Sentences with phrase «global greenhouse gas»

New research reveals that worldwide tourism accounted for a staggering 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2013.

Those participants were responsible for 86 % of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2010.

Virtually all climate experts agree that we must reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050.

This target may be technically possible to achieve but will probably require substantial cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions in the very near future [1].

The 1,000 largest companies alone are responsible for one - fifth of total global greenhouse gas emissions.

Here's how it works: Multiple players must coordinate on an agreement with the goal of cutting global greenhouse gas emissions by the targeted amount.

These proposals, including a potential political compromise, would have a positive effect on access to energy services without any significant impact on global greenhouse gas emissions.

Global temperatures could rise dramatically in 2100 compared with current conditions (dark red areas) under some scenarios for global greenhouse gas emissions.

Developed countries could, for example, share up - to - date renewable energy technologies with developing countries, in an effort to lower global greenhouse gas emissions.

Therefore, it certainly does not offset global greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation.

Understanding how much methane is emitted into the atmosphere from all sources helps scientists account for the full global greenhouse gas budget, and take measures to mitigate its impact.

As a result of these shifts global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions peak around 2030 and then decline gradually.

The rate of increase depends on whether global greenhouse gases follow a low or high emission scenario.

This raises the question: how much will it cost to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 5 % per year?

And it generates about 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions annually.

The company has pledged to reduce total global greenhouse gas emissions by three percent from 2006 to 2015.

These countries will deliver three - quarters of the increase in global greenhouse gas emissions over the next generation, on current forecasts.

The only way to avoid that threshold, the scientists said, is to cut global greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 from their levels in 1990.

«Carbon dioxide levels are increasing faster than they have in hundreds of thousands of years,» said Pieter Tans, leader of NOAA's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network.

But, as the self - styled «world capital of the oil and gas industry», there's a connection between rising global greenhouse gas levels and the extreme weather now being inflicted that some of your residents have understood for decades and had a hand in.

«Detailed chemical measurements in Antarctic ice cores show that massive, halogen - rich eruptions from the West Antarctic Mt. Takahe volcano coincided exactly with the onset of the most rapid, widespread climate change in the Southern Hemisphere during the end of the last ice age and the start of increasing global greenhouse gas concentrations,» according to McConnell, who leads DRI's ultra-trace chemical ice core analytical laboratory.

At realistic rates of sequestration 25 % of current annual global greenhouse gas emissions could be sequestered over 40 years.

In article 21 of the Paris agreement, the conference of the Parties «invites the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to provide a special report in 2018 on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways», and the IPCC presently considers a special report on the oceans.

Kerry aptly pointed out in an opinion piece published by Grist, we «could eliminate nearly two years» worth of current global greenhouse gas emissions between now and 2050.»

With global greenhouse gas emissions at their highest level in history, the impacts of climate change have already been felt «on all continents and across the oceans»; the more we emit, the more the warming will continue, and the likelier we'll all be to experience «severe, pervasive and irreversible» consequences.

Meat and dairy generate more global greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector, yet reducing the consumption of animal products through institutional purchasing remains a largely untapped yet highly effective, cost - saving approach to mitigating climate change while promoting public health.

In 2010, the organization alleged that emission reductions from HFC - 23 destruction projects under the CDM were actually increasing global greenhouse gas emissions.

A study by McKinsey and Co. last year concluded that a quarter of the carbon reduction required to stabilize global greenhouse gas emissions could come from energy efficiency and conservation.

China and India are expected to release vast amounts of the chemical hydroflourocarbon - 23 (HFC - 23) into the atmosphere, causing global greenhouse gas emissions to skyrocket, according to a new report launched today by...

A study published today, by a group led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), indicates that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could curb global greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5 % through 2030 while saving hundreds of billions of dollars in public money.

Despite a rise in clean, renewable energy supplies in certain countries, and a partial shift from coal to natural gas in others, global greenhouse gas pollution continues to rise — and at an increasing pace in the most recent years.

«The atmospheric and oceanic CO2 increase is being driven by the burning of fossil fuels,» says Pieter Tans, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory, who leads the U.S. government effort to monitor global greenhouse gas levels.

But given the upwards trend in fossil fuel CO2 emissions, the long lifetimes of existing infrastructure and the social and political systems in place, it is «unlikely» that China's relative contribution to global greenhouse gas warming will come down any time soon, say the authors in the paper.

(a) To hold the increase in the global average temperature [below 1.5 °C][or][well below 2 °C] above pre-industrial levels by ensuring deep reductions in global greenhouse gas [net] emissions;...

Oxfam argues that we've got to reform the global food system as well as slash global greenhouse gas emissions to prevent disaster — which, obviously.

Walmart's use of coal - fired electricity in the U.S. accounts for 37 percent of its total reported global greenhouse gas emissions, and 74 percent of its U.S. emissions from electricity.

Food production accounts for as much global greenhouse gas emissions as all forms of transport combined...

Global meat consumption in 2012: 270 million tons Global meat consumption in 2062: 470 million tons Proportion of global greenhouse gases produced by meat production (2062): 70 %

As the graph shows, the INDCs flatten out global greenhouse gas emissions through 2030.

Under Obama the CEQ is moving forward with plans formulated during his predecessor's tenure for a U.S. policy on oceans — from newly protected areas to reconciling competing authorities and laws — along with continuing the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate as a way to address global greenhouse gas emissions.

When the world's governments gather in December 2009 in Copenhagen to negotiate a treaty to restrain global greenhouse gas emissions, the science on which they base their decision could be as much as four years out of date.

China will need more than three times as much milk by 2050 as it produced in 2010 and, without changes to its current supply lines, the demand will lift global greenhouse gas emissions from dairy herds by 35 %, expand dairy land by 32 % and increase nitrogen pollution from dairy production by 48 %.

Future projections for the same cities are drawn from climate models that estimate temperature and humidity assuming global greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.

In February 2018, the average atmospheric carbon dioxide level was 408 parts per million at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, site of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration global greenhouse gas monitoring.

In 1998, as the United States was considering signing the international Kyoto Protocol treaty to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, Southern was part of an initiative called the Global Science Communications Team that brought together industry, public relations and think tank leaders to devise a plan to confuse the public about the state of climate science.

We are committed to avoiding the most serious consequences of climate change and determined to achieve the stabilization of atmospheric concentrations of global greenhouse gases consistent with the ultimate objective of Article 2 of the Convention and within a time frame that should be compatible with economic growth and energy security.