Sentences with phrase «gas emission figures»

[1] The new figures are the greenhouse gas emission figures from 2003, as the data always comes with a delay of two years.

A month before the Kyoto Conference the Government was publishing greenhouse gas emission figures that excluded land clearing emissions in order to emphasise how rapidly Australia's emissions were growing.

Once he calculated a total greenhouse gas emissions figure, he used his model to divide the total up among the various coproducts.

Not exact matches

Alberta has released its latest figures for greenhouse gas emissions by major facilities.

Based on these figures, RBC has another 113 million reasons to further undermine Canada's Paris pledge to lower greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Figures from the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply's «Long Term Outlook» now indicate that the country's livestock industry — whose associated greenhouse gas emissions and land use are already a concern for environmentalists — will grow still further in the next ten years.

This system allows us to report energy and water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and waste generation at a global and site level, as an absolute figure or per unit of production.

The government has insisted it is on track to meet and exceed its Kyoto target, as new figures show greenhouse gas emissions fell between 2004 and 2005.

Atmospheric concentrations of the most ubiquitous greenhouse gas reached 381 parts - per - million in 2006 after emissions of CO2 from burning fossil fuels rose to 8.4 billion metric tons (1.85 x 1013 pounds) per year, according to figures from the United Nations, British Petroleum and the U.S. Geological Survey.

«There is massive uncertainty in this figure, and until much more research is done no serious scientist should express any confidence in such estimates,» of iron fertilization's geoengineering potential, cautions oceanographer Richard Lampitt of the National Oceanography Center in England, who also argues that more research into such potential geoengineering techniques is needed due to the failure of global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

David Maleki, a climate change analyst with the Inter-American Development Bank's Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative, helps cities in Latin America and the Caribbean use the protocol to figure out which sectors are responsible for most of their greenhouse gas emissions.

Adaptation notwithstanding, Yohe and Schneider say that scientists must also figure out a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to reverse the heating trend to prevent further damage.

But scientists are starting to figure out how greenhouse - gas emissions are beginning to threaten some of the things Americans love the most — including holiday traditions like ham and wine.

Though the figures vary, World Bank scientists have attributed up to 51 percent of human - caused greenhouse gas emissions to the livestock industry.

These results and the emerging additional regions of highest climate change vulnerability under high emissions scenarios (Figures S7, S8, S9) suggest that global policies that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions will substantially reduce species» climate change vulnerability.

The motorists» association says results show emissions of noxious gases up to four times the regulatory limits, while greenhouse - gas emissions and fuel consumption was up to 35 % higher than figures shown on the government - mandated Fuel Consumption Label.

When it comes to greenhouse - gas emissions, we can not only look at the current situation and ignore history, nor look at overall emissions and ignore per capita figures.

Like Wasdell, Broome describes how «a coalition of countries led by Saudi Arabia» at the April approval session in Berlin «insisted» that all «figures» depicting increases of greenhouse gas emissions in countries classified by «income group» «should be deleted.»

An E.P.A. review of methane emissions from gas wells in the United States strongly implies that all of these figures may be too low.

(We use 2012 figures because that is the starting point for what we actually need to accomplish; all emissions numbers are from EPA's 2014 Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 — 2012, which is the most recent official U.S. report to the Paris emissions numbers are from EPA's 2014 Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 — 2012, which is the most recent official U.S. report to the Paris Emissions and Sinks: 1990 — 2012, which is the most recent official U.S. report to the Paris process.)

All emissions in this figure and chapter refer to GtCO2e (gigatonnes or billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent)-- the global warming potential - weighted sum of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases, that is, CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs and SF6, including LULUCF CO2 emissions.

With continued Clean Power Plan emissions reduction requirements through 2040 under the Policy Extension Case (CPPEXT), the shift to higher natural gas - fired generation is maintained through 2030 - 35 (Figure 5 and Table 3).

The figures also show the current «best guess» of the man - made warming to the year 2100, assuming no action is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The most statistics can tell us at present is that there does appear to be a genuine warming trend in figure A. Whether this trend is the effect of greenhouse gas emissions or of a natural fluctuation due to some as - yet - undiscovered mechanism can not be determined from an analysis of the global mean temperature alone.

Figure 1: Rates of change (base year 2010 = 100) of global emissions in a range of 1.5 or 2 degree Celsius scenarios, and of emissions from Norwegian developed and undeveloped oil and gas fields.

But perhaps most importantly, one can argue for an even smaller budget and additional emissions constraints because non-CO2 gases are not included in 1 trillion tonne C figure.

Cities are responsible for about 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and a growing number of the world's mayors are trying to take a bite out of that figure.

This particular myth is primarily based on ignoring the fact that failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have a tremendous cost, much greater than the cost of action (Figure 3).

That's because, as Figure 1 demonstrates, the excess heat trapped by human greenhouse gas emissions is primarily stored in the ocean.

If TCR / ECS are lower than assumed by IPCC experts, and if we use resource limits on oil, gas and coal (rather than using the hyper cornucopian figures used in RCP8.5), then the market, emerging technology driven by higher fossil fuel prices will reduce emissions to have concentration peak at ~ 630 ppm (that's a rough estimate).

The body of scientific literature is quite clear and consistent in finding that human greenhouse gas emissions are the dominant cause of the global warming over the past 50 — 100 years (Figure 2).

On the contrary, Figure 1 is a conservative estimate of potential emissions from tar sands because: the economically extractable amount grows with technology development and oil price; the total tar sands resource is larger than the known resource, possibly much larger; extraction of tar sands oil uses conventional oil and gas, which will show up as additions to the purple bars in Figure 1; development of tar sands will destroy overlying forest and prairie ecology, emitting biospheric CO2 to the atmosphere.

Editor's note (May 8, 2018): After publication, we clarified in the headline and the story that the 8 percent figure refers to all greenhouse gas emissions.

UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 8.4 percent between 2013 and 2014, according to official figures released today by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

Posted by Olive Heffernan on behalf of Paty Romero Lankao It does make sense to compare the per capita CO2 emissions of Mexico City and Los Angeles (see figure below) to illuminate the debate on shared but differentiated responsibilities on greenhouse gases emissions and show that just as urban centers register different levels and paths of economic development, cities do not contribute at the same level to global warming.

«The new figures confirm last year's surprising but welcome news: we now have seen two straight years of greenhouse gas emissions decoupling from economic growth,» said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

It does make sense to compare the per capita CO2 emissions of Mexico City and Los Angeles (see figure below) to illuminate the debate on shared but differentiated responsibilities on greenhouse gases emissions and show that just as urban centers register different levels and paths of economic development, cities do not contribute at the same level to global warming.

Figures released today by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show that greenhouse gas emissions in the UK fell by 2.4 percent in 2013.

¶ The government of Norway and the country's shipowners» association have revealed their preference for global shipping related greenhouse gas emissions goals to target a figure of 50 % by 2050, the two entities have revealed.

36 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Solutions Global Warming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this century.

IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said: «The new figures confirm last year's surprising but welcome news: we now have seen two straight years of greenhouse gas emissions decoupling from economic growth.»

Figures released Monday show that US greenhouse gas emissions hit a record in 2004, rising 1.7 percent over 2003.

Were these included in the UK's accounts, alongside the aviation, shipping and tourism gases excluded from official figures, the UK's emissions would rise by 48 % (4).

However, it is much easier to figure out what happens when you add more radiative gases to an atmosphere that already has them: And, the answer is that it increases the IR opacity of the atmosphere, which increases the altitude of the effective radiating level and hence means the emission is occurring from a lower - temperature layer, leading to a reduction of emission that is eventually remedied by the atmosphere heating up so that radiative balance at the top - of - the - atmosphere is restored.

These figures do not take into account the recent long - term energy strategy of the European Union (EU), which proposes that by 2020, EU consumption of renewables will increase to 20 percent of total energy use; the proportion of biofuels used in transport will increase to 10 percent; and EU greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced to 20 percent below 1990 levels (European Union, 2007).

Figure 22.5: Projections for average annual ground temperature at a depth of 3.3 feet over time if emissions of heat - trapping gases continue to grow (higher emissions scenario, A2), and if they are substantially reduced (lower emissions scenario, B1).

«Global greenhouse gas emissions are dominated by energy production (Figure 14).

Although the latter figure was originally proposed by the European Commission, it has been criticized for falling short of the levels that would be needed to achieve a minimum target of 80 per cent greenhouse gas emissions reductions (compared to 1990 levels) put forward in the 2050 Low - Carbon Roadmap.

The sources of uncertainty are many, including the trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions in the future, their conversion into atmospheric concentrations, the range of responses of various climate models to a given radiative forcing and the method of constructing high resolution information from global climate model outputs (Pittock, 1995; see Figure 13.2).

However, the amount of warming caused by human greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is known to a high degree of certainty, and these same studies have all found that GHGs are responsible for over 100 % of the observed warming over this timeframe (Figure 3).