Sentences with phrase «of total emissions»

Together, the lawsuits say, the companies were responsible for roughly 20 percent of total emissions from 1965 to 2015.

Those offset CO2 emissions represent a tiny fraction of the total emissions from many major cities.

Land - use changes, such as deforestation and fires, comprised 11 % of total emissions in 2017, marginally down from the 13 % average over the past decade.

The lifespan of existing power plants and factories commits us to 80 per cent of the total emissions that will take us to 2 °C.

Only a fraction of the total emissions comes from the transportation sector, so the problem is not just caused by vehicles.

These levels of total emissions reductions are what is required to avoid the catastrophe.

Indeed, energy inputs are a key part of the total emissions equation.

The greatest strength of the methods that we applied in this study is to give a very robust indication of the total emissions.

Another part of this story is the failure of media to deal with the idea of total emissions versus per capita emissions.

The 20 - 40 x figure for cars relates for pollutants that make up a small % of total emissions so its an apples and pears comparison in terms of magnitude.

Studies on the effects of CO2 emissions from aircraft on radiative forcing require only a knowledge of total emissions.

One way to divide the remaining budget would to divide it according to today's shares of total emissions.

The carbon footprint — a measure of the total emissions attributable to the consumption of goods and services — includes the emissions to produce imported products, and excludes those to produce exports.

Those reductions would be beyond a baseline of total emissions from 1990, so in fact would represent much deeper cuts compared to today's emissions levels.

Because the food system is connected to so many aspects of our lives, it's hard to get an exact tally of total emissions.

But of the world's 195 nations, just 10 produce more than 60 percent of total emissions.

The on - road freight sector is the fastest - growing source of transportation - related emissions, and currently represents 32 % of total emissions from the Canadian transportation sector.

FIELD FUMES California's agricultural regions are responsible for between 20 and 51 percent of the total emissions of nitrogen oxide gases in the state, new research finds.

Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition of more than 200 organisations calls for expansion of carbon pricing to cover 25 per cent of total emissions by 2020

Enteric fermentation accounts for one - quarter of the total emissions from the livestock sector.

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.

The report's innovative feature, Blank said, is its analysis not just of total emissions, but emissions per dollar of economic output - what the agency calls «CO2 intensity.»

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

But to stay below 2 °C this will have to ramp up to 6,000 million metric tons (7 billion tons) per year by 2050 — contributing one - seventh of the total emission savings required, according to the IEA.

The charts also show a breakdown of total emissions into tailpipe emissions at point - of - use (CO2: 2.15 tonnes, NOx + PMs: 6.3 kilograms), together with upstream emissions generated during fuel and vehicle production.

In 1990 CO2 accounted for more than 98 % by weight of the total emissions of the five main GHGs (low - level ozone is not considered here or elsewhere in this sheet because its impacts, although large, are still difficult to quantify).

Ifeu [87] provided an overview of the development of emissions by commercial vehicles in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1980 as well as their percentage of total emissions for the year 1994.

The effect of this on overall Annex 1 (developed countries who are parties to the Kyoto Protocol) emissions compared to 1990 is that approximately two percent of total emissions disappear.

That's because CO2 takes a long time to scrub from atmosphere, so, if they are any emissions at all, this cumulative amount keeps building up, even if only 30 % of total emissions remain in atmosphere.

Notably, if Quad and Clinton are closed, the increased emissions will be one - third of total emissions Illinois is supposed to reduce under the Clean Power Plan.

That alone is over 60 % of the total emissions cuts pledged by countries in the Paris Agreement through their own Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

Tyndall looked at current growth trends for aviation and then compared this emissions growth with the declining profiles of total emissions under a contraction and convergence climate policy.

In Drawdown's Plausible Scenario, Food Sector solutions are responsible for 30.6 percent of total emissions mitigation impact.

In order to answer this question, the investor will need to know the «amount of total emissions, by type of greenhouse gas, by source, per unit of revenue, emissions trading activity, amount of emissions reductions.»

Solar only accounts for 38.4 % of the total emissions coming from the surface.

In Washington, carbon dioxide from transportation amounts to about half of the total emissions.

This has led to an increase in the atmospheric content of carbon dioxide of 176 (+ 10) Gt C. Atmospheric concentrations increased from about 285 to 366 ppm (i.e., by ~ 28 %), and about 43 % of the total emissions over this time have been retained in the atmosphere.

The rationale is that nonparticipants are damaging other countries because of their total emissions of GHGs, not only from those embodied in traded goods.

Deforestation accounts for more than half of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 20 percent of total emissions worldwide, a share larger than all the world's cars, trucks, planes, trains, and ships combined.

When considering emissions, Yixiang Zhang at the China Agricultural University has a recent paper at Elsevier with a chart of total emissions of various sorts from a biomass stove showing that when the «test» ended (providing the performance rating) in some cases there were more emissions of a couple of pollutants from the extinguishing fire than during the test itself.

According to Carbon Brief, a UK - based website covering climate issues, «Increases in [natural] gas electricity generation is the largest driver, account for 33 % of the total emissions reduction in 2016.»

While methane and nitrous oxide make up much smaller portions of total greenhouse gas emissions, these gases are still important factors in the climate crisis, in part because they each have stronger global warming effects than carbon dioxide and also because they constitute an increasing portion of total emissions.

Scientists will conduct a data synthesis of understudied winter emissions, which may account for a large fraction of total emissions in the region.