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