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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.

Not exact matches

Coal remains cheaper, but when you factor in the reduced capital cost (gas plants cost between a quarter and a third what coal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissions.

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.

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).

We have found a correlation between the far - to mid-IR flux ratio and the equivalent width of the PAH emission feature.

Between 2009 and 2010, emissions rose by six per cent (by 512 million metric tonnes), an amount equivalent to the whole of China.

The research, conducted by Environment and Climate Change Canada, found that making businesses pay a price for polluting could help reduce carbon emissions between 80 - 90 million tonnes by 2022; the equivalent of taking between 23 and 26 million cars off the road.

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.

Most estimates of wind turbine life - cycle global warming emissions are between 0.02 and 0.04 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour.

To put this into context, estimates of life - cycle global warming emissions for natural gas generated electricity are between 0.6 and 2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour and estimates for coal - generated electricity are 1.4 and 3.6 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [14].

The accord also calls for a «balance» between greenhouse gas emissions sources and sinks in the second half of the century, equivalent to reaching global net - zero emissions.

This watershed, painstaking analysis traces emissions totaling 914 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent — which amounts to 63 % of the cumulative worldwide emissions of industrial CO2 and methane between 1751 and 2010 — to 90 so - called «carbon major» entities worldwide.

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.

There are plenty, but for a conservative example see IPCC Synthesis Report 2007 Table 5.1 which says to stay within 2 - 2.4 degrees global average temperature increase above pre-industrial (Copenhagen upper «low risk» target) and 425 - 490ppm CO2 - equivalent concentration at stabilisation, the required change in global CO2 emissions in 2050 (percent of 2000 emissions) is decline between 85 to 50 percent.

By replacing equipment and improving leak detection, Consolidated Edison Company of New York has prevented over 670,000 pounds of SF6 from entering the atmosphere between 1999 and 2007, equivalent to the annual emissions from 1.3 million cars.

The new report by Forest Trends and Idesam shows that between 2009 and September 2016, the Brazilian Fund has received about $ 1.307 billion (equivalent to R$ 2.52 billion) which does not even represent 10 % of Brazil's emissions reduction potential — estimated at 5.5 billion tCO2 or US$ 26 billion.

Under the INDC, national emissions in 2025 and 2030 will be limited to between 398 and 614 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (whereas emissions in 2010 were 563 million tonnes).

The difference between the harmonized and unharmonized scenarios for cumulative emissions over the 2000 — 2050 period in total CO2 equivalent emissions is expected to be 1 to 2 %, except for the RCP6 scenario, which has a difference of 5 % (Meinshausen et al. 2011b).

India was the first country to set comprehensive quality and performance standards for light emitting diodes (LEDs), and it expects to save as much as 277 terawatt - hours of electricity between 2015 and 2030, avoiding 254 million metric tons of CO2 emissions or the equivalent of 90 coal - fired power plants.

In fact, the think tank wrote in a blog post, the UN Emissions Gap Report found that the space between current global emissions pledges and what's needed to limit warming to 2 degrees centigrade is between 8 and 13 gigatonnes of CO2 eqEmissions Gap Report found that the space between current global emissions pledges and what's needed to limit warming to 2 degrees centigrade is between 8 and 13 gigatonnes of CO2 eqemissions pledges and what's needed to limit warming to 2 degrees centigrade is between 8 and 13 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent.

That's equivalent to between two years and 16 years of human - induced CO2 emissions.

As the solar industry has expanded, the researchers found, greenhouse gas emissions have dropped enormously: As a function of the total energy a solar cell produces over its lifetime, carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide equivalents have dropped by between 86 and 95 percent since the late 1980s and early»90s, depending on the type of solar cell.

The latest in the series puts the gap between emissions trends and what is actually required to keep the rise in global temperature at a level which does not spell catastrophe for the planet at between 8 - 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent (CO2e) by 2020 — less a gap than a gaping chasm!

The Australian Government actally LOST, the equivalent of Gibraltars total CO2 - e emissions, between their 2010 and 2009 CO2 - e Accounts.

«The figure [shown above] shows a reasonably wide spread between optimistic and pessimistic emission scenarios with rates of contribution ranging from 0.50 - 2.0 mm per year of sea level equivalent.»

As for the methane that could be released into the atmosphere, Schuur estimates that emissions will be equivalent to between 160 and 290 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Between the period 1970 to 2004, greenhouse gas emissions (measured in CO2 - equivalent)[103] increased at an average rate of 1.6 % per year, with CO2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels growing at a rate of 1.9 % per year.

All told, if one assumes that emissions decline at a steady rate between each of those milestones, total U.S. greenhouse - gas output between 2012 and 2050 would be equivalent to about 154 billion tons of carbon dioxide.