The Dutch agency's findings were based on recently published information
on cement production and on energy use from the oil company BP.
Not exact matches
The current Wikipedia entry
on air pollution, for example, now asserts that pollution includes: «carbon dioxide (CO2)-- a colorless, odorless, non-toxic greenhouse gas associated with ocean acidification, emitted from sources such as combustion,
cement production, and respiration.»
Short film about
cement production and its effect
on the environment.
I was under the impression, when recalling seminars from over a year ago, that
cement production was higher
on the list of CO2 emission causes than it really is (apparently).
Since concrete
production is highly greenhouse gas - intensive, any reduction in calcium content in the
cement will have a positive impact
on emissions.
India, Indonesia also see rising
production GBI projects that India, currently the world's third - largest coal producer, will also see a surge in
production —
on the order of 6.8 percent annually — because of the country's heavy reliance
on coal - fired electricity along with expanding steel,
cement and fertilizer manufacturing sectors.
China will raise standards for the
production of
cement, batteries, leather and heavy metals as part of its efforts to cut air, water and soil pollution, the environment ministry said
on Friday.
In his thesis, Johan Rootzén also concludes that a shift in technology to a less carbon intense
production of steel and
cement would only have a marginal effect
on the final price of a car or a house, despite the large investments required in the
production step of the primary materials.
Law garnered both a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, further
cementing his reputation as one of the more promising up - and - coming actors
on either side of the ocean.After a turn as a Russian marksman facing off against a Nazi sniper in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Law returned to sci - fi with his role as love machine Gigolo Joe in Steven Spielberg's eagerly anticipated A.I.In addition to his acting commitments, Law kept busy with Natural Nylon, the
production company he founded with Sadie Frost, Sean Pertwee, Ewan McGregor, and Jonny Lee Miller.
For instance, once pleasantries are out of the way, Terence Chang, the Chinese Jerry Bruckheimer, relates the terrifying incident that
cemented Chow's decision to embark
on a Hollywood career, and several key members of The Replacement Killers»
production team dollop praise
on Brother Chow by citing specific, fascinating examples of his collaborative tendencies.
Detroit is the birthplace of mass
production, the automobile, the
cement road, and credit
on a mass scale.
There's steel, aluminum,
cement, plastic, paper — all of which are big processes we're dependent
on, some of which directly generate CO2, like
cement production, and a lot of which are big industrial users of electricity or energy.
The post centers
on an interview with Glen Peters, a scientist who is one of the authors of this year's Global Carbon Budget report, tracking emissions trends for carbon dioxide from energy and
cement production.
In the light of the entry into force of the Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2016, the CSI initiated an in - depth review of the 2009 technology papers and delivered in June 2017 a compilation of 52 individual papers
on well - known existing technologies (for which the latest development and implementation status is reviewed) and seven additional summary papers describing state - of - the - art and anticipated technological developments that can further enhance mitigation of CO2 emissions in
cement production.
Using advocacy and litigation to secure strong national limits
on emissions from new, modified and existing power plants, oil refineries,
cement kilns, and oil and gas
production facilities.
The most recent report of the International Panel
on Climate Change says it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of this warming which is driven by the build up of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion,
cement production, and land use changes.
The estimates are also based
on production data for
cement, lime, ammonia and steel and emissions per country from 1970 to 2008 from version 4.2 of the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), a joint project of JRC and PBL.
We have relatively strong national and global data
on carbon dioxide emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuel and
cement production; accumulations in the atmosphere show unequivocally that emissions far exceed the sequestration capacity of the ecosphere.
Regarding text
on CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and
cement production in 2011, and anthropogenic net CO2 emissions from land - use change throughout the past decade, Saudi Arabia proposed also discussing other gases, sectors and sources, and addressing confidence levels and representative timeframes.
After the wells
on a pad are drilled, cased and
cemented, a device perforates the horizontal part of the
production pipe to make small holes in the casing, exposing the wellbore to the shale.
Cement production is either «wet» or «dry», depending
on the water content of the material feedstock.
In the IPCC's «Climate Change 2007 — The Physical Science Basis», figure 1 (a)
on page 513 shows the human contribution from fossil fuel burning and
cement production as being 7Gt of carbon for each year from 2000 to 2005.
However, global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and
cement production have continued to grow by 2.5 per cent per year,
on average, in the past decade.
The objective of this study was to compile data
on the status of POPs emissions from the
cement industry, to share state of the art knowledge about PCDD / F formation mechanisms in
cement production processes and to show how it's possible to control and minimise PCDD / F emissions from
cement kilns utilising integrated process optimisation, so called primary measures.
Global greenhouse gas emissions per region / Global CO2 emissions per region from fossil - fuel use and
cement production The Report includes a new systematic assessment of how various economic sectors can reduce their climate - warming emissions, focusing
on the potential eductions from the wide application of already - known and cost - effective technologies.
The Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change in 2013 estimated that cumulative carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and
cement production — from 1750 to 2011 — was about 365 billion metric tonnes as carbon (GtC), with another 180 GtC from deforestation and agriculture.
... He went
on to say that wind turbines had devastated «the very wilderness that the «green blob» claims to love, with new access tracks cut deep into peat, boosted
production of carbon - intensive
cement, and driven up fuel poverty, while richly rewarding landowners».
On the other hand, despite the downwards trend in coal consumption,
cement, steel and coal - fired power
production — three of the biggest coal - consuming sectors — all grew again in 2016 after having fallen in 2015.
The Chinese government does not release annual statistics
on CO2 emissions, but based
on energy consumption and
cement production data we estimate that CO2 emissions grew by approximately 0.5 % from 2015 to 2016, or just 0.2 % if adjusted for the fact that 2016 was a leap year and contained one more day than 2015.
Cement production may go up or down, depending
on construction and infrastructure investments, but is, ultimately, not a big enough source of emissions to be decisive.
He collected data
on crude oil, natural gas, coal, and
cement production worldwide by three types of entities: investor - owned (e.g. ExxonMobil), state - owned (e.g. Saudi Aramco) and government - run entities (e.g. North Korea's coal industry).
Andres, R.J., G. Marland, I. Fund, and E. Matthews, 1997: Geographic Patterns of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil - Fuel Brning, Hydarulic
Cement Production, and Gas Flaring
on a One Degree by One Degree Grid Cell Basis: 1950 to 1990.
Add to that paranthetical statement:
on the othe hand, some net anthropogenic CO2 emissions are from other sources (deforestation,
cement production).
Some examples of initiatives funded in 2008 include research by Stanford scientists into adapting agriculture for a warmer climate and work by a Wang Lan, a materials scientist at the China Building Materials Academy in Beijing,
on reducing greenhouse - gas emissions from
cement production.
Under allocation schemes based
on current annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and
cement production, China leads the pack, followed by the U.S. and India (a).