Sentence examples for carbon equivalent from inspiring English sources

Greenhouse-gas emissions are now about 50 gigatonnes of carbon equivalent (GtCO2e).

Recent high-damage scenarios, however, put an upper limit on the cost at about $100 per ton of carbon, equivalent to 5 pence a litre of petrol.

Its reliance on coal-fired power stations means its emissions per head at around six tonnes of carbon equivalent a year are also closing on west European levels.

Like the prairies (see Bison), moorland in Britain acts as a "carbon sink", with peatland storing 3bn tonnes of carbon – equivalent to 20 years of emissions by the UK.

The previous government managed to reduce the carbon emissions from its offices and transport by 10%, the report said, saving 600,000 tonnes of carbon – equivalent to the emissions of 22,000 UK households.

On top of the immense biodiversity value of the tropical forests that still stand, they store 250 billion tons of carbon — equivalent to 25 years of current greenhouse gas emissions.

Carbon dioxide isn't the only heat-trapping pollutant in the atmosphere, so the warming potential of other greenhouse gases is converted into carbon equivalents for the purpose of trading.

Agriculture, forestry and deforestation already cost the planet more than twice as much in carbon equivalents as transportation over 30% of all emissions.

Using original spreadsheets and data derived from a wide review of literature, carbon flows, greenhouse gases expressed as carbon equivalents, and energy generated were monitored.

Twenty six reduced carbon equivalents are lost during the decarboxylation of sufficient pyruvate to synthesize a typical TAG (C55H98O6) molecule.

A critical reassessment of previous modeling results suggests that the CCLS might remain of minor significance in terms of transferred carbon equivalents [ 19].