Sentences with phrase «tonne of carbon»

By emitting billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we've raised atmospheric carbon dioxide to levels not seen in millions of years.

The company installed a 10 MW waste heat recovery power plant in one of its Indian subsidiaries, which is expected to reduce 80,000 tonnes of carbon emissions annually.

Every spring, nature sucks up hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide as plants grow.

Each year, CO2 emissions from human activity pour just over 6 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

He also rejected Conservative calls for VAT on passenger airline tickets, claiming this would only save 50,000 tonnes of carbon by 2020.

With that in mind, the remaining budget is even smaller, leaving just 275 billion tonnes of carbon left.

The Victorian parks network is a major carbon sink with at least 270 million tonnes of carbon stored in land - based parks.

And because this clean electricity will be replacing natural - gas - fired power, it will cut one million tonnes of carbon pollution.

How many tonnes of carbon does it take to sink a planet?

This would produce about 13 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.

In the first year of operation, the new gas - fired power plant in combination with the district heating was estimated to have saved 600,000 tonnes of carbon emissions.

A note on units: Because carbon dioxide is the main contributor to warming, the budget is sometimes expressed in terms of tonnes of carbon dioxide rather than carbon.

How many trillion tonnes of carbon do you think our descendants could emit before the market forces a nearly complete shift to alternatives by simple supply and demand economics.

While the Government says carbon abatement costs per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) should be about # 56 ($ 87) for road transport, the report says the cost using the current generation of biofuels ranges from about # 105 to # 715 ($ 165 - 1,100).

About 200 years ago, before humans began to interfere seriously in the composition of the atmosphere, there were about 590 billion tonnes of carbon in the atmosphere in the form of CO2.

Costa Rica (pictureed right) is expecting to sell 16 million tonnes of carbon credits as part of Latin America's first carbon exchange and the country is aiming to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2021.

THE NSW government spent $ 104,000 from its Climate Change Fund to save a single tonne of carbon dioxide - worth about $ 35 under international carbon prices - the fund's annual report shows.

China's fair share China is the second - largest single polluter, although the European Union as a whole emits more tonnes of carbon annually.

The world's soils have lost a total of 133bn tonnes of carbon since humans first started farming the land around 12,000 years ago, new research... Read More

Atmospheric chemists have been bemused by what happens to the roughly 7 billion tonnes of carbon released into the atmosphere by pollution and forest destruction each year.

The study found that offsetting one tonne of carbon with this project delivers $ 303 USD in socio - economic and ecological benefit.

Since the soil microbes normally release at least 60 billion metric tonnes of carbon back to the atmosphere each year as carbon dioxide, any increase could have disconcerting consequences.

New energy - efficiency standards for appliances and federal buildings should also prevent some 3 billion tonnes of carbon entering the atmosphere between now and 2030 — or nearly two years» worth of emissions from US coal - fired power plants.

With more than 1000bn tonnes of carbon estimated to be locked up in permafrost soils, the impacts for climate could be very significant, says Dr Sarah Chadburn, a specialist in Arctic permafrost modelling at the University of Exeter and lead author on the new paper.

SCC dollar values are sometimes characterized as representing the marginal damage of an additional tonne of carbon dioxide emitted.

Sisters Food Group, one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, has started up a potato - powered energy plant as a first step in a new sustainability plan which aims to generate 35,000 tonnes of carbon savings a year and slash the group's carbon footprint by 20 % by 2018.

Outlining a number of measures, Gordon Brown claimed Budget 2007 would result in 16 million tonnes of carbon reductions.

The IPCC's last assessment, published in 1996, concluded that forests would soak up around 290 billion tonnes of carbon next century, even without extra planting.

The IPCC report estimated that we've already used 515 billion tonnes of the carbon budget as of 2011 by burning fossil fuels for energy as well as by clearing forests for farming and myriad other uses.

In a recent reality check, scientists estimated what it would take to sequester 1 billion tonnes of carbon using BECCS based on switchgrass feedstock.

The project reduces the impacts of global climate change by preventing the release of almost 5m tonnes of carbon that is stored in the forest.

Based on measurements of ecosystem CO2 flux, radiation absorption by plants, crop yields and a model simulating the terrestrial biosphere, a multinational team of researchers has found that during July and August 2003, 500 million tonnes of carbon escaped from the forests and fields across Europe as a result of extreme heat and drought.

«Limiting total CO2 emissions from the start of 2015 to beneath 240 billion tonnes of carbon − 880 billion tonnes of CO2 — or about 20 years of current emissions would likely achieve the Paris goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels,» says study leader Richard Millar, a climate system scientist at the University of Oxford.

Figueres, the head of the U.N.'s Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, noted the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the world has already burnt more than half a budget of a trillion tonnes of carbon if it wants to stay below 2C.

That vegetation must have fixed almost all of the billions of tonnes of carbon now underground by sequestering it from CO2 in the atmosphere.

As one tonne of carbon equates to 3.67 tonnes of CO2, the 1997 Indonesian peat forest fires emitted between 2.97 and 9.43 billion tonnes of CO2.

The plant, comissioned by local beverage company Froico SA, is expected to save around 2m tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over its projected 25 - year lifetime and reduce the French overseas territory's dependence on oil, gas and coal, which generate the majority of its power today.

Over the past 50 years, nuclear power stations — by offsetting fossil fuel combustion — have avoided the emission of an estimated 60bn tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Alaska currently absorbs about 3.7 m tonnes of carbon a year, the USGS assessment found.