Canada's most recent annual
emissions trend report projected that the country will achieve only half the nationwide greenhouse gas reductions it has pledged to make by the year 2020 — its promise to cut them 17 percent compared to 2005.
In fact, absent new measures Environment Canada's 2014
emissions trends report projected that oil sands emissions would drive increased emissions from the oil and gas sector of 45 Mt CO2e (to a total of 204 MtCO2e) between 2005 and 2020, offsetting the emission reductions made in other sectors.
Not exact matches
The latest
report blends key points of the group's earlier reviews of climate
trends, the possibility of adapting to a warmer climate and strategies for cutting carbon
emissions.
The
report said the
trend in per capita carbon
emissions over the five years to 2012 was down in Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Britain, the European Union, South Africa, Italy, France and Mexico.
EPA released the latest edition of its annual
report on
trends in CO2
emissions, fuel economy and powertrain technology for new personal vehicles in the US.
The post centers on an interview with Glen Peters, a scientist who is one of the authors of this year's Global Carbon Budget
report, tracking
emissions trends for carbon dioxide from energy and cement production.
Elisabeth Rosenthal
reports Friday on the results of a new analysis of
emissions trends by the Dutch government.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), while not devoted exclusively to clean energy, is a source of U.S. data,
trends, graphics,
reports, and analysis on renewable energy and carbon
emissions.
In its 2013 biennial
report to the UN's climate body, Japan said that the declining
trend in land use
emissions removals was down to the «maturity of Japanese forests».
«My view is that a Chinese target of a 40 percent reduction in carbon
emissions intensity between 2005 and 2020 would be a continuation of historical
trends,» said Jim Watson, from the Tyndall Centre for climate change research in Britain [and whose
report on China's carbon scenarios we've discussed on this blog; see previous post «Tyndall Centre Climate Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon&ra
report on China's carbon scenarios we've discussed on this blog; see previous post «Tyndall Centre Climate
Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon&ra
Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon»].
The NIRs contain detailed descriptive and numerical information and the CRFs contain summary, sectoral and
trend tables for all greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions and removals, and sectoral background data tables for
reporting implied
emission factors and activity data.
The
Report is a yearly review on all activities in
emissions trading around the world, which highlights important
trends and provides an educated outlook on central developments in carbon markets to come.
As
reported by Chris Mooney at Mother Jones at the time (now a journalist at the Washington Post), the draft
report warned unequivocally that unchecked greenhouse gas
emissions would cause the global warming
trend to «accelerate significantly,» bringing more heat waves and weather extremes, severe storms, rising seas, devastating floods, prolonged droughts, and more.
Of course, if the NYTimes or WAPO or CNN or CBS or the AP were ever to
report the actual cooling
trend over the last 15 years (despite the massive amounts of human CO2
emissions) this would establish that they have been grossly misleading the public for years about consensus «global warming.»
The carbon cycle papers discussed above look only at feedbacks in the high
emission scenario or, in the case of the Amazon paper,
report recent
trends.
The
report found that the gap between
emissions levels consistent with meeting the target and levels expected if country pledges are met is likely to be 17 gigatons of CO2 in 2030 based on current
trends.
The page includes links to the EPA's inventory of greenhouse gas
emissions, which contains
emissions data from individual industrial facilities as well as the multiagency Climate Change Indicators
report, which describes
trends related to the causes and effects of climate change.
A new
report evaluating air pollution
trends at the nation's 100 largest electric power producers shows that
emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) have fallen markedly in recent years, but carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions increased and will likely spike in coming years.
This second annual State of the Forest Carbon Markets tracks,
reports, and analyzes
trends in global transactions of
emissions reductions generated from forest carbon projects.
In language that even George Orwell would not have imagined possible, Federal Environment Minister Leona Agglukaq has described the Environment Canada
report as showing «significant progress», even as the projected
emissions trend moves in further way from the 2020 target as a direct consequence of government policy of encouraging growth in the energy sector in Western Canada.
Nicholls et al. [11] tested scenario - driven variations of this «migration factor» with values ranging between one and two and assumed coastward migration to potentially offset falling population
trends beyond 2050 for A1 and B1 Special
Report on
Emissions Scenarios (SRES), resulting in a net increase of population exposed to coastal hazards.
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Data recently submitted by the U.S. to the United Nations (U.N.) Climate Secretariat and
reported in the media show that this
trend continued through 2004, when U.S. greenhouse
emissions reached a record high of 7.07 billion tons.
It is known to all, including the scientists who wrote the IPCC
report, that the change in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is driven by 2 things: 1) An accelerating upward
trend in CO2 due to human caused
emissions.
In its annual climate statement
report, the bureau highlighted the influence of carbon
emissions upon the warming
trend, stating: «The Australian region warming is very similar to that seen at the global scale and the past year emphasises that the warming
trend continues.