Sentences with phrase «emissions per person»

But Australia's emissions per person are nearly three times higher than China's.

Of course, it's also possible to look at historical emissions per person, which turns things around yet again.

That translates into 340 pounds of CO2 emissions per person per month from electricity usage.

Emissions per person have increased about 3.4 % between 1990 and 1997.

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

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.

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

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

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.

It's 3 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per person per year as a goal and a measure for global sustainability.

According to The Union of Concerned Scientists, the average carbon emissions per person in the United States is 17.62 mT per person or the equivalent of keeping 3.7 passenger cars on the road for a year.

According the The Union of Concerned Scientists, the average carbon emissions per person in the United States is 17.62 mT per person, or the equivalent to keeping 3.7 passenger cars on the road for a year.

Present CO2 emissions per person in China are now equal to those of Italy and higher than France, although the sectoral shares of households, transport, power generation, manufacturing industry and the service sector are quite different.

The United States still has a vast lead in carbon dioxide emissions per person.

The fact that emissions per person in wealthy countries are at least 10 times that in China and India does not seem to matter.

Meanwhile, in today's paper, we are told «The United States still has a vast lead in carbon dioxide emissions per person.

Altogether they have 12.1 tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent in greenhouse gas emissions per person annually.

Many wealthy countries have higher average emissions per person.

«With seven people in the new XC90, carbon dioxide emissions per person are outstandingly low.»

This public interest in sustainability is spurring promising change, as Australia's greenhouse gas emissions per person continue to steadily decrease.

CCS advocates say large demos critical to building confidence With the highest emissions per person in the industrialized world, Australia has elbowed its way on the world stage of CCS development.

«China now emits more than the US and EU combined and has CO2 emissions per person 45 % higher than the global average, exceeding even the EU average,» said Robbie Andrew, a co-author of the studies based at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo (CICERO) in Norway.

Emissions per person in China matched figures in the EU at 7 tonnes in 2012.

However, four people travelling 250 miles in an average sized petrol car towing a medium sized caravan would only create 38 kgs of CO2 emissions per person - and even less in a diesel car - resulting in significant savings.

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.

That's for coach: nearly 2.5 times the emissions the IPCC suggests a person should produce per year in just the flying.

The majority of them come from countries, such as the Philippines, India or China, which are warmer, poorer, and more densely populated than is Canada - and where the typical person produces far fewer CO2 emissions on a per capita basis.

Scandals can pertain to large - scale corporate conduct involving the cooperation of many people (such as the Volkswagen emissions - falsification scandal), to an individual corporate decision (as when Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of one of its drugs from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per pill), or to illicit behaviour by an individual (such as a corporation's CEO).

Earlier this year researchers calculated that if more people went meat free then global carbon emissions could fall by 63 per cent and $ 1 trillion could be saved on the global health bill, rising to $ 30 trillion factoring in lives saved.

Launching the campaign, environment secretary Hilary Benn said 40 per cent of the UK's emissions come from homes and travel, but too few people are making real changes to cut their energy use.

Last week New Scientist reported that US emissions could be cut by more than 7 per cent if people changed their ways at home.

Australia relies heavily on coal for its own electricity as well, emitting more CO2 per person than any other developed country, and its agricultural emissions are among the highest per capita in the world, mainly because of the large numbers of sheep and cattle.

So, too, areas in which people of color make up at least 25 percent of the total population average nearly five times as many pounds of chemical emissions from industrial facilities per square mile, compared with communities where less than 5 percent of the population are people of color.

This second calculation allowed the researchers to see that people with higher incomes are responsible for a larger per capita amount of carbon emissions, Ivanova said.

Butler showed that if every person in the world ate 50 g of red meat and 40 g of white meat per day by 2050, greenhouse gas emissions from meat production would stabilise at 2005 levels — a target cited in national plans for agricultural emissions.

In agriculture, for example, «If we just bring back 12 percent of degraded land into agricultural production, we could feed 200 million people per year by 2030» while also reducing emissions, Oppenheim said.

Health care costs went down by $ 77 billion to $ 93 billion annually and direct greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 222 kilograms to 826 kilograms per person per year.

Hey, you are such a small percentage and your per - person emissions are essentially zero,» putting aside land use and livestock, which is a complicated area.

Nonetheless, in a country of 1.3 billion people, China's per capita emissions are just one - third of those in the United States.

The Cleantech Group argues that the electronic reader industry can make a significant impact once people start transitioning from paper media en masse: «A user that purchasers fewer than 22.5 books per year would take longer to neutralize the emissions resulting from the e-reader, and even longer to help reduce emissions attributed to the publishing industry,» according to the study.

To understand why India, despite its fast - growing emissions, has demanded and gotten what its environment minister called «carbon space,» just do a side by side comparison of the United States, where the average person's activities result in about 17 tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, and India, where 400 million people still lack an electric light or clean cooking fuel and where per capita annual emissions are 1.9 tons per person.

For various reasons, Japan and Europe have far lower emissions, with Japan and Britain, for example, just under 10 tons per person per year.

Also, back to the media, I'm amazed that the media (here, I'm talking in general and on average, not Dot Earth) don't point out the nonsense and un-wisdom in some of the arguments that suggest that we, in America, should be able to have per capita emissions that are an order of magnitude higher than those of people in many other countries.

In the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion people, emitting less than one ton of carbon dioxide per person per year (compared to the 20 tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissions.

Given that Americans, per person, produce many times more carbon dioxide emissions than people in developing countries (at least for a few more decades), the growth in the United States has added significance for climate projections, said Leiwen Jiang, senior demographer at Population Action International, a nonprofit research group.

People from overseas are puzzled that we build houses as if they were throwaway consumer products, and that is a big reason why per capita emissions are so high in the US.

Even if poor and rich countries agree, magically, to meet in the middle — at, say, 10 tons of carbon dioxide per person per year (about Europe's emissions rate)-- that produces a world well on the way to centuries of warming and coastal retreats, even at the low end of estimates of carbon dioxide's heat - trapping power.

China and France, for very different reasons, now have roughly the same emissions of carbon dioxide per citizen — about 6 tons per person per year.

Returning to my original point that some «are paying disproportionately» for the externalization of FF emissions, the people in the states with the ten highest losses paid 4.6 as much per capita as the average, and 125 times as much as in the least affected ten states.

But cleaner transport also means less carbon emissions, both because buses are cleaner, less fuel intensive per passenger mile, and because people are actually leaving their cars for the faster buses.