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116 levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs).^1 The governing document focused on reducing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane ...

117 Australia which agreed to have CO 2 -eq emissions in 2005 be no more than 8 % larger than had occurred in 1990. The highest ...

118 which required Congressional Approval because it was viewed as a treaty by the US Government. In fact, on 25 July 1997 the S ...

119 developing world are conditional. The Green Climate Fund (Sect. 4.3), established during COP 15, is recognized as one of sev ...

120 atmospheric abundance of GHGs follows RCP 4.5. Conversely, there is little to no chance these warming limits will be achieve ...

121 CO 2 , CH 4 , and N 2 O summed among all human sources is about 7.5 metric tons of CO 2 -eq per person per year. Conversely, ...

122 Figure 3.1b shows global, per-capita emission of CO 2 from the combustion of fossil fuel,^14 which we abbreviate as pCGL. Va ...

123 sumption of fossil fuel, which has had two distinct growth spurts (1860–1910; 1950–1973) and appears to be entering a third ...

124 emission of GHGs throughout this book. In this case, the two estimates represent an attempt to harmonize the emissions used ...

125 increasing microbial emissions. We show that a rise in natural wetland emissions and fossil fuel emissions probably accounts ...

126 3.2.2 National Figure 3.4 shows maps of the emission of CO 2 due to combustion of fossil fuels, flaring, and cement manufact ...

127 The US emitted 2.6 Gt CO 2 in 1950, which was the largest individual national source, followed by the former Soviet Union an ...