Sentences with phrase «of global emissions»

Transportation of urban passengers accounted for 7 percent of global emissions in 2015.

Over the past 10 years, the energy sector has remained the largest contributor to emissions over any other sector, representing 72 percent of global emissions in 2013.

Its share of global emissions will almost certainly rise by 2030.

Currently, international shipping emissions make up about 2 to 3 percent of global emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane.

These countries together account for 78 percent of global emissions from energy use.

Almost three - quarters of global emissions come from only 10 countries.

More than half of global emissions, which totaled more than 34 billion tons of CO2 in 2007, are now from developing countries, the report said.

Researchers estimate that if all human - related deforestation of the tropics were to stop, the forests could absorb more carbon than at present, equivalent to one - fifth of global emissions.

Add an international program to existing progress, and a price could soon be in effect across much of the globe, covering about two - thirds of global emissions.

The cement industry is responsible for around 5 % of all global emissions today.

«The region's land carbon sink contributes to the sequestration of a significant percentage of the global emissions,» he said.

The new international climate agreement comes into effect only after 55 countries representing at least 55 percent of global emissions sign onto it.

However, international trade has been growing rapidly, thus increasing the role of transportation as a source of global emissions.

No, they will not do anything to alter the trajectory of substantially increasing coal use and domination of global emissions growth.

It is without scientific legitimacy, is dangerously misleading and almost certainly contributes to a net increase in the absolute rate of global emissions growth.

But the industry's share of global emissions is likely to keep going up.

Health officials say the move could see the harmful greenhouse gases associated with meat eating reduced by the equivalent of 1.5 per cent of global emissions.

It accounts for almost a quarter of global emissions, including about 10 to 11 percent from deforestation, and the rest from agriculture, itself the main driver of deforestation.

The report estimates potential land - sector climate mitigation from each of the largest countries, making up 57 % of global emissions from the sector.

We seek to share with all Parties to the UNFCCC the vision of, and together with them to consider and adopt in the UNFCCC negotiations, the goal of achieving at least 50 % reduction of global emissions by 2050, recognizing that this global challenge can only be met by a global response, in particular, by the contributions from all major economies, consistent with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.

«Already, we can see that, if promises are met, the Accord would lead to the peaking of global emissions by or before 2020, and make it possible for us to uphold to the trajectory of holding global temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius,» he said.

In a recent report by the Global Carbon Project published during COP 23 — the informal name for the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the authors predicted a 3 percent increase of coal consumption in China, leading to a 3.5 percent increase in China's carbon emissions, a key contributor to a 2 percent increase of global emissions in 2017.

China has already made its plan to curb emissions by 2030 known, and once that offer is formalized, the vast majority of global emissions will have been accounted for.

MRV and the Review — Biennial reports, biennial update reports, and the IAR and international consultation and analysis (ICA) processes are key to providing an accurate picture of global emissions for the 2013 Review.

Much of the slowdown in the growth of global emissions in recent years has been driven by a combination of reductions in the US and China, as well as relatively little growth in emissions in other countries.

Indeed, she said, the future trajectory of global emissions now depends largely on what happens in China, as well as in developing nations in Southeast Asia, in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world where emissions are still growing quickly in the background.

What she came up with was, as the study describes it, «the first comprehensive and consistent estimates of the global emissions of greenhouse gases, particulate matter, reactive trace gases, and toxic compounds from open waste burning.»

Let's compare this with a report from the highly respected global analysts Ecofys (commissioned by WWF and released earlier this week), concluding that, for Australia to contribute our fair share to the kind of global emissions cuts necessary to give us a decent chance of staying below 2 °C warming, we need to deliver 27 - 34 % cuts by 2020, 82 - 101 % by 2030 and 98 - 106 % by 2050.

[89]: 146,149 A country's emissions may also be reported as a proportion of global emissions for a particular year.

Analysis from the United Nations Environment Programme shows the ambition of global emission cuts needs to increase threefold in order to limit temperature rise to 2 °C.

That said, the news comes at a time of great uncertainty over the future of global emissions reduction efforts, while nations around the world are convening in Germany for the U.N. climate conference.

At the project launch event, company CEO Christoph Gebald said Climeworks is only a «base camp» in their plan to offset 1 % of global emissions through similar direct air capture projects by 2025.

Like fossil fuel development or not, the Kemper plant is at the center of U.S. EPA's plans to regulate carbon dioxide from new power plants and at the center of global emissions, considering that «low - rank» coals like Mississippi lignite constitute half the world's coal supply.

Annual global CO2 emissions are usually about 30 gigatons, meaning that Norway may be able to store almost two years of global emissions under the North Sea.

Deforestation has numerous untoward environmental consequences, including the release of carbon: about one sixth of global emissions are due to cleared or degraded forests.

Greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and land degradation accounted for 12 percent of global emissions between 2000 and 2005, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office.

Ironically, Australia's Garnaut Report does accept there is a CO2 biospheric Uptake and that reforestation etc would absorb CO2, but in his modelling abstracts from this effect, which last year accounted for 5.78 GtC of the 10 GtC of global emissions.

Right now, the sum of global emissions of carbon dioxide by 6.6 billion very - unequal humans is about 29 billion tons a year.

Brad Plumer looked into these issues for Vox after other assessments of the global emissions gap were released last month.