Sentences with phrase «emissions data on»

We kept our calculator simple to focus on the reliable data that's available now — which includes emissions data on home electricity and fuel use, as well as auto and air travel.

- Look at the green part... Emissions data on the website of the US DOE if I remember wel.

The emission data on the RCPs were harmonized and downscaled (to a 0.5 × 0.5 grid) for air pollutants, i.e. aerosols and tropospheric ozone precursors.

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Canada and the U.S. have also committed to work together to improve methane data collection and reporting, and collaborate on ways to reduce methane emissions.

The 56 companies on our 2017 Change the World list, which includes six smaller rising stars, are tackling problems obvious and not - so - obvious — from Accenture, which is using data to reduce E.R. visits, to DSM, a Dutch life sciences company, that is fighting greenhouse gas emissions from a notorious source: cow flatulence.

In 2012, forecasts for 2020 global emissions were revised down from 2008 forecasts for the same period, based on actual energy efficiencies realized between 2008 and 2012, along with updated data.

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.

The choice to use contraceptives or to support legislation limiting industrial emissions may be based in part on scientific data, but the choice itself is subjective.

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.

We've been working with the Carbon Trust since 2014; last year (2017) they carried out a limited assurance engagement on selected GHG emissions data (table below) in accordance with ISO 14064 - 3:2006, «Specification with guidance for the validation and verification of greenhouse gas assertions».

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.

However, no data exist on the effects of organic agriculture on methane emissions.

More accurate distances between the most common type of «planetary nebulae» and the Earth can be estimated simply with three sets of data: firstly, the size of the object on the sky taken from the latest high resolution surveys; secondly, an accurate measurement of how bright the object is in the red hydrogen - alpha emission line; and thirdly, an estimate of the dimming toward the nebula caused by so called interstellar - reddening.

Through modeling carried out by Dr. Sean Brittain, a Clemson University astrophysicist and the lead author on the paper, and with additional data gathered by the team to confirm their initial hypothesis, they were able to investigate the extra emission as it orbited the star.

Next week, the heads of 11 space agencies are expected to issue a joint communique from a meeting in New Delhi calling for cooperation to calibrate instruments and validate measurements «to achieve an international, independent system for estimating the global emissions based on internationally accepted data.»

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.

Large - scale organic farming operations, based on a review of almost a decade of data from 49 states, are not reducing greenhouse gas emissions, says a University of Oregon researcher.

In connection with V2V and V2I research, DOT is gathering data on vehicle emissions through the five - year Applications for the Environment: Real - Time Information Synthesis (AERIS) program.

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).

«This study suggests that methane emissions may be a serious problem in Utah, but we need more data to pinpoint exactly where emissions are coming from and to identify where the opportunities are to reduce them,» said Hamburg, calling this and other recent research on methane emissions «alarm bells ringing in our ears.»

«The environmental impact of prescribed burns has historically been based on data from clean fuels in areas of good air quality, so we have likely been under - predicting the impact of biomass emissions in polluted areas,» Asa - Awuku said.

In the new set - up, a real - world seasonal forecast driven by data on current sea - surface temperatures will be run alongside a simulated «no global warming» seasonal forecast, in which greenhouse gas emissions have been stripped out.

This is exactly where the E.U. was in 2005, when it embarked on the pilot phase of its ETS — and the lack of emissions data allowed companies to game the system.

To investigate the impacts, Yale's Jodi Sherman, M.D. and first author Matthew Eckelman of Northeastern University first used an economic model based on federal data to calculate total emissions of different pollutants produced by the healthcare sector over a 10 - year period, drawing on national health expenditure data.

Here, satellite data on nighttime light emissions can be used as an alternative data source.

The researchers also were tasked with designing a long - term plan to collect data on the drilling once it began, tracing how emissions affected residents.

CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project, is one of the world's leading collectors and disseminators of business sector data on greenhouse gas emissions, and its annual «Global 500 Climate Change Report» has become one of the leading indicators of how corporations are responding to climate change.

Estimates of China's greenhouse gas emissions are based in large part on official Chinese reports on the amount of coal it burns — data that China's government routinely revises over time, affecting scientists» estimates of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

Carbon dioxide emissions from energy production in the United States fell to 5.29 billion metric tons in 2012 - its lowest level since 1994 - despite a growing economy and rising population, according to government data released on Monday.

The authors performed a systematic literature search for data on e-cigarettes» mechanism of action, their emissions, how they are seen by groups of potential users, their efficacy in smoking cessation, and their addiction potential.

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

He noted that in January, NASA announced that it hopes to enlarge its data gathering on Earth's emissions in the early 2020s, by launching a satellite it calls the Geostationary Carbon Observatory, or «GeoCarb.»

«When we first detected this signal in our data, we relied on models for Galactic dust emission that were available at the time,» says John Kovac, a principal investigator of BICEP2 at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the ESA press release.

The new study, which incorporates satellite data on fire with fossil fuel emissions data from a 14 - year period between 1997 and 2010, marks one of the first times this shift has been tested with global data.

Based on data from these two launches, the researchers found fluctuations, but they had to go through a careful process to identify and remove local sources, such as the instrument, as well as emissions from the solar system, stars, scattered starlight in the Milky Way, and known galaxies.

That's due to a lack of good data on emissions and output from the rest of the sectors.

Scientists can confidently say that Earth is warming due to greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, but data on climate trends over the Antarctic and the surrounding Southern Ocean only go back to 1979 when regular satellite observations began.

When the EPA asked in a 2009 Federal Register notice for suggestions on how to improve the system, companies from electric power generators to auto manufacturers argued for the status quo, saying emission factors were sometimes their only data option.

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.

To construct the estimates, the researchers used data on locomotive diesel consumption, pipeline pumping station electricity consumption, locomotive and power plant emission factors and the AP2 integrated assessment model, which maps county level emissions to costs for counties affected by the emissions.

Data on emissions comes from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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.

But based on that data, they estimate that emissions from abandoned wells represents as much as 10 percent of methane from human activities in Pennsylvania — about the same amount as caused by current oil and gas production.

Along with data from the few studies like Yokelson's, Wiedinmyer used guidelines for calculating trash burning emissions produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to determine how much waste was being generated and burned, what exactly was in that waste, and what types of chemicals were likely generated.

Lead UK researcher Prof Dabo Guan, of UEA's School of International Development, said the key contributor to the new estimates was fuel quality, which for the first time was taken into consideration in establishing emission inventories — something the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and most international data sources had not.

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.

Some cities, especially in the developing world, simply don't have access to the kind of data needed for a comprehensive inventory; Maleki says he often works in places where the only emissions data available are on a national scale.

This action, announced in advance, provided a unique opportunity to compare data on ambient PAH levels, biomarkers, and health outcomes in two successive cohorts of children, with and without prenatal exposure to emissions from the coal - fired power plant.