Sentences with phrase «national emissions data»

There are several different ways of measuring greenhouse gas emissions, for example, see World Bank (2010)[109]: 362 for tables of national emissions data.

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In 2008, they drew on data covering 1980 to 2006 to argue that there had been «declining intensities of impact, from energy use and carbon emission to food consumption and fertiliser use, globally and in countries ranging from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774).
To investigate the impacts, Yale's Jodi Sherman, M.D. and first author Matthew Eckelman of Northeastern University first used an economic model based on federal data to calculate total emissions of different pollutants produced by the healthcare sector over a 10 - year period, drawing on national health expenditure data.
Data on emissions comes from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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.
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.
The satellite data is being combined with that collected by the National Lightning Detection Network and from a network of sensors that measure low - frequency electromagnetic emissions, or «sferics,» and changes in the direction of the electric field.
While national data for environmental performance is limited and difficult to quantify, the research team were able to plot investment in two key agri - environment schemes, land «retirement» for conservation and limiting fertiliser use, against national trends for farmland bird populations and emissions from synthetic fertiliser across landmasses including the US, Canada, Australia and Europe.
Using publicly available data from NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, independent scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Chicago have developed new maps showing that the galactic center produces more high - energy gamma rays than can be explained by known sources and that this excess emission is consistent with some forms of dark matter.
To investigate the impacts, Yale's Dr. Jodi Sherman, and first author Matthew Eckelman of Northeastern University first used an economic model based on federal data to calculate total emissions of different pollutants produced by the healthcare sector over a 10 - year period, drawing on national health expenditure data.
Another useful data source is the Global Carbon Project, which contains data on national emissions emitted within each country, as well as emissions embedded in imported goods.
They say analysis of the 30 data points is more informative about likely future emissions than national figures in wider use because it allows errors to be tracked more closely.
This webpage provides access to most recent data on national GHG emissions and removals for countries that are Parties to the Climate Change Convention, countries that are Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, and organizations that have information on GHG emissions / removals.
According to data from the Argonne National Laboratory, greenhouse gas emissions for the winning Corvette were 170 percent better than the first non-E85 finisher in the GT class.
No national survey of how many operators currently use green completions is available, but the data suggest that once this practice is required, emissions from this phase of the production process will decline....
But the ammonia data for dairies significantly exceeds results from the National Air Emissions Monitoring Study study, commissioned by the National Milk Producers Federation in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
At Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Conservancy researchers monitored carbon dioxide emissions at a restored site and compared that data to emissions from a site that was not restored.
Figure of 400 ppm calculated using fossil fuel emissions from G. Marland et al., «Global, Regional, and National CO2 Emissions,» in Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change (Oak Ridge, TN: Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2007), and land use change emissions from R. A. Houghton and J. L. Hackler, «Carbon Flux to the Atmosphere from Land - Use Changes,» in Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change (Oak Ridge, TN: Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2002), with decay curve cited in J. Hansen et al., «Dangerous Human - Made Interference with Climate: A GISS ModelE Study,» Atmospheric Chemistry and Physemissions from G. Marland et al., «Global, Regional, and National CO2 Emissions,» in Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change (Oak Ridge, TN: Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2007), and land use change emissions from R. A. Houghton and J. L. Hackler, «Carbon Flux to the Atmosphere from Land - Use Changes,» in Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change (Oak Ridge, TN: Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2002), with decay curve cited in J. Hansen et al., «Dangerous Human - Made Interference with Climate: A GISS ModelE Study,» Atmospheric Chemistry and PhysEmissions,» in Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change (Oak Ridge, TN: Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2007), and land use change emissions from R. A. Houghton and J. L. Hackler, «Carbon Flux to the Atmosphere from Land - Use Changes,» in Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change (Oak Ridge, TN: Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2002), with decay curve cited in J. Hansen et al., «Dangerous Human - Made Interference with Climate: A GISS ModelE Study,» Atmospheric Chemistry and Physemissions from R. A. Houghton and J. L. Hackler, «Carbon Flux to the Atmosphere from Land - Use Changes,» in Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change (Oak Ridge, TN: Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2002), with decay curve cited in J. Hansen et al., «Dangerous Human - Made Interference with Climate: A GISS ModelE Study,» Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol.
«However, for countries wanting to focus their efforts on those categories of emissions and removals that contribute most significantly to national emissions, more detailed methods [tier 2 and 3] and data are required,» she adds.
In other cases — for example, national emissions baselines and global mitigation pathways — they are projected from or based upon authoritative, externally - sourced data.
Note: For the purposes of greenhouse gas emissions inventories, data on emissions from combustion of international bunker fuels are subtracted from national emissions totals.
However, national experts are encouraged to estimate emissions for any activity related to existing forests which is considered to result in significant carbon emissions or removals, and for which necessary data is available.
The availability of verified emissions data has allowed the Commission to ensure that the cap on national allocations under the second phase is set at a level that results in real emission reductions.
Data on GHG emissions (by countries) were exported from the World Resource Institute's (WRI) Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) 17, a database of national and international GHG emissions derived from multiple sources.
The CAIT data set reports at the national level, however we extrapolated per capita emissions results by dividing data by 2010 and 2030 population data from the World Bank28 (see Supplementary Table S4 online).
This concerns the collection of duly substantiated and verified emissions data from installations that will only be covered by the EU ETS as from 2013, and the national lists of installations and the allocation to each one.
We have relatively strong national and global data on carbon dioxide emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuel and cement production; accumulations in the atmosphere show unequivocally that emissions far exceed the sequestration capacity of the ecosphere.
Provides a comprehensive assessment of the world's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the global, national, sectoral, and fuel levels and identifies implications of the data for international cooperation on global climate change...
Dr. Theodore A. Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, said the long life of Larsen B «makes you think there's something particularly unusual about this warming» — perhaps evidence that the warming has been brought on by artificial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.
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).
-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall promulgate, and update from time to time, regulations to establish national transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, standardized models and methodologies for use in developing surface transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets pursuant to sections 134 and 135 of title 23 of the United States Code and methods for collection of data on transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions.
Parties were also invited to include national data and methodological and other information on changes in carbon stocks and emissions of GHG relating to HWP, stating the approach or approaches used for this purpose.
What Dirk Notz of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg in Germany and Julienne Stroeve of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, in the US, report in the US journal Science is that they have established a direct correlation between emissions and ice loss.
Provided in the «Detailed data by Party» section of the UNFCCC GHG Data page; data are available not only for national totals but also for emissions / removals from individual categodata by Party» section of the UNFCCC GHG Data page; data are available not only for national totals but also for emissions / removals from individual categoData page; data are available not only for national totals but also for emissions / removals from individual categodata are available not only for national totals but also for emissions / removals from individual categories
The default emission factors are averages based on the most extensive data sets available and they are largely identical to those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chage (IPCC), the premier authority on accounting practices at the national level.
(3) a description of the tools, methods, and procedures that are used for collecting and analyzing data regarding energy use and greenhouse gas emissions at the national, provincial, sectoral, and facility level, including --
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.
The data was requested by Nationals senator and party whip John Williams, who has argued that the carbon emissions produced by the new plants worldwide would eclipse Australia's total carbon emission profile.
In addition to analyzing the regional impact, the Synapse report reviews national - and utility - level data to infer displaced emissions rates at lower and higher resolutions.
The average emissions are calculated using data from the Environmental Protection Agency's eGrid for direct emissions and the GREET model (Argonne National Laboratory) for indirect emissions (such as mining and the delivery of fuels to powerplants).
We use data from the GREET model (Argonne National Laboratory) to calculate the emissions from extracting crude oil, transport to a refinery, conversion to gasoline, delivery to a filling station, and burning in a car engine.
To determine a national average for charging emissions, we average the emissions of the grids where EVs are sold today, based on 2014 registration data — a «sales - weighted» national emissions average.
Once INCAS is applied across the entire country, the detailed data will support the government's efforts to manage emissions and design mitigation actions that meet other national needs, including for sustainable land - use planning purposes.
We would also strongly encourage a common conversation among reporting authorities for national - level energy and emissions data regarding potential avenues for harmonization of standards to aid in the comparability of estimates from different data reporting sources.
Weighted with data from the US Green Building Council that 40 % of national CO2 emissions come from buildings, it is more than clear that we must reexamine our go - to for construction materials.
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.
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