Sentences with phrase «emissions over the same time»

For example, they write, a 30 percent reduction in deforestation rates as seen in the Brazilian Amazon between 2005 and 2010 only cut carbon emissions over the same time period by 10 percent.

This is an order of magnitude smaller than the likely warming induced by anthropogenic emissions over the same time period.

Not exact matches

The researchers also used data from global climate monitoring stations to calculate CO2 emissions from tropical lands over the same time period.

I suspect that there might be a measurable connection with similar Tundra regions across Russia and NE Europe as well as a reasonable direct connection with whatever the CO2 Flux is from these very same regions — being just as important an emission as CH4 from Permafrost over time.

At the same time, the political turmoil over high energy prices has created a new hurdle facing those — including both presidential candidates — who say they want to blunt the unabated climb in emissions of greenhouse gases with a cap or tax.

The poverty level in China has dropped immensely since the late 1970s, but if you look at the distribution of improvement over time versus their carbon emissions over the same period there's little correlation.

Over the same period, American power - station emissions cut theirs by nearly ten times that amount — 170.1 million tons.

At the same time, Parliament has approved stringent new measures to reduce carbon emissions by 2020, with the biggest CO2 cuts by far to come from an increase of more than 800 percent in offshore wind power over the next seven years.

He could nod to opening up new land for drilling with less red tape, while at the same time proposing an elusive carbon tax that reduces aggregate U.S. emissions over time.

To ask India to take on the same obligations as developed countries with more than 30 times higher per capita income and over ten times higher per capita emissions is simply unfair.

Both of the major political parties have committed to emissions targets: the Liberals have a target of a 26 - 28 % reduction relative to 2005 levels by 2030, whereas Labor has pledged a 45 % cut over the same time frame.

Each RCP contains the same categories of data, but the values vary a great deal, reflecting different emission trajectories over time as determined by the underlying socio - economic assumptions (which are unique to each RCP).

Equivalent carbon dioxide (CO2) emission - The amount of carbon dioxide emission that would cause the same integrated radiative forcing, over a given time horizon, as an emitted amount of a well mixed heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) or a mixture of well mixed greenhouse gases.

-- How do you explain that warming rate along [1910 — 1840] period is exactly the same (+0,45 °C over 30 years) as the one observed over [1970 — 2000] period, whereas [CO2] was about 30 % lower and human emissions 5 time lower?

The company also commits to reduce supply chain GHG emissions ** by 29 % over the same time - period.

At the same time, if emissions reductions are too modest over the coming two decades, it may no longer be possible to reach a goal of 450 ppm CO2eq by the end of the century without large ‐ scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal technologies.

The company also commits to reduce absolute scope 3 emissions 25 % over the same time period.

This commitment is driven by a target to reduce emissions intensity per employee 30 % over the same time - period.

This commitment is driven by a target to reduce emissions intensity per employee by 40 % over the same time period.

That means that the ~ 0.6 warming since the LIA is good for not more than ~ 5 ppmv CO2 increase over the past 55 years, while human emissions were ~ 170 ppmv and the increase in the atmosphere was ~ 80 ppmv in the same time frame...

Consider the following two charts, which tell a complex tale in a simple manner that, while not ideal, does serve to highlight the main point — U.S. emissions, cumulated over time, are greater than China's, but at the same time the U.S. is pledging to smaller cuts.

But a direct comparison is made possible by table 13.6 of the report, which allows a comparison of old and new projections for the same emissions scenario (the moderate A1B scenario) over the time interval 1990 - 2100 (*).

Accordingly, over the next few decades the focus of climate policy should be to: (a) broadly advance sustainable development (particularly in developing countries since that would generally enhance their adaptive capacity to cope with numerous problems that currently beset them, including climate - sensitive problems), (b) reduce vulnerabilities to climate - sensitive problems that are urgent today and might be exacerbated by future climate change, and (c) implement «no - regret» emission reduction measures while at the same time striving to expand the universe of such measures through research and development of cleaner and more affordable technologies.

(G&A are also inconsistent on a number of fronts, including applying the 20 - year GWP for methane to livestock but using the 100 - year GWP for other anthropogenic methane emissions, and making an adjustment to emissions figures for the year 2000 to account for increases in livestock tonnage between 2002 and 2009, but not making similar adjustments for rising fossil fuel consumption over the same time).

The 20 % is the increase in additional CO2 levels over a period of in average 8 years, caused by emissions increasing by 22 % over the same time span...