Sentences with phrase «carbon per year»

The new report suggests that achieving the goal of keeping a global temperature increase below 2 °C — a commonly agreed upon international goal — will actually require as many as 31 wedges, or 31 fewer gigatons of carbon per year than would be emitted if nothing were done.

The short version is that a wedge represents a climate solution that starts slowly but then rises in impact over the 50 years and ultimately avoids the emission of one billion tons of carbon per year.

Sequestering up to 260 million tonnes of carbon per year, the Chinese land sink is more than twice as large than that of geographic Europe, and comparable in size to that of the United States.

The country emits roughly the same amount of carbon per year as the U.S., France, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the U.K combined.

That said, if you could determine N such that CO2 levels following a single year's current emissions declined to radiative insignificance following N years, perhaps we could be said to be burning N years of fossil carbon per year.

That is 227 million tonnes of carbon per year and considered to be more than averagely harmful because of the black carbon (soot) component.

Mangrove deforestation generates greenhouse gas emissions of 0.02 — 0.12 petagrams of carbon per year, which is equivalent to up to 10 percent of carbon emissions from global deforestation, according to the research team's findings.

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).

They calculated that you could absorb 800 million metric tons of carbon per year for $ 19 billion per year, and you could get 500 million metric tons for only $ 8 to $ 9 billion.

Then I divide by 3.67 (the CO2 to C conversion factor) and get 10.5 Gt of carbon per year.

During this time, the average annual total release of was 9.3 billion tons of carbon per year, thus on average 2.5 billion tons went into the ocean annually.

Several scenarios indicate that by 2020 China will be contributing around 2 billion tonnes of carbon per year to earth's atmosphere.

The y - axis of the RCP emissions graph is in Gt of carbon per year.

Tier 1: If a Party's afforestation, reforestation and deforestation activities result in more emissions than removals, then the Party may offset these emissions through forest management activities, up to a total level of 9 megatons of carbon per year for the five - year commitment period.

Tier 2: The extent to which forest management activities can be accounted for to help meet emission targets beyond 9 megatons of carbon per year is subject to an individual cap for each Party, specified in an appendix to the decision on LULUCF.

The CRC is a UK mandatory scheme aiming to cut carbon emissions by 1.2 million tonnes of carbon per year by 2020.

According to the National Academy of Science, for 2000 to 2006, humans contributed 9.1 gtons of carbon per year to the atmosphere.

They estimated that, based on some models, permafrost thaw could release 0.8 - 1.1 Pg of carbon per year, roughly equal to the estimates of carbon emissions from land use changes such as agriculture, forestry, et al..

As well as enhancing food security, carbon sequestration has the potential to offset fossilfuel emissions by 0.4 to 1.2 gigatons of carbon per year, or 5 to 15 % of the global fossil - fuel emissions.

Converted to 100 m2, that is about 40 kg net sequestering of carbon per year per 100 m2.

.03 lbs of carbon per cubic foot of natural gas * 150 trillion cubic feet per year (100 now) = 2.25 billion tons of carbon per year.

Only four African countries have per capita CO2 emissions higher than the global average (1.3 metric ton of carbon per year): Libya (2.53), South Africa (2.39), the Seychelles (2.22), and Equatorial Guinea (1.99).

Total carbon storage in upland and wetland ecosystems in the state is expected to increase from 3.7 million metric tons of carbon per year prior to 2009 to up to 34 million metric tons per year through the end of the century.

The carbon majors are defined as fossil fuel production entities and cement manufacturers that produced more than ≥ 8 million tonnes carbon per year (MtC / y), while the total human attribution case refers to all relevant human activities that have been measured and used in climate assessment model scenarios that influence climate change.

Recent research found that natural solutions like improved management of forests, wetlands, grasslands and agricultural lands can remove about 5.6 GtCO2e of carbon per year by 2030 — a figure equivalent to total global emissions from agriculture in 2014 — at a cost of less than $ 100 per tonne of carbon.

Their solid measurements of a terrestrial carbon sink removing 0.3 Pg of carbon per year from the atmosphere in Africa's trees, combined with those of other tropical forests, can explain more than one third of the missing carbon sink (1.3 Pg carbon per year).

These two floors take the forms and where A and B are constants with units of gigatonnes of carbon per year (GtC yr − 1) and represent the size of the emissions floor in the year 2050 (t = t2050), and τ is a time constant set to 200 years.

We can avoid a billion tonnes of farming and forestry emissions and sequester 1 to 3 billion tonnes of carbon per year — with critical benefits for — inter alia — food security.

«For example, the International Energy Agency this year reported that our global economy could be $ 18 trillion better off by 2035 if we adopted energy efficiency as a first choice, while various estimates put the potential from energy efficient improvements anywhere between 2.5 and 6.8 gigatons of carbon per year by 2030,» he said.

If half of those survive, they will sequester 5.6 million tons of carbon per year.

A 2011 survey of 41 Arctic researchers found that rapidly reducing human greenhouse emissions would limit the volume of carbon feedback from the Arctic to 10 % of the annual current human emission (or about 1 billion tons of carbon per year) by the end of the 21rst Century, but continue that emission for centuries to come (current Arctic carbon emissions are likely in the range of 30 million tons of methane and 100 million tons of CO2 each year).

Fossil - fuel burning amounts to 7Gt of atmospheric carbon per year.

The more interesting measure is the mass of aluminium (as the membrane material between the two directions of flow in the heat exchanger) needed to build a plant with a 95 % efficient heat exchanger able to remove ten tonnes of carbon per year from the atmosphere, bearing in mind that scrap aluminium currently costs $ 1500 / ton.

Lastly, Barcelona's trees are expected to store 113,000 metric tons of carbon per year.

This translates out to about 41 trillion grams of carbon per year, three - quarters of which is attributed to the changing climate and one - quarter of which is attributed to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.

The sink swallowed up roughly 0.77 gigaton of carbon per year, persisting despite a significant increase in biomass burning emissions that occurred during the dry season of 2011, fueled by the rapid growth of vegetation that year.

Humans have been burning about 7 gigatons of carbon per year (average of last 10 years.

Aggregating the numbers from the more optimistic high end of the range for each practice yields a total of 1.2 billion tons of carbon per year.

As of 2007, the shrinking forests in the tropical regions were releasing 2.2 billion tons of carbon per year.

Nature sequesters more carbon per year than it emits.

What is the equivalent rate of increase in round metric tons of carbon per year?

al. (Science, Vol 292, Issue 5525, 2316 - 2320, 22 June 2001), they found the carbon sink «in the coterminous United States [to be] between 0.30 and 0.58 petagrams of carbon per year» for the 1980 - 89 period.

«If the total sink is about 0.3 Pg of carbon per year, and the CO2 / climate sink is about 0.1 Pg of carbon per year, other processes such as regrowth on abandoned agricultural and harvested forest lands must cause a sink of about 0.2 Pg of carbon per year.»

As well as halving power consumption, the project resulted in initial savings of 11.5 tonnes of carbon per year and financial savings of # 13,500 per year are expected.

The wind and PV generate electricity for use on - site and have saved an estimated two tonnes of carbon per year.

With the aid of global Earth observations and data - driven models, the researchers show that on average, extreme events prevent the uptake of around 3 petagrams carbon per year by the vegetation.

The goal of the competition is to find a method that will remove at least 1 billion tons of carbon per year from the atmosphere.

Although seagrasses account for less than 0.2 % of the world's oceans, they sequester approximately 10 % of the carbon buried in ocean sediment annually (27.4 Tg of carbon per year) *.

Recent analysis shows that 25 - 50 % of this target (equivalent to 0.9 - 1.85 bn tonnes of carbon per year) could be achieved on the 16 million square kilometres of suitable farmland across the world.