Sentences with phrase «of total emissions in»

This carbon sink offset is about 12 percent of total emissions in 2016 and is discussed in more detail in the Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry section.

Large - scale monitoring efforts in Canadian hydroelectric reservoirs suggests that CH4 bubbling constitutes less than 5 % of total emissions in many boreal systems (Tremblay pers.

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.

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

The electric sector emissions covered under the CPP represent a minority, but significant portion of total emissions in the US.

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

In the Midwest NOx emissions from soils have been estimated to comprise up to 40 percent of the total emissions in the summertime.

Not exact matches

In 2009, for example, the German government amended its rules so that inspections of emissions performance would be based solely on readings from a car's own «onboard diagnostic» system, effectively ceding total control to the automakers.

By way of comparison, total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2016 were 6.5 billion metric tons.

In 2012, international shipping was responsible for 796 million tons of CO2 emissions — around 2.2 percent of total global CO2 emissions that year, according to the International Maritime Organization.

Facing a tide of municipal anti-drive-thru ordinances, TDL commissioned a study last year from RWDI consultants, based in Guelph, Ont., comparing total emissions given off by customers» cars that use drive - thrus and those that use parking lots.

You get some sense of the scale of the emissions trail that has accompanied this shift in economic geography when you consider that the emissions coming from China's export sector alone are greater than the total emissions from any other economy other than the US's.

In fact, absent new measures Environment Canada's 2014 emissions trends report projected that oil sands emissions would drive increased emissions from the oil and gas sector of 45 Mt CO2e (to a total of 204 MtCO2e) between 2005 and 2020, offsetting the emission reductions made in other sectorIn fact, absent new measures Environment Canada's 2014 emissions trends report projected that oil sands emissions would drive increased emissions from the oil and gas sector of 45 Mt CO2e (to a total of 204 MtCO2e) between 2005 and 2020, offsetting the emission reductions made in other sectorin other sectors.

However, given that most of Young's statements have equated the oil sands with the oil sands mining operations around Fort Mc Murray, it's worth noting that the mining (and upgrading) of bitumen contributed 32 Mt CO2 emissions to Canada's total in 2011, and that emissions from mining operations are expected to stay well below those of personal vehicles for some time.

The total chain is expected to be retrofit by 2019 resulting in a reduction of Walmart Canada's greenhouse gas emissions by 28,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

Even building just one LNG terminal coupled with modest oil sands growth would increase oil and gas emissions from 26 per cent of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions in 2014 to 45 per cent by 2030.

Compare this with total annual emissions here in British Columbia of 63 megatonnes.

In 2015, our total emissions came out to be 2,592 metric tons of CO2.

The new boiler will produce energy out of biomass, reducing CO ₂ emissions at the Nettingsdorf mill by 40,000 tonnes, which represents a 1.5 % reduction in Smurfit Kappa Group's total CO ₂ emissions.

Bringing total participation to 43 percent, another 4,500 vineyard acres in 2014 underwent the first step, completion of a comprehensive sustainability self - assessment of 138 farming and business practices, such as water management, pesticide use, energy efficiency, carbon emissions, employee safety and community relations.

In total, those three areas account for more than 60 percent of McDonald's emissions.

In 2011, farms were responsible for about 13 percent of total global emissions.

Digging deeper: Methane from microbial fermentation represents 30 % and manure management 26 % of total methane emissions in the Golden State, according to 2016 board data.

International nonprofit GRAIN has revealed that the world's top 10 dairy companies emitted roughly 231Mt (million tons) of CO2 in 2016, the equivalent of half of France's total GHG footprint and a quarter of the emissions emitted by Germany.

Petroleum - based transportation fuels account for one third of total greenhouse gas emissions in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States.

Methane gas is second behind carbon dioxide in contributing to the greenhouse effect and global warming; cow flatulence and excretion account for 20 percent, or 100 million tons, of the total annual global methane emissions.

In modern Britain, traffic is the major air polluter, with traffic fumes accounting for just over half of the total domestic nitrogen emissions.

5:31 — 6:51 TOTAL YEARLY EMISSIONS OF LINCOLN PARK PROJECT EQUAL TO ALL HOUSEHOLDS IN THE TOWN OF ULSTER OR 1.5 % OF ALL OF ULSTER COUNTY»S EMISSIONS.

The total emissions for the Lincoln Park project during the course of the year is 30,272 metric tons CO2 equivalent, about equal to the annual emissions from all households in the Town of Ulster, or 1.5 % of all Ulster County 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.

of total transport CO2 emissions, which were 120 million tonnes back in 2006, just one year.»

Electricity has historically been the chief source of CO2 emissions, but shifts from coal to lower - carbon fuels, especially natural gas, have shrunk its share of the total carbon dioxide pie in recent years.

Morris calls the work «exciting» but notes that due to the very low total numbers of photons used in the analysis, of the dozen putative black holes some might actually merely be statistical flukes produced by coincidentally timed emissions from other sources.

In 2016, the latest year for which data is available, fossil fuel - generated power and transportation each supplied about 34 percent of total U.S. CO2 emissions, according to the annual EPA report.

We are finding, and it is pretty well know by now, that CO2 stored in vegetation around the world represents, and its loss from deforestation and degradation represents, 17 to 20 percent of total CO2 emissions.

Dell Round Rock, TX Information Technology 554 million green kWh, 158 % of total power used In August 2008 managers declared Dell's headquarters «carbon - neutral» after buying energy credits, increasing efficiency and reducing emissions.

While this is a good way to get total emissions of methane in a remote location where the main source of the gas is natural gas production, it is not a good way to pin emissions down to any one well, gathering or processing activity in the basin.

He then measured the total direct emissions associated with the making of a product; for example, the amount of coal burned to generate a kilowatt of electricity and how much carbon dioxide was released in the process.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

For example, we found that total livestock methane emissions have increased the most in rapidly developing regions of Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

Prior to the earthquake and tsunami, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency had modeled a 54 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2000 levels by 2050, and a 90 percent reduction by 2100, with nuclear energy accounting for upwards of 60 percent of the country's total energy mix.

Three approaches were used to evaluate the outstanding «carbon budget» (the total amount of CO2 emissions compatible with a given global average warming) for 1.5 °C: re-assessing the evidence provided by complex Earth System Models, new experiments with an intermediate - complexity model, and evaluating the implications of current ranges of uncertainty in climate system properties using a simple model.

Lacking improvements in fuel efficiency combined with a comprehensive mitigation policy, the report finds that transport emissions could double by 2050 from 6.7 gigatons of emitted carbon dioxide in 2010, which represents 22 percent of the world's total.

The optimal combination of trips would have reduced total travel time by 40 percent, with corresponding reductions in operational costs and carbon dioxide emissions.

Coal - burning alone belched out 15 billion tons of CO2 worldwide in 2012, 43 % of total CO2 emissions; thousands of CCS projects would be needed by 2050 to reach targets to put a serious dent in emissions.

Even if the United States implements all current and proposed policies, it would miss its 2025 target by as much as 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year — roughly 20 % of the nation's total emissions, according to the analysis published today in Nature Climate Change.

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

Consumption patterns, together with aging and urbanization in some countries, have bigger implications for health and the reduction of carbon emissions than the total number of people in the world.