Sentences with phrase «data on carbon emissions»

We are working with partners to develop a tool that collects and visualizes data on carbon emissions in fisheries and aquaculture operations in order to better inform our audiences and incentivize a reduction in fuel use in seafood production.

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Cities consume 78 % of energy globally, according to CDP, the major organization collecting data on climate risk, and without intervention the power generation market would be on track to double its carbon emissions by 2040.

Plus, you can get vehicle data, such as information on carbon emissions, fuel efficiency, and even speeding, harsh braking and engine idling.

This graphic depicts the carbon intensity of shipping wine from various global wine regions to key U.S. cities and bases its data on a seriously flawed, two - year - old working paper that is filled with untested assumptions, has not been peer reviewed, and does not accurately reflect the complexities of greenhouse gas emissions in the wine sector.

Based on data compiled by the Global Carbon Project, carbon dioxide emissions worldwide dropped 1.3 per cent in 2009, compared to 2008.

But a recent study in PNAS suggested that wind (and other renewables) will fall short of slashing carbon emissions, because there just isn't enough of it in the U.S. Based on data from a company owned by one of the study's authors, this map's white areas show where wind turbines would be most effective — but because wind isn't available all the time, they'd only produce roughly 50 percent of the energy wind turbines could at maximum capacity.

In 2008, they drew on data covering 1980 to 2006 to argue that there had been «declining intensities of impact, from energy use and carbon emission to food consumption and fertiliser use, globally and in countries ranging from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774).

They multiplied these numbers by the amount of carbon emitted by each sector based on state data to identify carbon emissions from employment.

For them to work, the cities and provinces will need to settle on stringent targets to keep the carbon price high, and collect reliable emissions data to ensure the targets are being met, he adds.

The large - scale study, which incorporated data from more than 40,000 unique flights, found significant savings in carbon emissions and monetary costs when airline captains were provided with tailored monthly information on fuel efficiency, along with targets and individualized feedback.

That's according to Wenju Cai at the CSIRO in Melbourne, Australia, whose team ran 21 climate models with data on past and future carbon emissions to see what would happen.

Total anthropogenic carbon emissions modeled for in the scenarios selected by the IPCC, based on data from Table All 2.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) carbon assessment published in 2009 highlighted the disparity in methane emissions estimated by extrapolating data from wetlands, lakes, and coastal waters underlain by permafrost (32 to 112 Tg CH4 yr - 1) and estimates based on spatial and temporal variability of atmospheric methane concentrations (15 to 50 Tg CH4 yr - 1).

We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today's young people, future generations, and nature.

Electric cars» upstream carbon dioxide emissions are also calculated using DOE data on the electricity source for each state.

Global data on emissions of carbon dioxide vividly illustrate the wishful nature of such thoughts when considered against powerful underlying trends.

Here's some news that should be obvious on some level, but is now backed up with the data to prove it: the cuts in carbon emissions that developed countries have made since 1990 have been cancelled out «many» times over by

Try telling India to leave its coal in the ground after examining the latest data on per capita emissions of carbon dioxide from the Global Carbon Project, released yesterday — with India's billion - plus citizens at 1.9 tons of CO2 emitted per person per year, the European Union and China tied (for the moment) at around 7 tons and the United States at 16.4 tons:

Bernard touched on several things Microsoft is doing to reduce its carbon footprint, including using shipping containers as data center facilities.According to Bernard, the data center industry is responsible for 880 million tons of CO2 emissions annually.

Shi, A. (2003) The impact of population pressure on global carbon dioxide emissions, 1975 - 1996: evidence from pooled cross-country data, Ecological Economics, 44, 29 - 42.

Ekwurzel and her co-authors used Heede's data on company emissions in a climate model that captures how these emissions are incorporated into the Earth's carbon cycle.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), while not devoted exclusively to clean energy, is a source of U.S. data, trends, graphics, reports, and analysis on renewable energy and carbon emissions.

In addition to the text of the proposed rule, EPA issued a Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Clean Power Plan, 4 along with numerous technical supporting documents and fact sheets.5 In October 2014, EPA issued a notice of data availability, which provided discussion and solicited additional comment on several topic areas, including the 2020 - 29 compliance trajectories.6 Also in October 2014, EPA issued a supplemental proposal to address carbon pollution from affected power plants in Indian Country and U.S. territories.7 In November 2014, EPA issued an additional technical support document providing examples of how a state could translate its rate - based goal into an equivalent mass - based goal, expressed in metric tons of CO2.8 In November 2014, EPA also issued a memo addressing biogenic CO2 emissions from stationary sources that explicitly relates this topic to the implementation of the Clean Power Plan.9

The requirements of the GGBP gave participants in the Carbon Challenge a head start in measuring their energy use and emissions and planning for their carbon reductions — demonstrating a practical application of translating energy use data resulting from the GGBP into action on the part of private building owners.

In the US, Republican members of Congress are asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to forestall any effort to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act until a full, transparent investigation has taken place on allegations that fudged data played a role in establishing the link between industrial CO2 emissions and global warming.

This technical document provides a brief review of the benefits from various agriculture - based practices and technologies that have the potential to increase food production and the adaptive capacity of the food production system, as well as reduce emissions or enhance carbon storage in agricultural soils and biomass, focusing in detail on empirical evidence concerning costs and barriers to adoption, both from household and project - level data.

We have relatively strong national and global data on carbon dioxide emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuel and cement production; accumulations in the atmosphere show unequivocally that emissions far exceed the sequestration capacity of the ecosphere.

Dr. Theodore A. Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, said the long life of Larsen B «makes you think there's something particularly unusual about this warming» — perhaps evidence that the warming has been brought on by artificial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.

«(aa) the number 20 multiplied by the number of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas emissions (including direct emissions from fuel combustion, process emissions, and indirect emissions from the generation of electricity used to produce the output of the sector) of the sector based on data described in subparagraph (D); by

Parties were also invited to include national data and methodological and other information on changes in carbon stocks and emissions of GHG relating to HWP, stating the approach or approaches used for this purpose.

Yet by focusing entirely on carbon dioxide emissions, major environmental organizations have failed to account for published data showing that other gases are the main culprits behind the global warming we see today.

With new government data showing that U.S. carbon emissions in 2015 were 12 percent below 2005 levels, it might be time for some to take «yes» for an answer — that yes, on reducing carbon emissions, the United States is showing the way for the rest of the world with abundant, clean - burning natural gas.

«The theory that we caused the global warming with our emissions of carbon dioxide is based on two assumptions (guesses), made in the early 1980s when there was insufficient data.

Potential emissions data offers a complimentary perspective here because, when combined with data on reserve size, it is an indicator of the carbon intensity of future production.

As the European Commission releases the data on emissions of installations covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), evidence from the markets proves that most Member States granted their industries far too generous carbon emission allowances in the period 2emissions of installations covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), evidence from the markets proves that most Member States granted their industries far too generous carbon emission allowances in the period 2Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), evidence from the markets proves that most Member States granted their industries far too generous carbon emission allowances in the period 2005 - 07.

The infographic below, based on IPCC data, depicts the likely consequences of various emissions pathways ranging from a low - carbon future to a fossil fuel - intensive one.

The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its twenty - first session, invited Parties included in Annex I to the Convention (Annex I Parties) that have not done so to provide to the secretariat, by 1 August 2005, available data and information on changes in carbon stocks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from harvested wood products, in a transparent manner.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

But there's an asterisk: the study's authors said their projections could be skewed by a lack of data on methane emissions from lakes throughout northern Alaska, which could factor into how much carbon is ultimately stored by the forests.

Also included in these projections are associated data on fuel prices, renewable capacity, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Researchers at Purdue University in Indiana, with funding from NASA, have shoehorned a wealth of data on carbon dioxide emissions into the interactive globe tool that is Google Earth.

Based on 2008 per capita emission rates, 28 of the 55 African nations for which data are available have per capita emission rates less than 0.1 metric ton of carbon per person per year.

4) July 13, 2010: Despite his claim that it was about fraud and not about science, Cuccinelli relies on blog - science in a brief filed with the court, arguing that Mann and his colleagues have manipulated scientific data for years to back the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions.

In 2016, BT achieved our previous science based target to reduce our carbon emissions intensity by 80 % on 1996/97 levels four years early and saved # 220 million through driving efficiencies in our networks, data centres and buildings in the process.

Recent studies with actual data have estimated the impact of cycling on air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions.

For each basic model we assume the anthropogenic emission (a) is having insignificant effect on the carbon cycle, and (b) is affecting the carbon cycle to induce the observed rise in the Mauna Loa data.

Our new infographic, based on IPCC data, depicts the likely consequences of various emissions pathways ranging from a low - carbon future to a fossil fuel - intensive one.

The Energy Information Administration has just released new data on US carbon emissions from energy production, with the pretty stunning stat that for the first quarter of 2012 they were the lowest since 1992.

From the more than 60,000 coal samples in the File, 5,426 were identified as containing data on heat value and the ultimate analysis (6) needed for developing the relationship between carbon and heat content of the coal, that is, the carbon dioxide emission factors.