Sentences with phrase «carbon emission figures»

The office will help in the production of the annual carbon emission figures.

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New figures from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center have found that carbon emissions likely hit their highest levels ever in 2010 (the numbers are partially preliminary estimates).

The figure estimates 4.2 tons less of carbon dioxide emissions each year for each truck.

This required 1.6 billion litres of fuel and, based on a conservative figure of 50 grams of carbon dioxide per tonne - kilometre resulted in 4.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions (4).

The government has attempted to downplay provisional figures showing carbon dioxide emissions rose by 1.25 per cent last year and instead argued the rise should motivate government, business and individuals to take action on reducing emissions.

Mr Miliband said: «Any increase in carbon dioxide emissions is worrying, even though these figures do not include the effect of emissions trading.

Although no firm figures for carbon dioxide emissions are available for SpaceShipTwo, a single NASA space shuttle launch produces 28 tons of carbon dioxide.

According to figures from the World Bank, the Chinese economy's carbon intensity — the amount of CO2 emissions relative to the size of economic output — has decreased by almost 70 per cent over the past three decades (see «Peak planet: Carbon dioxide intensity «-RRB-, and a further 20 per cent reduction from current levels is promised by 2020.

As fuel economy and carbon emissions become more important to car buyers, manufacturers have identified cutting air resistance as a cost - effective way to improve these figures and so boost their product's appeal.

But figuring out the right time to start carbon trading remains tricky, said Jeff Swartz, international policy director at the International Emissions Trading Association, a nonprofit industry group headquartered in Switzerland.

UNEP also says it is having difficulty determining the ultimate «carbon footprint» left by the Beijing Olympics, due to unreliable figures and having no clear methodology for counting carbon dioxide emissions from activities surrounding the games.

Figuring out the composition of dark earth and how it was formed offers a way to improve soil fertility for today's small farmers and also curb carbon emissions from the fires that these farmers set to clear the forest.

Energy - related carbon dioxide emissions from developing countries will be 127 percent higher than in the world's most developed economies by 2040, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes — according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.

The figure is also about 10 per cent less than the estimate given for China in the most recent publication of the Global Carbon Project, which updates annually the global carbon emissions and their implications for future trends.

Despite concerted global efforts to reduce carbon emissions through the expansion of clean and renewable energy resources, fossil fuels continued to dominate the global energy sector in 2012, according to new figures released yesterday by the Worldwatch Institute.

By 2030, the figure could grow to 14 percent of capacity, a level that would be met with «minimal» additional investments in power transmission and storage, while significantly cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, the draft asserted.

The largest source of «clean» energy is not reducing carbon emissions by as much as official figures claim — and it is causing immense harm to the poor and to wildlife

This is why there is a consensus among economists with expertise in climate that we should put a price on carbon emissions (Figure 8).

Pierrehumbert said Howarth uses the figure for methane's 20 - year global warming potential — 86 times that of carbon dioxide — without seriously discussing the magnitude of warming caused by those methane emissions compared to warming prevented by the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

Despite the performance figures presented above, the Mercedes - Benz F 700 offers a fuel consumption of just 5.3 litres in the European Driving Cycle, value which corresponds to carbon dioxide emissions of 127 grams.

The Euro IV compliant unit also offers impressively low carbon dioxide emissions, with a CO2 figure of just 149g / km for the five - door hatch and 158g / km for the Wagon, meaning the newcomer will appeal as much to fleets as it will to cost - conscious private buyers.

Using the figure to calculate an equivilant in terms of carbon emissions mpg (US) ce, @ 2.36 kgC / USgal & 0.155 kgC / kWh (plug) US, the Leaf would achieve 73 mpg (US) ce.

# 123 The key is in the next sentence in the paragraph which gives the context for the figure: «To put these emissions in perspective, the amount of carbon taken up by vegetation is about 2.6 Pg per year.

Taking that figure, just to sequester last year's FF + cement carbon emissions would thus require an uptake of about 4 tC / ha.

The fundamental flaw in the article is in inducing the reader to believe that it would require tripling the gross vegetative uptake of the entire planet to offset the net carbon atmospheric increase, while using figures for the net vegetative uptake and the gross emissions.

Aside from the carbon from oil in - place, one needs to figure in the additional carbon emissions from the energy used to extract the oil.

Other estimates on soil carbon sequestration are more conservative, with acclaimed soil science professor Rattan Lan suggesting something closer to 10 % of annual emissions may be a more realistic figure.

All emissions in this figure and chapter refer to GtCO2e (gigatonnes or billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent)-- the global warming potential - weighted sum of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases, that is, CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs and SF6, including LULUCF CO2 emissions.

At first blush, 2070 sounds far away — 50 + years to figure out how to get negative emissions (or carbon dioxide removal, «CDR») technology should be no problem... right?

In 2014 alone, reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, the UN Sustainable Solutions Network and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate argued for a doubling or trebling of nuclear energy — requiring as many as 1,000 new reactors or more in view of scheduled retirements — to stabilize carbon emissions e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III — Mitigation of Climate Change, http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/, Presentation, slides 32 - 33; International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2014, p. 396; UN Sustainable Solutions Network, «Pathways to Deep Decarbonization» (July 2014), at page 33; Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, «Better Growth, Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report» (September 2014), Figure 5 at page 26.

Stern is referring to an eventual target of a global figure of one tonne emissions average per person per year, a reduction of 80 % by developed countries by 2050, and assumes all countries will join in with varying degrees of carbon mitigation (this was before the Copenhagen summit).

Figure 1 shows the carbon dioxide emissions pathways of the original RCPs along with our determination within each of the contribution from U.S. electricity production.

... Yesterday, after the full report was released, the sceptical climate change blog Climate Audit reported that the 77 per cent figure had been derived from a joint study by Sven Teske, a climate change expert employed by Greenpeace, which opposes the use of nuclear power to cut carbon emissions.

Research commissioned by RAN in 2010 estimated that APP's emissions from paper production on peatlands were 16 — 21 tons of carbon dioxide per ton of paper, or 500 times the figure put forth by the company at the time.

The key pieces of empirical data are that average global temperature has now failed to increase for 17 years despite an accompanying increase of about 8 % in carbon dioxide which represents 34 % of all the human emissions since the start of the industrial revolution (NIPCC SPM, Figure 6).

Global temperature change can in turn be linked both to concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (Table 1) and to accumulated carbon emissions (Figure 1).»

Emissions reductions larger than about 80 %, relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3Emissions reductions larger than about 80 %, relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3).»

If we were certain that the ensemble mean warming represents the real climate systemt we could read out from figure 1c at which cumulative carbon emission we could expect to cross this threshold.

Figure 2, at right: Emissions trends used in the three models for sulfur dioxide (SO2; top) and black carbon (BC; bottom) following the A1B mid-range socio - economic storyline.

But the study says Drax's own data shows that while burning coal leads to emissions of 1,901 lb of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour (Mwh), the figure for wood is significantly higher — 2,128 lb per Mwh.

This is why there is a consensus among economists with expertise in climate that we should put a price on carbon emissions (Figure 8).

The authors» main figures are based on the premise that carbon dioxide emissions will continue to rise at the current trajectory.

That was backed up by figures from the Federal Environment Agency, which showed carbon dioxide emissions from transport rose by 5.4 m tonnes, or 3.4 per cent in 2016 — partly due to an increase in freight traffic, which expanded by 2.8 per cent.

The change of emission rate in 2000 from 1.5 % yr - 1 to 3.1 % yr - 1 (figure 1), other things being equal, would have caused a sharp increase of the airborne fraction (the simple reason being that a rapid source increase provides less time for carbon to be moved downward out of the ocean's upper layers).

Thus, it is perfectly incorrect to convert the figure for «carbon emissions» directly to CO2, as you have done.

Over the past two weeks the results came in, with each country publishing carbon dioxide emissions figures for 2014.

The state of Nevada had the largest increase in carbon emissions between 1990 and 2001 according to mongabay.com's analysis of figures released by the Energy Information Administration.

Toward Sustainable Aviation Fuels (October, 2015) Commercial aviation accounts for 2 percent of global carbon pollution, a figure projected to grow to between 3 and 4.7 percent by 2050 without concerted action to curb emissions.

The figures show that Nevada, like the rest of the United States, is becoming getting more out of its carbon dioxide emissions than it did in 1990.