Sentences with phrase «makes total emissions»

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In fact, absent new measures Environment Canada's 2014 emissions trends report projected that oil sands emissions would drive increased emissions from the oil and gas sector of 45 Mt CO2e (to a total of 204 MtCO2e) between 2005 and 2020, offsetting the emission reductions made in other sectors.

Nissan is the world leader in producing mass - market zero - emission road cars, so its presence in Formula E makes total sense.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the domestic sector currently make up some 26 % of total emissions.

He then measured the total direct emissions associated with the making of a product; for example, the amount of coal burned to generate a kilowatt of electricity and how much carbon dioxide was released in the process.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

EPA inventory data suggests that emissions from local distribution systems are thought to make up approximately 20 percent of the total from the entire natural gas supply chain.

So, too, areas in which people of color make up at least 25 percent of the total population average nearly five times as many pounds of chemical emissions from industrial facilities per square mile, compared with communities where less than 5 percent of the population are people of color.

«We didn't really know how our first experiment would turn out, but we were surprised how little difference abundant gas made to total greenhouse gas emissions even though it was dramatically changing the global energy system,» said James «Jae» Edmonds, PNNL's chief scientist at JGCRI.

The cap would be set, ideally with expert scientific consultation, to make an appropriately deep cut in total CO2 emissions.

Agricultural greenhouse gases (GHG) make up 8.1 % of total U.S. GHG emissions.

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

In that year, China's emissions totaled more than 7 billion tons, of which more than half came from fossil fuels burned to make goods and services that were consumed either in other parts of China, or beyond China's borders to 107 countries.

«It only makes up 9 % of total greenhouse gas emissions, but it's got 300 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide», says Prof Richardson.

Facilities in the United States and Europe account for 11 percent and 9 percent of those emissions, respectively, while India makes up about 8 percent of the total.

Activities / Accomplishments: DOT has implemented several strategies in order to reduce Scope 3 GHG Emissions, and some of these strategies include: 1) reducing employee business air travel through technologies such as web conferencing; 2) increasing telework rates through making more employees eligible for telework and / or allowing an increase in total number of days teleworked; and 3) using an employee commuting survey to identify opportunities and strategies for reducing commuter eEmissions, and some of these strategies include: 1) reducing employee business air travel through technologies such as web conferencing; 2) increasing telework rates through making more employees eligible for telework and / or allowing an increase in total number of days teleworked; and 3) using an employee commuting survey to identify opportunities and strategies for reducing commuter emissionsemissions.

Making an exception here, one thing that the OCO - 2 data «means» is that in about a single year 3 small regions on this planet can add the Equivalent of 63 % of the total annual man - made GHG emissions to the atmosphere in one go!

Making Hydrogen in these ways, and using it to run an automobile has to be less efficient than the direct use of hydrocarbon fuels and electricity to run a car, and can't reduce the total amount of CO2 emissions.

Assuming the source was all the desertification of the Sahara (a very brave leap of faith given the HN cooling over the period), that would make the total desertification of the Sahara, a plot of land of not inconsiderable size, worth 14 years of our emissions.

And it makes a relatively tiny dent in total emissions: as noted by CBS study predicts it will decrease US gas consumption by 160 million gallons a year, when US motorists consume 378 million gallons of gas every day.

By itself, C sequestration in agricultural soils can make only modest contributions (e.g. 3 - 6 % of total fossil C emissions) to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

The total energy is roughly constant, but it is made up from increased emissions at other bands because it's warmer.

Without specific policies tackling the issue of eliminating petroleum from our transportation system, these emissions will continue to limit any reduction the US is able to make to our total emissions.

Regardless of how well renewables are or are not doing, the point Rob and I are trying to make is that fossil infrastructure is still expanding in a big way: the total committed emissions represented by power plants is growing even faster than annual emissions.

mass (air), where ratio (CO2 / air) = 380 ppm = 380 parts CO2 per 1 million parts of air molecular mass (CO2) = 44 kg / kmol — molecular mass (air) = 28.8 kg / kmol Thus, Mass (CO2) = 3 x 10 ^ 15 kg = 3,000 Gigatons Man - made emissions of CO2 are estimated at 110ppm, which is 28.95 % of the total CO2 and that equals 868 Gigatons = 0.0164 % by mass of the total atmosphere.

In any case, it's all made hopelessly complicated by the fact that total emissions by the developing world since 1850 are now much the same as those of the developed economies.

Parker, yes it is a well know fact that the electricity sector now only makes up 8 - 9 % of Ontario's total CO2 emissions.

To make our targets in 2010, the federal government should declare a long - term goal to reduce Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions by 50 % by 2030.

The greenhouse gas inventory it filed with the UN suggests fugitive emissions from the oil and gas sector made up a third of its total footprint in 2014.

For policy - makers, the speed of climate change over the coming decades matters as much as the total long - term change, since this rate of change will determine whether human societies and natural ecosystems will be able to adapt fast enough to survive.New results indicate a warming rate of about 2.5 C per century over the coming decades (assuming no attempt is made to reduce GHG emissions).

So regardless of the 3 % of total emissions that humanity creates, it is very likely that a large portion of it doesn't even make it to the atmosphere.

The 20 - 40 x figure for cars relates for pollutants that make up a small % of total emissions so its an apples and pears comparison in terms of magnitude.

Coastal state and US total 2010 census populations living on land falling below future committed high tide lines under different emissions scenarios through 2050, making no assumptions about the inevitability of WAIS collapse (baseline case)

These patterns arise because at high emissions levels the total Antarctic contribution to SLR equals or exceeds the sea - level content of the WAIS in most simulations, so very few simulations must be filtered out from the triggered case, making it nearly identical to the baseline case.

It also ethically dubious for the US to insist that it can demand that other nations must agree to make reductions in their manufacturing sectors consistent with US reductions in the US manufacturing sector given that almost all nations in the world have lower total and per capita GHG emissions than the United States.

In this capacity, nations could make choices about how to allocate emissions within their country so that total emissions within the country do not exceed their fair share of safe global emissions.

(Sec. 265) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a research program to: (1) identify the factors affecting consumer actions to conserve energy and make improvements in energy efficiency; and (2) make grants to institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use, the potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits, the ability to reduce GHG emissions through changes in energy consumption habits, increasing public awareness of federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs, and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

The British medical journal The Lancet, known for its tobacco Prohibitionist and anti-Israel views, created a commission on Health and Climate Change to promote, as if it were science, the view that «to avoid the risk of potentially catastrophic climate change impacts requires total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to be kept below 2900 billion tonnes by the end of the century» — not a calculation that physicians, biologists, and the like are particularly qualified to make.)

Through the program the Secretary will make grants to public and private institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use; potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits; the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness of Federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

I think that even laymen can be made understand the natural law, according to which both all the CO2 sources and all the CO2 sinks together control the CO2 content in the atmosphere, and that the share of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions in the atmospheric CO2 content depends on how the quantity of anthropogenic CO2 emissions is in the proportion to the total CO2 emissions.

Your only evidence to support this claim is a simple math equation of A — B = C, A being total global emissions, B being man made emissions and C being the difference.

CO2 emissions from power generation in 2016 were near 30 - year lows, in large part due to greater use of natural gas.3 And increased use of natural gas in the power generation sector has helped to reduce total CO2 emissions to their lowest level in nearly 25 years.4 This proves that Americans do not have to make the false choice between utilizing our nation's energy resources and protecting the environment.

From 2005 to 2015 production of natural gas increased nearly 50 percent, while methane emissions from natural gas systems remained relatively flat, increasing by just 1.7 percent.17 Furthermore, methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry make up just 4 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.18

The immediate comparison to be made is with Tom Qurik's graph above which is not differenced but simply plots the yearly values of human emissions [ACO2] against annual variations in total atmospheric CO2 [TACO2].

For this reason, a joint research project between Widener University Commonwealth Law School and the University of Auckland recommended in Paris that national climate commitments be stated in tons of emissions over a specific period rather than percent reductions by a given date because waiting to the end of specific period to achieve percent reductions will cause the total tons of ghg emitted to be higher than if reductions are made earlier.

Never mind the fact that global carbon emissions come from a wide variety of sources, both natural and man - made, and the American energy companies that are the chief targets of climate change litigation are responsible for only a fraction of total emissions.

In figure 3b, at the upper end of the curve, where cumulative totals are large, the existence of an emissions floor seems to make little difference to the peak temperature.

Emissions from auxiliary power generation is thought to make up one - third to one - half of the total in - port emissions attributed to oceangoingEmissions from auxiliary power generation is thought to make up one - third to one - half of the total in - port emissions attributed to oceangoingemissions attributed to oceangoing vessels.

If the total carbon budget to give the world a 66 % chance of keeping warming below 2 °C is 270 gigatons carbon (GtC), then because the US population is 5 % of world population, a case can be made that the United States carbon budget must be below 13.5 GtC even before this number is adjusted on the grounds of fairness or equity that takes into account the US's world leading share of historical emissions.

Are they changing the total bromine in the stratosphere via tropospheric - stratospheric exchange and natural and man - made emissions?

However, a counter argument can be made that a regime is just if total emissions from the area within the jurisdiction of the government are below the government's fair share of safe global emission regardless of whether some emitters are not covered by the government's ghg allocation because governments have the right to make decisions distributing the burdens and benefits of government policies within their jurisdiction.