Sentences with phrase «of total emissions worldwide»

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When composted, single serve coffee from compostable pods will reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by 140,000 tonnes worldwide compared to the same amount of coffee from non-compostable pods that are almost always sent to landfill.

Beyond Kerosene The amount of emissions from aircraft compared with other vehicles is relatively small — roughly 3 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major impact on the climate.

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.

Heavy - duty vehicles, such as commercial trucks and buses, were by far the largest contributor worldwide, accounting for 76 percent of the total excess NOx emissions.

«The production, transportation and use of concrete accounts for between 5 and 9 percent of total carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.

But any increase or reduction, the agency said, would be «extremely small and insignificant compared to total worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide and methane.»

Honda aims at increasing hybrid and zero emissions vehicle sales total of two thirds of its worldwide volume by as soon as 2030.

Scientists say electricity generation is responsible for one - quarter of the world's total CO2 emissions — the main cause of global warming — and U.S. power plants account for fully 25 percent of the emissions generated by the power sector worldwide.

This watershed, painstaking analysis traces emissions totaling 914 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent — which amounts to 63 % of the cumulative worldwide emissions of industrial CO2 and methane between 1751 and 2010 — to 90 so - called «carbon major» entities worldwide.

The United States accounts for more than 15 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, second only to China.

All the current solar and wind power in the market today have reduced U.S. CO2 emissions by 30 to 35 million metric tons per year, which is less than one - 10th of 1 % of the current worldwide total.

Unfortunately, coal combustion is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions as well, accounting for 30 % of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions worldwide, and 72 % of CO2 emissions from global power generation.

Using data from the 267 reservoirs, the authors estimate total emissions from all reservoirs worldwide and conclude that those water storage facilities account for 1.3 % of all manmade greenhouse gas emissions.