Sentences with word «gigatonnes»

The greatest increase in snowfall has been over the Antarctic Peninsula, where the mass of snow per decade has risen by 123 gigatonnes in 200 years.
Add 0.1 C and nature immediately adds many gigatonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere — showing carbon climate feedbacks are already a clear threat to maintaining stable temperatures
Phasing out these fossil fuel subsidies it would save 750 million tonnes of CO2 every year by 2015, up to 2.6 gigatonnes by 2035, Birol said.
We identify three key areas that need more focused discussion to go beyond boutique applications and support CDR at the required gigatonne scale:
If we wind up emitting an extra gigatonne [billion metric tons] of CO2 into the atmosphere this year, it commits the Earth to a certain amount of additional warming that can't be taken back — a warming that starts to emerge within decades but will still be with us after thousands of years.
«Unfortunately, if we add up human emissions from the pre-industrial age to the present, then around 2000 gigatonnes out of the 5000 total have already been released into the atmosphere — so the situation is worrying,» explains Finnish Meteorological Institute researcher Antti - Ilari Partanen, who is currently carrying out research at Concordia University and was involved in the study.
Projected 2040 emissions in the New Policies Scenario are lower by 600 million tonnes than in last year's Outlook (35.7 gigatonnes [Gt] versus 36.3 Gt).
If we pump X gigatonnes into the air but for some reason the concentration changes little, are we still screwed?
The oceans will boil and the seas will rise unless we stop driving to the shopping malls, put away our Hummers and stop using natural gas and gasoline that are adding gigatonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere each year.
But these spent fields are small, and can store only so much CO2 — up to 900 gigatonnes worldwide, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
However, the report says that 2020 emissions are likely to be between 8 to 13 gigatonnes higher.
From 2000 - 2013 China produced 2.9 gigatonnes less carbon than previous estimates of its cumulative emissions.
But, asks Juanes, how many technologies can vanish gigatonnes of CO2each year?
A 2 % increase would be almost 2.5 gigatonnes offset.
You start by counting gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (439 minus 450) and calculate that the difference is over 100 gigatons of carbon.
Yes, we are talking about the gigantic, 10 gigatonne loophole that could undermine the whole purpose of a second Kyoto commitment period.
ECO also thinks Parties need to find ways to close the ever - widening gigatonne gap, first by increasing their appallingly low pledges, and second by ensuring that loopholes are closed, including bad LULUCF accounting rules, «hot air» and double counting.
There must be a risk that faced with gigatonnes of new potential food, they would learn to eat it, as a handy addition to the standard menu of fish shit and dead whales.
The UNEP Emissions Gap report underscored this lack of ambition and transparency by finding that weak rules, bad LULUCF accounting, and the potential carry - over of emissions credits could add 1 - 2 Gt CO2e to the already sizeable Gigatonne Gap.
ECO would welcome such recognition but must insist that the gaping gigatonne gap is there because of a lack of ambition on many sides.
To remain on the 2 °C pathway for 2020, global greenhouse gas emissions need to be 15 gigatonnes lower than currently predicted.
The numbers of gigatonnes allowed she presented in the summary showed a halving from the temperature - ceiling - only case, and that was the basis for my doubling.
A 2011 study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory suggests China's emissions could peak at 9.7 gigatonnes if the government implements ambitious climate policy, the New York Times reports.
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