Sentences with phrase «global methane emissions produced»

A new NASA - sponsored study shows that global methane emissions produced by livestock are 11 percent higher than estimates made last decade.

Not exact matches

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.

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

In the short - term, a key issue that needs resolving is the mismatch between global methane budgets from top - down (derived from atmospheric measurements) and bottom - up (derived from measurements of methane emissions at the land surface from different methane producing environments) approaches.

The Carbon Majors website is based on ground - breaking research on 90 entities (investor - owned, state - owned, and government - run fossil fuel and cement producers) that are responsible for producing the fuels that have resulted in 63 percent of the global cumulative emissions of industrial carbon dioxide and methane between 1751 and 2010.