Sentences with phrase «default emissions factors»

«They use default emissions factors for various types of coals, they have to use various efficiency rates and things like that, and slight tweaks in those has huge impacts when you're talking about hundreds of millions of credits.»

The default emission factors are averages based on the most extensive data sets available and they are largely identical to those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chage (IPCC), the premier authority on accounting practices at the national level.

Not exact matches

However, emission factors for Chinese coal were on average 40 per cent lower than the default levels recommended by the IPCC.

Direct field measurements of N2O emissions are prohibitively costly, and the use of default values can not capture variation in emissions associated with weather conditions and site - specific factors.