Sentences with phrase «total carbon dioxide emissions»

Total carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector declined even as demand for electricity remained relatively flat over the previous decade.

The picture that emerges from these figures is one where — in general — developed countries and major emerging economy nations lead in total carbon dioxide emissions.

Even though the plan would have required increased energy efficiencies, the proposal would still have allowed total carbon dioxide emissions to increase, so environmental activists opposed it.

«The production, transportation and use of concrete accounts for between 5 and 9 percent of total carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.

To allay concerns regarding pollution, the U.S. cement industry has voluntarily pledged by 2020 to reduce total carbon dioxide emissions from its plants to 10 percent below 1990 levels by upgrading manufacturing equipment and changing the ingredients in the finished product.

Carbon dioxide emissions pathways defined in, or derived from, the original set of Representative Concentration pathways (RCPs), for the global total carbon dioxide emissions as well as for the carbon dioxide emissions attributable to U.S. electricity production.

The bill provides tax credits for advanced coal electricity projects with highest priority given to projects with the greatest separation and sequestration percentage of total carbon dioxide emissions at a cost of $ 1.4 billion over 10 years.

Of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions only a small fraction comes from the activities of human beings, but it is that small fraction that might threaten the equilibrium between the much greater flows.

The brochure emphasizes that manmade carbon dioxide emissions account for 3 % of total carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere, and -LSB-...]

«A Greenhouse Gas Surprise,» by Mark Fischetti [Graphic Science], illustrates a comparison between nations» total carbon dioxide emissions and their emissions per capita.

In 2003, the carbon dioxide emissions resulting from energy consumed in United States buildings alone were greater than total carbon dioxide emissions of any country in the world except China.

U.S. autos emit more than 333 million tons of carbon dioxide each year, more than one - fifth of the nation's total carbon dioxide emissions.

Soon growth in coal burning and emissions exploded, vaulting China past the United States in total carbon dioxide emissions:

The «habitat loss» that is killing primates is mostly from tropical deforestation, which also causes 20 percent of the total carbon dioxide emissions contributing to climate change.

Ninety - eight of the nation's 100 most - polluting power plants in terms of total carbon dioxide emissions are coal plants, the study found.

Coal from the Powder River Basin is already responsible for 13 % of our country's total carbon dioxide emissions.

Coal based power plants produce 70 percent of our electricity needs and 40 percent of our total carbon dioxide emissions.

Between 2015 and 2050, the pipeline alone would result in emissions of 6.34 billion metric tons of CO2e — an amount greater than the total carbon dioxide emissions of the United States in 2011.

There you are going to remove very large fractions of the total carbon dioxide emissions quickly.

That is just 1 percent of the total carbon dioxide emissions which come from all human activity.

In 2005, transportation - related carbon dioxide emissions, which account for about a third of total carbon dioxide emissions, increased by 0.2 percent, according to a report issued today by the U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration.

Further, they contribute 38.9 % of the nation's total carbon dioxide emissions.

The Kyoto Protocol entered into force on 16 February 2005 in accordance with Article 23, that is on the ninetieth day after the date on which not less than 55 Parties to the Convention, incorporating Parties included in Annex I of the Convention which accounted in total for at least 55 % of the total carbon dioxide emissions for 1990 of the Parties included in Annex I, had deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.

Cities account for 75 % of global greenhouse gas emissions, and in Seoul, buildings are responsible for 68 % of the city's total carbon dioxide emissions.

Even if global emissions from agriculture are 30 %, the industrialized world emits 72 % of total carbon dioxide emissions, so why should developing countries mitigate?