Sentences with phrase «from cement manufacture»

Realising the more ambitious IEA's 2 Degrees Scenario (2DS) by 2050 implies significantly greater efforts to reduce emissions from cement manufacture.

During that same period, 282 PgC were released by combustion of fossil fuels, and 5.5 additional PgC were released to the atmosphere from cement manufacture.

Combustion and process emissions from cement manufacturing, iron - and steelmaking, and chemical production are particularly problematic.

In terms of SLCPs, the Multi-Sector Air Pollutants Regulations establish requirements for nitrogen oxide emissions (an ozone precursor) from boilers and heaters and stationary spark - ignition engines operated in various industrial sectors, and nitrogen oxides (an ozone precursor) and sulphur dioxide from cement manufacturing facilities.

[11] The particular confusion here is that a broad category of non-land-use CO2 emissions is frequently called «fossil fuel emissions», even though it usually includes modern biofuels used for energy, and often non-energy industrial CO2 emissions (e.g. from cement manufacturing) as well.

Not exact matches

If controlling global warming is a priority, then industries — from banking to cement manufacturing — will have to become efficient energy users, which will require a transformation of their basic operations

Today about one quarter of that CO2 comes from industries that happen to be located close to old oil fields and produce lots of CO2 as a by - product, such as fertilizer manufacturing plants or cement kilns.

For example, cement manufacturers can use either blast furnace slag from steel mills or pozzolans — natural or manufactured reactive materials that increase the long - term strength of concrete — as substitutes for other, more traditional materials.

To allay concerns regarding pollution, the U.S. cement industry has voluntarily pledged by 2020 to reduce total carbon dioxide emissions from its plants to 10 percent below 1990 levels by upgrading manufacturing equipment and changing the ingredients in the finished product.

I find the use of the Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center data on «Global CO2 Emissions from Fossil - Fuel Burning, Cement Manufacture, and Gas Flaring», here:

Anthropogenic CO2 comes from fossil fuel combustion, changes in land use (e.g., forest clearing), and cement manufacture.

Yet, a sustainable transition requires a significant reduction of direct CO2 emissions from the global cement manufacture by 2050 compared to current levels.

Our members have operations all over the world and in a wide range of industries, from telecommunications and IT to cement and automobile manufacturing.

Wiki:» The data only considers carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement manufacture, but not emissions from land use, land - use change and forestry.»

If the world's 1.5 billion obese and overweight adults all lost 22 pounds apiece and kept if off for a year, the reduction in CO2 would equal 0.2 % of global emissions from burning fossil fuels and manufacturing cement.

At least 70 % of the carbon dioxide emitted in the manufacture of concrete derives from the manufacture of Ordinary Portland Cement: each ton of that cement creates 0.75 - 1.0 ton of carbon diCement: each ton of that cement creates 0.75 - 1.0 ton of carbon dicement creates 0.75 - 1.0 ton of carbon dioxide.

Returning carbon to soils and ecosystems has major benefits in addition to offsetting anthropogenic emissions from fossil fuel combustion, land use conversion, soil cultivation, continuous grazing and cement manufacturing.

The permafrost of the world's largest peat bog, in West Siberia, 10 contains some 70 billion metric tons of methane — equal to about 16 percent of all the carbon added to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, land - use changes, and cement manufacture over the course of the past 150 years (from 1850 to 2000).7

The Information Unit on Climate Change, Switzerland, states that about a half a tonne of carbon dioxide is released from the roasting of the raw materials for each one tonne of cement manufactured.

Modern sanitation systems and potable water distribution are dependent on fossil fuels in everything from the manufacture of cement and steel for pipes and pumps to generating electricity to run water and sewage pumps.

Recent estimates have calculated that 26 percent of all the carbon released as CO2 from fossil fuel burning, cement manufacture, and land - use changes over the decade 2002 — 2011 was absorbed by the oceans.

While gas and oil contribute significantly to contemporary greenhouse forcing (as, for some reason, does manufacture of cement, as well as agricultural methane emissions from livestock and rice) the biggest part of the foreseen problem comes from coal.

The identification of other, sometimes more powerful, greenhouse gases such as methane, the contributions to atmospheric carbon dioxide from other human activities such as deforestation and cement manufacture, better understanding of the temperature - changing properties of atmospheric pollution such as sulphur emissions, aerosols and their importance in the post-1940s northern hemisphere cooling: the knowledge - base was increasing year by year.

These data include CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion, as well as cement manufacturing and gas flaring.

The world's top emitters have changed significantly over time, with emissions stemming largely from fossil fuel use, cement manufacturing, and deforestation and land use change.1

Industrial sector emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) include carbon dioxide (CO2) from energy use, from non-energy uses of fossil fuels and from non-fossil fuel sources (e.g., cement manufacture); as well as non-CO2 gases.

Over the years, local industry has changed from cement quarries to brick making to the diverse blend of manufacturing and retail trade that you find today.

Railroad access from Chicago made the area a popular summer retreat for the barons of wealth in lumber, cattle, oil, steel, cement, manufacturing, and durable goods (e.g., Morton Salt, Wrigley Chewing Gum), with mansions and large homes such as Stone Manor and Black Point built on the lake from the 1850s, through the heyday of the Roaring 20s, and up...