Sentences with phrase «emissions accounting»

Because rising greenhouse gas emissions account for all or part of the water vapor increase, it is likely to continue for many decades.

Allowing those most in need to participate is an important principle of social justice and an established greenhouse gas emissions accounting practice (called «suppressed demand»).

Global industrial GHG emissions accounted for just over 30 % of global GHG emissions in 2010.

Included in these accounting procedures are credible and effective emissions accounting and reduction programs that can be used for addressing and minimizing climate change.

The use of coal as a fuel has now surpassed oil and developing countries now emit more greenhouse gases than developed countries — with a quarter of their growth in emissions accounted for by increased trade with the West.

This methane mitigation success is reflected not only in EDF's studies, but also EPA and the Global Carbon Project data (which was referenced in the aforementioned highly regarded NAS study), which show U.S. oil and natural gas methane emissions account for only 1.4 percent of all methane emissions worldwide.

Energy - related CO2 emissions account for about 95 percent of Tokyo's GHG emissions.

34 U.S. states, 2 Canadian provinces, and 2 Native American nation establish a single, unified GHG emissions accounting system.

As Professor Green mentioned, the singular focus on emissions is pervasive, and in some cases understandable (for instance, comparing national emissions accounts — measured in MTCO2 — is often much easier than harmonizing and comparing trade - adjusted energy consumption — measured variously in Mtoe, GWhs, bbls, EJs, etc etc).

For the past ten years, Mary Booth, an ecologist with the Partnership for Policy Integrity in Pelham, Massachusetts, has immersed herself in the complex, nuanced, politically charged world of international carbon emissions accounting models as if the planet's fate depends on it.

I think this emerging form of emissions accounting provides a valuable way to show how the growing coal (and natural gas) greenhouse - gas emissions commitment will play out, but — because of the competing social and economic values embedded in that extracted energy, along with the equity argument poor countries use against established fossil - powered industrial giants — I'm not sure it leads to a more effective strategy for cutting those emissions.

Carbon dioxide emissions accounted for about 81 % of total GHG emissions in Canada in 1995 (Natural Resources Canada, 1997).

That is partly because emissions accounting standards focus on where a fuel is burned, not where it is dug up; because the coal trade is a lucrative business; and because the labor - intensive mining industry creates jobs.

And yet these everyday products were responsible for 38 percent of the VOC emissions, the researchers found, while gasoline and diesel emissions accounted for only 33 percent.

«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.

Animal emissions account for up to 70 percent of emissions in high - income countries such as the United States.

China's accumulated emissions account for only 7 % of the global total.

Taken literally, the IPCC statement meant that the projected reduction in SOx emissions accounted for the greater part of the increase of 2.3 Â °C in the upper end of the IPCC range.

The first private, voluntary offset program in the world, ACR has over 20 years of experience in developing scientific greenhouse gas emissions accounting methodologies.

He emphasizes a recent trend in finance models for forest preservation and a growing consensus in the international community: local projects linked to regional or national government emissions accounting frameworks limit the risk for leakage and increase the security of reductions.

b) lack of procedures for emissions accounting which adequately represent agricultural production systems with multiple and diverse outputs, which also encompass ecosystem services;

Airline emissions account for 2 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and, without stronger measures, could triple by 2050.

The consumption ‐ based framework for GHG emission accounting allocates the emissions released during the production and distribution (i.e., along the supply chain) of goods and services to the final consumer and the nation (or another territorial unit) in which they resides, irrespective of the geographical origin of these products.

He notes that China is a large developing country with less sophisticated emissions accounting systems compared to industrialized nations like the U.S. and European Union.

The Global Protocol for Community - Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC) uses a robust and clear framework to establish credible emissions accounting and reporting practices, thereby

The agency acknowledges that U.S. mercury (Hg) emissions constitute only 5 % of global anthropogenic Hg emissions and only 2 % of the total global Hg pool, and that U.S. power plant emissions account for only 0.6 % of the global pool.

On the design of upcoming workshops ECO invites Parties to make future presentations more focused on the actual questions that need answers, e.g. assumptions behind pledges or baselines or crystal clear explanations on emissions accounting.

The difference is a result of emissions accounting rules, with part of the UK's emissions covered by the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).

More disturbing: Booth's research opens up the IPCC to charges that its policymaking decisions regarding emissions accounting have been politicized — crafted by negotiators to include built - in loopholes that allow nations to underreport certain emissions while appearing to achieve their carbon - reduction targets.

My coal emissions accounting leaves out a lot.

Emissions accounting helps determine whether or not nations are on target to achieve their voluntary Paris Agreement reduction goals.

«Why does the IPCC appear to accept inaccurate emissions accounting?»

Aviation emissions account for approximately 4.9 % of all global warming and, if left unaddressed, are projected to grow by up to 300 % by 2050.

And given the impact that cars have on the city's environment (the government has said that car emissions account for 79 percent of urban air pollution) and energy use (see its African interests), the central government would do well to weigh those interests carefully — not just to institute «no car» days, but to engage in a smart planning that would make days like these history.

Transportation emissions account for 29 % of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and the newly quantifiable data could spur development in urban areas served by public transportation.

Until now, emissions accounting under IPCC methodological guidance largely ignored emissions reductions from wetlands restoration.

The researchers calculate that overall global methane emissions account for about 16.7 percent of total radiative forcing.

The 35 members of the OECD decided in 1991 that CO2 emissions from biomass combustion would not be included in CO2 emission accounting.

The use of coal as a fuel has now surpassed oil and developing countries now emit more greenhouse gases than developed countries â $ «with a quarter of their growth in emissions accounted for by increased trade with the West.

Vested interests underpin flaws in international carbon emission accounting that allow subsidies to flow from directives that burning wood biomass is carbon neutral, therefore eligible for consideration as a renewable.

The brochure emphasizes that manmade carbon dioxide emissions account for 3 % of total carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere, and -LSB-...]

The letter says the E.U.'s current greenhouse gas emissions accounting standard is «flawed» and requires «immediate action».

According to Lucio Pedroni, CEO of Carbon Decisions, a Costa Rica - based consultancy working with Peru's Environment Ministry, the government is planning on building its REDD methodology upwards and downwards from the regions, potentially using the framework adopted by Madre de Dios» regional government or another region as the basis for the national carbon stocks and emissions accounting systems.