Sentence examples for measures of carbon from inspiring English sources

Certainly we need better measures of carbon emissions, but they need to be thought through in terms of the true depths of the problem and the complex feedbacks that determine collective, not individual, change.

The plethora of policies is likely to spark concern about adding another burden on businesses, particularly as the MOTs would be widened out beyond the usual measures of carbon dioxide to look at all energy use, water, waste and recycling, and the resources used in constructing new buildings.

In this work, measures of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission are added to the canonical capacitated vehicle routing problem.

Regional and global networks of eddy-covariance flux towers provide the continuous measures of carbon, water, and energy fluxes from an array of forests and other types of ecosystems.

Additionally, we obtained hourly measures of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and ozone from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and calculated daily average values as previously described [ 6, 7].

At current rates, the Mauna Loa reading will rise above 450ppm in 2037.Editor's update (May 10th, 5pm GMT): The daily measure of carbon concentration at Mauna Loa rose over 400 parts per million on May 9th, just after our article went to press.

But the fluorescence map, an unexpected secondary capability, provides a more direct measure of carbon fluxes: the amount mopped up by plants during photosynthesis or released during respiration.

In contrast, this paper identifies expected carbon payment as a more accurate measure of carbon risk as perceived by industry practitioners.

This measure of carbon risk incorporates both expected price and the probability that this price would actually be faced in the case of a particular investment.

It should be noted that we have adopted the measure of carbon avoided by non-emission, because of the complex partitioning of anthropogenic carbon between the atmosphere, land and ocean.

Divergence in patterns across sub-regions and through time further emphasizes the importance of proxy choice and highlights the need to carefully consider the objectives of the application to which the measure of carbon will be applied.