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Their average size varied from between 200 and 600 tons.
It is important to note that carbon market payments are generally based on tons of carbon dioxide equivalents.
If reduced-impact logging involves additional expenditures of $75/ha, carbon savings of about 30 tons could be achieved at a marginal cost of $2.4/ton.
We now calculate the marginal cost of mitigation by calculating the cost per ton of the additional carbon removed.
In absolute terms (in tons), the crop losses are biggest for wheat and rice.
Costs in the first column in table 1 are the net costs per weighted ton of emissions.
For a 10 per cent reduction in every period, a unit carbon tax of 18 to 20 yuan per ton is required.
A charge on carbon monoxide of $1.25 per ton could yield a similar level of reduction.
Thereafter, production increased steadily, reaching a peak of 294,000 tons in the good growing season of 1964-65.
Annual production has exceeded 5000 metric tons in recent years.
At a rate of 2.5 tons of carbon/ha, however, large forest areas are required to store significant amounts of carbon.
In order to calculate the tons of coal that a ton of crop residue would replace, one needs to make two calculations.
For example, for every litre of crude distillate burnt, 0.0033 tons of carbon dioxide is produced.
Notes: (a) area in 000 acres, (b) protection is 000 tons.
As shown in table 2, if this additional crop residue were used by the household, it would replace 0.7 tons of carbon.
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Even more surprising is that over a tonofcargo is absent from the wreckage.
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