Sentences with phrase «emissions per»

It creates about 23 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions per year — in excess of 700 tonnes a second.

The second critical factor is the carbon intensity of energy supply, which tracks CO2 emissions per unit of total primary energy supply.

And McDonald's France has cut greenhouse gas emissions per customer by over 40 % by a series of energy - related initiatives, including purchasing certificates guaranteeing renewable electricity sourcing.

The claimed decline in emissions per person will occur not because of our extra effort but because of our higher population growth.

«It states that total emission level can be expressed as the product of four inputs: population, GDP per capita, energy use per unit of GDP, carbon emissions per unit of energy consumed.»

In total, they estimate that this lost carbon translates to as much as 317 million tons of CO2 emissions per year.

It's no use in using it in relation to a zero carbon future, of course, since only by getting CO2 emissions per unit of energy equal to zero can we get CO2 emissions down to zero, which is rather obvious.

The reason is that the expressions on the right hand side are well known and widely used economic indicators: population, economic growth (= GDP / population), energy efficiency of your economy (energy / GDP), and emissions per unit of energy produced (emissions / energy)

Its current per capita greenhouse gas emissions are also small: The average Indian is responsible for 1.7 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, placing it in the bottom half of world rankings, alongside countries like Belize and Albania.

Firstly, in a sleight of hand it pivots away from its weak absolute emission reductions to trumpet expected per capita emission reductions, claiming Australia will reduce its emissions per person by more than other countries.

He started with an American institution: the cheeseburger, and, after a little digging and number - crunching he came up with 6.3 to 6.8 pounds (2.85 to 3.1 kg) of carbon emissions per burger.

Now, extraction technology may improve, but those un-economic barrels will be hard to get, so let's assume that today's life cycle emissions per bbl remain constant over time.

[T] hey found that lamb raised on New Zealand's clover - choked pastures and shipped 11,000 miles by boat to Britain produced 1,520 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per ton while British lamb produced 6,280 pounds of carbon dioxide per ton, in part because poorer British pastures force farmers to use feed.

In reality the share of manmade CO2 emissions per year remaining in the atmosphere is only about 2 % from the yearly increase of human emissions of about 0,5 GtC, as consistent with what the yearly total CO2 increase of about 4 GtC in atmosphere is in relation to the total yearly CO2 emissions of little over 200 GtC, expressed in procentages.

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Per Person from Fossil Fuel Burning in Top Ten Countries and the World, 2013

Every year, one of the projects I give my students is to figure out how the global community can address the climate risk, given that it requires concerted global action, that some countries cause more emissions per capita than others, that some are endowed with abundant fossil fuel resources, and that some are richer than others.

However, not all renewable energy projects avoid the same amount of GHG emissions per kWh.

Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signs a bill that prevents new power plants from exceeding 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour of electricity generated, creating a de facto moratorium on building new coal - fired power plants in the state.

First, we are richest, second we have much higher carbon emissions per capita and third, we put the CO2 in the atmosphere in the first place.

The indicators «emissions per capita», «emissions per GDP» and «CO2 per kWh electricity» for all countries have therefore been adjusted as if the generation of electricity from nuclear power had produced 350 gCO2 / kWh (emission factor for natural gas).

Instead, it has simply said that it will reduce its carbon emissions per unit of GDP — because it doesn't want its economic growth shackled to a fixed target.

Once I had kg CO2 emissions per kWh of electricity produced in a single column, I could see which states were best and which were worst.

The State Department estimates that oil sands oil has 17 % greater well - to - wheel CO2 emissions than average US crude, which corresponds to approximately 200 additional pounds of CO2 emissions per barrel relative to average US crude.

The world's top polluter aims to cut the level of carbon emissions per unit of GDP 60 - 65 % on 2005 levels by 2030, a significant increase on its 40 - 45 % goal for 2020.

According to the International Panel on Climate Change, electricity from nuclear produces one - fourth as many carbon emissions per unit of energy as solar panels.

In late 2014, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee released a proposal for a cap - and - trade program that would cover an estimated 130 facilities and fuel distributors operating in the state that emit more than 25,000 metric tons of GHG emissions per year.

Carbon dioxide emissions per person in China reached the same level as those in France last year, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said Thursday.

«Since the passage of AB 32 in 2006,» Next 10 founder F. Noel Perry writes, «California's GDP per capita has grown by nearly $ 5,000 per person — nearly double the national average — while California emissions per capita dropped by 12 percent.»

But fossil fuel companies, as well as the automakers, have fought tooth and nail to block cleaner alternatives, so for a long time, Americans — who are still responsible for more carbon emissions per person than anywhere else in the world — didn't have much choice.

Absolute Emissions Per Capita Emissions.

Let's state that again more clearly: just one of the two proposed bitumen pipelines through BC will add more greenhouse emissions per year than the entire Province produces now.

China may achieve its goal of reducing the carbon intensity of its economy (the ratio of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of output) by 45 percent below its 2005 level by 2020.

The webinar included subsector pathways for iron and steel, electricity generation, cement, and pulp and paper subsectors based on Sector Decarbonization Approach, absolute contraction, and Greenhouse gas emissions per unit of value added («GEVA») methods.

Keqiang said the country would reduce its emissions per unit of gross domestic product by at least 60 percent below 2005 levels.

The result is the world's lowest emissions per unit of power, according to the International Energy Agency's Clean Coal Center in Paris.

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In 2050, there will be 420 million Americans, so Obama's promise means that emissions per head will be approximately what they were in 1875.

The indicators emissions per capita, emissions per GDP and CO2 / kWh are adjusted as if the generation of electricity from nuclear power had produced 350 gCO2 / kWh (emission factor for natural gas).

Our basic activities (cooking our food, heating our homes) lead to tens of thousands of pounds of carbon - dioxide emissions per household every year, but many of us can not currently opt to buy renewable energy from our utility, because such energy sources are limited.

(You can see our results summarized in two tables showing production, use, disposal and total U.S. emissions by category or average emissions per household).

At the same time, OECD emissions will remain much lower on the basis of emissions per unit of economic output, reflecting a significantly higher degree of energy - efficient practices and technologies across their economies.

When China announced its carbon intensity targets (see previous post «China to adopt «binding» goal to reduce CO2 emissions per unit GDP by 40 to 45 % of 2005 levels by 2020 «-RRB-, it was careful to make clear that it was an «autonomous action» (some translated this as «voluntary action»).

(5) calculates the effect on greenhouse gas and other emissions per megawatt - hour from electric generation facilities that would result from installation or implementation of the technologies, equipment, and processes identified under paragraph (1), assuming the obstacles identified under paragraph (2) are reduced or eliminated.

Incremental measures (mostly short term) which would cause the sector limited disruption, but are able to reduce emissions per vessel by as much as 5 per cent.

In the chart below we separate out the changes into the emission intensity (emissions per unit economic activity, dark blue), production structure (the relationship between industry sectors, pink), export structure (the mix of products exported, bright green) and export volume (the total amount of exports, light blue).

Data for CO2 emissions per capita from World Bank Data Bank, accessed August 5, 2015.

Global greenhouse gas emissions per region / Global CO2 emissions per region from fossil - fuel use and cement production The Report includes a new systematic assessment of how various economic sectors can reduce their climate - warming emissions, focusing on the potential eductions from the wide application of already - known and cost - effective technologies.

In nations with high levels of carbon emissions per capita, including the U.S., Australia, Canada and Russia, publics are less likely to express strong worries about climate change.

The average American carbon footprint (from driving, home energy use, and flying) is approximately 18 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, but you can of course offset less or more than that if you like.

The proposed restrictions, unveiled by officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, would apply only to new fossil - fuel - burning power plants — limiting them to no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt generated.