same time period, carbon dioxide emissions have soared, from about 18 billion metric tons per year to almost 37 billion metric tons per year.

(To put that claim in perspective, note that the Earth's oceans and plants currently absorb only half of the 7 billion metric tons of carbon that human activities release into the atmosphere each year.)

That represents just 0.02 percent to 0.4 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, which were 6.7 billion metric tons in 2011.

Actual and projected CO2 emissions from fossil fuel consumption, 2005 — 2050 (billion metric tonnes).

And in an alarming sign of events to come, Antarctica has been losing about 134 billion metric tons of ice per year since 2002.

However, changes in land use can be important: estimates indicate that net global greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, forestry, and other land use were over 8 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent, [2] or about 24 % of total global greenhouse gas emissions.

Pumping 28 billion metric tonnes of CO2, a known greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere every year couldn't possibly have any undesirable effect on Earth's fragile biosphere, could it?

Achieving a 50 percent reduction in deforestation, and a corresponding 1.5 billion to 2.7 billion metric ton reduction in emissions each year, would cost $ 10 to $ 21 per metric ton, or between $ 17.2 billion and $ 28 billion per year, according to the model calculations.

A «Pg» to represent billion metric ton.

Minus the United States, emissions reductions are in the 15 - 21 % range below 1990 levels: If the 39 industrial nations included in the stats live up to those commitments — and some have unfortunately placed conditions on them, only making them if other nations follow suit, for example — that means their carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 will be somewhere 9.86 - 10.71 billion metric tons.

It would require some 12 — 14 of Princeton's «stabilization wedges» — strategies and / or technologies that over a period of a few decades each ultimately reduce projected global carbon emissions by one billion metric tons per year (see technical paper here, less technical one here).

U.S. energy - related CO2 emissions will be 7 percent lower than their 2005 level of nearly 6 billion metric tons in 2020 as coal's share of electricity production continues a steady descent over the next two decades, according to new government data.

Despite claims it will keep temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, the United Nations body that oversees the Paris accord estimates that if every country were to achieve every promise by 2030, the total reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would be equivalent to just 60 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide.

Fourteen terawatts of OTEC power would overcome the greatest concern of climate scientists by sequestering 79 billion metric tons of CO2 annually.

They concluded that Greenland and two of the three ice sheets that cover Antarctica have lost an estimated 237 billion metric tons, give or take a few billion, in the past 19 years.

With this new proposal for furnace fans, DOE is taking another important step to help meet President Obama's goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by at least 3 billion metric tons cumulatively by 2030 through efficiency standards.

The Zachariae Isstrom in northeast Greenland has entered a phase of accelerated retreat, and is losing mass at the rate of 5 billion metric tons a year, according to US scientists.

Using data collected by and within 160 countries, the researchers estimate that global tourism in 2013 accounted for greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 4.5 billion metric tons of CO2, or about 8 % of global emissions that year.

The president wants to tighten standards in both sectors to cut CO2 emissions by 3 billion metric tons by 2030, which translates to about half of yearly energy - sector carbon emissions.

Since 1992, ENERGY STAR associated greenhouse gas reductions have reached 3.1 billion metric tons.

They estimate that if mangrove deforestation rates continued at a similar rate after 2012, then by 2017 mangrove carbon should have dropped a further third of a percent to 4.16 billion metric tons.

If this happens, it could cause the release of more than 2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) into the atmosphere by 2020.

As of 2016, offsets equivalent to 1.1 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions (BtCO2e) have been transacted voluntarily — through sales to governments, companies, and individuals as well as intermediary brokers — according to the latest annual State of Voluntary Carbon Markets report from Forest Trends» Ecosystem Marketplace, released today at the Innovate4Climate conference in Barcelona.

And much of that will go on expensive technologies engineered to suck 1,000 billion metric tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the air by the year 2100.

If all the bitumen in those sands could be burned, another 240 billion metric tons of carbon would be added to the atmosphere and, even if just the oil sands recoverable with today's technology get burned, 22 billion metric tons of carbon would reach the sky.

We are part of that accumulation to the tune of 30 billion metric tonnes a year and rising.

That the accumulation is less than 30 billion metric tonnes suggests to me that we are a big part.

His previous measures to limit carbon emissions in cars and light trucks produced between fleet years 2012 and 2025 will cut 6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the lifetime of those vehicles.

To get from early earth to today, 13,240 billion metric tons of CO2 had to be extracted from the atmosphere and 3.7 x 10 ^ 24 J of energy had to be lost from the sea and atmosphere.

Remember that 1 km3 of ice weighs 1 billion metric tons.»

Banning previous generations of F - gases such as CFCs is the equivalent of keeping 11 billion metric tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere.

But I assume that 30 billion metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and rising has an effect on the atmosphere.

In fact, if we continue on our current path of high heat - trapping emissions, the region is projected to see forest fires during June and July at two to three times its current rate.2, 6 Some 1 billion metric tons of organic matter and older - growth trees could burn7, 15 — accelerating the release of stored carbon and creating a dangerous global warming amplification or feedback loop.5, 14

One BLM field office in Wyoming recently proposed a plan that estimates new coal leases amounting to 10.2 billion tons, which would unlock an estimated 16.9 billion metric tons of carbon pollution.

In comparison, the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan is expected to reduce carbon pollution by 5.3 billion metric tons between 2020 and 2030, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.