Sentences with phrase «tonnes of carbon dioxide»

Site C is predicted to stop approximately 30 million to 70 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from being spewed into the atmosphere (which is also a good thing).

The draft regulations will also require project proponents to consider and publicly address the issue of greenhouse gas emissions (with an eye to a proposed new mandatory review process trigger threshold of 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide that would emanate from new facilities or upgraded ones) as well as protection of the local environment, wetlands and other bodies of water.

With the stroke of a pen the technocrats quietly absolved government of all responsibility to reduce emissions from some of the most obvious and most tractable sources of pollution in the land: the fossil - fuel devouring power stations and factories whose smokestacks belch millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year — not to mention huge amounts of other pollutants which damage our health more directly than CO2.

In 2006/07, Bayswater Power Station created approximately 14 million tonnes of carbon dioxide pollution, making it equal greatest single source of greenhouse pollution in the country and among the top 100 polluting power stations in the world.

As of 2010, we could release a maximum of about 1000 billion more tonnes of carbon dioxide and still have a 50:50 chance of staying below two degrees, according to the IPCC.

Of all the countries of the world, Australia, at 26 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person per year ranks ninth; the USA at 23 tonnes ranks 14th; and China at 3.9 tonnes ranks 121st.

According to some IPCC scenarios, we will need to dispose of 40 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year by 2090.

The total impact of the drought — 5 billion extra tonnes of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — exceeds the annual emissions of Europe and Japan combined.»

This is equivalent to approximately six billion tonnes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere, contributing up to one - fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Every ton of algae removes 2 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Almost 100 million tonnes of carbon is stored in timber in Australian houses, with about 2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent added each year as new houses are built...

In cooperation with AEP, the French company Alstom unveiled the world's largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant, so called «clean coal,» which will store around 100,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide a year 2,1 kilometers (7,200 feet) underground.

The results of the study indicate that the three largest options for increasing the number and size of trees (reforestation, avoiding forest loss, and better forestry practices) could cost - effectively remove 7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide annually by 2030, equivalent to taking 1.5 billion gasoline - burning cars off the roads.

Author and blogger Chris Goodall estimates that if the planned construction of new nuclear power stations in the UK stalls in response to the crisis, the result will be an increase of 9m tonnes of carbon dioxide for every year we delay».

As for the methane that could be released into the atmosphere, Schuur estimates that emissions will be equivalent to between 160 and 290 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.

The results showed that by substituting timber in the construction of a typical family home, greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to up to 25 tonnes of carbon dioxide, could be saved.

The NHLPA program was organized in conjunction with the David Suzuki Foundation and in its first year offset 4,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions (equal to removing 840 cars from the road for a year).

If cost constraints aren't considered, the authors suggest that emissions savings could be as high as 23.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, 30 % more than previous estimates had projected.

With more than 5,500 megawatt hours of electricity put onto the grid on its behalf, Ricoh Canada has displaced more than 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to the emissions from more than 3.5 million kilometres driven by an average passenger vehicle.

A single 2MW wind turbine in Australia will abate between 3000 and 6000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.

A tonne of nitrous oxide equals 320 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

The Amendment could avoid emissions of well over 70 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2050, which marks an historic achievement and brings significant impetus to the Paris Agreement which comes into effect in November 2016.

Manly Council was also granted $ 154,000 to install energy - saving floodlights at Manly Oval, saving 17 tonnes of carbon dioxide and allowing the council to «educate a segment of the market that does not normally respond to energy - saving messages».

While the Arctic ecosystems above ground will be subject to dramatic change, this release of tonnes of carbon dioxide will have the most prominent effect.

As of 2016, offsets equivalent to 1.1 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions (BtCO2e) have been transacted voluntarily — through sales to governments, companies, and individuals as well as intermediary brokers — according to the latest annual State of Voluntary Carbon Markets report from Forest Trends» Ecosystem Marketplace, released today at the Innovate4Climate conference in Barcelona.

GCP estimates that the world will have emitted 40.3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2014, a 2.2 per cent rise on last year's record breaking level.

A tonne of methane equals 21 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Article 3 of the Kyoto Protocol states targets for emissions reductions in terms of «aggregate anthropogenic carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of the greenhouse gases listed in Annex A.» Using this approach, Australia's net greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors in 2004 totalled 564.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.

It seems fairly clear that we can sequester 350 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide as 100 billion tonnes of carbon in soils and ecosystems — for reasons unrelated to climate.

It seems fairly clear that we can sequester 350 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide as 100 billion tonnes of carbon in soils and ecosystems — for reasons that have value well beyond global warming.

(For reference, the average American household emits about 7 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.)

If these CDM plants also begin releasing HFC - 23 into the environment, it would cause the release of more than two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) by 2020.

«We need to reduce HFCs under the Montreal Protocol, as this is the single biggest, fastest, and cheapest climate mitigation available to the world today, avoiding the equivalent of 100 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide,» added Zaelke.

If the house was to remain on the grid it could displace 9500kWh of fossil - fuel - generated electricity, reduce the nation's emissions by 5 - 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year (see CO2 released per kWh) and produce an income for the householder of $ 760 / year (if the electricity was sold for $ 0.08 / kWh to an energy retailer such as Diamond Energy).

Even after doing so, South Korea would need to reduce its emissions by an additional 100 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.

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

This amounts to about 22 million tonnes of bitumen per year that, once combusted, will yield about 78 million tonnes of carbon dioxide that will be dumped annually into the atmosphere.

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.

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.

And according to one scenario analyzed by Dupont's Mack McFarland, phasing down HFCs across the globe could cut emissions by the equivalent of 12.9 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide annually by 2050 (compared to roughly 2 billion tonnes by 2012 under Kyoto).

At peak production, the nine proposed projects in the Galilee Basin would extract 330 million tonnes of coal each year, resulting in 705 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, more than the current carbon dioxide emissions of Australia or the United Kingdom.

The 180 billion tonnes of carbon lost from terrestrial systems is equal to 660 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide that may be removed from the atmosphere.

The candidate offset purchase is equivalent to 5.00 tonnes of carbon dioxide, and will be directed to projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, recapture energy, or projects that reduce fossil fuel combustion altogether.

The wind farms could generate up to 800MW of electricity and an annual output of 2.6 - megawatt hours, which would power around 554,000 homes and prevent one million tonnes of carbon dioxide being generated by fossil fuel power.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions for 1990 at 39.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, suggesting that the Nigerian emissions may have represented approximately 0.09 % of the total in terms of CO2 and 0.76 % of the total in terms of methane, using the IPCCs 100 - year global warming potential for methane of 25.

Christine Wiedinmyer, of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, estimates that the southern California fires released 7.9 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide between 19th — 26th October.

By 2050 the IEA thinks we need a CCS industry capable of capturing 7,000 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year and storing it underground.

The Century plant has the capacity to capture 8.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, the single largest CCS facility in the world.

The project will eventually capture 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually from the power station's chimney.

Since the program's inception, more than 2,000 smallholder farmers have already planted over 2 million hardwood, mango, and citrus trees which are projected to sequester 200,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.