Sentences with phrase «carbon equivalent terms»

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That year the U.S. released 7.40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), a measure of the global warming potential of any greenhouse gas in terms of the amount of warming generated by CO2.

• In 2005, according to McKinsey & Company, the United States emitted 7.2 gigatons of greenhouse gases (in terms of gigatons of carbon dioxide or equivalents).

[* GtCO2e is billions of tons of carbon dioxide or the equivalent amount of other greenhouse gases when measured in terms of their potential to warm things up.]

Methane is roughly 84 - times worse than carbon dioxide in the short (20 - year) term, so EDF's counter translates methane emission to carbon - dioxide equivalent (CO2e), which is the standard measure of greenhouse gases.

(CO2e refers to the six Kyoto greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide [CO2], methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride — all expressed in terms of the equivalent amount of CO2.

One Gt is one gigatonne, a billion metric tons; CO2e, carbon dioxide equivalent, expresses the impact of different greenhouse gases in terms of CO2.

«(A) the term «destruction» means the conversion of a greenhouse gas by thermal, chemical, or other means to another gas or set of gases with little or no carbon dioxide equivalent value;

«(C) the term «conversionary use» means the conversion during research or manufacturing of a fluorinated gas into another greenhouse gas or set of gases with a lower carbon dioxide equivalent value.

-- For purposes of this paragraph, the term «destruction» means the conversion of a substance by thermal, chemical, or other means to another substance with little or no carbon dioxide equivalent value and no ozone depletion potential.

-- For practices or projects regulated pursuant to paragraph (2), the Secretary shall issue under section 507 a term offset credit, in lieu of an offset credit, for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent that has been sequestered.

In the Concise English Oxford Dictionary (July 2008), there is the term «carbon offsetting» which means «the counteracting of carbon dioxide emissions with an equivalent reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere».

-- The term «carbon dioxide equivalent» means the unit of measure, expressed in metric tons, of greenhouse gases as provided under section 711 or 712.

The awarded projects — including 22 utility - scale solar farms, three wind farms and one hydroelectric project — are expected to create more than 3,000 short - and long - term jobs, generate enough clean energy to power more than 430,000 homes and reduce carbon emissions by more than 1.6 million metric tons, the equivalent of taking nearly 340,000 cars off the road.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions for 1990 at 39.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, suggesting that the Nigerian emissions may have represented approximately 0.09 % of the total in terms of CO2 and 0.76 % of the total in terms of methane, using the IPCCs 100 - year global warming potential for methane of 25.

Here is my explanation of the background to these figures and the term «carbon dioxide equivalents» (Nb.

Article 3 of the Kyoto Protocol states targets for emissions reductions in terms of «aggregate anthropogenic carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of the greenhouse gases listed in Annex A.» Using this approach, Australia's net greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors in 2004 totalled 564.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.

However, the use of this term is not uniform when discussing stabilisation targets as some authors define carbon dioxide equivalent concentrations as the net forcing of all anthropogenic radiative forcing agents including greenhouse gases, tropospheric ozone, and aerosols but not natural forcings.

RealClimate gives a good explanation of carbon dioxide equivalents when used in terms of atmospheric concentrations rather than emissions at http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/10/co2-equivalents/.

Study: Long - term warming equivalent to 10 °C per century could be sufficient to trigger compost - bomb instability in drying organic soils Wiley: First generation climate — carbon cycle models suggest that climate change will suppress carbon accumulation in soils, and could even lead to a net loss of global soil carbon over the next century.

Specifically, the term is defined as how much the average global surface temperature will increase if there is a doubling of greenhouse gases (expressed as carbon dioxide equivalents) in the air, once the planet has had a chance to settle into a new equilibrium after the increase occurs.