Sentences with phrase «billions of metric»

Peatlands — bogs, swamps, and mires — act as vital carbon sinks, keeping billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Bottom graph, labeled «Carbon Emissions,» is captioned «reconstruction of past emissions of CO2 as a result of land clearing and fossil fuel combustion since about 1750 (in billions of metric tons of carbon per year).»

Carbon Emissions: reconstruction of past emissions of CO2 as a result of land clearing and fossil fuel combustion since about 1750 (in billions of metric tons of carbon per year).

The sum of these efforts in developing countries will reduce growth in warming emissions by billions of metric tons of warming gases per year over the coming decade.

Not exact matches

Cash flow from operations — a key metric of financial health in the oil industry — came in at $ 7.4 billion for the quarter, matching the year - earlier period.

By way of comparison, total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2016 were 6.5 billion metric tons.

The rule Pruitt wants to repeal is projected to cut 6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases over a 13 - year window.

A telecommunications company, Telephone & Data Systems reported revenue of $ 5.1 billion for the year largely due to decreases in a key metric — the average revenue billed per user.

Free cash flow, a key metric of financial health, widened to negative $ 1 billion in the first quarter from negative $ 277 million in the fourth quarter, excluding costs of systems for its solar business.

In 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that the U.S. produced 6.7 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

We have produced 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste.

This metric was north of negative $ 500 billion.

According to one such globally accepted metric for oil industry giants — enterprise value vs. earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA)-- in order for Aramco to reach a company valuation of $ 2 trillion, it needs to report an EBITDA of around $ 130 billion next year, according to Reuters estimates.

Netflix, which is slated to spend $ 5 billion on content in 2016, is still seeing good growth in international countries, with an internal metric of median hours watched as the company's most important measure, justifying the spend.

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 Spiral financing has strong credit metrics, including a loan - to - cost ratio of less than 50 %, with over $ 1.9 billion of equity to be invested in the $ 3.6 billion project.

It accounted for a whopping 49 % of the 1.7 billion metric tonnes of steel produced globally last year, according to industry group Worldsteel.

One of those critical metrics, the data center group revenue number which came in at $ 5.2 billion versus analyst «s expectations of $ 4.84 billion.

This past month, the Central Bank of Iraq purchased 36 metric tons of gold, or $ 1.56 billion worth of the yellow metal, the biggest acquisition of any central bank or nation in three years.

And even if Benchmark's relationship with Uber frayed at the end, their collaboration still produced billions of dollars for both parties — a success by the standard metrics of Silicon Valley that shouldn't go unnoticed by the current crop of rising star founders.

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

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.

By 2025 they will prevent 6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

Mr. Speaker, the US$ 1.8 billion syndicated loan used in purchasing 969,000 metric tonnes of cocoa for the 2016/17 cocoa season has been repaid.

As at January 2017, the US$ 1.8 billion had been fully drawn and utilized when only 587,125 metric tonnes of cocoa had been purchased.

According to him, as at January 2017, the US$ 1.8 billion had been fully drawn and utilized when only 587,125 metric tonnes of cocoa had been purchased.

Espinal noted that millions of metric tons of food ends up in landfills per year and costs local governments $ 1.5 billion a year.

According to previous studies, that amount — between 44 million and 146 million metric tons of CO2 — offsets a tiny fraction of the estimated 35.3 billion metric tons of CO2 generated by the burning of fossil fuels and other industrial activity in 2013.

By 2020, U.S. emissions into the atmosphere are projected to be 7 percent below their 2005 level of nearly 6 billion metric tons of carbon.

And there has been plenty of coal burning in countries such as China, which now burns some 3 billion metric tons of the fuel rock per year, largely without the pollution controls that would scrub out the SO2, as is sometimes done in the U.S..

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.

That is a concern because permafrost, which covers 24 percent of exposed Northern Hemisphere land, contains about 1,700 billion metric tons of carbon — roughly twice the amount currently stored in the atmosphere.

Neutron stars are the densest objects in the universe — a tablespoon of neutron - star material would weigh about 1 billion tons (900 million metric tons) on Earth, according to NASA.

Thawing permafrost could emit 43 billion to 135 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2100, and 246 billion to 415 billion metric tons of CO2 by 2200, the U.N. report says.

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.

The country dug up 3.7 billion metric tons of the dirty black rock in 2013.

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

Civilization now moves some 57 billion metric tons of rock, dirt, sand and coal, among other things, or three times as much geologic stuff as is moved by all the world's rivers.

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.

Since 1972 CO2 has been injected into U.S. oil reservoirs continuously, resulting in an extra two billion barrels of oil and a billion metric tons of CO2 stored underground.

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.

The difference is critical: a rise of one centimeter of snow across all of East Antarctica is the equivalent of 35 billion metric tons, but a rise of one centimeter of ice is the equivalent of 92 billion metric tons.

Using the latter (plus a huge rise in the height of the ice sheet), Zwally's study finds that East Antarctica has gained roughly 147 billion metric tons a year.

Bogs, swamps and mires help keep 500 billion metric tons of carbon out of the atmosphere, so preserving peatlands is emerging as a new priority

The researchers say that, in drought years, water stress keeps the rainforest from absorbing the 1.5 billion metric tons of CO2 it would sop up in a normal year.

But global energy use is set to fall in 2009 for the first time since 1981 as a result of the global economic crisis, reducing the need for emission reductions by a full two billion metric tons, according to the IEA.

That dwarfs the approximately 2 billion metric tons of CO2 that entered the atmosphere as a consequence of the 2005 drought.

The drought in 2010 could release another 5 billion metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere as trees killed by the drought decompose, roughly equal to the annual U.S. output of the heat - trapping gas.

The researchers estimated the maximum sustained carbon release rate during the PETM had to be less than 4 billion metric tons of CO2 per year — about one - tenth the current rate.

Another $ 3.5 - billion plant planned for Sweetwater, Tex., would burn pulverized coal to generate 600 MW of electricity while capturing its 5.75 million metric tons of emissions postcombustion with amine or ammonia scrubbers or, possibly, with advanced membranes that separate CO2 from other flue gases.