Sentence examples for one billion tonnes from inspiring English sources
Despite the much-touted solar expansion, India is also planning to double domestic coal production to one billion tonnes, and it has been putting pressure on environmental groups trying to keep mining in check.
On the conference room wall, a map of North Antelope Rochelle shows two big shaded areas containing an estimated one billion tonnes of coal.
Carbon War Room, the non-profit business group co-founded by Branson, aims to find ways for business to reduce emissions in 17 industries by one billion tonnes of CO2 each.
As the domestication of plants epitomised the dawn of agriculture, it took almost ten thousand years for grain production to reach the impressive one billion tonnes mark in 1960, while the second billion mark was hit merely forty years' later in 2000 (Khush [2001]).
Brazil's Climate Observatory has even offered its own ambitious targets, such as limiting emissions to one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year by 2030, as a yardstick for the government.
Other big international confectionery manufacturers, such as Mars, have forecast cocoa bean shortages of up to one million tonnes by 2020.
The defeat devices are likely to have caused almost one million tonnes of extra air pollution a year and may have triggered years of costly litigation.
Nearly one million tonnes of food are wasted each year by UK food businesses, according to the Waste and Resources Action Programme WRAPP), costing the industry some £2.5bn annually.
The site is nearing its current water storage capacity of 850,000 tonnes, and there are plans to add to the existing 1,000 tanks, bringing the amount of contaminated water at the plant close to one million tonnes.
The company has found a goldmine in Britons' annual disposal of one million tonnes of discarded apparel, and either recycles or finds an alternate use for everything from towels to sari fabric.
The object of this process is one million tonnes of CO2 captured annually at a capture efficiency of 90%.
