Sentences with phrase «national emission inventory»

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell nearly 10 percent from 2005 to 2012, more than halfway toward the U.S.'s 2020 target pledged at United Nations climate talks, according to the latest national emissions inventory.

The work included data from a variety of sources, including national emissions inventories kept by the United Nations, global estimates of energy use and direct measurements of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and involved dozens of authors from institutes around the world.

Current U.N. rules require countries to submit national emissions inventories.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Emissions Inventory, US coal power plants emitted 45,676 pounds of mercury in 2014 (the latest year data is available).

Emissions of ethane and propane have traditionally been underestimated by more than 50 % in national emission inventories, and revision is needed, according to new research.

Not exact matches

While cadmium is a naturally occurring element, industrial emissions in Sarnia totaled 611 tons between 2000 and 2010, according to Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory.

Some cities, especially in the developing world, simply don't have access to the kind of data needed for a comprehensive inventory; Maleki says he often works in places where the only emissions data available are on a national scale.

Those emissions fell to about 1.3 billion tons in 2010, thanks to a sharp drop in deforestation rates, according to the latest national inventory, which is yet to be released.

Reporting is done by Parties by submitting annual emission inventories and national reports under the Protocol at regular intervals.

NMIM uses current versions of MOBILE6 and NONROAD to calculate emission inventories, based on multiple input scenarios that users can enter into the system, and can be used to calculate national or individual state or county inventories.

In addition, the discrepancy in methane source estimates is particularly pronounced in the south - central United States, where we find total emissions are ∼ 2.7 times greater than in most inventories and account for 24 ± 3 % of national emissions.

Consumption - Based Inventory: Oregon showed national leadership in measuring and beginning to track its consumption - based greenhouse gas emissions.

Note: For the purposes of greenhouse gas emissions inventories, data on emissions from combustion of international bunker fuels are subtracted from national emissions totals.

As was decided during their Nov. 14 - 15 Meeting, Presidents Obama and Hu agreed that the U.S. EPA will assist China in developing its national greenhouse gas inventory, providing a greater level of assurance that the Chinese are accurately accounting for emissions using best - practices and sound methodologies.

Article 4.1 states that parties «shall develop, periodically update, publish, and make available... national inventories of anthropogenic emissions.»

The country developed its last official national GHG inventory for the 2005 calendar year, which makes it challenging to get an accurate read on current non-CO2 GHG emissions.

The main objective of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories is to develop and refine a methodology for the calculation and reporting of national GHG emissions and rNational Greenhouse Gas Inventories is to develop and refine a methodology for the calculation and reporting of national GHG emissions and rnational GHG emissions and removals.

IPCC - 37: IPCC 37 will consider two methodology reports: the «2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands»; and the good practice guidance on estimating GHG emissions and removals from land use, land - use change and forestry under the Kyoto Protocol.

This technical document extends the content of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and provides updated information reflecting scientific advances, including updating of emission factors for wetlands.

For information on actual emission factors, the latest national inventory report for the relevant Party should be consulted.

The meeting identified a number of key areas where the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) could provide advice to the inventory compilers on new emission factors and on areas needing fresh or revised guidance.

Electricity emissions factors were used from the National Inventory Report Canada (2011): Part 3.

Based on information from Environment Canada's National Inventory Report: Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks in Canada, Bullfrog Power can provide the emissions calculators below to estimate CO2e reductions that can be attributed to each MWh of renewable electricity and m3 or GJ of green natural gas generated and injected onto the systems on our customers» behalf.

In 2010, N2O emissions from agricultural soil management in the U.S. were approximately 208 million metric tons of CO2 - equivalent according to the Environmental Protection Agency's 2012 National Greenhouse Gas Inventory.

«EPA is aware of methane studies that result in estimates of national methane emissions that differ from EPA's estimates, and is interested in feedback on how information from such studies can be used to improve U.S. GHG [greenhouse gas] Inventory estimates,» the agency said in a statement.

An approach for estimating the net CO2 emissions from forest harvesting and wood products was forwarded to the IPCC Plenary in 1996, as part of the Revised 1996 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

As per the Revised IPCC Guidelines for national GHG inventory (1996), the potential emission values are used only in case of unavailability of the actual emission values.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also signed a memorandum of cooperation in connection with the summit with China's National Development and Reform Commission to help China develop a robust, transparent, and accurate inventory of its greenhouse gas emissions.

According to FAO, the FAOSTAT Emissions Land Use database provides country - level estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions based on FAOSTAT activity data using Tier 1 computations, following 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National GHG InvEmissions Land Use database provides country - level estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions based on FAOSTAT activity data using Tier 1 computations, following 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National GHG Invemissions based on FAOSTAT activity data using Tier 1 computations, following 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National GHG Inventories.

1 / CP.15 Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long - term Cooperative Action under the Convention 2 / CP.15 Copenhagen Accord 3 / CP.15 Amendment to Annex I to the Convention 4 / CP.15 Methodological guidance for activities relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries 5 / CP.15 Work of the Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention 6 / CP.15 Fourth review of the financial mechanism 7 / CP.15 Additional guidance to the Global Environment Facility 8 / CP.15 Capacity - building under the Convention 9 / CP.15 Systematic climate observations 10 / CP.15 Updated training programme for greenhouse gas inventory review experts for the technical review of greenhouse gas inventories from Parties included in Annex I to the Convention 11 / CP.15 Administrative, financial and institutional matters 12 / CP.15 Programme budget for the biennium 2010 - 2011 13 / CP.15 Dates and venues of future sessions

Based on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), the 2016 Global Carbon Project's Methane Budget and the 2017 EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory, the paper finds that methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas industry account for just 1.2 percent of 2016 global methane emissions and 0.2 percent of total radiative forcing.

Recognizing this situation, and considering the national inventory practices, the Corporate Standard requires that CO2 emissions from biomass combustion be reported separately from the other scopes in a memo item.

Nonetheless, the ministers left many issues unresolved to be concluded by the next COP in Mexico City, such as the global targets and timeframe for halting deforestation and for finance (which in previous versions were suggested to be 50 % by 2020 and to halt gross deforestation by 2030 and targets to provide finance amounting to $ 15 - 25 billion by 2020), the institutional arrangements (such as market versus public finance mechanisms, a forest emissions inventory, reference levels and a national or international registry), sub national reference levels for initial phases, the measuring, monitoring and verifying (MRV) systems and benefit distribution mechanisms.

The main objective of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories is to develop and refine a methodology for the calculation and reporting of national greenhouse gas emissions and rNational Greenhouse Gas Inventories is to develop and refine a methodology for the calculation and reporting of national greenhouse gas emissions and rnational greenhouse gas emissions and removals.

In the next round of IPCC discussions in 2006, the proposed National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Programme, which calculates each country's carbon budget, will include emissions from artificially flooded regions.

With the proposed IPCC guidelines, tropical countries that rely heavily on hydroelectricity, such as Brazil, could see their national greenhouse emissions inventories increased by as much as 7 % (see map).

The trouble is that regulators are ill - placed to tell the difference, which will only be clear decades after the presumed emissions have been tallied — or not — in national carbon inventories.

Reliable GHG inventories are essential, both at national and international level, for: assessing the international community's collective and individual efforts to address climate change and progress toward meeting the ultimate objective of the Convention; evaluating mitigation options; assessing the effectiveness of policies and measures; making long - term emission projections; providing the foundation for emission trading schemes.

What the NYT fails to mention is the fact that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report actually recommended regulators use a combination of facility - level (bottom - up), aircraft and tower measurements (top - down) and satellite measurements in order to improve accuracy of methane emission inventories.

Reporting is done by Parties by submitting annual emission inventories and national reports under the Protocol at regular intervals.

In accordance with the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines, which are used by Parties to prepare their greenhouse gas inventories, emissions from fuel sold to ships or aircraft engaged in international transport (known as «bunker fuels») should not be included in national emission totals, but reported separately.

To calculate the carbon emissions avoided by using a PVDI system in lieu of a liquid - fuel pump, we use 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme guidelines (39).

Advancing efforts on the transparency framework, such as how to report national greenhouse gas emissions inventories, what information is necessary to track progress on countries» climate actions and what information should be provided on financial support, technology transfer and capacity - building.

Parties to the UNFCCC treaty and its Kyoto Protocol annually submit to the Secretariat of the UNFCCC their inventory of national greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6, HFCs and PFCs.

where greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) data are directly incorporated into a national register, the data can be used to supplement information needed to calculate the national GHG inventory;

In some countries, the GHG inventory is a comprehensive top - down national assessment of national GHG emissions, and they use top - down national energy data and other national statistics (e.g. on agriculture) to prepare their annual reports.