Sentences with phrase «of global carbon emissions»

For example, about eight percent of all global carbon emissions comes from brick manufacturing.

Last year the world economy grew without an associated increase in the rate of global carbon emissions — the heat - trapping gases scientists say are primarily responsible for a warming planet.

Some 15 % of global carbon emissions result from deforestation and forest degradation, which releases carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as trees are destroyed.

The team compared their results to four inventories of global carbon emissions to see if the same trend held.

It's estimated that more than a third of global carbon emissions, between 1980 and 2010, were driven by fossil fuel subsidies.

About 10 percent of global carbon emissions is linked to deforestation.

In our press statement we will be posting tomorrow morning we reaffirm our ongoing commitment to the reduction of global carbon emissions as part of our «Road to Zero» environmental plan.

They found funding have since developed the process into its current form, though they acknowledge that in order to reach the company's goal of capturing 1 percent of global carbon emissions by 2025, they will have to build 250,000 similar plants.

So check out our Twitter and Facebook feeds and sign up to our newsletter to get the latest updates from our ongoing mission to capture one per cent of global carbon emissions by 2025.

These bottom - up pressures would likely render such an agreement a dead letter, or at least make it in effect a tax applicable only to the law - abiding developed countries that represent an ever - shrinking share of global carbon emissions.

To derive the climate projections for this assessment, we employed 20 general circulation models to consider two scenarios of global carbon emissions: one where atmospheric greenhouse gases are stabilized by the end of the century and the other where it grows on its current path (the stabilization [RCP4.5] and business - as - usual [RCP8.5] emission scenarios, respectively).

«It is almost entirely forest clearing in the tropics that currently contributes near 15 - 20 percent of global carbon emissions coming from deforestation.

Last year, China accounted for 27 percent of global carbon emissions followed closely by the U.S. with 15 percent.

@SilverbackNet Nearly a quarter of global carbon emissions are from 3rd world slash and burn agriculture.

Pointing out that Britain accounts for only two per cent of global carbon emissions at present, Mr Blair said that it was up to larger nations to accept responsibility for the Earth's climate.

While CO2 fertilization could help to increase above ground vegetation a bit, storing more than a few tens of percent of the existing carbon would be quite surprising, and this is likely to be more like a few percent of global carbon emissions projected for the 21st century.

Chronic water stress could potentially reduce the carbon sink of deciduous forests in the U.S. by as much as 17 percent in coming decades, leading to a decrease in carbon capture that translates to an additional one to three days of global carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning each year, according to the paper, «Chronic water stress reduces tree growth and the carbon sink of deciduous hardwood forests.»

Analyses of global carbon emissions reductions scenarios all show that the benefits outweigh the costs by trillions of dollars.

To make matters even worse, carbon emissions from deforestation compound the problem of climate change — every year as much as one fifth of the global carbon emissions may come from cut down trees, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Small island nations, like Saint Lucia and Barbados in the Caribbean, are extremely vulnerable to a warming climate, yet many rely on an industry that's a big driver of global carbon emissions.

However, the task in Cancun can be put into perspective when it is considered that though emissions fell in 2009, the overall amount of global carbon emissions was still the second highest in history, after 2008.

Eleven billion tons is about the same as a third of a year's worth of global carbon emissions.

But nowadays, developing countries make up the majority of global carbon emissions — and excluding them doesn't make sense:

Climatologist and lead author Colin Kelley notes in an article he cowrote for the International Peace Institute, «three of the four most severe multiyear droughts in Syria's observed record occurred during the last 30 years, when the rate of global carbon emissions has seen its largest increase.»

Proposals exist to address climate change at the state level, but their impact is inherently limited by Oregon's negligible share of global carbon emissions.

But developing and transitional economies led by China, Russia, and India are projected to be responsible for some 60 percent of global carbon emissions in 2030.

Key to the reduction of global carbon emissions is the transformation of our energy networks, by adopting cleaner, more efficient and smarter technologies, writes Andrew Jones.

Cars and trucks account for about 14 percent of global carbon emissions, while most analysts attribute upwards of 15 percent to deforestation.

The net land carbon sink for northern Eurasia amounts to approximately 0.48 petagram of carbon per year, about 6.5 percent of global carbon emissions, according to Rawlins.

Glen Peters, a researcher at CICERO, a climate research organization in Norway, said he is not closely familiar with Climeworks, but said it will be impressive if the company can meet its goal to capture 1 percent of global carbon emissions, but only if it can be stored.

Yet, emissions from deforestation represent more than 10 % of global carbon emissions.

Chauvet Cave in the valley of the Ardèche River in France is filled with paintings, engravings and drawings created more than 30 000 years ago, of cave The apparel industry accounts for 10 % of global carbon emissions and remains the second largest industrial polluter, second only to oil.

Organic soils such as those seen here could sequester 40 % of global carbon emissions.

In fact The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project is saying «natural systems represent one of the biggest untapped allies» in combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protecting.

And consider this: 50 % of global carbon emissions are generated by only 11 % of the global population.

Further, emissions from deforestation account for 20 % of global carbon emissions, and there is concern that there would never be enough REDD projects to have a meaningful impact on the large magnitude of emissions from deforestation.

Aviation is an energy intensive industry, accounting for roughly 3 % of global carbon emissions.

Cities are responsible for 70 % of global carbon emissions.

Cement - making accounts for 6 % of global carbon emissions, and manufacturers must make sharp reductions if the Paris climate goals are to be met, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project, in a recent study.

They account for approximately 15 percent of global carbon emissions.

Aviation emissions currently represent around 2 percent of global carbon emissions, but as the industry continues to grow, that number is predicted to rise to 22 percent by 2050.

«Environment ministers of the European Union — responsible for only 11 % of global carbon emissions — said they would commit to a new phase of the Kyoto climate change pact, on the condition that nations blamed for the rest join up too.

Deforestation and forest degradation contribute 15 to 20 percent of global carbon emissions, and most of that contribution comes from tropical regions.

John Roome, who is the senior director for Climate Change Group of the World Bank Group, said so far 15 % of global carbon emissions has been covered by carbon pricing mechanism.

One study from Princeton said the wealthiest 8 % of humanity was responsible for 50 % of global carbon emissions.