Sentences with phrase «global carbon emissions represent»

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These findings represent progress towards improving estimates of annual global carbon emissions.»

For example, substantial commitments to reduce carbon emissions from the US and China, Europe, and a host of high income countries form the basis of negotiations, while ten global cities representing 58 million people have drawn up ambitious plans to tackle climate change.

Yet, emissions from deforestation represent more than 10 % of global carbon emissions.

Responsible for more than 70 percent of global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions, cities represent the single greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.

In fact The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project is saying «natural systems represent one of the biggest untapped allies» in combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protecting.

The key pieces of empirical data are that average global temperature has now failed to increase for 17 years despite an accompanying increase of about 8 % in carbon dioxide which represents 34 % of all the human emissions since the start of the industrial revolution (NIPCC SPM, Figure 6).

It is not particularly surprising that they could not find one to argue against the reality of carbon emissions - driven global warming, but it still seems a bit of an unfair difference in stature to have the position backed up by corporate - sponsored pseudoscience be represented by a member of Congress, against a man known primarily for shouting «science!»

Aviation emissions currently represent around 2 percent of global carbon emissions, but as the industry continues to grow, that number is predicted to rise to 22 percent by 2050.

These bottom - up pressures would likely render such an agreement a dead letter, or at least make it in effect a tax applicable only to the law - abiding developed countries that represent an ever - shrinking share of global carbon emissions.

Air transportation represents around 2.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, at more than 700 million tons annually.

Nitrogen fertilizers represent one of the largest sources of GHG emissions from global agricultural production resulting in significant emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a GHG with approximately 300 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2).

South Africa is the first country to apply a carbon budget approach to determine whether its INDC represents a fair share of global emission reductions.

Building on decades of experience in the field, the report offers six lessons the authors believe are critical if REDD and REDD + (which includes REDD plus more controversial measures such as sustainable forest management) are going to generate offsets that truly represent emission reductions and that a global carbon regime will accept.

The real technological obstacles to decarbonizing the global economy today represent an insurmountable obstacle to political efforts to limit carbon emissions.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions for 1990 at 39.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, suggesting that the Nigerian emissions may have represented approximately 0.09 % of the total in terms of CO2 and 0.76 % of the total in terms of methane, using the IPCCs 100 - year global warming potential for methane of 25.

Responsible for more than 70 percent of global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions, cities represent the single greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.

Nuclear's travails represent a major setback in the global quest to curb carbon emissions; if solar's rise similarly stalls, then the world won't get a third try at decarbonization before the potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change set in.

The figure represents the difference between the estimated $ 4.8 tn of investment needed to meet global fossil fuel demand between 2018 and 2025 under current climate policies and the $ 3.3 tn that would be required if the Paris agreement on reducing carbon emissions was fully implemented.

GHG emission trajectories that are consistent with the goal of keeping global warming below 1.5 or 2ºC, translate into a global carbon budget that represents a de-facto emissions cap for the whole economy.

Under this context, the use of carbon credits to meet a company's science - based emission reduction target represents, at best, an impact neutral instrument from a global carbon budget perspective.

Carbon pricing is not just a theory: 40 countries and over 20 subnational jurisdictions, representing almost 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, already have carbon pricing in place.