Sentences with phrase «emissions from burning fossil fuels did»

Global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels did not grow in 2015 and are projected to rise only slightly in 2016, marking three years of almost no growth, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Global Carbon Project.

Not exact matches

Global warming due to mankind's greenhouse - gas emissions from burning fossil fuels already affects the Indian monsoon and — if unabated — is expected to do even more so in the future.

-- How much do rich countries that, to a significant extent, built their wealth burning fossil fuels, owe poor ones to help them grow without creating a vast new pulse of emissions from fuel burning?

Furthermore, emissions estimates discussed here include only those from fossil fuels burned within a country's borders, meaning that the tallies do not account for international trade.

In all three cases it is easy to know what nature does: a net source, a net sink or a huge sink, simply by substracting the calculated emissions of fossil fuel burning from what is measured in the atmosphere.

The climate science is clear: sequestering carbon in land - based ecosystems, such as forests, does not «neutralize» emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

In 2016, CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning decreased by 2 percent in the U.S. and Russia and 1 percent in Japan, but increased 5 percent in India, which doesn't yet show signs of decoupling growth from emissions.

And at the heart of the matter is our dependence on fossil fuels and how the idea of stabilizing our emissions from burning fossil fuels will impact on just about everything we do and believe in - what I think Doctor Curry referred to as our «values».

«What Salby does not explain is this: total human emissions of CO2 from fossil - fuel burning are far larger than total CO2 increase.

Perhaps the most important issue in all this is, as the Royal Society pointed out in their assessment of geoengineering, the first and foremost thing we have to do to stop climate change is radically limit greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activity — stopping burning fossil fuels and stopping deforestation are at the top of list for how to do that.