Sentences with phrase «warming potential equivalent»

A Japanese study showed that producing a kilogram of beef leads to the emission of greenhouse gases with a global warming potential equivalent to 36.4 kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO2).

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That year the U.S. released 7.40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), a measure of the global warming potential of any greenhouse gas in terms of the amount of warming generated by CO2.

«(2) the carbon dioxide equivalent value for purposes of this Act for any greenhouse gas not listed in the table under paragraph (1) shall be the 100 - year Global Warming Potentials provided in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report.

«(C) global atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, expressed in annual concentration units as well as carbon dioxide equivalents based on 100 - year global warming potentials;

As shown later in this paper, the global warming potential of the annual emissions of CH4 from Amazonian wetlands is equivalent to about 30â $ «40 % of the estimated annual accumulation of C in woody biomass of mature Amazonian forests.»

CO 2 equivalents: The GWP value (Global Warming Potential) of a gas is defined as the cumulative impact on the greenhouse effect of 1 tonne of the gas compared with that of 1 tonne of CO 2 over a specified period of time.

They appear to be related to differences in interpretation of INDCs, assumptions about other countries, level of disaggregation for small countries, choice of global warming potentials to compute carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, treatment of emissions related to land use, and treatment of international aviation and maritime shipping.

CO2 equivalents were calculated by adding the multiplications of the produced amounts of CH4 and N2O with their global warming potential; 25 for CH4, and 298 for N2O [1].

Permafrost modeling studies typically indicate a potential release of in the neighborhood ~ 200 PgC as carbon dioxide equivalent by 2100, though poorly constrained, but comparable to other biogeochemical and climate - ecosystem related feedbacks, such as the additional CO2 released by the warming of terrestrial soils.

If we assume that delivering energy volcanically is associated with about 1 % of the energy beg released as potential / kinetic energy, this means that a 1 C warming (sufficient energy to melt 1.25 % of the ice cover) would be associated with a potential / kinetic energy equivalent to lifting the ocean bed some 4 meters, which would generate an enormous tsunami.

Or, trying to «correct» for the different lifetimes of the gases using Global Warming Potentials, over a 100 - year time horizon (which still way under - represents the lifetime of the CO2), you get that the methane would be equivalent to increasing CO2 to about 500 ppm, lower than 750 because the CO2 forcing lasts longer than the methane, which the GWP calculation tries in its own myopic way to account for.

[* GtCO2e is billions of tons of carbon dioxide or the equivalent amount of other greenhouse gases when measured in terms of their potential to warm things up.]

All emissions in this figure and chapter refer to GtCO2e (gigatonnes or billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent)-- the global warming potential - weighted sum of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases, that is, CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs and SF6, including LULUCF CO2 emissions.

They compared estimated emissions for shale gas, conventional gas, coal (surface - mined and deep - mined) and diesel oil, taking into account direct emissions of CO2 during combustion, indirect emissions of CO2 necessary to develop and use the energy source and methane emissions, which were converted to equivalent value of CO2 for global warming potential.

An ambitious HFC agreement has the potential to avoid 100 billion CO2 - equivalent emissions by 2050 and 0.5 °C warming by 2100, significantly contributing towards the goals of the landmark Paris Agreement last year and eliminating the use of some of the most potent greenhouse gases in existence.

A task force of the Ministry calculated that thanks to these alternative solutions, 120 million tons of CO2 - equivalent (a figure for global warming potential measuring how much of a certain greenhouse gas contributes to the greenhouse effect) was eliminated in 2010.

Global Warming Potentials The Global Warming Potentials (GWP) used for presentation of CH4 and N2O in terms of CO2 equivalent are 21 and 310, respectively.

The equivalent carbon dioxide emission is obtained by multiplying the emission of a well mixed greenhouse gas by its Global Warming Potential for the given time horizon.

A global phase - down could avoid 1.1 — 1.7 billion metric tons CO2 equivalent (CO2 equivalent is a measure used to compare impacts of greenhouse gases based on their global warming potential in relation to CO2) of GHG emissions per year by 2030, with cumulative emission reductions of nearly 100 billion metric tons CO2 equivalent by 2050.

«(C) global atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, expressed in annual concentration units as well as carbon dioxide equivalents based on 100 - year global warming potentials;

An appropriate choice of the conversion to express the impact of methane in terms of CO2 - equivalents (the «global warming potential,» or GWP) is essential to achieving the Paris accords.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions for 1990 at 39.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, suggesting that the Nigerian emissions may have represented approximately 0.09 % of the total in terms of CO2 and 0.76 % of the total in terms of methane, using the IPCCs 100 - year global warming potential for methane of 25.

To make comparisons easier, we convert the global warming potential of all emissions to units of carbon dioxide equivalent, or CO2e — the amount of carbon dioxide required to produce an equivalent amount of warming.

Certified Emission Reduction Unit (CER)- Equal to one metric ton (~ 2,205 pounds) of CO2 - equivalent emissions reduced or sequestered through a Clean Development Mechanism project, calculated using Global Warming Potentials..

An organic carbon decomposition model, calibrated with laboratory incubations, indicates a greater production rate of CO2 - C equivalents from waterlogged (compared to drained) permafrost soils, when the higher global warming potential of methane is factored in.

Carbon Dioxide Equivalent — Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (or CO2e) is a measure used to compare the emissions from various greenhouse gases based upon their global warming potential (GWP).

The numbers for each of the main gases (CO2, methane, nitrous oxide and high - global warming potential gases) are converted to the equivalent amount of CO2 that would produce warming - so allowing them to be compared and added together.

However, under sustained Arctic warming, modelling studies and expert judgments indicate with medium agreement that a potential combined release totalling up to 350 PgC as CO2 equivalent could occur by the year 2100.

Remember that methane is at least 25 times more potent than CO2 in terms of its warming potential — if just 10 % of the methane stored in Arctic permafrost were released into the atmosphere it could lead to a further 0.7 °C warming all on its own, equivalent to all the warming the world has seen since the industrial revolution.

Moving toward highly efficient room air conditioners that use refrigerants with low Global Warming Potential by 2030 would save over 25 gigatonnes of CO2e emissions, saving energy equivalent to the removal of 1,500 500MW power plants.

One - hundred year global warming potentials (GWPs) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1996 (SAR) were used to convert emissions to CO2 equivalents (see the UNFCCC reporting guidelines).