Sentence examples for co2 from inspiring English sources

The towns are designed to tackle Britain's housing shortage while minimising damage to the environment – more than a quarter of the UK's CO2 emissions come from energy use in houses.

And that's not all: although fossil fuel combustion is the main source of CO2, we also release the same gas by clearing forests and producing cement.

Our coal export industry is the largest in the world, and results in 760m tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.

It effectively put a limit on the amount of CO2 that the human activities such as burning fossil fuels can produce, without risking what scientists regard as dangerous climate change.

Maisie Bell, one of the 10 in Leeds, said: " RWE Npower are the biggest CO2 emitter in Europe.

We have a responsibility to our environment and to the nation to contribute to efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and improve our record on sustainability".

At the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, Brazil showcased a significant voluntary target that delivered real CO2 reductions from controlling deforestation.

Apple said its carbon footprint in 2013 was 33.8m metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2013, or around 5% of the UK's annual CO2 emissions for the same year.

The report comes at a time when China and Australia, the countries set to oversee the two largest CO2 escalations, have been forced to contemplate the potential downsides of major fossil fuel exploitation.

The report, released annually, showed the average emissions level of a new car sold in 2013 was 127 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometre, beating the 2015 EU target of 130g CO2/km.

That's a total for the life of the mine of 58.57 Mt of CO2-e.