At 3.5 per cent per year, emissions from aviation constitute the fastest growing greenhouse
gas emission sector worldwide.
Minister Kent then committed to a, «systematic approach of regulating GHG
emissions sector by sector,» to meet the goal of 17 % below 2005 emissions by 2020.
But campaigners have expressed concern that the burden of pollution is likely to be shifted to other regions, with high -
emission sectors like thermal power still on course to expand rapidly in big, coal - rich regions like Inner Mongolia, Ningxia or Xinjiang.
[W] hile the world is huddled in Paris to map out the treacherous route to decarbonization, one major industrial country has already largely decarbonized that most central
of emissions sectors, [electrical] energy — namely, the host of those other 200 countries, France.
A convergence year of 2200 for GDP and emissions intensity calculations (slightly larger than the value used by Van Vuuren et al. 2007) was used for all
anthropogenic emissions sectors.
Transportation is the largest source of emissions in the Northeast and traditionally the most
difficult emissions sector to address, but rapidly evolving technology offers deep reduction potential.
Previously, Mr. Knight led the development of the Multi-Sector Emissions Model (M - SEM), a spreadsheet - based tool used for evaluating historical energy use and emissions, as well as future energy use and emissions based in light of new policies aimed at reducing
CO2 emissions sector - wide.
Transportation, Industry, Agriculture, and Land Use and Forestry are four
global emission sectors that roughly correspond to the U.S. sectors.
The Roadmap contains many detailed recommendations in six
emissions sectors, but identified 40 of them as key.
The relative spatial emissions distribution within each country was held constant over time for
each emissions sector.
After downscaling on a sub-divided grid for each country and
emissions sector, emissions were summed to a 0.5 ° resolution for the final data product.