Sentences with phrase «equivalent emissions over»

The Plausible Scenario results show a mitigation impact of 6.7 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent emissions over the period 2020 - 2050.

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.

Not exact matches

To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

Over the last year, the Carbon Trust has worked with companies including Allied Bakeries, Dairy Crest, Cadbury and Nestle to identify more energy efficient manufacturing processes with the potential to cut industry carbon emissions by some 450,000 tonnes a year: equivalent to taking more than 150,000 cars off the road.

The reduction in greenhouse gas emissions was the equivalent of driving a car around the world over 14,000 times.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that if compost were applied over 5 % of the state's grazing lands, the soil could capture a year's worth of greenhouse gas emissions from California's farm and forestry industries, or the equivalent of removing 6 million cars from the road.

The digester has significantly reduced methane emissions by over 1,600 metric tons of CO2e each year — equivalent to eliminating the annual greenhouse gas emissions from about 350 passenger cars.

Its impact on climate, the authors say, will be equivalent to the effect of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from over half a million cars.

While overall emissions of greenhouse gases from CDP's «Global 500» have shrunk from 4.2 billion to 3.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent since 2009, the index's 50 largest - emitting firms have actually seen greenhouse gas emissions rise by 1.65 percent over the same period, the organization has found.

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.

What they found in the skies over the Bakken that May was the equivalent of 1 to 3 percent of the world's estimated emissions of ethane floating over a relatively tiny place.

That's equivalent to a 10 per cent rise over what the CO2 level would otherwise have been — small compared to the effect of today's human emissions of around 120 parts per million, but perhaps enough to trigger local change.

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.

The disaster's impact on climate will be equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions from over half a million passenger cars.

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.

The environmental group estimates that if all Americans adopted 14 such steps over the next decade the country would avoid one billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 — or the equivalent of the entire annual greenhouse gas emissions of Germany.

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.

Over what time period might this savannization process release carbon «equivalent to several years of worldwide carbon emissions», and how does that affect the assessment offered by Gore, Hansen and others that we have perhaps ten years in which to substantially reduce CO2 emissions to avoid irreversible catastrophic warming?

ECO-LIFE, a zero emission vehicle (ZEV), the company says, will save the equivalent of around 959 tonnes of carbon dioxide emission and 350,000 litres of diesel over the 10 years of its operation.

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.

The company is claiming a partial zero - emissions vehicle fuel efficiency equivalent of over 100mpg — less than 2.4 L / 100 km.

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.

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.

Extrapolating from their forest study, the researchers estimate that over this century the warming induced from global soil loss, at the rate they monitored, will be «equivalent to the past two decades of carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and is comparable in magnitude to the cumulative carbon losses to the atmosphere due to human - driven land use change during the past two centuries.»

If we multiply that over ten years, and figure that the top billion or so of world population is responsible for the lion's share (say 80 %) of the emissions, could we then conclude that, on average, every member of that top billion (presumably including all on this forum) had contributed the energy equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb (or more) toward atmospheric global warming over the last decade?

Saying the maths suggests that selecting only 15 % of the land surface in australia, and then increasing the soil carbon by a mere 1 % (or was it 1 % per annum over x period) that this would sequester an amount of CO2 emmissions equivalent to all of Australia's carbon emissions since white settlement.

To which we must add the additional anthropogenic emissions of CO2 over the next few years, which will bring us to a total CO2 equivalent of 850 ppmv (David's estimate plus Hanson's estimate of near term anthropogenic CO2 emissions.)

Your purchase will fund a portion of our commitment, made on our customers» behalf, to purchase 100 percent of the carbon dioxide - equivalent verified emissions reductions («VERs») to be produced by the Project over a specific period of time, usually its first 10 years of operations.

A study by a leading apparel company concluded that one pair of denim jeans produces 44 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions — equivalent to burning over 21 pounds of coal.

Once the first 20 municipalities take advantage of the program and convert to LED street lighting, greenhouse gas emissions are expected to be reduced by more than 42,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide over the next 15 years, equivalent to removing 8,840 cars off the road over this span.

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.

The Kigali Amendment could avoid emissions of well over 70 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide - equivalent (CO2e) by 2050.

A typical residential solar panel system will eliminate three to four tons of carbon emissions each year — the equivalent of planting over 100 trees annually.

Since its inception in 1999, WWF's Climate Savers partners have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by over 100 million tons — equivalent to taking 20 million cars off the road.

Coal Mining Companies Want to Mine 215 Million Tons of Coal in Montana, Equivalent to The Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Over 92 million Passenger Vehicles Driven for One Year.

Through reforestation, the project will likely remove 130,000 tons of emissions from the atmosphere over 30 years — that's about the equivalent of the annual emissions for 27,000 cars.

By 2050, cities could cut annual GHG emissions by 8.0 Gt CO2e over what national policies are currently on track to achieve, the equivalent of cutting annual global coal use by more than half.

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

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.

An estimated 100 million metric tons of carbon dioxide will be captured over Gorgon's lifespan — that's equivalent to the annual CO2 emissions produced by nine million homes, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Added up over the course of a year, international shipping emits more than 800 million tons of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases — 11 percent of the total emissions from the transportation sector.

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.

Comparing emissions from various fuel crops versus carbon storage in natural ecosystems, Renton Righelato and Dominick Spracklen write that «forestation of an equivalent area of land would sequester two to nine times more carbon over a 30 - year period than the emissions avoided by the use of the biofuel.»

However, current estimates suggest that life - cycle emissions can be over 0.5 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [5,6].

Drained and cultivated organic soils in the delta continue to oxidize, subside and emit an estimated one to two million metric tons of CO2 - equivalent annually — equal to annual emissions from over 300,000 passenger vehicles.

When CH4, CO2, and N2O emissions are combined, our synthesis suggests that reservoir water surfaces contribute 0.8 Pg CO2 equivalents per year over a 100 - year time span (fifth and ninety - fifth confidence interval: 0.5 — 1.2 Pg CO2 equivalents per year), or approximately 1.5 % of the global anthropogenic CO2 - equivalent emissions from CO2, CH4, and N2O reported by the IPCC (table 1; Ciais et al. 2013) and 1.3 % of global anthropogenic CO2 - equivalent emissions from well mixed GHGs overall (Myhre et al. 2013).

To describe the relative contribution of various GHG emissions to global warming, emissions were converted to CO2 equivalents, a metric that relates the radiative forcing caused by 1 mass unit of trace GHG to that caused by the emission of 1 mass unit of CO2 over a given time span.

Both the Drawdown and Optimum Scenarios are more conservative in the growth of landfill methane due to the combination with other waste management solutions, with impacts on greenhouse gas emission reductions over 2020 - 2050 of 1.11 and 0.5 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent, respectively.

The 150,000 tonnes of methane bubbling up from sediment in the retention lake on the river Are over a year are the equivalent of emissions from 2,000 cows, or 25 million kilometres (15.5 million miles) travelled by cars, EAWAG added in a statement.

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).