Sentences with phrase «total emissions for»

Total emissions for Africa increased twelve-fold between 1950 and 2008, reaching 311 million metric tons of carbon, which is still less than the emissions for some single nations including China, the United States, India, Russia, and Japan.

China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, will limit its total emissions for the first time by the end of this decade, according to a top government advisor.

As has been discussed at this site previously, no matter how much people (or certain climate scientists) fear additional atmospheric CO2, humans are not going to lower their total emissions for several decades.

The total emissions for each year between 2014 and 2017 and the countries that were responsible for the change in emissions are shown in the figure below.

Such a system imposes a limit or «cap» on the total emissions for participants in the system, lowering the cap over time with the goal of meeting an overarching reduction target.

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

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).

Fargione reported that, overall, biofuels would cause higher total emissions for tens to hundreds of years.

The total emissions for the Lincoln Park project during the course of the year is 30,272 metric tons CO2 equivalent, about equal to the annual emissions from all households in the Town of Ulster, or 1.5 % of all Ulster County emissions.

Emissivities were evaluated experimentally based on direct measurement of total emission for a number of gases including CO2 and water vapour; these gases absorbed in certain regions of the IR spectrum and this was the data which was used.

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.

In 2009, for example, the German government amended its rules so that inspections of emissions performance would be based solely on readings from a car's own «onboard diagnostic» system, effectively ceding total control to the automakers.

In 2012, international shipping was responsible for 796 million tons of CO2 emissions — around 2.2 percent of total global CO2 emissions that year, according to the International Maritime Organization.

The commercial building sector is currently responsible for 5 per cent of Australia's total energy consumption and approximately 10 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.

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.»

Heavy traffic is responsible for about a third of Beijing's total emissions of harmful breathable particles known as PM2.5, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

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.

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.

The total biomass of our livestock is almost double that of the people on the planet and accounts for 5 % of carbon dioxide emissions and 40 % of methane emissions — a much more potent greenhouse gas.

Electricity accounts for 11 % of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions.

However, given that most of Young's statements have equated the oil sands with the oil sands mining operations around Fort Mc Murray, it's worth noting that the mining (and upgrading) of bitumen contributed 32 Mt CO2 emissions to Canada's total in 2011, and that emissions from mining operations are expected to stay well below those of personal vehicles for some time.

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

In total, those three areas account for more than 60 percent of McDonald's emissions.

In 2011, farms were responsible for about 13 percent of total global emissions.

Petroleum - based transportation fuels account for one third of total greenhouse gas emissions in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States.

Methane gas is second behind carbon dioxide in contributing to the greenhouse effect and global warming; cow flatulence and excretion account for 20 percent, or 100 million tons, of the total annual global methane emissions.

In modern Britain, traffic is the major air polluter, with traffic fumes accounting for just over half of the total domestic nitrogen emissions.

Charging that automaker Volkswagen AG showed «total disregard for the rule of law,» state Eric Schneiderman announced that the state has filed a lawsuit against the company over its sale of cars outfitted with illegal «defeat devices» to beat emissions test and its alleged attempted cover - up of its actions.

In 2016, the latest year for which data is available, fossil fuel - generated power and transportation each supplied about 34 percent of total U.S. CO2 emissions, according to the annual EPA report.

He then measured the total direct emissions associated with the making of a product; for example, the amount of coal burned to generate a kilowatt of electricity and how much carbon dioxide was released in the process.

For example, we found that total livestock methane emissions have increased the most in rapidly developing regions of Asia, Latin America and Africa.

When the new emissions data were combined with current pipeline mileage information, significant regional variations were observed, with the Eastern region of the United States accounting for more than a third of the total U.S. emissions from pipeline leaks, and the larger western region, where systems tend to be newer, contributing 17 percent of total emissions.

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.

For example, because rickshaws have less mass and smaller engines, their CO2 emissions are about one third those of private cars, the latter of which consequently contribute as much as 90 percent of India's total urban road passenger transport emissions.

Ink accounted for about 1 percent of the total greenhouse - gas emissions for both products.

Consumption patterns, together with aging and urbanization in some countries, have bigger implications for health and the reduction of carbon emissions than the total number of people in the world.

FIELD FUMES California's agricultural regions are responsible for between 20 and 51 percent of the total emissions of nitrogen oxide gases in the state, new research finds.

California's vast agricultural lands — particularly soils heavily treated with nitrogen fertilizers — are now responsible for as much as 51 percent of total NOx emissions across the state, researchers report January 31 in Science Advances.

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.

But this comfort comes with a considerable environmental cost — it's responsible for up to a third of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions.

Currently, agriculture accounts for 10 - 12 percent of the total human - caused greenhouse gas emissions globally.

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

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.

To put this into perspective, that reduction is 44 percent of the goal that President Obama set for the nation, roughly equal to the total emissions of France.

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.

In addition to providing eye - popping statistics — for example, the dirtiest 3 percent of these large facilities account for 45 percent of their total emissions — the registry should put pressure on companies to cut emissions and to report them accurately.

Globally, ammonia production already accounts for 3 - 5 percent of total carbon emissions, according to some sources.

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.

Cars and light trucks that use gasoline account for about 17 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to the EPA.