In a 2004 report to the United Nations, the last time India published detailed emissions data, the government said total greenhouse gas emissions were 1.228 billion metric tons, or about 1.3
tons per person, in 1994.
Per capita emissions in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates stand at 9
tons per person, followed by Kuwait at 7 tons.
The atmosphere weighs about 6 million gigatons (billion tons) so that is a million
tons per person.
Another plan would reduce global average annual greenhouse - gas emissions to about 2 metric
tons per person.
What is our own individual liability, since annual greenhouse gas emissions amount to almost 20
tons per person?
The U.S. allocation in Figure 2 works out to 125
tons per person, which is only slightly below the Chinese allocation.
Among the French, emissions were 6
tons per person last year, said Jos Olivier, a senior scientist at the Dutch agency.
Despite our much larger population, India produces only 4 percent of those emissions — 1.1
tons per person.
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tons per person emissions per year when combined with removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through soil building and biomass on land and sea will stop and reverse climate change.
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tons per person per year of carbon dioxide emissions is a simple number.
In the United States, for 300 million of us, it's an average of 16.5
tons per person per year or 4.95 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year.
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tons per person per year of carbon dioxide equivalent is the basis for global convergence on sustainable conduct, for a global technological and social revolution based on making economic growth mean ecological improvement and for the pursuit of social and ecological justice and an end to poverty.
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tons per person per year of carbon dioxide from primary energy consumption equal to 70 gigajoules or 19,443 kilowatt hours a year was set as a sustainable global target for all by the U.N..
based on 2004 MSW management data - we found an estimated 388 million tons of MSW was generated, for an average of 1.3
tons per person per year.
Assuming that it's safe to add only 2,771 gigtons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, that threshold implies an allocation of 2.33
tons per person of annual emissions between 1900 and 2050.
India emits a paltry 1.7 tons of CO2 per person each year, compared to 6.2
tons per person in China, 17.6
tons per person in the United States, and an incredible 40.3
tons per person in Qatar.
China, with its coal - fired push to cut poverty, is now at 7.2
tons per person per year.
China and France, for very different reasons, now have roughly the same emissions of carbon dioxide per citizen — about 6
tons per person per year.
For various reasons, Japan and Europe have far lower emissions, with Japan and Britain, for example, just under 10
tons per person per year.
In India, it's 1.2
tons per person.
To understand why India, despite its fast - growing emissions, has demanded and gotten what its environment minister called «carbon space,» just do a side by side comparison of the United States, where the average person's activities result in about 17 tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, and India, where 400 million people still lack an electric light or clean cooking fuel and where per capita annual emissions are 1.9
tons per person.
That makes it the second - largest per - capita climate polluter in Latin America, behind Venezuela, with an average of 5.3
tons per person.
Not exact matches
Rosneft all of the world's biggest oil producer and loosing the company delivers some 37 million metric
tons of oil to the
People's Republic of China
per year on an ongoing basis from the year 2018.
In the less developed countries, approximately 400 pounds of grain
per year is available to the average
person, nearly all of which must be consumed directly merely to meet minimal food energy needs... Contrast this example to the average North American who uses nearly a
ton of grain
per year.
I discovered the
people harvesting the sugar cane with the hatchet and machete were being paid less than 80 cents
per ton of sugar cane harvested and they were not paid in money, they were paid in vouchers that could only be redeemed at the company store.
More than 1 billion
tons of food are wasted
per year while one in nine
people around the world is undernourished.
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 Town of Tonawanda even gets back $ 10
per ton for its recyclables, making the total savings $ 55.39
per ton when
people recycle.
Focusing on 13 of the most concentrated minerals with the highest value, the scientists put the haul at $ 280
per ton, or $ 8 million for that hypothetical million -
person city.
The completed ribbon and counterweight can support a steady stream of climbers, each capable of hoisting 13
tons of cargo and / or
people at 125 miles
per hour and reaching geosynchronous orbit in seven days.
There are
people, including some I fund, who are working on that, but the cost
per ton recovered is in the $ 100.00 - plus regime, and you need to get down into the, you know, probably $ 20.00 to $ 30.00 regime before you can start to say, «Okay, let's multiply that by 36 billion, and start thinking about whether or not we should do this or not.»
Frankly, a lot of the
people who claim they have slow metabolisms and can't lose weight while eating 800 calories
per day and doing
tons of exercise are also having intermittent or even frequent food binges that offset their progress, then they selectively forget those incidents.
As for China and India «making some commitments»:
tons CO2e
per person per year: India 1.7, Brazil 5.4, China 5.5, Mexico 5.9, Italy 10, Japan 11, Britain 11, Germany 12, Canada 21.3, USA 24.
In the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion
people, emitting less than one
ton of carbon dioxide
per person per year (compared to the 20
tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissions.
Even if poor and rich countries agree, magically, to meet in the middle — at, say, 10
tons of carbon dioxide
per person per year (about Europe's emissions rate)-- that produces a world well on the way to centuries of warming and coastal retreats, even at the low end of estimates of carbon dioxide's heat - trapping power.
We are told as Americans, that CO2 is a pollutant and that we release upwards of 20
tons of carbon dioxide
per person per year into the atmosphere.
In 2012, Qatar spewed out 11
tons of carbon
per person.
On a
per person basis, the United States emits 4.4
tons of carbon pollution — twice as much as in China.
Try telling India to leave its coal in the ground after examining the latest data on
per capita emissions of carbon dioxide from the Global Carbon Project, released yesterday — with India's billion - plus citizens at 1.9
tons of CO2 emitted
per person per year, the European Union and China tied (for the moment) at around 7
tons and the United States at 16.4
tons:
In the United States, where the annual consumption of grain as food and feed averages some 800 kilograms (four fifths of a
ton)
per person, a modest reduction in the consumption of meat, milk, and eggs could easily cut grain use
per person by 100 kilograms.
It shows that a fully rebated fee of $ 49 /
ton CO2e on the production of fossil fuels would provide the lowest 10 % on the income scale a 9 % net raise on
per -
person after tax income.
(05/28/2014) Haze caused by burning peat forests in Indonesia kills an average of 110,000
people per year and up to 300,000 during el Niño events, while releasing hundreds of millions of
tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, warns a new report from Greenpeace.
Now if send humans off planet, not only will you remove something that would generate 30
tons of CO2
per year
per person, but these guys could do something about all the nasty CO2 on other planets.
Thomas Dugan good luck on getting
people to downsize off the 500sqft
per ton standard, much less go smaller than 1.5
tons.
This is equal to more than two
tons (4,000 pounds) of wasted food
per hungry
person per year.
To accomplish this, an amount of material consumed by that
person (
tons per year) is divided by the yield of the specific land or sea area (annual
tons per hectare) from which it was harvested, or where its waste material was absorbed.
If, for instance, the United States and India are required to reduce ghg emissions by the same percentage amount, for instance 90 %, then the US
per capita emissions of approximately 20
tons CO2
per capita would allow US citizens to emit CO2 at the rate of 2
tons per capita while the current India
per capita emissions of approximately 1.8
tons per capita would mean that the Indian citizens could emit only at the rate 0.18
tons per capita even though India needs to dramatically increase its energy use to assure that hundreds of millions of
people economically rise out of grinding poverty and India has comparatively done little to cause the existing problem.
CO2 emissions are the product of «population» (number of
people or consumers) times «material affluence» (GDP
per person or
per capita GDP) times «carbon intensity of the economy» (
tons of CO2 emitted
per GPD generated).
Three new sludge - to - energy projects in Beijing were initiated in the last year, serving 4.5 million
people and producing 136 million kilowatt hours of renewable energy
per year, equivalent to avoiding the use of 41,000 metric tonnes (more than 45,000 U.S.
tons) of standard coal.
It's 3
tons of carbon dioxide emissions
per person per year as a goal and a measure for global sustainability.