Sentences with phrase «total emissions increasing»

According to the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy, the carbon intensity of the U.S. economy was cut by 17 percent between 1990 and 2000, yet total emissions increased during that time by 14 percent due to a 39 - percent increase in economic activity.

Whether Global Warming is real or not, it is clear that current Western attempts to reduce CO2 emissions have achieved nothing but 1) Export their industry and jobs to India and China, 2) Increase the CO2 emissions there above what they were in Europe, Australia and North America, so that total emissions increase, and 3) Massively increase domestic electricity prices while enriching Chinese Solar Panel and Wind Turbine manufacturers.

Not exact matches

In fact, absent new measures Environment Canada's 2014 emissions trends report projected that oil sands emissions would drive increased emissions from the oil and gas sector of 45 Mt CO2e (to a total of 204 MtCO2e) between 2005 and 2020, offsetting the emission reductions made in other sectors.

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.

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

Dell Round Rock, TX Information Technology 554 million green kWh, 158 % of total power used In August 2008 managers declared Dell's headquarters «carbon - neutral» after buying energy credits, increasing efficiency and reducing emissions.

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

Total global carbon dioxide emissions could see a boost as flight times increase in the stronger winds.

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, HelEmissions 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, Helemissions by 30 percent or more, Heller said.

By 1900, increased emissions of soot could have triggered the loss of more than 15 m of ice from a glacier's surface; by 1930, the loss could have totaled 30 m or more — magnitudes and timing that can easily account for the Alpine glacial retreat, the scientists contend.

But any increase or reduction, the agency said, would be «extremely small and insignificant compared to total worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide and methane.»

Total cumulative fossil fuel CO2 emissions 1750 to 2011 amounts to 365 ± 30 PgC That 261 years equals 1.4 PgC per year average Equals a 120 + ppm rise of CO2 to 400 ppm 2000 to 2009 the PgC increased by 3.2 % per year

By comparison, scenarios for fossil fuel emissions for the 21st century range from about 600 billion tons (if we can keep total global emissions at current levels) to over 2500 billion tons if the world increases its reliance on combustion of coal as economic growth and population increase dramatically.

Even so, the IPCC estimates above indicate: 1) Total Net Atmospheric Carbon Emissions to 2100 will amount to ~ 2050 PgC (or more) on current Trends, 2) A BAU projected estimate would push CO2 to ~ 952 ppm by 2100 (or more), and 3) Global average temperature increase / anomaly would be as high as ~ 6.8 C by 2100

Results from the study showed indicated that with carbon taxes set at $ 50 per ton and increased at a rate of 5 % per year would lead to a reduction in the total greenhouse gas emission in the US by as much as 63 %, confirms Reilly.

Emissions from wildfires totalled more than 1bn tonnes of CO2 from 2003 - 2015, the lead author tells Carbon Brief, and climate change, along with forest fragmentation, could cause a further increase in the number of forest fires in the coming decades.

The most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, released last week, show that as the number of such facilities have increased in the U.S. between 2011 and 2014, total greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas operations have risen by about 6.2 percent.

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.

This clean - running engine meets LEV3 - AT - PZEV (SULEV30) / Interim Tier3 Bin30 emission standards, while contributing to the Accord Hybrid's total system output of 212 HP, an 8.2 % increase from the first - generation i - MMD's output of 196 horsepower.

This clean - running engine meets LEV3 - AT - PZEV (SULEV30) / Interim Tier3 Bin30 emission standards, while contributing to the Accord Hybrid's total system output of 212 HP, an 8.2 percent increase from the first - generation i - MMD's output of 196 horsepower.

Honda aims at increasing hybrid and zero emissions vehicle sales total of two thirds of its worldwide volume by as soon as 2030.

More than that, if we are plateauing / decreasing and CH4 emissions, e.g., are increasing, we would see a flat to slightly increasing total ACO2 and ACH4.

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...

• New coal - fired power plants would only be permitted when they replace existing coal - fired capacity (so they would not increase the total capacity) unless they were completely clean, i.e., unless they had a way of removing carbon dioxide from emissions.

Greenhouse gas emissions totaled 7,150,000,000 tons in 2007, showing a 1.4 % increase from 2006 — bringing the overall rise from

The total energy is roughly constant, but it is made up from increased emissions at other bands because it's warmer.

Total CO2 emissions in the US have steadily increased ever since we began measuring them — and all the current administration is willing to do is say their should be voluntary programs to reduce CO2 per dollar of GDP (not per capita, not total emissiTotal CO2 emissions in the US have steadily increased ever since we began measuring them — and all the current administration is willing to do is say their should be voluntary programs to reduce CO2 per dollar of GDP (not per capita, not total emissitotal emissions).

A total rise of 0.7 C over the last century and a standstill since 1985 despite steadily increasing CO2 emissions can not be described as «catastrophic».

Bottom line: during the period during which wind increased from 0 to roughly 10 % of total electric generation, CO2 emissions stayed approximately flat, while state GDP increased by a factor of roughly 2.5.

So, to recap, the U.S. — which has one of the best CO2 - emissions - reduction track records in the world — is being held up as the bad guy, while the countries busily increasing their CO2 emissions, including number one culprit China (now responsible for around 30 per cent of the world's total emissions) get a free pass.

This is an increase of five billion to six billion tonnes of CO2 in just 10 years, an increase that alone will be more than today's total European CO2 emissions.

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.

LeFoll claims that if the soil carbon concentration in all the soils around the world was increased by 0.4 % every year it would compensate for the total yearly carbon emissions from all sources.

Total sulfur dioxide emissions would increase in the near term due to sulfur content in coal.

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.

Thus human emissions increase the total CO2 content of the atmosphere, no matter if the emitted molecules are captured in other reservoirs (oceans, biosphere) sooner or later...

About emissions and temperature as drivers in ice cores, here are two graphs comparing total emissions with total CO2 increase and temperature with total CO2 increase, as measured in ice cores (Law Dome and others) 1900 - 1959: and

As neatly summarized in Climate Central, they found that the Renewable Fuels Standard has cut U.S. oil demand only slightly since 2006 and has even caused a net increase in our total greenhouse gas emissions.

A chart on page 115 of Dominion's IRP shows every one of the scenarios Dominion studied will actually increase the company's total CO2 emissions between now and 2042.

For instance, global cementitious production by companies in the «Getting the Numbers Right» (GNR) increased by 76.9 % (from 507 to 897 million tons) between 1990 and 2015, whereas global total net CO2 emissions increased by only 43 % (from 383 to 549 million tons).

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.

To some extent in any scenario both facilities will displace Indian Point rather other fossil - fired facilities and those emissions will increase New York's total emissions.

This will provide 80 % -90 % of the solution to reducing the GHG emissions intensity of electricity; this will reduce global GHG emissions by 50 % as electricity's share of total global energy increases.

Total CO2 emissions of all industrialised countries that have quantitative greenhouse gas mitigation targets under the Kyoto Protocol increased in 2010 by 3.5 % (including the USA that did not ratify the protocol).

The implication is that if one wants to reduce future temperature increases, then reducing total CO2 emissions is necessary.

Aristides Patrinos, Ph.D., president of Synthetic Genomics, stated that current energy - related carbon emissions total eight billion tons per year, about half of which remains in the atmosphere contributing to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.

Results from the latter are shown in the chart below, where total CO2 emissions are plotted against temperature increases from IPCC climate models.

In total, CO2 emissions in these countries increased on average almost 5 % in 2010, up from 2 % in 2009.

Total CO2 emissions in the EU - 27 increased by 3 % to 4.0 billion tonnes (in the EU - 15 by 3 % to 3.1 billion tonnes) and in the USA by 4 % to 5.2 billion tonnes, after decreases in 2009 of 4 % in the EU - 27 and 8 % in the EU - 15 and in the USA.

Because the antropogenic share of the total CO2 emissions is only about 4 % at most, it controls only 4 % of the CO2 content in atmosphere — and 4 % of a yearly increase of the CO2 content at the most, too.