Sentences with phrase «equivalent emissions»

Today we are already in the process to trigger a large scale climate change because of the quantities of CO2 equivalent emissions released and what is projected under business as usual scenarios.

This budget is an upper limit on total human CO2 equivalent emissions from the beginning of the industrial revolution until the day we stop burning carbon.

Approximately 12,000 metric tonnes of CO2 - equivalent emissions reductions were expected to be generated compared to business - as usual operations over the four - year contract period.

Moreover, even when emissions from the generation of electricity (upstream emissions) were considered, electric vehicles produced 21 times less carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per year than their gasoline - powered alternatives.

/ kWh (carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per kilowatt hour), compared to 11.2 g for offshore wind, 88 g for solar PV, 379 g for natural gas and 1072 g for coal.

Under a business - as - usual scenario that includes rules already passed at the federal level, HFCs are forecast to contribute 71 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions annually in the state by 2030.

Since 2005, these projects — led by the U.S. EPA — have helped reduce more than 150 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions in key sectors including municipal solid waste, oil and gas systems, and coal mines.

The result: Germany has not reduced its CO2 equivalent emissions for close to a decade (see chart above).

More specifically, Jones explained, Climate Interactive's analysis finds that the U.S. pledge amounts to the avoidance of 22 gigatons, or billion tons, of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions between the years 2016 and 2030.

It can mean either the product on the market right now (of limited value) or the concept of balancing carbon emitted by preventing equivalent emissions elsewhere (this kind could include good energy or ecotricity's contribution via the grid).

(and EPBTs from under 1 year to ~ 4 years, depending on location and technology...) Although other sources put nuclear CO2 equivalent emissions as being even lower again (8 g / kWh).

Since the world is now emitting carbon dioxide equivalent emissions at approximately 10 metric gigatons per year, the world will run out of emissions under the budget in approximately 25 years at current emissions rates.

Germany's CO2 equivalent emissions revised upward for 2016.

The energy savings are converted into an estimate of metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions based upon the project's location and the corresponding emissions factor data from the U.S. Government and International Energy Agency.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publication Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, Table 11.4, reports the impact of diet change and food waste reduction at 1.3 - 13.3 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent emissions reductions by 2050.

The stakes for full implementation are high — the agreement is expected to prevent up to 80 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions by 2050, which could prevent up to 0.5 degrees Celsius in warming.

With the GM 2.8 L diesel gaining only 2 MPG over the 2.5 L gasoline engine, while adding 440 pounds to its curb weight, the diesel fuel economy gains are not sufficient to offset the higher emission factor for diesel fuel, with the diesel option producing 4 % more CO2 - equivalent emissions over the truck's life - cycle.

The impact of this scenario is 3.3 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent emissions reduced by 2050.

The nation's pledge to the Paris climate agreement, which aims to keep the global surface temperature increase to a maximum of 2 °C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, is to avoid 22 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions between 2016 and 2030.

«If the land used to grow rapeseed was instead used to grow trees, petroleum diesel would emit only a third of the CO2 equivalent emissions as biodiesel,» stated a release from the Society of Chemical Industry, publisher of Chemistry & Industry.

The GHG Protocol's Scope III and Product Life Cycle standards are the leading international standards for calculating carbon - equivalent emissions for products.

These 200 businesses represent an estimated USD $ 4.8 trillion in market value, comparable to the total estimated value of the Tokyo stock exchange, and are responsible for 627 million metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions per year, roughly equal to the annual emissions of South Korea.

They currently contribute about 0.5 gigatonnes of CO2 - equivalent emissions per year.

In 1987, ozone - depleting substances contributed about 10 gigatonnes CO2 - equivalent emissions per year.

Prices have fluctuated since trading began, but CERs have historically traded in a range between $ 10 to $ 14 per metric ton of CO2 - equivalent emissions reductions.

They appear to be related to differences in interpretation of INDCs, assumptions about other countries, level of disaggregation for small countries, choice of global warming potentials to compute carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, treatment of emissions related to land use, and treatment of international aviation and maritime shipping.

Promising to be one of the most advanced internal combustion engines ever created, VC - Turbo technology combines the power of a high - performance 2.0 - liter turbo gasoline engine with the torque and efficiency of an advanced diesel powertrain — without the equivalent emissions.

Last year alone, the company's recycling and reuse efforts avoided 10 million metric tons of CO2 - equivalent emissions.

Tank - to - wheel CO2 equivalent emissions of 684.9 g / km are 37 % lower than those of a conventional Euro VI diesel bus, making the Enviro400H with Series - E technology an Ultra Low Emission Bus and qualifying it for funding from the Department for Transport's ongoing # 48 - million Ultra Low Emission Bus Scheme.

The Japanese automaker says this is «a high - performance 2.0 - litre turbo gasoline engine with the torque and efficiency of an advanced diesel powertrain — without the equivalent emissions.»

Infiniti says VC - Turbo offers the «torque and efficiency of an advanced diesel powertrain, without the equivalent emissions.»

Switch to energy efficient light bulbs Energy Star says that if every American home replaced just one light bulb, we'd prevent the equivalent emissions of more than 800,000 cars.

These trees will eliminate an estimated half a million tons of carbon dioxide over the course of their lifetime — offsetting the equivalent emissions of 10,000 average U.S. households.

After measuring the CO2 - equivalent emission reductions that each of these changes would bring, the researchers made an interesting discovery — that the most effective actions are not the ones being promoted publicly.

«According to our initial calculations, this deal will avoid more than 70 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions by 2050 — which will be close to avoiding a half a degree of warming.»

In the agricultural sector, most of the approximately 5 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions are from methane and nitrous oxide rather than carbon dioxide.

According to a calculation I performed for improvements in manure management and clean energy for cooking, one year's worth of digesters can over their lifetimes prevent 16 Mt of carbon dioxide - equivalent emissions.

An ambitious HFC agreement has the potential to avoid 100 billion CO2 - equivalent emissions by 2050 and 0.5 °C warming by 2100, significantly contributing towards the goals of the landmark Paris Agreement last year and eliminating the use of some of the most potent greenhouse gases in existence.