Sentences with phrase «emissions from fossil fuel consumption»

Actual and projected CO2 emissions from fossil fuel consumption, 2005 — 2050 (billion metric tonnes).

And even as nations work to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel consumption, investment in coal, oil and gas production remains high and is expected to hold steady or continue to grow.

Anyone familiar with the issue knows that the emissions from fossil fuel consumption contributes only 4 - 5 % of the total annual flux.

We want to do our part to reduce our carbon emissions from fossil fuel consumption in order to help prevent the worst effects of climate change.

Not exact matches

The main reason the US ranks so poorly on carbon dioxide emissions is because its per - person consumption rate of electricity is so high; all of that energy comes primarily from fossil fuels.

Other similar billion - ton savings in emissions (what Princeton University professors Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow have dubbed «stabilization wedges») are desperately needed and can come only from reduction in fossil - fuel consumption through energy efficiency, low - carbon technologies and changes in way of life.

The only CO2 emissions we actually measure (and even that may be more inferred from energy consumption than actually measured) is our fossil fuel related emissions.

Internationally, the energy consumption of China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico will lead to a major global demand increase, which is likely to be met in large part from fossil fuels,» warning that the capacity to deal with these very substantial potential emissions «must urgently be developed.»

About one - quarter of the total emissions are related to fossil fuel extraction (CH4 emissions from coal mines, CH4 venting from oil extraction), transport and distribution (e.g., leakage from pipelines), and consumption (incomplete combustion).

Carbon emissions from the global consumption of fossil fuels are currently above 8 GtC per year and rising faster than the most pessimistic economic model considered by the IPCC.

Additionally, the federal defendants admitted that fossil fuel extraction, development and consumption produce CO2 emissions and that past emissions of CO2 from such activities have increased the atmospheric concentration of CO2.

These upstream sources account for between 5 percent and 37 percent (an average of 15 percent) of fossil fuels» total emissions, from exploration to consumption.

«The underlying energy consumption trends that resulted in these changes — mainly because more electricity has been generated from natural gas than from other fossil fuels — have helped to lower the U.S. emissions level since 2005 because natural gas is a less carbon - intensive fuel than either coal or petroleum.»

Scientists have done their job, it is time now to confront the reality of human - induced climate change resulting from emission of CO2 from fossil fuel consumption.»

Human CO2 emissions can be estimated from human fossil fuel consumption, and there has been enough of an increase in fossil fuel consumption to produce the observed increase in atmospheric CO2.

In a bid to defuse political objections from poor countries, their study also proposes a way of adjusting the formula for emission targets so developing world nations aren't penalized for allowing fossil fuel consumption by the 2 billion people who barely generate any emissions — or roughly under 1 ton of CO2 per year.

From 2010 to 2011, CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion decreased by 2.5 % due to: (1) a decrease in coal consumption, with increased natural gas consumption and a significant increase in hydropower used; (2) a decrease in transportation - related energy consumption due to higher fuel costs, improvements in fuel efficiency, and a reduction in miles travelled; and (3) relatively mild winter conditions resulting in an overall decrease in energy demand in most sectFrom 2010 to 2011, CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion decreased by 2.5 % due to: (1) a decrease in coal consumption, with increased natural gas consumption and a significant increase in hydropower used; (2) a decrease in transportation - related energy consumption due to higher fuel costs, improvements in fuel efficiency, and a reduction in miles travelled; and (3) relatively mild winter conditions resulting in an overall decrease in energy demand in most sectfrom fossil fuel combustion decreased by 2.5 % due to: (1) a decrease in coal consumption, with increased natural gas consumption and a significant increase in hydropower used; (2) a decrease in transportation - related energy consumption due to higher fuel costs, improvements in fuel efficiency, and a reduction in miles travelled; and (3) relatively mild winter conditions resulting in an overall decrease in energy demand in most sectors.

A.D. 1700...» which are at variance with multiple direct CO2 ice core measurements from Greenland and Antarctica, and there wasn't significant anthropogenic industrial fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions at those dates.

Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel and industry since 1960 (top left); global emissions by fuel type (middle left); Territorial (solid) and consumption (dashed) emissions by country group (bottom left); territorial emissions from biggest emitters (top right); per capita emissions from biggest emitters (bottom right).

Emissions from fossil fuels are calculated from oil, coal, and natural gas consumption data which are not part of the mainstream climate data.

Which I consider unlikley, both from the effect on consumption of rising fossil fuel prices (eg, US c02 emissions are back to 1990 levels, down 17 % from 2007 peak) AND development of new technology during the next two generations.