Sentences with phrase «per cent of global emissions»

Over 90 per cent of global emissions come from burning fossil fuels and cement production.

Transportation accounts for about 14 per cent of global emissions and is now the largest source of CO2 emissions in the U.S., mostly from cars and trucks.

The maritime sector is responsible for 2 - 3 per cent of global emissions, but this is predicted to rise by 50 - 250 per cent by 2050 as global trade grows, according to a report by the IMO in 2014.

The agreement will come into force after it is ratified by 55 countries representing at least 55 per cent of global emissions.

However, it is clear that since we produce only two per cent of global emissions, there is not much point acting unilaterally.

Finally, with the UK responsible for less than two per cent of global emissions, action at home is not enough.

By comparison Canada is a bit player, accounting for only 1.7 per cent of global emissions.

The US is the world's second largest emitter, responsible for 16 per cent of global emissions.

Not exact matches

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from the use of fossil fuels are estimated to have to be reduced by 75 to 80 per cent.

The report — Less Is More: Greenpeace vision of the meat and dairy system towards 2050 — claims that unless the way we farm for food changes radically, then agriculture will soon be responsible for pumping out 52 per cent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

Meat production is responsible for 14.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, with some scientists saying the percentage is higher.

It also consumes about one quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and generates about eight per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

FAO estimates that annually the loss and waste adds up to US$ 940 billion and about eight per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Also, food waste accounts for about 8 per cent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, the WFO said.

Pointing out that Britain accounts for only two per cent of global carbon emissions at present, Mr Blair said that it was up to larger nations to accept responsibility for the Earth's climate.

The budget carrier pointed out the airline industry accounts for just 1.6 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while road transport accounts for 18 per cent and power generation for over 25 per cent of carbon emissions.

Unison is calling on the government to impose a target of an 80 per cent cut in carbon emissions, warning a 60 per cent reduction will still see global temperatures rise by as much as five degrees.

If similar results are found in other urban areas, then unknown urban sources could account for 7 to 15 per cent of humans» global emissions of the gas, the researchers calculate — far more than was thought (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009gl039825).

Global agricultural emissions of the gas have increased by 20 per cent in the last century as a result of widespread use of nitrogen - based synthetic fertilizers.

This means that even if global emissions were cut by 60 per cent now, which is what it would take to stabilise CO2 levels, we would still hit 1.6 °C of warming.

Consumers account for the largest emissions worldwide, he says: Heating and electricity generation account for about 40 per cent of global CO2 emissions, while transportation accounts for 25 per cent.

Earlier drafts of the text, circulated during Friday, had stipulated that countries should ensure a 50 per cent cut in global greenhouse gas emissions, with 80 per cent cuts by developed nations.

Forestry, agriculture and land - use changes account for nearly 25 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to the energy sector.

Prof Pierre Friedlingstein from the University of Exeter said: «We have exhausted about 70 per cent of the cumulative emissions that keep global climate change likely below two degrees.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production grew 2.3 per cent to a record high of 36.1 billion tonnes CO2 in 2013.

The figure is also about 10 per cent less than the estimate given for China in the most recent publication of the Global Carbon Project, which updates annually the global carbon emissions and their implications for future tGlobal Carbon Project, which updates annually the global carbon emissions and their implications for future tglobal carbon emissions and their implications for future trends.

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

The International Energy Agency for example, reckons that the magic of energy efficiency can achieve 49 per cent of the GHG emission reductions needed by 2030 to avoid catastrophic changes in global temperature.

Current management practices in the land use sector are responsible for approximately 25 per cent of the global greenhouse gas emissions.

For example, farming accounts for almost 30 per cent of the globe's greenhouse gas emissions either directly (for example, rice production has the same emission levels as the global aviation industry) or indirectly through deforestation.

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Responding to the unequivocal scientific evidence that preventing the worst impacts of climate change will require Parties included in the Annex I to the Convention as a group to reduce emissions in a range of 25 ---- 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and that global emissions of greenhouse gases need to peak in the next 10 to 15 years and be reduced to very low levels, well below half of levels in 2000 by 2050,

According to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global GHG emissions in 2050 need to be reduced by no less than 41 to 72 per cent compared to the emissions in 2010.

At least 55 countries, which together are responsible for at least 55 per cent of the total global greenhouse gas emissions — these were the requirements for a successful ratification of the Paris Agreement.

The report states that 90 countries, representing 90 per cent of the global economy, have committed to limit their greenhouse gas emissions, and lists the efforts of major economies, country by country, in an appendix.

The Independent Online reports that an unprecedented coalition of blue - chip US companies and environmental lobby groups will urge President Bush next week to get serious about global warming, calling for caps on carbon dioxide emissions that would cut greenhouse gases by 10 - 30 per cent over 15 years.

This 10 per cent cut, Garnaut said, would represent a fair shake of the sauce bottle from Australia as part of a global effort to stabilise emissions at 550 parts per million in the atmosphere.

With rapid growth in developing countries, by 2050 HFCs could account for up to 19 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

If you are silly enough to contemplate a 2 ˚C rise, then just to have a 66 per cent chance of limiting warming at that point, atmospheric carbon needs to be held to 400ppm CO2e and that requires a global reduction in emissions of 80 per cent by 2050 (on 1990 levels) and negative emissions after 2070.

Deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 40 to 70 per cent by mid-century will be needed to avert the worst of global warming that is already harming all continents, a draft UN report shows.

Eighty seven per cent of all IPCC climate scenarios make it clear that negative emissions are absolutely necessary in order to keep global warming below 2 °C.

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Canberra insists it is taking strong action to address the global threat of climate change, having set an ambitious target to reduce emissions to 26 to 28 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030.

For the vast majority of global corporations, about 40 to 60 per cent of their carbon emissions are beneath the surface in their supply chains, he said.

So with a trillion tonnes to go, we need to increase the fraction we bury at an average rate of one per cent for every 10 billion tonnes of global emissions.

A paper published in the Nature Geoscience journal as part of the Global Carbon Project has found that despite the deep financial crisis last year, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2009 dropped only 1.3 per cent on 2008 levels.

The study also predicts that global CO2 emissions have risen by 3 per cent in 2010, a return to the high growth rates of emissions between 2000 and 2008.

For instance, the US cut emissions nearly 7 per cent in 2009 as a combined result of a shift from coal to gas - fired power and the impact of the global credit crunch.

=== > Finally, as this accompanying chart of the empirical evidence indicates, while the per cent change in cumulative CO2 emissions dropped in a quasi-continuous pattern since 1979, the RSS annual global temperatures anomalies instead follow an opposite increasing trend.

A recent report by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WGBU) assessed what it would take to have a good chance of remaining within the 2ºC guardrail.25 The study concluded that even a delay in the peaking year to 2015 means that global emissions must fall at a rate close to 5 per cent per Global Change (WGBU) assessed what it would take to have a good chance of remaining within the 2ºC guardrail.25 The study concluded that even a delay in the peaking year to 2015 means that global emissions must fall at a rate close to 5 per cent per global emissions must fall at a rate close to 5 per cent per annum.