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the US would reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France.

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resourceAs well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resourceas explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

Just by changing the way we farm, by stopping deep tilling, mono - cropping, and chemical fertilizer use — the Climate Collaborative estimates regenerative carbon farming practices could mitigate as much as 4 billion to 6 billion tons of CO2 equivalents a year or 10 percent to 12 percent of global human - caused emissions.

As supercritical technology becomes more mainstream and power generators normally improve on the efficiency of even their oldest plants over the course of operations, the loophole allows plants requesting CDM credits to exaggerate the calculated emissions avoided by millions of tons of CO2 - equivalent gases, the panel warns.

At present, nations report methane emissions in terms of CO2 equivalents, using GWP100 as the conversion factor.

Launched in mid-2010 after 3 years of technical consultation, the Yasuni ITT project was lauded by foreign governments and environmental groups as an innovative way to fight global warming: Not exploiting the Ishpingo - Tambococha - Tiputini (ITT) oilfields in Yasuni National Park will, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), prevent the emissions of around 410 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — equivalent to the annual emissions of France and accounting for 20 % of Ecuador's known oil reserves.

What we need are the kinds of policy incentives that are equivalent to air mail,» such as a cost for CO2 emissions and a subsidy for captured and stored CO2.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

Urban areas and their aging natural gas pipes and valves are also responsible for a lot of methane emissions, which is about 35 times as potent as a greenhouse gas over the span of 100 years and makes up about 10 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in terms of CO2 equivalents.

EPEAT - certified computers deliver energy savings as well, according to the report: 42.2 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity over their life spans, which means 3.31 million metric tons fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their uncertified computing counterparts — the equivalent of taking 2.6 million cars off the road.

If we embark on a path that is equivalent to setting emissions to zero now (say by having a period of negative emissions in the 2035 to 2050 time frame), and call the sequestration we accomplish mitigation then mitigation can arrest climate change, make adaptation unneeded and bring us to a safe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as Hansen has pointed out.

-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking into account a candidate substance's carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.

As shown later in this paper, the global warming potential of the annual emissions of CH4 from Amazonian wetlands is equivalent to about 30â $ «40 % of the estimated annual accumulation of C in woody biomass of mature Amazonian forests.»

Southern Ocean sperm whales have emerged as an unexpected ally in the fight against global warming, removing the equivalent carbon emissions from 40, cars each year thanks to their faeces, a study has found.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

And even if tropical deforestation had ended altogether in 2010, there would still be 8.6 petagrams (10 to the 12th kilograms) of emissions released into the atmosphere as trees decomposed, the equivalent of five to 10 years of global deforestation.

Help reduce agriculture - related greenhouse gas emissions in rice - based farming systems by at least 28.4 megatons carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent / year by 2022 and by a further 28.4 megatons CO2 equivalent / year by 2030, compared to business - as - usual scenarios.

Experts estimate that as much as 1.02 billion tons of carbon dioxide are being released annually from degraded coastal ecosystems, which is equivalent to 19 % of emissions from tropical deforestation globally *.

Production emissions and «post farming emissions» (inclusive of processing, transport and cooking) of lentils are only 0.9 kg of CO2 equivalent for each kg consumed, 40 times less compared to other protein sources, such as lamb.

Altogether, this should allow a major reduction in agriculture emissions, as global food waste and loss account for 3.3 Gt of CO2 equivalent per year.

As auto makers, federal policy makers and environmentalists get ready to craft the next round of U.S. corporate average fuel economy, Tonkin raps an Environmental Protection Agency proposal to improve fuel - economy and carbon - dioxide - emissions reductions equivalent by as much as 62 mpg (3.9 L / 100 kmAs auto makers, federal policy makers and environmentalists get ready to craft the next round of U.S. corporate average fuel economy, Tonkin raps an Environmental Protection Agency proposal to improve fuel - economy and carbon - dioxide - emissions reductions equivalent by as much as 62 mpg (3.9 L / 100 kmas much as 62 mpg (3.9 L / 100 kmas 62 mpg (3.9 L / 100 km).

The project aims to deliver full hybrid equivalent fuel economy and performance with less than 70 g / km CO2 emissions as measured over the European Drive Cycle, but at a significantly lower cost.

Meanwhile, the Kodiaq's official fuel economy and CO2 emissions aren't as appealing as an equivalent Peugeot 5008's, but are similar to the Sorento's; bear this in mind if you're a company car driver looking for cheaper benefit - in - kind tax.

As such, we have cut our CO2 emissions by just over 1800 tons, which is equivalent to the CO2 emissions created by 700 average households (four people) in Germany.

NOx, which are produced by combustion, such as in fossil fuel vehicles, is one of the key components of both smog and acid rain, and the billboards are said to «reverse the equivalent of 5,285 vehicles» worth of NOx emissions per month.

All -LCB- developed country Parties -RCB--LCB- all Annex I Parties and all current European Union (EU) member States, EU candidate countries and potential candidate countries that are not included in Annex I to the Convention -RCB--LCB- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries, countries that are not OECD members but whose economic development stages are equivalent to those of the OECD members, and countries that voluntarily wish to be treated as developed countries -RCB--LCB- shall -RCB--LCB- should -RCB- adopt legally binding mitigation commitments or actions including economy - wide quantified emission limitation and reduction objectives16 for the period from -LCB- 1990 -RCB--LCB- 2013 -RCB--LCB- XXXX -RCB- until -LCB- 2017 -RCB--LCB- 2020 -RCB--LCB- XXXX -RCB-, while ensuring comparability of efforts among them, taking into account differences in their national circumstances.

They assumed that «under business as usual» their emissions would increase from 781 (2013) to 1110 (2030) million tons of CO2 equivalent.

However, the corresponding rise in carbon - dioxide (CO2) emissions of around 0.2 % in 2030 is more than offset as reducing the biomass used for cooking provides a net reduction in greenhouse - gas emissions, which would save the equivalent of around 165 Mt of carbon - dioxide equivalent from methane and nitrous oxide.

If the UK is proposing to spend # 32 billion ($ 50 billion) per annum to partially influence ~ 1.7 % of world CO2 emissions, it means that the equivalent global spend could be as much as ~ $ 3,000 billion per annum for the foreseeable future.

The authors say: «Without accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from land use change, the carbon footprint of food produced and not eaten is estimated at 3.3 Gigatonnes [billion tonnes] of CO2 equivalent: as such, food wastage ranks as the third top emitter after the USA and China.

The proposed Clean Power Plan formula also considers efficiency programs that reduce load as equivalent to zero - emission generation that counts in the base for the compliance calculation, even though some of the generation that is avoided by reduced load may have already been served by zero - emission generation sources.

One reason for optimism is that as huge as the Multi-Gigatonne Gap is, UNEP estimates that emission reductions of between 14 to 20 Gt of CO2 - equivalent are possible by 2020 and without any significant technical or financial breakthroughs needed.

Individual provinces can forgo the tax and adopt their own policies — so long as they slash emissions by an equivalent amount.

A group of low islands such as Tarawa, Kiribati, could face average annual damages of more than US$ 8 million to 16 million / yr (equivalent to 17 to 18 % of Kiribati's GDP in 1998) under the SRES A2 and B2 emissions scenarios.

As far as China is concerned, by 2030 its emissions would peak at around 18 - 20 billion tonne CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalentAs far as China is concerned, by 2030 its emissions would peak at around 18 - 20 billion tonne CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalentas China is concerned, by 2030 its emissions would peak at around 18 - 20 billion tonne CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent).

The chart below shows the lifecycle total of greenhouse gas emissions for common protein foods and vegetables, expressed as kilograms (kg) of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) per kg of consumed product.

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.

Requires the President, beginning June 30, 2018, and every four years thereafter, to determine, for each eligible industrial sector, whether more than 85 % of U.S. imports for that sector are from countries that: (1) are parties to international agreements requiring economy - wide binding national commitments at least as stringent as those of the United States; (2) have annual energy or GHG intensities for the sector comparable or better than the equivalent U.S. sector; or (3) are parties to an international or bilateral emission reduction agreement for that sector.

As poorer countries develop and the world's population grows, emissions associated with food waste could soar from 0.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year to between 1.9 and 2.5 gigatonnes annually by mid-century, showed the study published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

As per Centre for Science and Environment, the move will potentially check emissions of HFC - 23 equivalent to 100 million tonnes of CO2 over the next 15 years

Remaining carbon budgets in gigatonnes CO2 (GtCO2) from various studies that limit warming to a 66 % chance of staying below 1.5 C (see links at end of article), as well as equivalent years of current emissions using data from the Global Carbon Project.

No greater than 72 gigawatts of total cumulative generating capacity (including industrial applications, measured by such equivalent metric as the Administrator may designate) may receive emission allowances under this section.

Unlocking Potential: State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2017 forest-trends.org As of 2016, offsets equivalent to 1.1 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions (BtCO2e) have been transacted voluntarily — through sales to governments, companies, and individuals as well as intermediary brokers — according to the latest annual State of Voluntary Carbon Markets report from.As of 2016, offsets equivalent to 1.1 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions (BtCO2e) have been transacted voluntarily — through sales to governments, companies, and individuals as well as intermediary brokers — according to the latest annual State of Voluntary Carbon Markets report from.as well as intermediary brokers — according to the latest annual State of Voluntary Carbon Markets report from.as intermediary brokers — according to the latest annual State of Voluntary Carbon Markets report from...

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Equivalent carbon dioxide (CO2) emission - The amount of carbon dioxide emission that would cause the same integrated radiative forcing, over a given time horizon, as an emitted amount of a well mixed heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) or a mixture of well mixed greenhouse gases.

-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking into account a candidate substance's carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.

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Unless action is taken, global HFC emissions could reach 5.5 — 8.8 GtCO2e per year in 2050, equivalent to 9 — 19 % of projected global CO2 emissions under a business - as - usual scenario.

Some estimates claim Germany will add up to 40 million tons of carbon dioxide with (supposedly temporary) new fossil - fuel plants to replace its nuclear power — an increase «equivalent to the annual emissions of Slovakia,» as Reuters put it not long ago.