Sentences with phrase «millions of metric»

There, you will find the figure 8738 (millions of metric tons) for the year 2009.

The increase in production was in millions of metric tons, not billions.

And they're preventing millions of metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere while they're at it.

Using existing, affordable technology, new trucks could be up to 40 percent more efficient compared to today, reducing annual fuel consumption by billions of gallons and preventing millions of metric tons of global warming emissions.

A coal - export terminal proposed in Washington state would increase cancer risks for some residents, make rail accidents more likely and add millions of metric tons of climate - changing greenhouse gas globally every year, according...

A tiny microbe one day could devour the millions of metric tons of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, that pile up in landfills each year.

More than 2000 times as massive as the blast that ripped open Mount St. Helens in 1980, the Indonesian «super-volcano» Toba ejected millions of metric tons of volcanic ash, sulfur, and other debris into the atmosphere 74,000 years ago.

Earth System Threshold Measure Boundary Current Level Preindustrial Climate Change CO2 Concentration 350 ppm 387 ppm 280 ppm Biodiversity Loss Extinction Rate 10 pm > 100 pm * 0.1 - one pm Nitrogen Cycle N2 Tonnage 35 mmt ** 121 mmt 0 Phosphorous Cycle Level in Ocean 11 mmt 8.5 - 9.5 mmt — 1 mmt Ozone Layer O3 Concentration 276 DU # 283 DU 290 DU Ocean Acidification Aragonite ^ ^ Levels 2.75 2.90 3.44 Freshwater Usage Consumption 4,000 km3 ^ 2,600 km3 415 km3 Land Use Change Cropland Conversion 15 km3 11.7 km3 Low Aerosols Soot Concentration TBD TBD TBD Chemical Pollution TBD TBD TBD TBD * pm = per million ** mmt = millions of metric tons #DU = dobson unit ^ km3 = cubic kilometers ^ ^ Aragonite is a form of calcium carbonate.

Millions of metric tons reach the oceans, yet researchers are finding between 6,350 and 245,000 metric tons floating on the surface — a mere fraction of the total.

Espinal noted that millions of metric tons of food ends up in landfills per year and costs local governments $ 1.5 billion a year.

«Further, the plant helps avoid millions of metric tons of harmful carbon dioxide emissions each year and serves as a clean energy bridge to meeting the state's 50 % renewable energy goal by 2030.»

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To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

S - IC) measured 42 meters (138 feet) tall and 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter and had a dry weight of 131 metric tons (289,000 lbs) and a total weight of over 2,300 metric tons (5.1 million lbs) when fully fueled.

Fully fueled, the Saturn V weighed 2,950 metric tons (6.5 million pounds), and it had a payload capacity estimated at 118,000 kg (261,000 lbs) to LEO but was designed for the purpose of sending 41,000 kg (90,000 lbs) to translunar insertion.

In fact, by 2020, Mars and Barry Callebaut predict that we will want 1 million more metric tons of chocolate than the industry will be able to churn out.

The company claims its service conserves one gallon of fuel per idling hour per truck, and with more than one million truckers on the road at any given time, the savings add up — so far, says Wilson, eight million gallons of fuel have been saved, 83,000 metric tons of emissions have been eliminated, and 150,000 road cowboys have plugged in.

McDonald's has announced its first targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, claiming it will «prevent 150 million metric tons of emissions by 2030.»

Spotify has restated key usage metrics for 2017 leading up to its IPO next month, claiming it recently discovered 2 million users had been accessing the free version of the streaming - music service using unauthorized apps that blocked ads.

The Middle East and Africa region saw an EBIT loss of $ 54 million, but metrics did improve for the fourth consecutive quarter.

Free cash flow, a key metric of financial health, widened to negative $ 1 billion in the first quarter from negative $ 277 million in the fourth quarter, excluding costs of systems for its solar business.

From where Mendelsohn sits, looking over 433 million users in EMEA and privy to all manner of metrics about its residents» insatiable appetite for video content, it's a safe bet she knows of what she speaks.

More than 320 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year — and a disturbing amount ends up in the ocean, with much of it accumulating in places like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

«At over 20 GW of installed solar electric capacity, we now have enough solar in the U.S. to power 4.6 million homes, reducing harmful carbon emissions by more than 25 million metric tons a year.

Citing census data, an equity research analyst claims Facebook is once again inflating one of its key metrics, this time grossly over-reporting its ability to sell ads and effectively inventing millions more young Americans than actually exist.

Canada has the world's 10th - largest copper reserves, at 11 million metric tons, and was the world's eighth - largest producer in 2016, producing a total of 720,000 metric tons.

The country cranked out a record amount of raw steel in June, with output rising to 73.23 million metric tons, a 5.7 percent increase over June 2016.

Q4 2017 revenues were still down 12 % year - over-year to $ 79.7 million, but the more critical metrics of profitability have improved.

RAPID, part of the Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, will contain a 300,000 barrel - per - day oil refinery and a petrochemical complex with a production capacity of 7.7 million metric tonnes.

The South American nation exported 2.9 million metric tons of semi-finished steel to the US in 2017, making it the second - largest exporter after Canada.

Much more likely is a scenario in which Lynas will have to make an additional commitment to safety, and will start its Malaysian refinery — which could eventually put out 22,000 metric tones a year — in one or two months (every month of delay costs Lynas $ 10 million) and make sure rare earth supply increases even further.

CALD reported a «non-GAAP» profit of $ 3.3 million, over half of which is made up of the $ 1.7 million in restructuring expenses that the «non-GAAP» metric excludes.

On March 31, domestic lentil stockpiles were 434,000 metric tons, down 54 per cent from a year earlier, and dry field peas fell 34 per cent to an seven - year low of 1 million tons, Statistics Canada said in a May 6 report.

Items removed from these metrics included stock - based compensation expense and acquisition related expenses, which allowed ININ to report a non-GAAP net income of $ 1 million in 2015, compared to GAAP net income of - $ 22 million and economic earnings of - $ 26 million.

With four of the top 10 Olympic advertising spenders in the automotive category — and BMW leading the way at $ 28.7 million according to iSpot.tv — the brand that has experienced the biggest uplift in key consumer metrics in the first week is the TV network broadcasting the event itself, NBC - TV.

That's enough to power seven million homes, displace nine million metric tons of CO2, and the equivalent of taking nearly two million cars off the road or planting around 240 million trees.3

Rosneft all of the world's biggest oil producer and loosing the company delivers some 37 million metric tons of oil to the People's Republic of China per year on an ongoing basis from the year 2018.

If US steel consumers were to switch to buying exclusively American, the industry would have to serve 26.9 million metric tons of extra steel a year to keep pace with foreign imports from 2017.

The EPA claims that the extraction, transport, refining and use of the oilsands crude that would be transported daily through the pipeline would result in «an additional 1.3 to 27.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year» compared to lighter crudes.

In 1972, when the world suffered an exceptionally poor harvest, there were 209 million metric tons of grain, or 66 days» worth, in world reserve.

A. H. Boerma, director - general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N., estimates that the critical shortfall next year will run from 8 to 12 million metric tons of grain in the five most severely threatened countries: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.

USAID estimates that the country's current annual grain production of 2 million metric tons is less than half of what is required to meet minimum nutritional needs.

It collects more than 14 billion liters of milk and manufactures and markets more than 2 million metric tons of dairy products annually.

In 2014, a total of 4,300 metric tons of shelled Brazil nuts were exported from the region, corresponding to nearly US $ 31 million in sales.

Approximately 22.7 million metric tons (MT) of cotton (104.2 million bales) were grown globally in 2016/17 [1] on approximately 30 (29.8) million hectares of land.

For the 2007 - 2008 crop year, 2700 metric tons (6 million pounds) of Bird - Friendly certified coffee was produced.

Volume consumption globally is projected to grow over the next five years at an annual rate of 3.7 percent to 63.4 million metric tonnes.

The $ 200 million recycling centre will process up to 400,000 metric tons of aluminium scrap annually, turning it back into high - value aluminum ingots to feed the company's European manufacturing network.

The Argentine government has revised the initial crush forecast numbers, confirming a harvest of 2.6 million metric tons.

Last year, Daily Coffee News reported that the amount of 4C certified coffee tripled, to 7.5 million bags in 2012 - 2013 (at 60 kg a bag, that's 450,000 metric tons).

Worldwide production of wheat is predicted to be 723 million metric tonnes in 2015, five times more than barley and 25 times that of oats - the two other cereals that contain significant amounts of betaglucan.