Sentences with phrase «gas emissions calculation»

«(iv) GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION CALCULATIONS.

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To define the scope of our analysis and set the standards for our calculations, we turned to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, a widely used emissions accounting tool for businesses and governments.

It is also higher than calculations by the EPA, which revised its methodology last year and roughly doubled the official US inventory of emissions from the natural - gas industry over the past decade.

Part of the reason is EPA is only considering the domestic cost of methane emissions in its calculations, a fact that critics say severely underestimates the global environmental harm caused by the gas.

When the warming effect of other greenhouse gases is also included in the carbon budget calculations, the quantity of emissions remaining is even smaller.

Calculations by the World Resources Institute find that Indonesian fires over the past three months have released more greenhouse gases than the entire annual emissions of highly - industrialized Germany.

By some calculations, livestock may contribute nearly 15 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire transportation sector.

The committee's model calculations, while exploratory and highly uncertain, indicate that the benefits of making the transition, i.e. energy cost savings, improved vehicle technologies, and reductions in petroleum use and greenhouse gas emissions, exceed the additional costs of the transition over and above what the market is willing to do voluntarily.»

COPENHAGEN — Late on Thursday, environmentalists monitoring the climate talks alerted reporters to the existence of a six - page document, dated December 15th, that is a compilation by the United Nations office managing the talks of all the major countries» plans for curbing their emissions, along with a calculation of where that would take the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases and eventual temperature of the planet.

But most calculations claiming that bioenergy reduces greenhouse gas emissions relative to burning fossil fuels do not include the carbon dioxide released when biomass is burned.

Model additions include results from (i) quantum chemical calculations that clarify the previously uncertain gas phase mechanism of formation of MSA and (ii) a combination of published and experimental estimates of OSC emissions, such as those from marine, agricultural, and urban processes, which include pet waste and human breath.

Equally, the calculations don't include the environmental costs of the different energy sources — like those related to greenhouse gas emissions.

The statement you object to is in fact accurate, and is based on a simple calculation starting with what is understood by science about man - made greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

The main objective of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories is to develop and refine a methodology for the calculation and reporting of national GHG emissions and removals.

These global climate models typically receive inputs from neoclassical economic and human demographic models for calculations of future greenhouse gas emissions.

First Climate has long been a reliable partner for implementing climate - neutral events of all kinds and offers all the necessary services from a single source: from the emission calculation and efficiency consulting to the compensation of greenhouse gas emissions with suitable climate protection projects.

The calculation is an attempt to set an upper bound for how large a reduction in emissions is possible with natural gas.

ECCC, less focused on protecting the environment than on meeting its 2018 and 2019 deadlines for implementing the clean fuel standard, effectively told them to buzz off, saying it «may make updates to the emissions calculations to reflect indirect greenhouse gas emissions at a future time.»

Consequently, the most advanced climate models now require, in addition to concentrations or emissions of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O and halocarbons), emissions of reactive gases and aerosol precursor compounds (SO2, NOx, VOC, BC, OC and NH3), to model atmospheric chemistry and interactions with the climate system.6 For most variables, a sectoral differentiation would improve the quality of the calculations (e.g. from power plants and agricultural burning).

Making the calculation of emissions reductions needed at any one time is complicated by the fact that how rapidly greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced is a problem that depends upon when global emissions reductions begin.

Overview of carbon calculators and the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions in tourism.

When the warming effect of other greenhouse gases is also included in the carbon budget calculations, the quantity of emissions remaining is even smaller.

In a Feb. 3, 1981 letter to Gene Northington at Research and Engineering, Gervasi challenged a «rough calculation» that Northington had made of the CO2 emissions from producing Natuna's gas and burning it as fuel.

Model calculations of the abundances of the primary greenhouse gases by year 2100 vary considerably across the SRES scenarios: in general A1B, A1T, and B1 have the smallest increases of emissions and burdens; and A1FI and A2 the largest.

Minx, J.C., Wiedmann, T., Barrett J., Suh S., 2008: Methods Review to Support the PAS Process for the Calculation of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Embodied in Good and Services.

The main objective of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories is to develop and refine a methodology for the calculation and reporting of national greenhouse gas emissions and removaGas Inventories is to develop and refine a methodology for the calculation and reporting of national greenhouse gas emissions and removagas emissions and removals.

The analysis also included calculations of a producer's direct emissions via flaring and venting processes, emissions from entities using their own fuel, and fugitive emissions of methane from oil and gas operations and coal mining.

This research hinges on a new and more detailed calculation of the sensitivity of Earth's climate to the factors that cause it to change, such as greenhouse gas emissions.

The worksheets available below constitute the details each entity's production of oil & NGLs, natural gas, coal, and cement from as early as 1854 to 2010, as well as additional sources of emissions (such as vented CO2, flared CO2, own fuel use, and vented or fugitive methane), non-energy uses of oil, gas, and coal, emission factors for each fuel, calculation of emissions attributed to each Carbon Major producer, and several summary worksheets by fuel and for cumulative emissions by all entities.

Calculations for some gas - field emissions jumped by several hundred percent.

Shindell's climate sensitivity calculation suggests countries around the world need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the higher end of proposed emissions reduction ranges to avoid the most damaging consequences of climate change.

TreeHugger has covered this issue before, but there are some startling new calculations on the emissions from natural gas:

(01/30/2012) Greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil - based biodiesel are the highest among major biofuels when the effects of deforestation and peatlands degradation are considered, according to calculations by the European Commission.