Sentences with phrase «of emissions estimates»

The approval follows a 12 - month environmental assessment of the project that looked at the adequacy of emissions estimates and air quality modelling, cumulative air emissions, potential health impacts and worker health issues.

The sum of these emission estimates is about 60 teragrams CH4 per year, or ~ 25 % of global natural CH4 emissions.

The authors estimate that diffusive and ebullitive CH4 fluxes should be measured from a minimum of 3 and 11 depth stratified sites on at least 11 and 39 days (respectively) to achieve ± 20 % of the emissions estimated from sampling more intensively (Wik et al. 2016).

The flux estimates presented in previous sections use available estimates from every reservoir where GHG emissions have been reported (and mean estimates from reservoirs where multiple studies or years of data have been collected), but it is important to note that the spatial and temporal coverage of these emission estimates are highly variable.

Not exact matches

Globally, it generates an estimated 350 million tons a year of greenhouse gas emissions.

Mascarenhas estimates that applying her company's technology to the methane that's currently vented or flared could reduce Alberta's GHG emissions by 60 megatonnes — 35 % of Canada's 2020 reduction goal — at a cost of less than $ 1.70 per tonne.

Estimates vary, but between 7,500 and 52,000 people in the United States meet early deaths because of small particles resulting from power plant emissions.

But after crunching some Department of Energy data, Surace estimates that the construction and operation of buildings — heating; cooling; lighting; the manufacture of cement, drywall, and glass — produce 52 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

(Drywall accounts for about 1 percent of emissions worldwide, Surace estimates; heat loss through windows contributes about 5 percent.)

In addition, he says the world of aviation is ready for a new propulsion system that he estimates will have 80 percent lower emissions and be dramatically quieter than comparable planes.

Comprehensive studies that account for both direct and indirect emissions estimate that over 50 % of global GHG emissions come from raising livestock.

For example, he signed and sent a letter as Oklahoma Attorney General criticizing EPA estimates of emissions from oil and gas wells, without disclosing that it had been drafted in its entirety by Devon Energy.

On May 3rd the provincial government released its estimate of emissions released by its major industrial facilities in 2010.

A new voluntary star rating scheme to estimate the greenhouse emissions of buildings has been proposed for WA by the Office of Energy.

An article published this week in Nature Climate Change (article via Nature paywall) is making the rounds of the headlines because it makes some pretty bold claims — namely that the US State Department under - estimated the emissions impact of the Keystone XL pipeline by up to a factor of four.

Additionally, global kerosene use has been estimated to emit up to 200 million tons of CO2 annually, which is the equivalent of emissions from approximately 60 large U.S. coal plants, heightening the need to develop sustainable alternatives.

It produces this estimate for emissions from all upstream transportation and distribution primarily using data collected from its third - party logistics coordinators and EPA emission factors; only 7 % of emissions are from «primary data.»

Trucking Efficiency informed the government's new, more - stringent fuel economy and emissions standards for heavy - duty trucks — estimated to save 1 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions and $ 170 billion in fuel costs.

The firm said the cost of provisions to cover the emissions scandal had risen to 16.2 billion euros from a previous estimate of 6.7 billion euros.

If we put a price on those emissions of $ 50 - 200 per tonne, reflecting some recent estimates of the external costs of carbon emissions, we get a range of $ 4 - 20 billion in environmental costs just from GHG emissions.

NEC collected or estimated megawatt hour («MWh») generation data for each portfolio project and used region - specific eGRID emissions factors maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to determine the greenhouse gas («GHG») intensity of each MWh offset by its investments.

Combining the generation data, project location, and eGRID emissions factor, NEC estimated the amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (measured together as metric tons of CO2 Eq.)

Marc's conservative estimate is that new oil sands production associated with the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (just the expansion beyond the existing pipeline) would represent an additional 93 megatonnes of global GHG emissions per year.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from the use of fossil fuels are estimated to have to be reduced by 75 to 80 per cent.

The figure estimates 4.2 tons less of carbon dioxide emissions each year for each truck.

FAO estimates that annually the loss and waste adds up to US$ 940 billion and about eight per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

As international awareness about the environmental costs of producing and eating meat increases — The United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the meat industry generates nearly one - fifth of the man - made greenhouse gas emissions that are accelerating climate change worldwide — the work of RiceBran Technologies is supporting environmental sustainability and combating waste while globally providing a nutritious source of protein, carbohydrates, healthy oil and dietary fiber as food ingredients.

«Food that is ultimately lost or wasted consumes about a quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and is responsible for an estimated 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

This calculator also describes the environmental impacts of food recovery, including an estimate for the impact on greenhouse gas emissions from reducing food waste.

Just by changing the way we farm, by stopping deep tilling, mono - cropping, and chemical fertilizer use — the Climate Collaborative estimates regenerative carbon farming practices could mitigate as much as 4 billion to 6 billion tons of CO2 equivalents a year or 10 percent to 12 percent of global human - caused emissions.

While many schemes supported through these levies make a valuable contribution to meeting Government targets to save energy, reduce emissions, and tackle fuel poverty and climate change the latest Government estimate indicated that they currently account for 4 % of a typical gas bill and up to 10 % of a typical electricity bill.

Once the pipeline is complete, the Valley Energy Center will begin to reduce the region's overall emissions, protect and enhance the reliability of the region's electric grid, and start saving New York's energy consumers more than an estimated $ 600 million in electricity costs annually.»

For New York, that equates to a reduction in carbon emissions of an estimated half a million tons per year while bolstering grid reliability and providing critical revenue into local governments.»

«Food that is ultimately lost or wasted consumes about a quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and is responsible for an estimated 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Disregarding the aviation certificates, multipliying the total with 1/0.45 results in a conservative estimate of a total emission of 100 billion tons of CO2.

WHEREAS, the United States is a significant contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, contributing an estimated seventeen and eighty - nine / one hundredths percent of all greenhouse gases emitted in the world;

More accurate distances between the most common type of «planetary nebulae» and the Earth can be estimated simply with three sets of data: firstly, the size of the object on the sky taken from the latest high resolution surveys; secondly, an accurate measurement of how bright the object is in the red hydrogen - alpha emission line; and thirdly, an estimate of the dimming toward the nebula caused by so called interstellar - reddening.

Based on the emissions and spatial distribution of these 12 systems, the team estimates 10,000 to 20,000 of these objects should be swirling around our galaxy's core, mostly unseen.

From there, the researchers estimated that the carbon stored in Central Congo Basin's peat is equivalent to about 20 years of fossil fuel emissions from the United States, at current rates.

In three separate indoor UV chambers, Benca exposed the dwarf pines to 7.5, 10 and 13 times Berkeley's normal UV - B intensity, in line with estimates of the impact Siberian Trap eruptions would have had on the ozone layer if their emissions occurred over various lengths of time, ranging from 400,000 years to less than 200,000 years.

According to the researcher's estimates, the majority of these emissions come from the respiration of the roots and the fall and decay of the semi-aquatic vegetation in the flood plains.

Next week, the heads of 11 space agencies are expected to issue a joint communique from a meeting in New Delhi calling for cooperation to calibrate instruments and validate measurements «to achieve an international, independent system for estimating the global emissions based on internationally accepted data.»

The best estimates of the increase in global temperatures range from 1.8 to 4.0 degrees C for the various emission scenarios, with higher emissions leading to higher temperatures.

In this study, we created new per - animal emissions factors — that is measures of the average amount of CH4 discharged by animals into the atmosphere — and new estimates of global livestock methane emissions.»

Even the most optimistic estimates of the effects of contemporary fossil fuel use suggest that mean global temperature will rise by a minimum of 2 °C before the end of this century and that CO2 emissions will affect climate for tens of thousands of years.

If CH2Cl2 emissions continue to rise at the rate seen in the last decade, recovery of the ozone hole would be delayed about 30 years, the researchers estimate in Nature Communications.

These marginal improvements could have major effects: The U.N. Environment Programme estimated that 19 percent of the world's electricity goes toward lighting, accounting for up to 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

«This is certainly true for fossil fuel - related approvals, where there is a clear causal connection between each phase of the fossil fuel supply chain (production, transportation, processing, and end - use) and the emissions from these activities can be estimated with existing tools and data.»

«The economic costs of not reining in greenhouse gas emissions are more serious than we previously estimated,» ADB chief economist Shang - Jin Wei said in a statement.

Nigel Purvis, president of Climate Advisers, estimated that the 5 percent set - aside would likely reduce annual emissions equivalent to those of France or Spain.