Sentence examples for tonnes equivalent from inspiring English sources

That figure put 2013 emissions at 50m tonnes equivalent (mte) of CO2.

Already, 16bn tonnes – equivalent to 27 years of the UK's emissions – have gone missing from the international system as a result of this false accounting.

The figure of 650m tonnes – equivalent to the annual carbon footprint of 33 million Americans – is calculated from Trump's decision to rollback the US 2015 Paris agreement pledge to lower emissions by at least 26% below 2005 levels by 2025.

Opposition parties said Nicola Sturgeon's government had to start dramatically cutting CO2 emissions from transport, housing and the public sector after the latest annual statistics showed Scotland missed its emissions target by 2m tonnes equivalent (mte) of CO2.

The "renewable heat incentive" is the first financial scheme of its kind in the world to subsidise low-carbon heating, and over the next decade could reduce carbon dioxide by 44m tonnes – equivalent to taking 20 gas fired power stations off the grid, according to government estimates.

His personal revelations are moving, and The Moth Snowstorm left me as grief-stricken as any environmental journalist must be after a career digesting facts such as that, by 2020, the volume of urban rubbish generated in China is expected to reach 400m tonnes – equivalent to the entire world's trash in 1997.

Sensitivity analysis of carbon credit provided for each tonne equivalent of CO2 sequestration on rate of return of all four scenarios shows that both land application scenarios are profitable, but both biochar only scenarios are not profitable (Fig. 5).

Fuel and emission efficiency indicators were obtained relating the absolute indicators, fuel consumption in tonnes oil equivalent (toe) and tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e), to transport work expressed as tonne kilometers [29].

Considering that OMI observes ~50% of all SO2 sources, that ~70 90% of SO2 emissions are from coal25, and upon accounting for standard conversions (1 tonne oil equivalent = 1.4 tonnes coal), we arrive at an effective emission factor of 12 16 g SO2/kg coal.

The HDV used 6,553.6 9,175.1 million diesel liters (6.1 8.5 million tonnes oil equivalent) and emitted 17.5 24.6 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent.

The UN says the conference will result in around 21,000 tonnes CO2 equivalent.