As of 1 January 2005, 177 companies had joined the covenant, which projects
cumulative emissions saving of 2.45 MtCO2 (0.67 MtC) in 2012 (Government of Flanders, 2005).
Overall, although natural gas is a non-renewable fossil fuel that emits carbon dioxide,
the cumulative emissions saved by fuel switching over the next decade from coal to natural gas are likely to prove far cheaper than the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in future decades.
Not exact matches
To date, participants have
saved a
cumulative $ 73 million and more than 576 million kWh of electricity, contributing to the prevention of more than 940,000 tonnes of CO2e
emissions from product manufacturing and transportation.
But hailing the carbon
saved by the US since 2005, while ignoring what it added before that would fail to acknowledge the
cumulative nature of the carbon
emissions burden on the atmosphere.
Fourteen percent reduction in
cumulative GHG
emissions, which will
save $ 400 billion in avoided global damages