Sentences with phrase «worldwide emissions of the gases»

While the United States produces a fifth of worldwide emissions of the gases, that means four fifths are coming from elsewhere, added.

Not exact matches

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.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

«More than 1,400 researchers and stakeholders worldwide use the DNDC Model on over 40 agricultural crops to assess the effects of various management practices on greenhouse gas emissions,» said Allison Jordan, CSWA executive director.

As international awareness about the environmental costs of producing and eating meat increases — The United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the meat industry generates nearly one - fifth of the man - made greenhouse gas emissions that are accelerating climate change worldwide — the work of RiceBran Technologies is supporting environmental sustainability and combating waste while globally providing a nutritious source of protein, carbohydrates, healthy oil and dietary fiber as food ingredients.

The findings are the first to note increased greenhouse gas emissions due to antibiotic use in cattle; a recent study suggests that methane emissions from cud - chewing livestock worldwide, including cows, account for about 4 % of the greenhouse gas emissions related to human activity.

There will still need to be a worldwide push to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

Burning coal provides half the electricity in the U.S. and one third of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

Beyond Kerosene The amount of emissions from aircraft compared with other vehicles is relatively small — roughly 3 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major impact on the climate.

U.S. - based aircraft are responsible for 29 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions from commercial aircraft worldwide, according to the EPA.

A new analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term, according to a study appearing today in Nature.

The balance between methane - producing and - consuming processes has a major effect on the worldwide emission of this strong greenhouse gas into our atmosphere.

Researchers at Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen discovered a microorganism that couples the reduction of iron to methane oxidation, and could thus be relevant in controlling greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

They said that two extreme climate periods — the Medieval Warming Period between 800 and 1300 and the Little Ice Age of 1300 to 1900 — occurred worldwide, at a time before industrial emissions of greenhouse gases became abundant.

DENVER — Even as governments worldwide have largely failed to limit emissions of global warming gases, the decline of fossil fuel production may reduce those emissions significantly, experts said yesterday during a panel discussion at the Geological Society of America meeting.

You'll note an acceleration of those temperatures in the late 1970s as greenhouse gas emissions from energy production increased worldwide and clean air laws reduced emissions of pollutants that had a cooling effect... Read More

Furthermore, livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51 % of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.

As of July 2015, the company has sold more than 8 million hybrid vehicles worldwide since 1995, and it estimates that the result has been 58 million fewer tons of C02 emissions, not to mention the savings of 5.8 billion gallons of gas.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

Here, in one of Adam Nieman's experiments in visualizing global environmental change, is what four seconds of worldwide emissions of CO2 would look like if you could track the gas by its volume measured in United Nations towers:

According to independent reports, as a result of the Copenhagen conference, governments worldwide have undertaken an unprecedented number of initiatives to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

This is what counts as progress in the two - decadelong slow slog toward finding a common (but differentiated) worldwide path toward limiting emissions of greenhouse gases and limiting vulnerability to the impacts of human - driven climate change.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

We present the first global analysis of the costs of abating the estimated 76 million tonnes of methane emitted worldwide each year in oil and gas operations, which suggest that 40 - 50 % of these emissions can be mitigated at no net cost, because the value of the captured methane could cover the abatement measures.

Governments worldwide have in principle accepted that greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced and average global warming limited to a rise of 2 °C.

You'll note an acceleration of those temperatures in the late 1970s as greenhouse gas emissions from energy production increased worldwide and clean air laws reduced emissions of pollutants that had a cooling effect on the climate, and thus were masking some of the global warming signal.

In the 1980's, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activity became a worldwide concern and are a possible cause of climatic changes.

If humans don't act to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, Gore contends, the deaths caused by climate change will double in 25 years to 300,000 people a year, and more than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction in half a century.

And there was this: «By using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land - use change,» Timothy Searchinger of Princeton and other researchers reported in 2008, «we found that corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years.»

And though, eventually, this drought will end, unless something is done about worldwide human greenhouse gas emissions, these kinds of extreme events will continue to recur and worsen.

New research reveals that worldwide tourism accounted for a staggering 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2013.

The forces both driving and constraining worldwide emissions of greenhouse gases are largely outside the top - down influence of some accord.

«The United States is responsible for 25 percent of the worldwide greenhouse gas emissions,» Mr. McCain, chairman of the Science, Commerce and Transportation Committee, said as he opened the hearing.

By the early 1980s, a fairly broad consensus had emerged in the climate change research community that greenhouse gas emissions could, by 2050, result in a rise in global average temperature by 1.5 ° to 4.5 °C (about 2.7 ° to 8.0 °F) and a complex pattern of worldwide climate changes.

The concrete industry is one of two largest producers of CO2, creating up to 5 % of worldwide man - made emissions of this gas.

«(3) an analysis of the status of worldwide greenhouse gas reduction efforts, including implementation of the Safe Climate Act and other policies, both domestic and international, for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

Mahindra's challenge is the first of what will be multiple «Summit Challenges» that aim to accelerate greenhouse gas reductions at a rate that will ensure worldwide emissions start trending downward no later than 2020 — a goal that must be met to prevent dangerous temperature rise.

The United States accounts for more than 15 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, second only to China.

yep, and with well over 1000 new coal and gas fired power stations going ahead around the world, with an increase of some 40 % in CO2 emissions worldwide,

These energy savings will help Hyatt Hotels Corporation achieve their company's goals of reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission by 25 % per square meter worldwide by 2020.

Electricity generation from nuclear power worldwide increases from 2.6 trillion kilowatthours in 2010 to 5.5 trillion kilowatthours in 2040, as concerns about energy security and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generating capacity.

Energy efficiency and reducing reliance on coal for electricity generation not only reduces emissions of greenhouse gases, but also reduces emissions of fine particles which cause many premature deaths worldwide as well as reducing other health impacts from the coal fuel cycle.

Yet as New Englanders trade in sport utility vehicles for hybrid cars and move toward more climate - friendly technologies, the exporting of old equipment represents a significant leak in the expanding worldwide effort to plug emissions of gases that trap the sun's heat.

Almost 100 organizations Thursday launched a worldwide petition that calls for dramatically curbing greenhouse - gas emissions and helping vulnerable communities prepare for rising sea levels, more - frequent storms, longer droughts and other effects of global warming.

The loss of forests worldwide accounts for roughly 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and forests are critical to regulating the climate, both locally and globally.

Nevertheless, it seems likely that a CO2 concentration in the range 500 to 900 ppm might produce a temperature rise of at least 2 °C from the late 19th century that could be problematic for humankind; (7) The potential negative impact on humanity has been exaggerated; (8) The only alternative to rising greenhouse gas concentrations is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions — whether this averts a «pending disaster» is not well understood; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 probably resulting in some warming; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are neither technically feasible nor economically affordable, and would necessitate inadequate energy supply to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing, leading to worldwide depression.

These five large developing countries account for approximately 23 % of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide, and approximately two - thirds of emissions from non-Annex I countries, and the UK is one of the few Annex I countries that has kept its emissions from increasing above the 1990 levels.

Becker said if Ford were a country it would rank as the 10th largest source of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

Deforestation accounts for more than three - fifths of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 20 percent of emissions worldwide.

The authors found that carbon emissions could be reduced by roughly one gigaton per year within five years — equivalent to 3 % of worldwide emissions — if other countries followed the U.K.'s example by switching to natural gas from coal in power stations, as natural gas produces less than one - half the carbon dioxide produced by coal.