Sentences with phrase «global emissions of carbon dioxide»

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from the use of fossil fuels are estimated to have to be reduced by 75 to 80 per cent.

It will boost global emissions of carbon dioxide by up to 110 million tonnes per year.

But the annual amount of human - caused global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, is now about 50 percent larger than in 1992.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide need to fall lest climate change will accelerate.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide stalled in 2014, marking the first time in 40 years that there was no climb in emissions during a time of economic growth.

But the annual amount of human - caused global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, is now about 50 percent larger than in 1992.

To do this, we need to reduce annual global emissions of carbon dioxide from the 30 gigatonnes released today to 15 gigatonnes by 2050.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide stood at 32.3 billion tonnes in 2014, unchanged from the preceding year.

Increasing global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), a heat - trapping gas, are pushing the world into dangerous territory, closing the window of time to avert the worst consequences of higher temperatures, such as melting ice and rising seas.

Lead author James Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, concludes: «If global emissions of carbon dioxide continue to rise at the rate of the past decade, this research shows that there will be disastrous effects, including increasingly rapid sea level rise, increased frequency of droughts and floods, and increased stress on wildlife and plants due to rapidly shifting climate zones.»

«If global emissions of carbon dioxide continue to rise at the rate of the past decade,» said Dr. Hansen, «this research shows that there will be disastrous effects, including increasingly rapid sea level rise, increased frequency of droughts and floods, and increased stress on wildlife and plants due to rapidly shifting climate zones.»

The report — «Lighting the Way: Toward a Sustainable Energy Future» — addresses the challenge of bringing modern energy to everyone, while reining in global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Deforestation, largely driven by conversion to cropland, accounts for roughly 16 percent of global emissions of the carbon dioxide warming the atmosphere.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide reached (another) all - time peak in 2010.

(For comparison, the total annual global emissions of carbon dioxide top 30 billion tons a year now.

12:40 p.m. Updated Now here's a new way to get the public to heed a warning: Hold a trial in Stockholm in which planet Earth is the plaintiff, humanity the defendant and a panel of Nobel Prize winners the jury, then issue a verdict centered on a to - do list including fundamentally unachievable goals (stabilizing global emissions of carbon dioxide by 2015, for starters).

The Paris accord, agreed by nearly 200 countries in 2015, seeks to limit planetary warming by curbing global emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists believe drive global warming.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes - according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Global emissions of carbon dioxide stood at 32.1 billion tonnes in 2015, having remained essentially flat since 2013.

Right now, the sum of global emissions of carbon dioxide by 6.6 billion very - unequal humans is about 29 billion tons a year.

Annual global emissions of carbon dioxide have risen steadily from 21 billion tons in 1992 to 32 billion tons in 2012.

And researchers report in the journal Science Advances that unless there are serious reductions in global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that drive global warming and could trigger catastrophic climate change, the most extreme, once - in -25-years heat waves could increase wet bulb temperatures now at around 31 °C to 34.2 °C.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes — according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.

Last year, IEA estimates that global emissions of carbon dioxide from the energy sector rose 1.4 % to a record level of 31.6 gigatons.

Meanwhile, global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases continue to increase, promising far worse to come.

To stabilize climate, global emissions of carbon dioxide and other long - lived greenhouse gases need to reach near - zero well within this century, the report states.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil - fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist through the recovery.

The International Energy Agency has reported that global emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use, tracking the recovering world economy, hit a new high of 30.6 billion metric tons of the gas last year.

Today, global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)-- the principal climate - altering greenhouse gas — come largely from burning coal, oil, and natural gas.

To stabilize climate, global emissions of carbon dioxide and other long - lived greenhouse gases need to reach near - zero well within this century, the report states.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)-- the principal climate - altering greenhouse gas — come largely from burning coal, oil, and natural gas.

The actual warming — and the magnitude of its resulting impacts — will depend on whether we reduce or continue to increase our global emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other heat - trapping gases.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide are on course to hit record levels in 2010, a report by the Global Carbon Project (GCP) indicated on Monday.

«global emissions of carbon dioxide have to be reduced to very low levels, well below half of levels in 2000, in order to stabilize their concentrations in the atmosphere» Decision FCCC / KP / AWG / 2006 / L.4

The science is clear: global emissions of carbon dioxide must go into rapid decline within the next decade.

Over all the Dutch agency found that global emissions of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, were unchanged last year.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide — one of the leading causes of global warming — stalled in 2014, marking the first time in 40 years that there was no climb in CO2 emissions during a time of economic growth.