Sentences with phrase «billions more tons»

We can emit only 300 billion more tons (270 billion more metric tons) of carbon into the atmosphere and keep warming below 2 ° C.

The world will burn around 1.2 billion more tons of coal per year by 2017 compared to today, equivalent to the current coal consumption of Russia and the United States combined.

The sharp upward revision in official figures means that China has released much more carbon dioxide — almost a billion more tons a year according to initial calculations — than previously estimated.

This means China has released nearly one billion more tons of carbon dioxide a year than previous data shows — a massive upward revision.

«In fact,» according to IEA executive director Maria van der Hoeven, «the world will burn around 1.2 billion more tons of coal per year by 2017 compared to today — equivalent to the current coal consumption of Russia and the United States.»

So to produce about 83 % of US annual consumption we would increase from 7 billion tons of CO2 to 12 billion more tons of CO2 per year.

Not exact matches

The army has poured more than NIS 2 billion ($ 546 million) and many tons of concrete into the ground surrounding the Gaza Strip to prevent infiltrations and tunneling efforts, as part of a massive project whose details are still largely under military censorship.

The company says its lamps have generated more than 57 million kilowatt - hours, offset 3.2 million tons of carbon dioxide and generated $ 1.4 billion in savings.

As of September 30, d.light's lanterns have generated more than 57 million kilowatt - hours of renewable energy, offsetting 3.2 million tons of carbon dioxide and generating $ 1.4 billion in energy - related savings, the company says.

Contrast that with Alliance Resources Partners, which sold nearly 9 million more tons of coal than Teck on an equivalent basis last year, but only pulled in $ 1.9 billion in revenue and generated $ 692.7 million of adjusted EBITDA.

More than 154 tons of wigs, fake beards and false eyelashes worth close to 31.1 billion rials ($ 907,647) were imported into Iran during the last Iranian year (March 2017 - 18), figures released by...

Trucking Efficiency informed the government's new, more - stringent fuel economy and emissions standards for heavy - duty trucks — estimated to save 1 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions and $ 170 billion in fuel costs.

The U.N. met the goal of doubling access to water, but the world is behind in ensuring healthy water access: 2.5 billion people and almost 1 billion children still lack access to basic sanitation, and more than 2 million tons of human waste are released in waterways in developing countries on a daily basis, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

It collects more than 14 billion liters of milk and manufactures and markets more than 2 million metric tons of dairy products annually.

More than a billion tons of food is never consumed by people; that's equivalent to one - third of all food the world produces.

When it comes to buying probiotics they are obviously tons of options out there, I would suggest ti invest in probiotics with a very high number of live bacteria, 40 billion or more.

More than 1 billion tons of food are wasted per year while one in nine people around the world is undernourished.

In a world where one in nine people are undernourished, the fact that more than a billion tons of food never gets consumed is a travesty.

In a world where one in nine people are undernourished, that fact that more than a billion tons of food never gets consumed is a travesty.

We now have a roadmap for how to cut in half the more than 1 billion tons of food that goes uneaten each year, and it's vital that governments and the private sector everywhere put it to use.»

On a national scale in India we can produce 164106 metric tons of retinol equivalent (1 unit of beta carotene = 0.167 unit of retinol equivalent) more than produced by rice monocultures, which would meet the daily requirement of vit A of 1.5 billion adults.

Champions 12.3 hosted a major event September 20, 2017 at The Rockefeller Foundation's New York office that assessed global progress toward SDG Target 12.3 on food loss and waste, announced landmark developments and set forth a pathway to cutting in half the more than 1 billion tons of food that goes uneaten each year.

Just think about that for a moment: While nearly 800 million people — one in nine globally — are undernourished, more than a billion tons of food never make it to the table.

Since the EU has less than 10 % of the world population (more like 7 %) that doesn't leave more than 60 billion tons for the EU.

The scrubbers are a commonly used method for decreasing carbon emissions from industries such as coal - fired power plants, which produce more than 14 billion metric tons of carbon each year.

But Suh's analysis finds that the service sector, which accounts for more than 60 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, pumps out 37.6 percent of overall greenhouse gas emissions in the country, or nearly 1.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

If one were to assume that a ton of carbon is priced at $ 10, the Southern Ocean would be trapping more than $ 10 billion worth of carbon every year, he said.

The Amazon basin stores an estimated 120 billion tons of Earth's carbon — that's about 3 times more carbon than humans release into the atmosphere each year.

Yet U.S. coal - fired power plants produce more than 30 times more CO2 than Albertan oil sands facilities — 45 million metric tons of greenhouse gases versus nearly two billion metric tons.

Jacobson explains that total anthropogenic, or human - created, carbon dioxide emissions, excluding biomass burning, now stand at more than 39 billion tons annually.

But burning such fuels accounts for more than eight billion metric tons of CO2 entering the atmosphere yearly.

But despite some commercial demonstrations of such carbon sequestration technology, largely to help recover more oil from depleted fields, none have approached anywhere near the scale necessary to significantly impact the 9.3 billion metric tons of CO2 — and rising — emitted every year from burning coal.

Even all the oil reservoirs in the world could not handle the more than 13 billion metric tons of CO2 that come from burning coal each year, even if pipelines and the rest could be built.

Jaenicke's 15 - year study found that more than a billion tons of bioaerosols — bits of proteins and cells, animal fur, dandruff, dead plants, and insects — are sloughed off into the atmosphere every year, an amount about 20 times greater than previously estimated.

More than 20 billion tons of concrete are produced each year and contribute up to 10 percent of global anthropogenic carbon dioxide production.

These reservoirs are more than enough for the 3.2 billion metric tons of CO2 emitted every year by the roughly 4,600 large industrial sources in the country.

Coal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warming.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

At $ 25 per ton, the authors found the market for light - colored roofs would be worth more than $ 1 billion.

No Glow: More than 40 years of plutonium production created millions of tons of solid waste and hundreds of billions of gallons in liquid waste, and Hanford's storage, disposal and record - keeping were, at times, lacking.

The problem was that, having swallowed hundreds of billions of tons of greenhouse gases since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the oceans were becoming more acidic.

Only about half of the more than 30 billion metric tons of CO2 emitted worldwide each year gets reabsorbed naturally by the planet's oceans and forests.

With a volume of more than 700,000 cubic miles and an average thickness of 4,000 feet, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels by 15 to 20 feet — and it is already sweating off 130 billion tons of ice per year.

As for the fuel, more than 45 million metric tons (45 billion kilograms) of the lightweight gas is produced every year as part of making fertilizer, chemicals and the gasoline used to power cars today.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

To sequester one billion tons of CO2, more than 3 billion tons basalt would have to be spread, a mindboggling amount equal to almost half of the current global coal production.

The World Bank estimates that the 5.3 trillion cubic feet (150 billion cubic meters) of natural gas that bubbles up at oil wells worldwide adds some 400 million metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year — as well as more methane.

And such techniques might be capable, at best, of sequestering one billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year (based on the extent of iron - deficient waters around the globe), compared with annual human emissions of more than eight billion metric tons and rising.

What's in the Emissions What she found was that some 1.1 billion tons of waste, more than 40 percent of the world's garbage, is burned in open piles, contributing more emissions than is shown in regional and global inventories.

NASA built the twin spacecraft to learn more about coronal mass ejections, or CMEs — billion - ton spitballs of electrically charged particles that sporadically fire off from the sun.