Sentences with phrase «total global emissions»

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

The science indicates that we have no more than ten or fifteen years to put total global emissions on a downward slope to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.

We'd have to drop total global emissions to zero now and for the rest of the century just to lower concentrations enough to stop temperatures from rising.

The land use sector represents almost 25 % of total global emissions.

Overall, China, India, and other developing nations will account for about 80 % of total global emissions by 2100, the scenario suggests, and the United States and European nations will account for less than 20 %.

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.

The Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) on the project remained essentially unchanged from the earlier Draft SEIS in contending that the pipeline would not significantly alter total global emissions of greenhouse gases.

• Make commitments on national emissions targets that would represent their fair share of total global emissions necessary to achieve the atmospheric concentration goals mindful of the fact that scientists now believe that global emissions must peak in the next few years and be reduced by 25 % to 40 % by 2020.

Recent research found that natural solutions like improved management of forests, wetlands, grasslands and agricultural lands can remove about 5.6 GtCO2e of carbon per year by 2030 — a figure equivalent to total global emissions from agriculture in 2014 — at a cost of less than $ 100 per tonne of carbon.

Under these facts, it is simply inconceivable that those emitting high levels of greenhouse gases compared to others are not exceeding their fair share of safe global emissions given the enormity of reductions that are needed globally to return total global emissions to levels that are not already causing harm.

An adequate global climate change solution will need to limit total global ghg emissions to levels which will prevent atmospheric concentrations of ghgs from accumulating to dangerous levels and to do this any solution will also need to allocate total global emissions levels among all nations.

Five possible time - frames are listed for when total global emissions should peak.

By the end of 2016, total global emissions since the start of the industrial era will total 565bn tonnes of carbon — or 92 % of the carbon budget for 1.5 C.

Finally, the Saturday draft also noted the need to reduce total global emissions by 50 % by the year 2050.

The report states that animal products are already responsible for approximately 60 per cent of food - related climate emissions and warns that «[if] we do nothing, by 2050 gas emissions from the food system will represent more than half of the total global emissions associated with human activities».

The United Nations Environment Program estimates that the total global emissions of mercury are between 4400 and 7500 tonnes a year.

That's roughly the annual amount of total global emissions, said Abigail Swann, a University of Washington professor who studies climate change and who wasn't involved in the study.

And to expect an effect on climate it's obviously the total global emissions that are relevant, not just Germany, Norway or even the US ones.

We created a Lorenz curve to represent the variation of GHG emissions among countries using the CAIT dataset, and calculated the Gini index to measure inequity in GHG emissions among countries, and the Robin hood index to measure how much of the total global emissions would have to be redistributed to achieve equity among countries (see Supplementary Fig.

Agriculture has become a major emitter of greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide — which are now responsible for 19 % of total global emissions.

The top six emitting countries, including the EU - 27 block, are responsible for 70 % of total global emissions and the top 25 emitting countries more than 80 % of total emissions.

The top three greenhouse gas emitters — China, the European Union and the United States — contribute more than half of total global emissions, while the bottom 100 countries only account for 3.5 percent.1 Collectively, the top 10 emitters account for nearly three - quarters of global emissions.

In 2000, the total global emission of GHGs was 42 Giga tonnes (GT) of carbon dioxide equivalents, for a world population of 6 billion.

While the province emits less than 1 % of total global emissions, it is one of the largest per capita GHG emitters in the world, the paper noted.

Because the U.S. emits significantly more CO2 than most other countries, reducing U.S. emissions can contribute to reducing total global emissions.

Total greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture account for around 15 % of total global emissions, from the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, Working Group 3, Chapter 11, Figure 11.4

The CO2 emissions from meeting this energy demand using mainly fossil fuels account for around 80 % of total global emissions (IEA, 2006b).

Recall that China will soon exceed its «fair» share of total global emissions.

It is sometimes argued that total global emissions of up to twice this amount, or 800 billion tonnes, would be all right because vegetation, soils and the oceans will soak up half.