Sentences with phrase «emissions figure of»

The ix35 blue, which goes into production at the end of 2010 offers CO2 emissions figure of just 135 g / km, positioning it not only as a rival to leading C - segment SUV models but also to C - segment hatchbacks.

The S4's CO2 emissions figure of 171g / km is fairly high, but as of 1 April 2017, it won't affect your yearly road - tax bill.

An emissions figure of 34g / km and fuel economy of 188mpg are being targeted by Kia, although these will be confirmed closer to launch in late summer.

The hybrid petrol powertrain will officially return 54.3 MPG on the combined NEDC cycle, with CO2 emissions figures of 121 g / km for the model tested.

Therefore, in partial - load range, cylinders two, three, five and eight are disengaged for a lower fuel consumption, promised to be around 13.2 l / 100 km and better CO2 emissions figures of 299 g / km.

Compared to the diesels, the 1.6 - litre T - GDi turbo petrol looks uncompetitive with CO2 emissions figures of over 170g / km.

However, going against industry norms, models with the CVT automatic gearbox are actually more efficient, promising fuel economy and CO2 emissions figures of 54.3 mpg and 120g / km, respectively.

Reaching 100 km / h in just 5.1 seconds, the performance belies the conscientiously frugal fuel consumption and emissions figures of just 7.4 l / 100 km and 171 g / km of CO2 respectively.

Not exact matches

Speaking on these figures, Steve Frost said: «A lot of later diesels are reasonably clean vehicles, the ones the Government are trying to get off the road are the older ones which don't comply to the latest euro emissions - they can be quite dirty diesels.»

Russia has gone them one better: By picking a 1990 baseline, before the collapse of the Soviet Union's economy, they figure they can actually continue to increase their emissions and still claim a long - term reduction.

The figure estimates 4.2 tons less of carbon dioxide emissions each year for each truck.

Figures from the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply's «Long Term Outlook» now indicate that the country's livestock industry — whose associated greenhouse gas emissions and land use are already a concern for environmentalists — will grow still further in the next ten years.

This required 1.6 billion litres of fuel and, based on a conservative figure of 50 grams of carbon dioxide per tonne - kilometre resulted in 4.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions (4).

This system allows us to report energy and water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and waste generation at a global and site level, as an absolute figure or per unit of production.

«However, an exact figure for global CO ₂ emissions resulting from the infant formula industry is not known,» says Alison Linnecar, author of the report, «partly because the CO ₂ emissions per liter vary between countries.

Mr Miliband also pointed out the figure does not take into account the EU emissions trading scheme, which covers nearly half of UK emissions.

Mr Miliband said: «Any increase in carbon dioxide emissions is worrying, even though these figures do not include the effect of emissions trading.

Although no firm figures for carbon dioxide emissions are available for SpaceShipTwo, a single NASA space shuttle launch produces 28 tons of carbon dioxide.

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.

The EPA partly arrived at the lower figure by excluding the cost of U.S. emissions on other countries, yet as the study shows, effects in developing countries have clear spillovers on developed countries.

Another 47 % of emissions, by the way, come from homes, businesses, agriculture, and transportation, but EPA has yet to figure out how or whether to monitor those.

Using the higher figure in their calculations, they determined that a 67 percent reduction in NO emissions in the United States could reduce annual health impacts of agricultural air pollution by up to $ 660 million.

Figuring out the composition of dark earth and how it was formed offers a way to improve soil fertility for today's small farmers and also curb carbon emissions from the fires that these farmers set to clear the forest.

Atmospheric concentrations of the most ubiquitous greenhouse gas reached 381 parts - per - million in 2006 after emissions of CO2 from burning fossil fuels rose to 8.4 billion metric tons (1.85 x 1013 pounds) per year, according to figures from the United Nations, British Petroleum and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes — according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.

«There is massive uncertainty in this figure, and until much more research is done no serious scientist should express any confidence in such estimates,» of iron fertilization's geoengineering potential, cautions oceanographer Richard Lampitt of the National Oceanography Center in England, who also argues that more research into such potential geoengineering techniques is needed due to the failure of global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

The goal was to figure out which factors influence ammonia emissions in dairy barns and to, ultimately, lower the amount of ammonia being released from dairy facilities, says Adeline Bougouin, lead author of the study.

One of the biggest challenges will be to figure out how to reduce emissions from the state's 1.4 million dairy cows

The figure is also about 10 per cent less than the estimate given for China in the most recent publication of the Global Carbon Project, which updates annually the global carbon emissions and their implications for future trends.

Who would insist that India should reduce this figure further, in line with rising population, when the US can claim to be meeting its international obligations by sticking close to its current per capita emissions of more than 5 tonnes?

Despite concerted global efforts to reduce carbon emissions through the expansion of clean and renewable energy resources, fossil fuels continued to dominate the global energy sector in 2012, according to new figures released yesterday by the Worldwatch Institute.

Below is one of the figures from the draft summary that sparked debate; it shows that emissions from lower - middle income countries (LMCs) and upper - middle income countries (UMCs) are rising faster than emissions from high - income countries (HICs).

David Maleki, a climate change analyst with the Inter-American Development Bank's Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative, helps cities in Latin America and the Caribbean use the protocol to figure out which sectors are responsible for most of their greenhouse gas emissions.

By 2030, the figure could grow to 14 percent of capacity, a level that would be met with «minimal» additional investments in power transmission and storage, while significantly cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, the draft asserted.

The largest source of «clean» energy is not reducing carbon emissions by as much as official figures claim — and it is causing immense harm to the poor and to wildlife

On the high end, recent work suggests that 4 feet is plausible.23, 3,6,7,8 In the context of risk - based analysis, some decision makers may wish to use a wider range of scenarios, from 8 inches to 6.6 feet by 2100.10,2 In particular, the high end of these scenarios may be useful for decision makers with a low tolerance for risk (see Figure 2.26 on global sea level rise).10, 2 Although scientists can not yet assign likelihood to any particular scenario, in general, higher emissions scenarios that lead to more warming would be expected to lead to higher amounts of sea level rise.

Faced with this limit, each of these rich nations would be forced to rapidly reduce its emissions (see figure).

Even without figuring these surprising methane emissions, I think these fuels may possibly entail greater GHG emissions than they offset — in the manufacture of pesticides, fertilizers, farm equipment; irrigation water & energy to pump it; transporation of bauxite from S. America (harming rainforests) to make farm equipment, ag schools, secretaries, and all the paper work at each stage... the list goes on & on & on.

But scientists are starting to figure out how greenhouse - gas emissions are beginning to threaten some of the things Americans love the most — including holiday traditions like ham and wine.

Those who argue that reducing emissions will be too expensive ignore the costs of climate change - economic studies have consistently shown that mitigation is several times less costly than trying to adapt to climate change (Figure 7).

Though the figures vary, World Bank scientists have attributed up to 51 percent of human - caused greenhouse gas emissions to the livestock industry.

Should the EPA figure the cost of reducing mercury emissions from coal - fired power plants for health reasons?

Average daily minimum and maximum temperatures increase in the mid-century and end - of - century projections for both stabilization and business - as - usual emission scenarios (Figure 2 - 10 shows output for annual average daily maximum temperature).

The tumors formed in mice co-treated with chidamide and decitabine were significantly smaller than those that formed in untreated animals or those treated with the single agents, starting from 15 days of treatment (Figure 4C, left panel), as visualized by 18F - fluorodeoxyglucose small - animal positron emission tomography — computed tomography at 21 days of treatment (Figure 4C, right panel).

They say analysis of the 30 data points is more informative about likely future emissions than national figures in wider use because it allows errors to be tracked more closely.

But the figure that was pointed out seems to suggest that the uncertainties of the negative forcings may postpone warming from emissions significantly.

These results and the emerging additional regions of highest climate change vulnerability under high emissions scenarios (Figures S7, S8, S9) suggest that global policies that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions will substantially reduce species» climate change vulnerability.

For the first time, they succeeded in imaging the detailed structures of the circumbinary disk, and found that the circumbinary disk consists of a southern U-shaped feature and northern emission protrusions pointing to the northwest and the northeast (Figure 1).

Pierrehumbert said Howarth uses the figure for methane's 20 - year global warming potential — 86 times that of carbon dioxide — without seriously discussing the magnitude of warming caused by those methane emissions compared to warming prevented by the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

Ask an astronomer what the top 10 unsolved mysteries in the universe are, and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)-- intense bursts of radio emissions lasting mere milliseconds — would definitely figure on the list.