Sentence examples for emissions numbers from inspiring English sources
Using a per capita measure helps to normalize the emissions numbers, based on population, to account for the vast size difference.
Using data obtained from two of China's pilot regional ETS programs, one in Beijing, a highly developed major city, the other in Hubei, a less developed province, the researchers compared firms' self-reported CO2 emissions numbers with those verified by independent third parties.
And, he adds, "it would also help to be more confident about the emissions numbers reported from countries participating in the Montreal Protocol.
Models based on those expected emissions numbers and on the lifetime of the compound in the atmosphere estimate that its level should be decreasing by about 4% each year.
For any agreement to work, countries have to trust one another's emissions numbers.
Since last April, several new papers on the issue have been published -- the most recent by a Cornell colleague disputing Howarth et al's fugitive emissions numbers.
Again, there isn't a magic target emissions number that will "solve" the climate change challenge.
Thus the emissions number that we're actually interested in, emissions per unit of electricity, would be lower.
The main variables that are used in the analysis are gross regional product (GRP) as the desirable output, labor (number of workers) and capital stock as inputs, and the quantity of wastewater discharge, quantity of waste gas emissions, number of patients, and cases of infectious diseases as the undesirable outputs (see Table 1).
Options being considered include a letter grade for fuel efficiency and a proposal to create an online tool to help consumers calculate a customized emissions number for the entire electricity production and distribution cycle.
The number one company, Hewlett-Packard, is recognized for being the first major IT company to report its greenhouse gas emissions; number two Dell has a headquarters that uses 100percentt renewable energy; number four Intel is the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in the United States; and number five IBM has had formal environmental policies since 1971.
