Sentences with phrase «sum of global emissions»
Right now, the sum of global emissions of carbon dioxide by 6.6 billion very - unequal humans is about 29 billion tons a year.
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In sum, he said that China's national interests will always come first and, in any move toward binding steps for reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases, rich countries must go first.
It can all be summed up with the fact: «The belief in global warming for a country's population is inversely proportional to that country's emissions of CO2».
All emissions in this figure and chapter refer to GtCO2e (gigatonnes or billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent)-- the global warming potential - weighted sum of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases, that is, CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs and SF6, including LULUCF CO2 emissions.
The sum of these emission estimates is about 60 teragrams CH4 per year, or ~ 25 % of global natural CH4 emissions.
For example, the management of any global biodiversity conservation goal through the mitigation hierarchy could follow a similar framework to the United Nations» management of carbon emissions, with nation states setting their own national goals and targets that then sum to achieve overarching planetary goals.
He sums up the task with brutal candour: «the conclusion of this book is that we have only seven years left to peak global emissions before facing escalating dangers of runaway global warming.
What this figure shows are the global emission trajectories (in Gigatonnes, Gt, of carbon) that are required to limit humanity's total cumulative emissions (that is, the sum total of all carbon that we will ever emit) to a certain level.
If we compute the cumulative sum of the anthropogenic contribution to net global emission, we get the component of the observed increase in CO2 that is due to anthropogenic emissions, which is a steady linear trend rising at 1.5 ppmv per year.
But until the scientists worked out that the sum of emissions over time (the «carbon budget») was to a first order the best predictor of global temperature change, they were generally dismissed as naive and ideological.