Sentences with phrase «per ton by»

The best way to drive energy innovation would be an emissions charge of $ 5 per ton of greenhouse gases beginning in 2012, rising to $ 100 per ton by 2032.

Global emissions prices rise to about $ 6 per ton of CO2 (in current dollars) in 2025 and to about $ 20 per ton by 2050.

The Commission's report, released today in Berlin, concluded that a carbon price of $ 40 - $ 80 per ton of CO2 equivalent by 2020, rising to $ 50 - $ 100 per ton by 2030, when combined with supportive policies, would allow for achievement of the Paris goal.

All current Washington state carbon tax proposals lag behind British Columbia, whose carbon tax rate will be climbing to $ 50 (in Canadian dollars) per ton by 2021.

The tax will start at $ 7.60 per ton of CO2 and rise to $ 38 per ton by 2022.

It would have covered 85 percent of greenhouse - gas emissions in the state, and, starting at $ 15 per metric ton of fossil - fuel emissions in the first year, and rising to $ 25 per ton in the second year, the tax would have risen 3.5 percent annually thereafter, up to $ 100 per ton by the middle of this century.

In a further setback to reducing U.S. carbon emissions, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering the U.S. government's «social cost» of carbon, or the estimated cost of sea - level rise, lower crop yields, and other climate - change related economic damages, from $ 42 per ton by 2020 to a low of $ 1 per ton.

Not exact matches

Productivity (tons mined per miner) increased by 350 percent, due partially to a shift from underground to surface mines, but largely from the introduction of highly mechanized systems like long wall mining that require far fewer miners.

As one of the site's top sellers wrote in a blog post in 2009: «Your odds of making $ 10,000 per year [on Etsy] are better than winning $ 10,000 through the Powerball, though not by a ton.»

He thinks revenue per ton - miles could grow by 4 % and 7 % and annual pricing gains will increase between 2 % and 4 %.

«One of the largest increases in cocaine seizures in the past five years has been observed in Ecuador, where the amount of cocaine seized rose by over 242 per cent, amounting to 50 metric tons in 2014,» the UN's International Narcotics Control Board wrote in its 2015 report.

Using our current fuel price of $ 620 per metric ton, we are currently estimating that lower fuel prices should benefit first half 2013 earnings per share by approximately $ 0.23.

Within the update the government also signaled its commitment to raise the B.C. carbon tax by $ 5 a ton of CO2 per year starting in April 2018.

The property at Murray Bridge, South Australia, will be utilised by Inghams for the production of high - quality animal feed, with a capacity to produce 100 tons of feed per hour.

A: We are committing to a 15 percent reduction in total waste per ton of food produced by 2020, with a 2015 baseline.

10 Apr 2018 — Butter consumption has increased by 1.7 million metric tons per annum over the last ten years.

Some have estimated that 3 to 6 tons of sea salt per day had to be transported by canoe and on human backs into the interior to supply the Mayan people whose population then is estimated to have been greater than the population of the same region today.

The Commissioner also expressed optimism that with the up - scaling of the Imota Rice Milling Plant from 2.5 metric tons to 16 metric tons per hour, expected to be up and running by next year, the production of LAKE RICE would be done in the State to ensure availability of the product all year round.

Albany County's new Waste Heat / Co-generation facility in Menands will not only save money by creating renewable energy, it will also cut CO2 emissions by nearly 1,500 tons per year and will reuse 50,000 gallons of water per day to cool the high - efficiency system.

The 50 MW is enough to power 6,500 households and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 45,300 tons per year as well as reducing other environmental pollutants.

By displacing older, less efficient generation operating today, the facility will reduce regional carbon emissions by nearly half a million tons per yeaBy displacing older, less efficient generation operating today, the facility will reduce regional carbon emissions by nearly half a million tons per yeaby nearly half a million tons per year.

To minimize economic disruption, the commission advised that the government cap the cost by selling extra permits starting at $ 7 per metric ton of CO2 in 2010 with a 5 percent annual increase.

The program aims to reduce the cost of CCS to $ 10 per ton of avoided CO2 by 2012, corresponding to a roughly 10 percent increase in the cost of electricity.

With two space shuttle launches per year, on average, that amounts to roughly 5 tons of carbon dioxide per month (by comparison, your average car generates about half a ton per month).

A recent report found that high - speed rail in the Midwest would reduce air travel by 1.3 million trips and car travel by 5.1 million trips per year by 2020, saving 188,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions (equivalent to taking 34,000 cars off the road while still getting everyone to and from work).

Rapid urbanization and industrialization will keep China's coal consumption at record highs of around 4 billion tons per year by 2015.

Across the species» range from Baja California, Mexico, to Alaska, bioerosion on urchin - covered sandstone reefs, the researchers report, produces sediment approximately equivalent to that delivered to the coast by a river — some 200 tons of sediment per hectare — suggesting that when you stroll along the beach, a not insignificant chunk of the sand is, in fact, sea urchin waste.

As of 2007, the Juhnde bioenergy village had reduced its carbon dioxide output by 3,300 tons per year, or by 60 percent per capita.

All told, by Luyssaert's calculations the relatively small remaining stands of old - growth forests in the U.S. Pacific Northwest as well as Canada and Russia consume «8 to 20 percent of the global terrestrial carbon sink,» or roughly 440.9 million tons (0.4 gigatonnes) of carbon per year.

In a conservative scenario — only 20 % of drivers drive a plug - in — the cars would reduce emission by at least 163 million metric tons per year.

Railway tariffs cost about 0.15 yuan per metric ton for each kilometer, less than half the cost of around 0.35 yuan by truck, according to data from the China Coal Transport and Distribution Association.

On top of all this, Azolla has the capacity to trap an astounding amount of carbon, at maximum rates sequestering 60 tons a year of CO2 per hectare, equivalent to the emissions of almost two hours of flight by a Boeing 747.

Even if the United States implements all current and proposed policies, it would miss its 2025 target by as much as 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year — roughly 20 % of the nation's total emissions, according to the analysis published today in Nature Climate Change.

Roughly speaking, every 30 billion tons of emissions raises CO2 levels by around two parts per million (ppm).

The actual increase will depend on the prices set by this and subsequent quarterly auctions — a minimum of $ 1.86 and a maximum of $ 10 per ton, according to RGGI rules.

Ontario's plan is projected to introduce an equivalent price of $ 14.79 per metric ton by 2020.

Alberta will introduce a $ 15.25 per metric ton tax on 1 January 2017 (rising to $ 22.87 by 2018), but Premier Rachel Notley said in a statement that although the province supports the notion of national carbon pricing, it «will not be supporting this proposal absent serious concurrent progress on energy infrastructure, to ensure we have the economic means to fund these policies.»

He announced to the House of Commons that Ottawa will impose a $ 7.62 per metric ton minimum tax on carbon commencing in 2018, which will rise by $ 7.62 each year until it reaches $ 38.11 per metric ton in 2022.

That's reducing to 427 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted per year; current emissions in the state are roughly 525 million metric tons of greenhouse gases and have been projected to exceed 600 million metric tons by 2020 without such efforts.

She pointed to a cutoff set by EPA that limits regulated greenhouse gas polluters to those that emit 100,000 tons or more per year.

«We found that urban warming reduced carbon storage by all of Raleigh's willow oaks by 12 percent, or 27 metric tons per year,» Meineke says.

Americans, for example, consumed 8.6 tons of oil or its commercial energy equivalent per capita in 2007, according to data kept by British Petroleum; Indians consumed just 0.4 ton per capita.

With a volume of more than 700,000 cubic miles and an average thickness of 4,000 feet, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels by 15 to 20 feet — and it is already sweating off 130 billion tons of ice per year.

NEW DELHI, INDIA — A new wheat variety that yields a whopping 18 tons per hectare was unveiled here yesterday at a conference sponsored by the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico.

The researchers» estimate of annual emissions from wells undergoing completion, 18,000 tons per year, is also roughly 97 % less than the estimate given in 2011 by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

India's coal demand will increase by 6.3 percent per year to 643 million tons by 2017, IEA said.

The world will burn around 1.2 billion more tons of coal per year by 2017 compared to today, equivalent to the current coal consumption of Russia and the United States combined.

Within the OECD, coal use will drop by 0.7 percent a year, led by a 2.5 percent drop in U.S. demand per year to 600 million metric tons in 2017, the IEA said.

Such pollution has already doubled just since 1970 and the rates of pollution have been increasing by roughly 1 billion metric tons per year in recent years, a pace that must slow and stop soon.

In addition to cutting energy use by 10 percent in five years, such improvements are also projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 6.5 million tons per year, which the energy department says is akin to removing nearly 1.3 million cars from the road annually.