Sentences with phrase «total emissions»

Together, the lawsuits say, the companies were responsible for roughly 20 percent of total emissions from 1965 to 2015.

Those reductions would be beyond a baseline of total emissions from 1990, so in fact would represent much deeper cuts compared to today's emissions levels.

Land - use changes, such as deforestation and fires, comprised 11 % of total emissions in 2017, marginally down from the 13 % average over the past decade.

These levels of total emissions reductions are what is required to avoid the catastrophe.

Especially when the program doesn't actually cut emissions, it merely provides a mechanism whereby companies can continue with their current emissions without increasing total emissions by buying credits.

A truly strict global system, involving the majority of countries and imposing a tight cap on total emissions, would cut emissions more than the European trading scheme.

Likewise, unless clean energy supplies come online in large measures, slowing demand growth will not reduce total emissions to needed levels.

A key question for policymakers is, which transportation technology cuts total emissions at the lowest cost — batteries or fuel cells?

Despite total emissions increasing, we've continued a five - year trend of improving our energy efficiency, resulting in a 27 % improvement since our baseline year.

But even a per - capita peak of 10 tonnes means total emissions of 13 billion tonnes.

However, there's very little overlap between states with the highest per capita emissions and the states with the highest total emissions, shown in the chart below.

If the rest of the program were left unchanged, total emissions through 2050 would fall by about another 10 billion tons.

There is no explicit mention of a global carbon budget for instance, which adds up total emissions since the industrial revolution.

All other major players who have proposed targets have talked about total emissions, not intensity, which indexes emissions relative to economic growth.

The problem was, scientists calculated at the time, under that plan total emissions would rise by 14 % in a decade.

We are doing total emissions, not per capita emissions.

The large population countries can not and never will accept total emission agreements.

The cap is reduced over time so that total emissions fall.

To avoid longer - term damages, society clearly will have to greatly reduce CO2 emissions given their importance in total emission valuation at low discount rates.

The on - road freight sector is the fastest - growing source of transportation - related emissions, and currently represents 32 % of total emissions from the Canadian transportation sector.

Keep your eye on total emissions, which rise year after year.

The 20 - 40 x figure for cars relates for pollutants that make up a small % of total emissions so its an apples and pears comparison in terms of magnitude.

It's also delivered absolute emissions reduction against a 2006 baseline, meaning total emissions were down despite significant growth in floor area.

For the MERCEDES - BENZ CLS - Class Shooting Brake selected, data type, mileage and driving style, results are estimated for total emissions for carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate (PM10).

They are plugged into equations to estimate total emissions from industrial activities, such as the burning of coal in boilers.

The E.P.A. and EDGAR use a bottom - up approach, calculating total emissions based on «emissions factors» — the amount of methane typically released per cow or per unit of coal or natural gas sold, for example.

Total emissions during the 112 - day event were equal to one - quarter of the annual methane pollution from all other sources in the Los Angeles basin combined.

Increasing the price of carbon means more forest is retained, and the emissions avoided can be calculated for a given carbon price by comparing total emissions with emissions from the model run when carbon has no value (equivalent to no avoided deforestation mechanism).

The game is so uncooperative that it may even increase total emissions relative to what would occur without any global climate policy.

When the emissions from the two time periods were added up, the zero till had slightly lower total emissions than conventional till.However, the N fertilizer was surface applied in both tillage systems and incorporated in the conventional till system.

A variety of scientific methods are being used across the various studies, including approaches that measure emissions directly at the source and those that use airplanes or towers equipped with sensors to measure total emissions in a given area.

Drag the bar on the bottom of the page to see total emissions decline as each technology expands.

Facing a tide of municipal anti-drive-thru ordinances, TDL commissioned a study last year from RWDI consultants, based in Guelph, Ont., comparing total emissions given off by customers» cars that use drive - thrus and those that use parking lots.

While this is a good way to get total emissions of methane in a remote location where the main source of the gas is natural gas production, it is not a good way to pin emissions down to any one well, gathering or processing activity in the basin.

«This year we expect total emissions to flatten or drop slightly, despite strong growth in gross domestic product worldwide.»

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

So discarding food makes total emissions in the production and consumption cycle even worse.