Sentences with phrase «total ghg emissions»

On the other hand, they do constitute a pretty small fraction of total GHG emissions, so your statement is correct in the sense that «contribute to global warming» would be more accurate than «cause global warming.»

The top 10 %, with 27.5 metric tons of GHG emissions per capita, produce almost as much total GHG emissions (46 % of global total) as the bottom 90 % combined (54 %), with their per capita GHG emission of only 3.6 metric tons [87,90](see Fig. 2).

You can estimate the total GHG emissions that would be associated with driving an electric vehicle or plug - in hybrid electric vehicle, including GHG emissions from the production of electricity used to power the vehicle, with our greenhouse gas calculator.

A 23 % increase would add over 380 MTCO2e in 2030 (using a 100 - year GWP), equivalent to Poland's total GHG emissions in 2012.

Emissions of ODS gases (also GHGs) controlled under the Montreal Protocol (CFCs, HCFCs) increased from a very low amount during the 1950 — 1960s to a substantial percentage — approximately 20 % — of total GHG emissions by 1975.

Since food production by the agricultural sector accounts for 20 % of total GHG emissions, food production might account for 1.4 GT (20 %) of the 7 GT per year for the normal population.

When Total GHG emissions from Annex A sources or LULUCF activities category / sub-category or any of the subcategories under Holdings of Kyoto Protocol units is selected, then only «Total for category» is available in the Classification list.

The complete list is displayed only when the category «Total GHG emissions for Annex A sources» is selected, otherwise only «Aggregate GHGs» or «No Gas» is displayed.

A carbon budget is a limit of total ghg emissions for the entire world that must constrain total global emissions to have any reasonable hope of limiting warming to 2 °C or any other temperature limit.

For example, «emissions» is shown for category Total GHG emissions from Annex A sources, and «net emissions / removals» or «accounting quantity» for LULUCF activities category.

When the Total GHG emissions from Annex A sources is selected as the category, the list contains the five years of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, from 2008 to 2012 and, in addition, «Cumulative».

Requires the EPA Administrator to: (1) identify those classes or categories of new nonroad vehicles or engines that contribute significantly to the total GHG emissions from such vehicles and that provide the greatest potential for significant and cost - effective reduction of such emissions; and (2) promulgate standards applicable to GHG emissions from these engines or vehicles by December 31, 2012; and (3) promulgate standards applicable to GHG emissions for other classes and categories of vehicles and engines as the EPA Administrator determines appropriate.

The UNFCCC knew from all the country submissions that they were no where near stopping total GHG emissions from rising, let alone reducing emissions to less to a fraction of current levels by the end of the century.

However, Alberta environment office show that «greenhouse gas» emissions from oil sands plummeted 38 % between 1990 and 2009, and are now 5 % of Canada's total GHG emissions — and equal to or lower than CO2 / GHG emissions from petroleum operations in Nigeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

8 percent respectively of total GHG emissions in CO2 equivalent and total CO2 emissions of the reporting Annex I Parties.

Carbon dioxide emissions accounted for about 81 % of total GHG emissions in Canada in 1995 (Natural Resources Canada, 1997).

On short time - scales, 1990's CO2 emissions contribute over half the direct effects of 1990's total GHG emissions, and methane almost 30 %.

Steelmaking is energy intensive and one of the world's leading industrial sources of greenhouse gases, generating nearly two tonnes of CO2 emissions per tonne of steel produced and accounting for about five per cent of total GHG emissions.

Continue to kick the can down the road, and allow our status of «the nation most responsible for total GHG emissions yet still doing nothing» to provide cover for India, China, Brazil, and the rest of the developing world.

I certainly agree with you that all agricultural practices that release fossil carbon will have to be revised, but the disproportionate contribution of livestock raising to total GHG emissions, relative to non-livestock agriculture, speaks for itself.

Remembering this EIA report only covers * energy use * and not total GHG emissions from all sources combined.

Production of organic corn resulted in the greatest nitrous oxide emissions and represented about 8 % of total GHG emission; corn also had the highest carbon dioxide emissions per hectare.

I understand somewhat about Carbon sinks and that currently the rate of total GHG emission does not equal the rate of absorption.

Not exact matches

While the livestock sector supports livelihoods of one billion of the world's poor, and its products provide one - third of our protein intake, it poses serious threat to our environment: it is responsible for 14.5 percent of GHG emissions, 29 percent of total water footprint of agriculture, and occupies 30 percent of the land surface of the planet.

This can bring overall GHG emissions cuts to a total of 780,000 tonnes compared to conventional drip brewed coffee — a 23 % GHG reduction.

International nonprofit GRAIN has revealed that the world's top 10 dairy companies emitted roughly 231Mt (million tons) of CO2 in 2016, the equivalent of half of France's total GHG footprint and a quarter of the emissions emitted by Germany.

Existing methods of carbon footprinting are primarily designed to quantify total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a particular farm, and are therefore unable to provide information on environmental performances of specific animals.

Currently, agriculture accounts for approximately 9 % of total US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; the US dairy industry has committed to a 25 % reduction of GHG by 2020 relative to 2009.

The team's results show that foreign GHG mitigation — i.e. other countries implementing policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (such as the 2015 Paris Agreement)-- contributed 15 per cent of the total PM2.5 - related and 62 per cent of the total O3 - related deaths avoided.

Agricultural greenhouse gases (GHG) make up 8.1 % of total U.S. GHG emissions.

A new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, suggests that — if current trends continue — food production alone will reach, if not exceed, the global targets for total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2050.

It shows the number of articles along the y - axis, the total number of citations along the x-axis, color codes whether an individual is one of the «concerned signers» who signed any of 20 declarations affirming the mainstream view of human impact on climate and the need to limit greenhouse emissions, was one of the 619 contributing authors to IPCC AR4 wg1 (2007), «non-signer» who is one of the non-AR4-wg1 authors on climate who signed neither statement a statement of concern nor skepticism, or one of the 495 individuals who signed any of 16 declaration skeptical of mainstream climate science or of the need for GHG cuts.

Activities / Accomplishments: DOT has implemented several strategies in order to reduce Scope 3 GHG Emissions, and some of these strategies include: 1) reducing employee business air travel through technologies such as web conferencing; 2) increasing telework rates through making more employees eligible for telework and / or allowing an increase in total number of days teleworked; and 3) using an employee commuting survey to identify opportunities and strategies for reducing commuter eEmissions, and some of these strategies include: 1) reducing employee business air travel through technologies such as web conferencing; 2) increasing telework rates through making more employees eligible for telework and / or allowing an increase in total number of days teleworked; and 3) using an employee commuting survey to identify opportunities and strategies for reducing commuter emissionsemissions.

Making an exception here, one thing that the OCO - 2 data «means» is that in about a single year 3 small regions on this planet can add the Equivalent of 63 % of the total annual man - made GHG emissions to the atmosphere in one go!

Conversely, although nuclear energy accounts for less than 10 percent of the GHG emission reduction potentials across all scenarios, it has received some 50 percent of the total public investment in energy technology R&D.

However, peak oil means a double whammy — it reducec GHG emissions from oil, however, there is the danger, that we switch to coal - to - liquids, gas - to - liquids, tar sands and oil shales, just because increases in energy efficiency, solar and wind output are not enough to counter population increase, decrease in oil availability, and increase in total energy consumption...

You seem to be the only one who doesn't understand his very clear explanation of what he means by it --(a) large enough positive feedback (s) that it (or they) exceeds the total amount of CO2 equivalent of all human ghg emissions.

It concludes that «given that household travel and residential energy use account for 42 % of total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, these findings highlight the importance of smart growth policies to build more compact and transit friendly cities as a crucial part of any strategic efforts to mitigate GHG emissions and stabilize climate.»

At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.

GHG emission reductions from the project activity will be 136,936 tonnes of CO2 per year, with the total expected GHG emission reductions across the 10 year crediting period of 1,369,360 tonnes of CO2.

Viet Nam has agreed to reduce 8 % of its GHG emissions (adding up to about 25 % if international support is to be received), and to increase forest cover to an overall level of 45 % of the total land area.

For policy - makers, the speed of climate change over the coming decades matters as much as the total long - term change, since this rate of change will determine whether human societies and natural ecosystems will be able to adapt fast enough to survive.New results indicate a warming rate of about 2.5 C per century over the coming decades (assuming no attempt is made to reduce GHG emissions).

In a joint announcement, President Obama said the U.S. would cut its GHG emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 — about double the pace the U.S. had been targeting in the 2005 - 2020 period — while President Xi Jinping said China would aim to cap its emissions increases by 2030, by which time it expected to get 20 percent of its total energy consumption from zero - emissions sources.

In 1990 CO2 accounted for more than 98 % by weight of the total emissions of the five main GHGs (low - level ozone is not considered here or elsewhere in this sheet because its impacts, although large, are still difficult to quantify).

This amounted to a 0.4 % reduction in CO2 emissions from all fossil energy use, and a 0.36 % reduction in total US GHG emissions.

If one nation desires to keep its total emissions below its fair share of safe global emissions by keeping their transportation sector low while having slightly larger emissions from their manufacturing sector, most theories of international responsibility would give that nation some choice on how it would achieve its international GHG obligations.

This is true because most mainstream scientists have concluded that the world must reduce total global emissions by at the very least 60 to 80 percent below existing levels to stabilize GHG atmospheric concentrations at minimally safe atmospheric GHG concentrations and the United States is a huge emitter both in historical terms and in comparison to current emissions levels of other high emitting nations.

It also ethically dubious for the US to insist that it can demand that other nations must agree to make reductions in their manufacturing sectors consistent with US reductions in the US manufacturing sector given that almost all nations in the world have lower total and per capita GHG emissions than the United States.

Under the City's plan to reduce citywide GHG emissions 30 % by the year 2030, increasing the efficiency of its buildings is projected to reduce emissions by 12.7 million metric tons — or roughly two - thirds of the total reduction needed.

Greenhouse gas emissions are spread highly unevenly across the world's countries (Fig. 1), with the top ten GHG emitting countries generating > 60 % of total emissions, and three countries, China (21.1 %), the United States of America (14.1 %) and India (5.2 %) being by far the largest contributors.