Sentences with phrase «overall emissions per»

Green investments are spurring significant growth across the U.S economy while decreasing industry's overall emissions per dollar of goods and services, according to two reports released Wednesday by the federal government.

Not exact matches

Despite the rise in carbon dioxide emissions, the main «basket» of greenhouse gases are down overall, with the «big six» 15 per cent below the base year.

If solar energy were to make up 10 per cent of the country's electricity mix, this difference would add an extra 0.23 per cent to overall grid emissions in the US — a small but significant amount.

He is referring to a commitment first made by China ahead of the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks to reduce its economy's overall carbon emissions per unit of GDP to 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DoT) released rules that set limits on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions allowed and accelerate an increase in overall fuel efficiency to 14.5 kilometers per liter (34.1 miles per gallon) by 2016.

The European Commission, meanwhile, says that despite the dash for coal in Germany, the carbon trading scheme remains successful overall, with a fall in CO2 emissions in 2009 of 11 per cent across the EU compared with 2008.

That means per - capita transportation emissions have gone down, even as overall emissions remain about the same.

Overall, closing yield gaps by 50 % for crops and 25 % for livestock would lead to a 12 % savings in greenhouse gas emission per calorie produced.

The GT is worse still, with overall economy between 30.7 mpg (550i) and 51.4 mpg (520d), emissions stretching from 144 - to 220g / km and BIK of 24 - 35 per cent.

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An optimised set of gear ratios keep the engine in its most efficient operating range during light loads and cruise, contributing in an overall improvement in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of more than 13 per cent over the outgoing model.

When it comes to greenhouse - gas emissions, we can not only look at the current situation and ignore history, nor look at overall emissions and ignore per capita figures.

«EU member states are obliged to cut the emissions from non-ETS sectors by 10 per cent overall by 2020.

Although the countries of Africa have some of the lowest overall and per capita global warming emissions on the planet, they are also likely to suffer from some of the worst consequences of climate change.

However, after a year 2000 dip, Germany for example has been more successful than Britain in keeping down emissions, even though they have higher per capita and overall emissions.

Includes provisions: (1) creating a combined energy efficiency and renewable electricity standard and requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet 20 % of their demand through renewable electricity and electricity savings by 2020; (2) setting a goal of, and requiring a strategic plan for, improving overall U.S. energy productivity by at least 2.5 % per year by 2012 and maintaining that improvement rate through 2030; and (3) establishing a cap - and - trade system for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and setting goals for reducing such emissions from covered sources by 83 % of 2005 levels by 2050.

In the case of the US, president Barack Obama has vowed that by 2025, its overall carbon emissions will be at least 26 per cent lower than in 2005.

(2) Although developing countries are historically least responsible for the cumulative greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change and continue to have very low per capita greenhouse gas emissions, their overall greenhouse gas emissions are increasing as they seek to grow their economies and reduce energy poverty for their populations.

In particu - lar where this leads to an overall increase in N us efficiency, the result is a reduction in emissions per kg of product (Olesen et al., 2006).

Organic agriculture has lower N2O emissions from nitrogen application, due to lower overall ni - trogen input per ha than in conventional agriculture (Mäder et al., 2002, Olesen et al. 2006).

In the United States, the Bush administration's «Clear Skies» proposal requires a decline in carbon emissions per unit of economic output (known as carbon intensity), but not overall carbon emissions.

By process of elimination, there is net flow of CO2 into vegetation / land (with emissions from them being overall negative aside from fuel combustion), which is unsurprising in contexts ranging from a multitude of studies on co2science.org to how satellite - measured global net terrestrial primary production increased by several percent per decade during the period of global warming (Nemani et al. 2003, for instance).

In Brussels, the European Union's Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has announced the opening of the first tranche of # 3.4 billion worth of green energy funding, to be made available with the aim of helping the bloc as a whole make use of the technology to help realise the goal of cutting overall carbon emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 when compared to 1990 levels.

When CH4, CO2, and N2O emissions are combined, our synthesis suggests that reservoir water surfaces contribute 0.8 Pg CO2 equivalents per year over a 100 - year time span (fifth and ninety - fifth confidence interval: 0.5 — 1.2 Pg CO2 equivalents per year), or approximately 1.5 % of the global anthropogenic CO2 - equivalent emissions from CO2, CH4, and N2O reported by the IPCC (table 1; Ciais et al. 2013) and 1.3 % of global anthropogenic CO2 - equivalent emissions from well mixed GHGs overall (Myhre et al. 2013).

-- Muller believes humans are changing climate with CO2 emissions — humans have been responsible for «most» of a 0.4 C warming since 1957, almost none of the warming before then — IPCC is in trouble due to sloppy science, exaggerated predictions; chairman will have to resign — the «Climategate» mails were not «hacked» — they were «leaked» by an insider — due to «hide the decline» deception, Muller will not read any future papers by Michael Mann — there has been no increase in hurricanes or tornadoes due to global warming — automobiles are insignificant in overall picture — China is the major CO2 producer, considerably more than USA today — # 1 priority for China is growth of economy — global warming is not considered important — China CO2 efficiency (GDP per ton CO2) is around one - fourth of USA today, has much room for improvement — China growth will make per capita CO2 emissions at same level as USA today by year 2040 — if it is «not profitable» it is «not sustainable» — US energy future depends on shale gas for automobiles; hydrogen will not be a factor — nor will electric cars, due to high cost — Muller is upbeat on nuclear (this was recorded pre-Fukushima)-- there has been no warming in the USA — Muller was not convinced of Hansen's GISS temperature record; hopes BEST will provide a better record.

The use of inefficient lighting is responsible for 126 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year (7 % of India's overall emissions).

The C&C framework consists of reducing overall emissions of ghg to a safe levels from all nations (contraction) and each nation bringing its emissions eventually to equal per capita levels for all countries (convergence).

Canadians should measure proposal like Redford's «40:40» — referring to a 40 per cent cut in the carbon - emission limit and a $ 40 - per - ton tax on production above that limit — by whether overall emissions will actually stop growing.

If we add up all of these costs, which we did in a study published in 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we find thousands of dollars of damages per vehicle (gasoline or electric) that are paid by the overall population rather than only by those releasing the emissions and consuming the oil.

That's about a third of the state's overall emissions, which total about 178,000 metric tons per day.

In Peru, the transport sector is thus responsible for 40 per cent of GHG emissions from the energy sector, and for 11 per cent of the overall national emissions.

WWF summarizes Canada's poor performance by saying that the nation has very high emissions per capita compared to other industrial nations, despite the aforementioned large use of hydropower; its per capita emissions are still increasing; its expanding development of the carbon - intensive tar sands and has no significant policy to reduce overall emissions.

Land Use Change Emissions Push Corn Ethanol Past Baseline It's the inclusion of a penalty for these indirect land use changes into the overall carbon intensity of a particular fuel that has caused controversy: Corn ethanol is already above the baseline at 97 grams of carbon per megajoule, due to a 30 gram penalty assessed for land use changes.

''... Overall, all PV technologies generate far less life - cycle air emissions per GWh than conventional fossil - fuel - based electricity generation technologies.

The Alberta government and the oil industry argue for «intensity - based» targets that would require lower per - barrel emissions, but allow growing industries to increase their overall output of carbon dioxide.

In addition to leading the world in CO2 emissions, as Stossel acknowledged, the U.S. has led the world in overall greenhouse gas emissions - in both absolute and per - capita standards - for years.

Firstly, the goal refers to emissions per passenger kilometer in new cars — that's not the same as the whole car fleet, and it's certainly not the same as the overall transportation sector.

China recently passed the United States as the largest overall greenhouse gas emitter, though U.S. per capita emissions still far exceed China's.

For example, a facility that met its compliance target of 12 per cent reduction in carbon intensity could still see overall emissions rise 76 per cent by doubling its oil output.

Overall, the country has signed on to its obligations to reduce greenhouse gases as per the Kyoto Protocol, but has yet to implement a nationwide policy aimed at reducing overall GHG emiOverall, the country has signed on to its obligations to reduce greenhouse gases as per the Kyoto Protocol, but has yet to implement a nationwide policy aimed at reducing overall GHG emioverall GHG emissions.