Sentences with phrase «emissions level of»

On the other hand the Atmospheric CO2 content did not rise as predicted by Hansen and even though the world has exceeded the emissions level of scenario A; the concentration has not followed suit and is below the scenario A projection.

The projected power sector emissions level in 2030 ranges from 1,553 to 1,727 million metric tons across the cases, reflecting a reduction of between 29 % and 36 % relative to the 2005 emissions level of 2,416 million metric tons.

It accelerates in 7.3 seconds from zero to 100 km / h (62.14 mph), top speed is 238 km / h (147.89 mph) and the average fuel consumption is 6.2 liters per 100 km (37.94 US mpg), a CO2 emissions level of 142 grams per km (228.53 g / mile)(performance and fuel consumption figures are provisional).

In spite of these impressive performance figures, the average fuel consumption is less than 2.5 litres per 100 kilometres, with a CO2 emissions level of less than 60 g / km.

Thanks to various intelligent technological innovations, its fuel consumption drops to a combined rate of just 7.9 litres per 100 km at a CO2 emissions level of only 185 g / km.

By using products bearing the GREENGUARD Children & SchoolsSM or GREENGUARD Gold Certification mark, parents, teachers and school officials can rest easy knowing these products have been independently tested and verified to meet strict emission levels of pollutants, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), formaldehyde and phthalates.

The car uses a gasoline - electric hybrid powertrain which enables it to deliver fuel efficiency figures of 2.1 - litres per 100 Km and CO2 emission levels of 49 grams per Km.

They are becoming an increasingly popular across Europe, and with the EU's mandatory emission level of 95 grams of CO2 per kilometre for every new car bought from 2020 onwards, the hybrid revolution is here to stay.

The official NEDC fuel consumption is 11.9 l / 100 km, corresponding to a CO2 emission level of 279 g / km.

Mercedes promised a 30 km pure electric range and a fuel consumption of only 3.2 l / 100 km, which befits with a CO2 emission level of only 74 g / km.

With an aggressive looking exterior design the new Range Rover Evoque CUV is a luxurious cross-coupe that will be offered in four wheel drive and front wheel drive versions, and which promises incredible CO2 emissions levels of below 130 g / Km.

On the Style and Premium versions Hyundai i40 Saloon 1.7 CRDi 136PS Blue Drive which have CO2 emission levels of 119 g / Km the automaker offers the Intelligent Stop & Go system as standard, while the rest of the features offered as standard on all models include 16 inch alloy wheels, Bluetooth connectivity, a lather steering wheel with integrated audio controls,

The 1.6 - litre variant (manual and automatic) now complies with even stricter emission levels of EU 4 (as do 1.8 Turbo models).

The main forces determining emission levels of heat - trapping carbon dioxide will be just as much out of President Trump's hands as they were out of President Obama's.

I took the fossil fuel emissions levels of that period (1998) and divided it into the total carbon in the Amazon.

The developing world is just now approaching annual CO2 emissions levels of the developed world (which is presumably the intended message, or the original message that got garbled somehow intentionally or un --RRB-.

Under the scheme, the government would first distribute emission allowances on a grandfathered basis, that is, according to the historical emission levels of the entities affected.

This is true because most mainstream scientists have concluded that the world must reduce total global emissions by at the very least 60 to 80 percent below existing levels to stabilize GHG atmospheric concentrations at minimally safe atmospheric GHG concentrations and the United States is a huge emitter both in historical terms and in comparison to current emissions levels of other high emitting nations.

The Liberal government ignored the earlier letter and ratified Kyoto, while Prime Minister Harper's Conservative government in May 2006 announced that Canada would develop a «made in Canada» approach to tackling greenhouse gas emissions, saying that the emission levels of Kyoto were not realistic.

The intensity target, if dominating other elements of the INDC, national policies and actions, would lead to much higher 2030 emission levels of 15 - 16.9 GtCO2e.

Setting aside the carbon intensity target, China's INDC's actions and non-fossil energy target lead to GHG emission levels of around 13.6 GtCO2e in 2030.

The overall correlation is a result of the fact that climate policy induces systemic changes in the energy system, away from technologies with high greenhouse gas emission levels, which also have high emissions of air pollutants (e.g. coal use without CCS has high emission levels of CO2, but also of SO2).

Objections to equal per capita allocations have sometimes been made by representatives from high emitting nations such as the United States because of the enormous ghg emissions reductions which would be required of it to reach equal per capita emissions levels of diminishing allowable safe global emissions.

There, it is written that the absorption of surface radiation by CO2 is saturated and that the decrease in the global outgoing longwave emission due to more CO2 in the air is only due to the «higher and cooler» emission level of tropospheric CO2 radiating to the cosmos.

Georgia - based Exide took over the smelter in 2000 and ramped up the volume of batteries processed at the plant — and with it, emission levels of dangerous pollutants such as lead and arsenic.

The image below contrasts the emissions levels of Atlanta versus the relatively compact Barcelona.

• Fuller understanding of the carbon cycle and stabilizing emissions levels of greenhouse gases.

13 July 2007 - Florida Governor Charlie Crist signs an Executive Order establishing «maximum allowable emission levels of greenhouse gases for electric utilities.»

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only incorporates global population size and growth into its emissions projections, without disaggregating or differentiating between the emissions levels of different social or demographic groups.

Not exact matches

To give one example, Climate Mayors is a group of U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding federal and global - level policymaking.»

The business also said it was setting itself the goal of slashing its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050, compared to 2005 levels.

By 2030, California aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 40 % below 1990 levels, a plan that includes deriving at least 50 % of its electricity needs from renewable energy.

Emerging evidence makes it clear that the installation of software to defeat emissions controls was not the result of some rogue operation — it was driven by decisions made by the company's top engineers and approved at the highest levels.

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

But in a letter to Kerry and other State Department officials, Kristin Delkus, TransCanada's general counsel, pointed to new policies on carbon emissions in Canada, specifically a federal rule issued in May to cut emissions down to 70 percent of their 2005 levels within 15 years.

The United States, under former President Barack Obama, had pledged as part of the Paris accord to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025 to help slow global warming.

Responding to public outrage, the government has recently introduced a series of measures like making public the level of air pollution in Beijing and also plans to impose emission restrictions on the steel, coal and petrochemicals industries, among others.

An agreement by the International Maritime Organization to cut the shipping industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent — from 2008 levels — by 2050 will not be easy, but it can be done, Norway's Minister of Climate and Environment said.

The agreement aims to hold global warming to «well below» two degrees Celsius from the levels of the Industrial Revolution, and puts in place a system for tracking efforts to cut carbon emissions and report on progress every five years.

CEO Steve Williams said Suncor has asked the Alberta government to allow it to «strand» some of its oilsands reserves if they're too expensive to produce, or if they'd add too greatly to the intensity levels of its overall greenhouse gas emissions.

The compromise plan, which will cut emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050 compared with 2008 levels, fell short of more ambitious targets, they added.

Still, getting carbon emissions from in situ projects down near the level of conventional oil will take more than that, which is where the new alternatives to SAGD come in.

But there are ideas demonstrated in the laboratory that could bring the oilsands» carbon emissions and other drawbacks down to the level of conventional oil or even lower.

The compromise plan, which will cut emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050 compared with 2008 levels, fell short of more ambitious targets.

Proponents of the private buses say the buses cut emission levels and congestion, while critics and activists say they are just another example of the technology industry forcing San Francisco to offer up overly generous policies (including large tax breaks for companies like Zynga and Twitter).

European Union countries along with the Marshall Islands, the world's second - biggest ship registry, had supported a goal of cutting emissions by 70 to 100 percent by 2050, compared with 2008 levels.

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

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This implies that risks are not too big or overarching (like resource scarcity, rising levels of atmospheric CO2, or global warming) but are more focused e.g. extreme weather, increased greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture or from energy use, or a lack of fresh water.