Sentences with phrase «particular emissions factor»

For example, oak pellets would be assigned a particular emissions factor and would be taxed accordingly, regardless of source.

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For those countries, Ummel said, emissions information is based on both back - channel information gathering and modeling to predict the amount a particular plant would likely emit based on its size and other factors like the type of coal it uses.

Each of these components, C1, C2 and C3, is then associated with some fraction of the emissions into the atmosphere, E, and a particular removal mechanism: where b3 (= 0.1) is a fixed constant representing the Revelle buffer factor, and b1 is a fixed constant such that b1 + b3 = 0.3 [11]; b1 represents the fraction of atmospheric CO2 that would remain in the atmosphere following an injection of carbon in the absence of the equilibrium response and ocean advection; b0 represents an adjustable time constant, the inverse of which is of order 200 years.

To slow the rate of anthropogenic - induced climate change in the 21st century and to minimize its eventual magnitude, societies will need to manage the climate forcing factors that are directly influenced by human activities, in particular greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions.

By highlighting the mechanisms through which the rebound effect has occurred across three important, energy - and emissions - intensive industries, these case studies illustrate the importance of rebound effects and highlight several factors suggesting that they will be experienced in significant measure in the future, in particular in emerging developing world economies.