Sentences with phrase «total emissions by»

Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition of more than 200 organisations calls for expansion of carbon pricing to cover 25 per cent of total emissions by 2020

«More Efficient Coke Delivery, More Quietude According to the press release, the new trucks will improve fuel efficiency by 32 percent and reduce total emissions by 37 percent.

Total emissions by six heat - trapping gases in 2005 were more than 36 thousand million tonnes (36 gigatonnes) as measured in CO2, according to the WRI index.

If the increase in CO2 is less than total emissions by humans, then the increase is all accounted for by human emissions.

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.

If the savings identified by ICF were exploited to the fullest between 2010 and 2012, this would reduce the nation's total emissions by 16 megatonnes — and eliminate the currently projected Kyoto deficit of 14.7 megatonnes.

* Update Nov 28: additional commentary below by Yu Qingtai on issue of «measurable, reportable and verifiable» * Update Nov 29: Rough calculations on what the goal means for total emissions by 2020.

In any case, it's all made hopelessly complicated by the fact that total emissions by the developing world since 1850 are now much the same as those of the developed economies.

Emissions related to the processing, packaging, distribution, refrigeration and cooking of those foods were not part of the study but would likely increase total emissions by 30 percent or more, Heller said.

Not exact matches

He points out that: «Total has set ambitious goals for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, notably by ending continuous flaring and using the associated gas locally.

By way of comparison, total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2016 were 6.5 billion metric tons.

Even if the ambitious targets of the world's biggest economies are met, and internal combustion engines give way to electric or other zero - emission vehicles by 2040, the total impact on global carbon dioxide emissions will be minimal, according to a new study released Tuesday.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

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.

According to one Pembina Institute report, using data compiled by Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada, buildings account for about 11 per cent of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions.

Even if a midsize EV manages to last 20 years and 150,000 miles, total CO2 emissions would be just 19 % less than a comparable gas - powered car, according to an analysis by Arthur D. Little.

The total chain is expected to be retrofit by 2019 resulting in a reduction of Walmart Canada's greenhouse gas emissions by 28,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.

Even building just one LNG terminal coupled with modest oil sands growth would increase oil and gas emissions from 26 per cent of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions in 2014 to 45 per cent by 2030.

«We are committed under the Copenhagen Accord to reduce our total greenhouse gas emissions to 17 % below 2005 levels by 2020.

The new boiler will produce energy out of biomass, reducing CO ₂ emissions at the Nettingsdorf mill by 40,000 tonnes, which represents a 1.5 % reduction in Smurfit Kappa Group's total CO ₂ emissions.

When composted, single serve coffee from compostable pods will reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by 140,000 tonnes worldwide compared to the same amount of coffee from non-compostable pods that are almost always sent to landfill.

The company has a climate strategy objective that aims to reduce the total CO2 emissions by 25 % before 2020.

Arla Foods invested approximately $ 25m in 2013 to reduce the total CO2 emissions from its plants by 2 %.

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.

And accelerating they are: China increases its emissions each year by roughly the same as the UK's total emissions.

Morris calls the work «exciting» but notes that due to the very low total numbers of photons used in the analysis, of the dozen putative black holes some might actually merely be statistical flukes produced by coincidentally timed emissions from other sources.

We are finding, and it is pretty well know by now, that CO2 stored in vegetation around the world represents, and its loss from deforestation and degradation represents, 17 to 20 percent of total CO2 emissions.

Cisco Systems San Jose, CA Information Technology 401 million green kWh, 46 % of total power used By switching nearly half its operations to renewable energy, Cisco has eliminated the carbon emissions equal to those of more than 31 million gallons of burned gasoline.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

The U.S. pledged to reduce its total CO2 emissions about 26 - 28 percent by 2025, in comparison to 2005 levels.

Prior to the earthquake and tsunami, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency had modeled a 54 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2000 levels by 2050, and a 90 percent reduction by 2100, with nuclear energy accounting for upwards of 60 percent of the country's total energy mix.

Three approaches were used to evaluate the outstanding «carbon budget» (the total amount of CO2 emissions compatible with a given global average warming) for 1.5 °C: re-assessing the evidence provided by complex Earth System Models, new experiments with an intermediate - complexity model, and evaluating the implications of current ranges of uncertainty in climate system properties using a simple model.

Of that total, 21 billion gallons must come from sources that reduce greenhouse - gas emissions by 50 percent or more — a goal that algae neatly achieve.

To investigate the impacts, Yale's Jodi Sherman, M.D. and first author Matthew Eckelman of Northeastern University first used an economic model based on federal data to calculate total emissions of different pollutants produced by the healthcare sector over a 10 - year period, drawing on national health expenditure data.

Lacking improvements in fuel efficiency combined with a comprehensive mitigation policy, the report finds that transport emissions could double by 2050 from 6.7 gigatons of emitted carbon dioxide in 2010, which represents 22 percent of the world's total.

«Despite the large amount of emissions produced by shipping the coal such a long distance, our analysis shows that the total emissions would drop because of the superior energy efficiency of South Korea's newer coal - fired power plants,» said Dalia Patiño - Echeverri, assistant professor of energy systems and public policy at Duke.

The optimal combination of trips would have reduced total travel time by 40 percent, with corresponding reductions in operational costs and carbon dioxide emissions.

Coal - burning alone belched out 15 billion tons of CO2 worldwide in 2012, 43 % of total CO2 emissions; thousands of CCS projects would be needed by 2050 to reach targets to put a serious dent in emissions.

Even if the United States implements all current and proposed policies, it would miss its 2025 target by as much as 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year — roughly 20 % of the nation's total emissions, according to the analysis published today in Nature Climate Change.

Britain, said Hogg, would participate in the forth - coming negotiations on new commitments and it has agreed that all developed countries should be asked to commit themselves to achieving a target for total greenhouse gas emissions of between 5 and 10 per cent below 1990 levels by the year 2010.

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

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

Processing the biomass for energy use (converting trees into wood pellets, for instance) and shipping it overseas only adds to the total emissions produced by the industry, he noted.

Although the country ranks among the top 20 percent most efficient in the world in terms of emissions intensity by the intergovernmental organization International Energy Agency, its total greenhouse gas emissions jumped by 74 percent from 1990 to 2012, according to the estimates of D.C. - based think tank World Resources Institute.

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.

At Xcel Energy, the utility firm with the highest total wind capacity in the United States, the number of forecasting errors has dropped since 2009, saving customers some US$ 60 million and reducing annual CO2 emissions from fossil - reserve power generation by more than a quarter of a million tonnes per year, says Drake Bartlett, a renewable - energy analyst with the firm who is based in Denver, Colorado.

Total annual production emissions, averaged over five years, would equal about 100 grams of carbon dioxide per megajoule — which is 7 percent greater than gasoline emissions and 62 grams above the 60 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.

Total greenhouse gas emissions by China and other emerging nations since 1850 will surpass those of rich nations this decade, complicating U.N.

According to the commission's own impact assessment, the union is on track to meet the current target: Under a «business - as - usual» scenario, total greenhouse gas emissions are already expected to drop by 24 % in 2020 and 32 % in 2030 compared with 1990 levels.

For the 55 percent of its total emissions produced by the building, transportation and other dispersed sectors that are difficult to monitor, the E.U. and its member states have extended a wide array of existing policies.