Sentence examples for proportion of emissions from inspiring English sources

The EUETS also allows for a proportion of emissions reductions to be met using Kyoto protocol carbon credits.

No one country is responsible for such a large proportion of emissions that it alone determines the world's success or failure on the climate issue.

Tony Juniper, former director of Friends of the Earth, said: "Domestic energy use accounts for a huge proportion of emissions which we have to reduce.

The system, which began on January 1st, will progress through three phases, gradually expanding its reach, lowering the carbon cap and auctioning (not giving away) a growing proportion of emissions permits.The two auctions so far have gone well.

If that can be done on a large scale and at reasonable cost (a big if), it offers a quick fix for a sizeable proportion of emissions.But to bring such technologies to market, the cost of generating energy from fossil fuels will have to rise or the cost of generating energy from clean sources will have to fall, or both.

This geographic concentration of such a hefty proportion of emissions actually presents an opportunity for easier fixes.

The highest proportion of degradation emissions relative to total emissions (>75%) were found to occur in the more arid countries of South Asia and north and east Africa (Fig. 2).

A commodity with a high proportion of overseas emissions generates large GHG emissions in the foreign supply chain associated with the imported materials and services used in the domestic supply chain in Japan.

The cement industry plays a crucial role in emissions reduction because it accounts for a substantial proportion of global emissions.

Where a CMAQ grid cut an emissions grid into two or more pieces, a proportion of the emissions was added to the model grid, based upon the intersected area.

This is done to highlight and demonstrate the increasing proportion of embodied emissions that is one consequence of efforts to decrease operational emissions.