Sentences with phrase «few gigatons»

Climate action from so - called non-state actors — cities, citizens groups, and the private sector — could supplement INDCs, closing the gap by a few gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

685,000 cubic miles, a few gigatons.

One could quibble about the significance of having current proposals being a few gigatons per year higher than the rate required for the 50/50 chance of 2 °C (a few gigatons here, a few gigatons there; pretty soon you are talking about real warming).

The new report suggests that achieving the goal of keeping a global temperature increase below 2 °C — a commonly agreed upon international goal — will actually require as many as 31 wedges, or 31 fewer gigatons of carbon per year than would be emitted if nothing were done.

Not exact matches

Within a few years, the main outlet glacier draining the region — Zachariae Isstrom — retreated about 20 kilometers, and regional ice mass loss jumped from zero to roughly 10 metric gigatons a year.

Few people bother to estimate what a gigaton of coal might look like, or how many trips might be needed to haul a gigaton with their pickup truck.

Few places are more suitable for carbon finance projects than Central Kalimantan, which has 3 million hectares of peatlands that store 6.3 gigatons carbon.

These combined effects pushed out anything between 12,000 and 38,000 gigatons of carbon, over a few tens of thousand years.