Sentences with phrase «global emissions from the sector»

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The shipping sector, along with aviation, avoided specific emissions - cutting targets in a global climate pact agreed in Paris at the end of 2015, which aims to limit a global average rise in temperature to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius from 2020.

But the livestock sector is responsible for about 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, through cows producing methane and production processes - comparable to all the direct emissions from cars, planes, ships and other transport.

This report outlines where such advantages exist within the energy sector and demonstrates where Australia can benefit from a domestic and global transition to low emissions energy.

This graphic depicts the carbon intensity of shipping wine from various global wine regions to key U.S. cities and bases its data on a seriously flawed, two - year - old working paper that is filled with untested assumptions, has not been peer reviewed, and does not accurately reflect the complexities of greenhouse gas emissions in the wine sector.

The global dairy sector contributes 4 % to global GHG emissions with an estimated 2.7 % coming from global milk production, processing, and transportation, according to a report conducted by the FAO in 2007.

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

reported in the journal «Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenGlobal Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenglobal emission scenarios.

The International Energy Agency first said two years ago that global energy - sector emissions had declined while the world expanded economically, though critics point out that the measurement excludes emissions from other sources, such as agriculture (ClimateWire, March 17).

Were that to happen, emissions would be as high as the entire transportation sector, which takes up 14 % of global greenhouse emissions, currently dominated by pollution from cars and trucks.

For example, Holmstead referenced a section in the draft that estimates that about 1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the U.S. transportation sector.

A 2014 Chatham House report found greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector are estimated to account for 14.5 percent of the global total, more than direct emissions from the transport sector.

Researchers at Stanford University who closely track China's power sector, coal use, and carbon dioxide emissions have done an initial rough projection and foresee China possibly emitting somewhere between 1.9 and 2.6 billion tons less carbon dioxide from 2008 to 2010 than it would have under «business as usual» if current bearish trends for the global economy hold up.

CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion 2017 provides comprehensive estimates of CO2 emissions from fuel combustion across the world and across the sectors of the globalEmissions from Fuel Combustion 2017 provides comprehensive estimates of CO2 emissions from fuel combustion across the world and across the sectors of the globalemissions from fuel combustion across the world and across the sectors of the global economy.

Thus, emissions from these sectors were aggregated to one global figure.

If one nation desires to keep its total emissions below its fair share of safe global emissions by keeping their transportation sector low while having slightly larger emissions from their manufacturing sector, most theories of international responsibility would give that nation some choice on how it would achieve its international GHG obligations.

-- by examining the question from different vantage points: from that of global integrated assessment models, from bottom - up studies of individual economic sectors, and from published work on the mitigation potential in international aviation and shipping emissions.

The specific objective of the study is two-fold: 1) to develop a methodology based on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach applicable to the global dairy sector; and 2) to apply this methodology to assess, and provide insights about, GHG emissions from the dairy cattle sector.

After the Paris Agreement and a deal on emissions from international aviation, shipping is the last sector to contribute to global climate action.

It's working to reverse the Clean Power Plan, which sought to cut power - sector emissions 32 percent by 2030, and President Trump has announced a withdrawal from the global Paris climate accord.

Provided in the «Global map - Annex I» section of the UNFCCC GHG Data page; GHG emissions / removals for major sector sectors / subsectors and changes in emissions / removals (from base year or 1990 to the latest available year) are available

Global greenhouse gas emissions per region / Global CO2 emissions per region from fossil - fuel use and cement production The Report includes a new systematic assessment of how various economic sectors can reduce their climate - warming emissions, focusing on the potential eductions from the wide application of already - known and cost - effective technologies.

In the United States, about 29 percent of global warming emissions come from our electricity sector.

Around two - thirds of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions stem from energy production and use, which puts the energy sector at the core of efforts to combat climate change.

But a lack of demand from carbon markets and uncertainty about how many credits could be used as part of future global emissions cuts has scared off many private sector investors.

In other words, with US emissions at about 25 % of global GHG emissions, elimiating gasoline from the US transportation sector would cut global emissions by about 2 percent.

The ONLY justification for the massive stream of subsidies filched from power consumers and directed to wind power outfits is the claim that wind power reduces CO2 emissions in the electricity sector and, therefore, provides a solution to climate change (or what used to be called «global warming»).

According to Rainforest Action Network, «Worldwide, tropical deforestation contributes as many emissions to climate change as those from the global transportation sector.

Global emissions are increasing rapidly Latest IEA statistics on CO2 emissions from the energy sector show that we are not moving towards a safer energy future, but in fact are departing further from it.

Emission metrics such as Global Warming Potential (GWP) and Global Temperature change Potential (GTP) can be used to quantify and communicate the relative and absolute contributions to climate change of emissions of different substances, and of emissions from regions / countries or sources / sectors.

• Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (17 % of 2004 global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily include carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation, land clearing for agriculture, and fires or decay of peat soils.

• Transportation (13 % of 2004 global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily involve fossil fuels burned for road, rail, air, and marine transportation.

The land sector is responsible for about a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and changes to land - use practices have the potential to significantly contribute to reducing emissions, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, improving rural livelihoods, and promoting countries» ability to adapt to a changing climate.

[1] The land sector produces about a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and has the potential to significantly contribute to reducing emissions, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, improving rural livelihoods, and promoting countries» ability to adapt to a changing climate.

Unlike most sectors that contribute to global warming, land use offers opportunities not only to reduce emissions, but to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it.

Because of the complexity of global warming science as well as the challenge of securing accurate estimations of emissions from these various sectors, this estimation is the best we can hope for.

To quantify the growth in emission transfers via international trade, we developed a trade - linked global database for CO2 emissions covering 113 countries and 57 economic sectors from 1990 to 2008.

«With the healthy diet that still contained some meat, global greenhouse gas emissions from the food sector only increased 7 percent by 2050, compared with an expectation of a 51 percent increase under business as usual.

All of this is in the context that greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation eclipse those of the global transport sector, not to mention uncalculable losses to biodiversity and threats to indigenous people who depend on forests for their livelihoods.

«This study, along with a few others we've published recently, quantifies greenhouse gas emissions from multiple source sectors in a way that will both enable evaluation of AB32 (the California Global Warming Solutions Act) and help guide efforts to mitigate emissions in the future,» Fischer said.

Worldwide tourism accounted for 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions from 2009 to 2013, new research finds, making the sector a bigger polluter than the construction industry.

Growing awareness about global warming and the extent of greenhouse gas emissions from the residential sector has increased attention to green building in recent years.