«Increasing consumption in urbanising China has been identified as an important driver of household carbon footprints over the last 20 years due to the growing urban population and incomes, while
decreasing carbon intensity of the Chinese economy only weakly dampens these trends,» the study says.
There are ways to mitigate the risk — gas and high efficiency, low emission (HELE) coal generation
decrease the carbon intensity of energy generation.
Not exact matches
Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a
carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions
decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions
intensity would not change, so its
carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»
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.
An 18 %
decrease in
carbon intensity is still an increase in
carbon emissions.
The EU's
carbon intensity — the amount of
carbon emitted for each unit of economic output — has been
decreasing by 2 % per year since 2000, PWC says.
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All of the IPCC emission scenarios for the next century that were published in 2000 assume that the
carbon intensity of energy and the energy
intensity of gross domestic product (GDP) will
decrease continuously.
Beyond 2030, regional
carbon prices increase, including for countries that previously had no climate policies, and progressively converge at a speed that depends on their per capita income; on average, the world GHG
intensity over 2030 - 2050
decreases at the same rate as for 2020 - 2030.
GHG emissions would increase unless policies
decreased the
carbon -
intensity of economic activity by more than the increase in activity.
In other words, its time to accept a voluntary
decrease in GDP and incomes, at least in developed countries, to reduce emissions and buy us time to figure out the best way to drastically reduce global
carbon intensity.
ENVIRONMENTAL OVERVIEW Total Energy Consumption (2000E): 2.7 quadrillion Btu * (0.7 % of world total energy consumption) Energy - Related
Carbon Emissions (2000E): 36.4 million metric tons of
carbon (0.6 % of world
carbon emissions) Per Capita Energy Consumption (2000E): 73.2 million Btu (vs. U.S. value of 351.0 million Btu) Per Capita
Carbon Emissions (2000E): 1.0 metric tons of
carbon (vs U.S. value of 5.6 metric tons of
carbon) Energy
Intensity (2000E): 9,226 Btu / $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 10,918 Btu / $ 1995) **
Carbon Intensity (2000E): 0.12 metric tons of
carbon / thousand $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 0.17 metric tons / thousand $ 1995) ** Sectoral Share of Energy Consumption (1998E): Industrial (48.6 %), Transportation (23.7 %), Residential (18.8 %), Commercial (8.8 %) Sectoral Share of
Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (44.8 %), Transportation (32.7 %), Residential (16.2 %), Commercial (6.2 %) Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (2000E): Natural Gas (45.2 %), Oil (36.3 %), Coal (1.5 %) Fuel Share of
Carbon Emissions (2000E): Oil (48.1 %), Natural Gas (49.3 %), Coal (2.5 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 393 trillion Btu * (0.5 %
decrease from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 5.6 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (signed June 12, 1992 and ratified on March 11, 1994).
ENVIRONMENTAL OVERVIEW Secretary of Environment & Natural Resources: Victor Lichtinger Total Energy Consumption (2000E): 6.18 quadrillion Btu * (1.6 % of world total energy consumption) Energy - Related
Carbon Emissions (2000E): 103.2 million metric tons of
carbon (1.6 % of world total
carbon emissions) Per Capita Energy Consumption (2000E): 62.5 million Btu (vs U.S. value of 351.0 million Btu) Per Capita
Carbon Emissions (2000E): 1.0 metric tons of
carbon (vs U.S. value of 5.6 metric tons of
carbon) Energy
Intensity (2000E): 16,509 Btu / $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 10,918 Btu / $ 1995) **
Carbon Intensity (2000E): 0.28 metric tons of
carbon / thousand $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 0.18 metric tons / thousand $ 1995) ** Sectoral Share of Energy Consumption (1998E): Industrial (54.7 %), Transportation (24.8 %), Residential (15.9 %), Commercial (4.6 %) Sectoral Share of
Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (50.9 %), Transportation (31.1 %), Residential (13.2 %), Commercial (4.8 %) Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (2000E): Oil (63.2 %), Natural Gas (23.7 %), Coal (4.0 %) Fuel Share of
Carbon Emissions (2000E): Oil (73.5 %), Natural Gas (20.4 %), Coal (6.2 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 713.7 trillion Btu * (1 %
decrease from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 6.9 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified March 11th, 1993).
The findings suggest that the global economy is more dependent on fossil fuels than ever before, with
carbon intensity — the amount of
carbon needed to produce a unit of economic output —
decreasing after a period of increases.
Having retrieved the original article (Canadell et al., 2007, PNAS online) it's written (p. 3) that 65 + / -16 % of... d ² CO2 / dt ² (translation of «increase of atmospheric CO2 growth rate») is attributed to «the increase in the global economy», the remaining 35 + / -16 % being attributed to «the increase in
carbon intensity in the global economy» and 18 + / -15 % to «the
decrease in the efficiency of the lands and ocean sinks in removing anthropogenic CO2».
The higher imports of tar sands, as a result of new pipelines in the US and Canada, would increase the average
carbon intensity of Europe's fuels by 1.5 % in 2020, undermining the targeted 6 %
decrease.